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The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to restore a Biden-era regulation allowing immigration judges to suspend some deportation proceedings.

As it currently stands, the Supreme Court’s 2026-27 term is much less Trump-centric than its predecessor, but that could change soon.

The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon cleared the way for New Hampshire to bar the use of student IDs as the valid photo ID required to obtain a ballot there.

The Trump administration and Texas urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave in place their consent agreement abolishing a Biden-era regulation that had allowed immigration judges to suspend some deportation proceedings.

The Mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri cases: an explainer

The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, asking the justices to allow it to resume construction of its border wall in the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday left in place a lower court order preventing Trump administration from implementing its new policy on healthcare for transgender inmates.

Supreme Court declines to take up cases on vehicle seizures in Chicago, 9/11 plea disputes, and the president’s removal of National Labor Relations Board members

The court will hear argument early next year in a challenge to the process that a Maryland county uses to determine who will be admitted to a group of highly selective public magnet schools.

The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the constitutionality of an 1868 federal law that imposes a tax on distilled spirits but also bans home distilleries – that is, the at-home production of spirits like bourbon and whiskey.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether and when a federal court can throw out an agency’s action or rule in its entirety.

Three cities and a group that provides legal services to immigrants have asked the justices to pause an agreement between Texas and the Department of Justice that they described as the product of “egregious collusion.”

The Trump administration’s heightened focus on immigration issues has fueled a surge in related lawsuits across the legal system, which explains why this term's docket has a particularly high number of immigration disputes.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for political parties and joint fundraising committees to continue to receive favorable advertising rates in the run-up to the 2026 election.

The court on Wednesday seemed likely to let a lawsuit alleging that a website owned by entertainment giant Paramount Global violated a 1988 video privacy law when it shared information with Facebook go forward, at least for now.

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday added three new cases to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term.

Court to hear argument on how a video privacy law applies in the internet age

President Donald Trump on Friday asked the Supreme Court to vacate a ruling by a federal appeals court that affirmed a decision by a federal judge in Florida dismissing his lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and several others.

By a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court on June 29 allowed Lisa Cook to remain in office while her challenge to her firing continued.

The battle over favorable advertising rates for political parties and joint fundraising committees returned to the Supreme Court on its interim docket on Thursday morning.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with a lawsuit brought against the U.S. Air Force by a group that describes its mission as protecting Guam’s environment and culture.

After nearly two hours of debate in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, it wasn’t clear whether a majority of the justices agreed with the energy companies that federal law prohibits Boulder’s claims.

Court declines to hear cases on “Let’s Go Brandon” sweatshirts, felons’ Second Amendment rights, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and other notable issues

Court agrees to hear arguments in important immigration case, religious zoning dispute

When the justices return to the courtroom on Monday, they will hear argument in one of the biggest cases currently on the Supreme Court’s docket – and certainly one of the most significant business cases of the 2026-27 term.

In a brief, unsigned order, the court lifted a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that had paused Pike’s execution shortly before it was scheduled to take place on Wednesday morning.

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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in December in a challenge by immigrants to the government’s practice of deporting them to countries that are not identified in their removal orders – a procedure known as “third-country removals.”

Lawyers for immigrants whom the Trump administration is seeking to deport urged the court to leave in place a ruling that bars the government from sending them to countries that are not identified in their removal orders.

The Supreme Court on Monday announced that Justice Samuel Alito will not continue to participate in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a significant dispute that will be argued in just one week.

The Trump administration on Monday morning asked the Supreme Court to block an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that bars the Federal Bureau of Prisons from enforcing a new policy on healthcare for transgender inmates.

For the third time in less than a month, the Supreme Court on Friday declined to allow Missouri to use a new congressional map, intended to benefit Republicans, in the November 2026 elections.

The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward with its plan to use a modified centralized database to verify voters’ citizenship.

Telling the justices that it had been deprived of “an essential tool to remove certain aliens,” the Trump administration asked the court to clear the way for the government to deport noncitizens to countries not identified in their removal orders.

Missouri and a group of candidates and voters seeking to implement a new congressional map enacted in 2025 urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon to leave in place a ruling by a federal appeals court that directs the state to use that map.

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On Tuesday night, challengers to Missouri's new congressional map asked the justices to block a decision by a federal appeals court in St. Louis that instructed the state to use it in the November elections.

Like Genalo v. Black before it, the new petition addresses due process rights and Section 1226(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which requires detention of noncitizens who have committed certain crimes and who are awaiting removal proceedings.

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The groups contend that, in violation of federal law, “the government has recklessly created an error-laden master citizenship database that endangers millions of Americans’ privacy and voting rights.”

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to allow the U.S. Postal Service to carry out parts of a new rule on mail-in voting.

The dismissal leaves only one argument currently scheduled for Oct. 13 and only six total arguments in the October sitting.

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. At the Supreme Court, the justices will soon consider whether to again wade into the legal fallout from that terrible event.

Trump administration asks justices to decide on its appointments of acting U.S. attorneys

The Supreme Court on Thursday morning paused a ruling by a federal judge in Missouri that would have allowed the state to use a new congressional map intended to give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Missouri congressional redistricting dispute returns to the Supreme Court

States, civic groups urge Supreme Court to leave order in place prohibiting Trump administration from implementing parts of mail-in ballot rule