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Last Notes

2026-06-25 14:34:44 UTC

With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.

2026-06-17 12:19:03 UTC

Yesterday, #SCOTUS “rescheduled” President Trump’s cert. petition in one of the civil cases he lost to E. Jean Carroll for the *fifteenth* time.
Today’s bonus issue of “One First” explains how we got here—and why one or more of the justices may be purposefully trying to delay the Court’s review:
[Bonus 233: The (Two) E. Jean C...](https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-233-the-two-e-jean-carroll )

2026-01-22 12:32:20 UTC

“DOJ’s ‘Notice of Corrections’ ought to give the justices real pause … about substituting their judgment for that of district courts at least where preliminary relief has been based upon an impoverished (or non-existant) record.”
Today’s “One First” on developments in the DOGE/Social Security case:
[Bonus 203: Correcting the Reco...](https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-203-correcting-the-record-in )

2025-09-08 15:02:00 UTC

Chief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay allowing President Trump to remove the last Democratic member of Federal Trade Commission while the full Court decides whether to freeze lower-court rulings that had held that her firing was unlawful:
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2025-08-21 20:41:54 UTC

Splitting 5-4 (with Chief Justice Roberts joining the three Democratic appointees in dissent), #SCOTUS grants *partial* stay to Trump administration in NIH funding case; holds that challenges to grant terminations (but *not* the underlying guidance) need to be filed in the Court of Federal Claims:
[supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf...](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a103_kh7p.pdf )

2025-06-27 14:40:53 UTC

Third #SCOTUS ruling is in the universal service fund (non-delegation) case.
For a 6-3 majority (with Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting), Justice Kagan *rejects* non-delegation challenge; upholds universal service fund structure and authority:
[www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-354_0861.pdf )
[supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf...](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-354_0861.pdf )