https://amylhowe.com/ Amy Howe Covering the Supreme Court and the Judiciary in (mostly) Plain English Nov 12 2024# Supreme Court rejects Mark Meadows' appeal in 2020 election interference case The Supreme Court turned down a plea from Mark Meadows, who served as chief of staff to Donald Trump during his first term in office, to transfer his Georgia election interference prosecution to federal court. The announcement came as part of a list of orders released on Tuesday morning from the justices' private conference last... Read More Nov 4 2024# Supreme Court will hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana redistricting The Supreme Court will hear arguments early next year in the latest chapter in a protracted dispute over race and redistricting in Louisiana. In a list of orders from the justices' private conference on Friday, the court announced on Monday morning that it will review a pair of appeals from a decision by a three-judge... Read More Nov 1 2024# Court declines RNC request to intervene in Pennsylvania voting dispute The Supreme Court on Friday night left in place a ruling by Pennsylvania's highest court that requires election boards in the state to count provisional ballots submitted by voters whose mail-in ballots had been deemed invalid. The brief unsigned order came just four days before election day. Recent polls show former President Donald Trump and... Read More Oct 31 2024# Justices schedule major First Amendment case for January The Supreme Court will hear an important First Amendment case on Jan. 15, 2025. During their January argument session, which begins on Jan. 13 and continues until Jan. 22, the justices will also consider questions involving the Americans with Disabilities Act, federal laws prohibiting false statements to influence financial institutions, and claims under the Fourth... Read More Oct 30 2024# Supreme Court allows Virginia to remove suspected non-citizens from voter rolls The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked an order by a federal judge that would have required Virginia to return more than 1600 people to the voter rolls. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles found that since early August the state had canceled the registration of more than 1,600 voters - at least some of... Read More Oct 29 2024# Court leaves RFK, Jr., on ballot in Wisconsin, Michigan The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to order the removal of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s name from ballots in Wisconsin and Michigan. Kennedy suspended his campaign in August and endorsed former President Donald Trump. But election officials in Wisconsin and Michigan rebuffed Kennedy's request to withdraw his name from the ballot. That led to litigation... Read More Oct 28 2024# Republicans ask Supreme Court to block decision to count Pennsylvania provisional ballots The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania came to the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to block a ruling by Pennsylvania's highest court requiring election boards to count provisional ballots submitted by voters whose mail-in ballots had been deemed invalid. The RNC and the Pennsylvania Republicans argue that the state... Read More Oct 28 2024# Justices allow federal anti-doping horse racing law to stay in effect for now The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a federal law intended to standardize anti-doping and safety regulations in horse racing to remain in place while a challenge to that law plays out. The conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in New Orleans, ruled in July that key parts of the law are... Read More Oct 28 2024# Virginia asks Supreme Court to allow voter rolls purge before election Virginia election officials on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a ruling by a federal judge that would bar them from reviving a program put in place in August by the state's Republican governor intended to remove suspected noncitizens from the state's voting rolls. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles on Friday ordered the... Read More Oct 21 2024# Supreme Court takes up Clean Air Act and sentencing cases The justices on Monday added four new cases, involving the venue for challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency's actions under the Clean Air Act and federal sentencing law, to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The justices also declined to take up a challenge to the structure of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and a... Read More [amylhowe] Amy L Howe Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master's degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University. 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