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Justice John Paul Stevens died on this day in 2019. Stevens is among the top five longest-serving justices in Supreme Court history, having served on the court for nearly 35 years, from December 1975 until June 2010.<\/p>

Read more Trump administration asks justices to have lower court reconsider protected status for Venezuelan and Haitian nationals<\/a><\/p>

Plus, please join us today at noon EDT for a LinkedIn Live event on the 2025-26 term\u2019s most consequential cases, featuring SCOTUSblog\u2019s Amy Howe and Briefly\u2019s Adam Stofsky. Register here.<\/p>

At the Court<\/h2>

The court is set to release the first of three summer order lists on Monday at 9:30 a.m. EDT. (We discussed what these lists typically address in a Closer Look earlier this week.)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Morning Reads<\/h2>

Senate Republican on Supreme Court security funding request: \u2018There\u2019s not a money fairy up here\u2019<\/h3>

Sophie Brams, The Hill<\/p>

On Tuesday, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett appeared before House and Senate subcommittees to address the Supreme Court\u2019s budget request, including why the justices are seeking additional security funds. Hours later, Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, raised questions about their testimony during a Fox News interview, \u201cquestion[ing] why the high court needs a budget boost when they already have \u2018better security than everybody else.\u2019\u201d \u201cWhile acknowledging that the justices \u2018feel insecure\u2019 about their safety, Kennedy cautioned against simply \u2018throwing money at the problem,\u2019\u201d according to The Hill. \u201cI don\u2019t mean to sound unsympathetic, but four to eight cops with you at all times as part of your security detail is strong as horseradish,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Trump birthright citizenship fight comes roaring back with \u2018invaders\u2019 play after Kavanaugh roadmap<\/h3>

Charles Creitz, Fox News<\/p>

On June 30, the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order seeking to limit access to birthright citizenship, prompting the president to urge Congress to take action on the issue. This week, Sen. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, heeded that call, introducing legislation \u201caimed at ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants and birth tourists by defining them as children of \u2018invaders\u2019 under federal law,\u201d according to Fox News. \u201cIn its summary, Banks\u2019 bill declares \u2018any person who enters the United States without authorization or for the purpose of engaging in birth tourism is considered an invader\u2019 and amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exclude children of such \u2018invaders.\u2019\u201d In his press release on the bill, Banks emphasized that the Supreme Court, which held that Trump\u2019s executive order violated the 14th Amendment, \u201cleft intact the longstanding constitutional exception that children born to foreign invaders are not entitled to birthright citizenship.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Republican Mike Lee Next in Line to Lead Senate Judiciary Panel<\/h3>

Olivia Alafriz and Lillianna Byington, Bloomberg Law<\/p>

Following the sudden death on Saturday of Sen. Lindsey Graham, \u201cUtah Sen. Mike Lee is on track to become the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee next year,\u201d according to Bloomberg Law. \u201cThat opportunity would be hard to turn down,\u201d Lee said in a Tuesday statement. \u201cFederal courts and our Constitution have been a lifelong interest.\u201d Bloomberg Law noted that Lee \u201ctwice clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito \u2013 on the high court, and earlier, when Alito sat on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>

No, Justice Amy Coney Barrett Most Definitely Should Not Resign from the U.S. Supreme Court<\/h3>

Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review<\/svg><\/span><\/p>

During her congressional testimony on Tuesday about the Supreme Court\u2019s budget request, Justice Amy Coney Barrett described rising security threats, recalling \u201chaving to explain to her twelve-year-old son why she walked into her family\u2019s house with a bulletproof vest.\u201d As Kathryn Jean Lopez noted in a column for the National Review, Barrett\u2019s comment fueled a social media backlash, as some viewers called on the justice to resign if she can\u2019t handle the risks of her work. Lopez criticized the people behind those posts, arguing that \u201c[t]here is something seriously wrong with us if we can\u2019t agree we have a problem after hearing that testimony yesterday. And the problem is not Amy Coney Barrett.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Are We Still Supposed to Take This Conservative Legal Theory Seriously?<\/h3>

Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times <\/svg><\/span><\/p>

In a column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse argued that \u201cthe court\u2019s obsession with \u2018originalism\u2019 descended into parody\u201d during the 2025-26 term, highlighting how complicated it can be to identify \u201can analogous regulation from the era of the country\u2019s founding\u201d in order to justify a modern restriction on gun rights. Greenhouse emphasized the government\u2019s effort in United States v. Hemani<\/em> to justify barring a marijuana user from possessing a gun with \u201c\u2018habitual drunkard\u2019 laws from the 18th and 19th centuries\u201d and the court\u2019s thorough rejection of that comparison. \u201cAlthough I\u2019ve had a bit of fun with the Hemani case,\u201d Greenhouse wrote, \u201ca serious question remains: Did it teach the court anything? Or will the justices continue stumbling through the history books under the fiction that at the end of the road lies objectivity?\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

On Site<\/h2>
Court News<\/span>

Trump administration asks justices to have lower court reconsider protected status for Venezuelan and Haitian nationals<\/h3>

By Amy Howe<\/p>

In a filing submitted on July 9 and docketed on Monday, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the justices to order the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to reconsider its ruling in a challenge to the decision by then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to end protections for Venezuelans and Haitians in the United States under the Temporary Protected Status program.<\/p><\/div>

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Contributor Corner<\/span>

The court\u2019s criminal law term: overview and observations<\/h3>

By Rory Little<\/p>

In his SCOTUSCrim column, Rory Little reviewed the 16 (or 17) \u201cpure\u201d criminal law cases argued and decided during the 2025-26 term, and then highlighted some unifying themes and takeaways from the decisions, including that there is \u201cbroad agreement among the justices in criminal law cases.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

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Contributor Corner<\/span>

Narrow holdings with broad consequences<\/h3>

By Haley Proctor<\/p>

In her A Second Opinion column, Haley Proctor revisited United States v. Hemani and Wolford v. Lopez, the two Second Amendment cases from the 2025-26 term. Although the rulings offered \u201cnarrow answers to the specific questions\u201d raised in the cases, Proctor contended that \u201cthese are important decisions, and they provide unmistakable guidance that ought to lead to sounder adjudication of Second Amendment claims in the lower courts.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

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A Closer Look<\/div>

D.A. ex rel. B.A. v. Tri County Area Schools<\/h3><\/div>

Forty years ago, the Supreme Court in Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser<\/em> held that school officials do not run afoul of the First Amendment when they prohibit students from using vulgar and offensive language. The decision built on the court\u2019s landmark 1969 ruling on student speech \u2013 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District<\/em> \u2013 in which it held that administrators and teachers may bar speech that significantly disrupts school activities.<\/p>

Now, the court has been asked to clarify Fraser<\/em> in a case that centers on a phrase that is not vulgar on its face but that is commonly understood to reference profane language: \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon.\u201d<\/p>

Read more Narrow holdings with broad consequences<\/a><\/p>

As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit when addressing the dispute, \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d became part of \u201cthe national lexicon\u201d in 2021 after a reporter misunderstood or misrepresented what the crowd at a NASCAR Xfinity Series race was chanting, stating that the audience was saying \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d when the chant was actually \u201cFuck Joe Biden.\u201d Since that day, the phrase has been a popular way to express displeasure with Biden, becoming an enduring internet meme and inspiring \u201cshirts, sweatshirts, and flags.\u201d<\/p>

The case originated in December 2021, when two brothers, both in middle school at the time, received \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d sweatshirts for Christmas from their mother. Over the next few months, each wore their sweatshirt to school at least once, where they were asked by school officials to remove it because it referenced profane language.<\/p>

In May 2022, the brothers, \u201cthrough counsel, sent the district a cease-and-desist letter, outlining their view that the ban on wearing the \u2018Let\u2019s Go Brandon\u2019 sweatshirts\u201d violated their right to express their political beliefs, according to the 6th Circuit. The school district declined to change its policy, so the family sued in April 2023, alleging First Amendment violations.<\/p>

A federal district court and then the sided with the school district, holding that the sweatshirts were the kind of \u201cvulgar speech\u201d that schools may restrict. While acknowledging that the euphemism \u201cLet\u2019s Go Brandon\u201d can only be considered profane if you know the chant it\u2019s referencing, it\u2019s reasonable to treat it the same as \u201cFuck Joe Biden,\u201d wrote Judge John Nalbandian for the 2-1 6th Circuit majority. \u201cAfter all,\u201d he continued, \u201cFraser<\/em>\u2014 the first case that recognized the vulgarity exception\u2014involved a school assembly speech that had a rather elaborate sexual metaphor instead of explicitly vulgar or obscene words\u201d (feel free to read it for yourself).<\/p>

In their , the brothers and their mother urge the Supreme Court to take up the case and hold that \u201cfully sanitized\u201d nondisruptive political speech is distinct from the \u201cprofane and sexually lewd speech\u201d addressed in Fraser<\/em>. \u201cAllowing schools to equate sanitized euphemisms with their uncensored corollaries leads to absurd results. Words like \u2018shoot\u2019 and \u2018frick\u2019 would be sanctionable in America\u2019s high schools because they \u2018mean\u2019 something else,\u201d the family contends.<\/p>

They further argue that the 6th Circuit\u2019s decision deepened a split between the federal courts of appeals over whether Fraser<\/em> allows for restrictions on student speech that references profane language but is not itself \u201cplainly\u201d vulgar. \u201cWhile the Third and Ninth Circuits interpret Fraser<\/em> to cover \u2018plainly\u2019 profane and sexual speech, the Sixth Circuit majority below embraced a far more expansive reading, allowing censorship of nondisruptive political speech that any single teacher or administrator \u2018reasonably understands\u2019 as vulgar.\u201d<\/p>

Initially, the school district and the school administrator and teacher named in the suit waived their right to respond to the petition, but the Supreme Court called for a response in May. In their , filed earlier this month, they contend that Fraser<\/em> clearly applies to the circumstances of this dispute because \u201c[a]lmost all lewd speech comes in sanitized code, innuendo, and double meaning.\u201d They illustrate this point with images of a variety of shirts that show how clothing can have a \u201clewd meaning\u201d without including vulgar language \u2013 for example, one of the shirts has a picture of Monica Lewinsky and reads \u201cI\u2019m Voting Trump. The last Clinton left a bad taste in my mouth.\u201d \u201c[T]hese examples vividly illustrate … the ease with which enterprising students could\u201d take advantage of a ruling stating that student speech must be plainly profane in order to be subject to restrictions, they say.<\/p>

They also assert that the case \u201cdoes not implicate any circuit split,\u201d because circuits that have distinguished \u201cplainly\u201d vulgar speech \u201cfrom otherwise vulgar speech\u201d have \u201cnever held that coded speech conveying a plainly vulgar message like \u2018Let\u2019s Go Brandon\u2019 … is not \u2018plainly\u2019 vulgar.\u201d<\/p>

D.A. ex rel. B.A. v. Tri County Area Schools<\/em> is scheduled to be considered by the justices at their first private conference after the summer recess, on Monday, Sept. 28.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

SCOTUS Quote<\/h2>

JUSTICE BREYER: \u201cMy only problem with writing those words is somebody is going to direct me to the provision a little bit later where it says the word \u2018State\u2019 in Title 11, of which this is part, means Puerto Rico. Okay?\u201dMR. LANDAU: \u201cWell, Your Honor \u2013\u201d<\/p>

JUSTICE BREYER: \u201cNow, that that’s hard for me to do because of that language.\u201d<\/p>

MR. LANDAU: \u201cBut, Your Honor, I would \u2013 your Honor has always been so sensitive to the contextual approach to \u2013\u201d<\/p>

Read more The court\u2019s criminal law term: overview and observations<\/a><\/p>

JUSTICE BREYER: \u201cThat may be, but I can’t say that an \u2018airplane\u2019 means a horse.\u201d<\/p>

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