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Tomorrow (Aug. 15) is Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s birthday. He will be 88.<\/p>

At the Court<\/h2>

On Thursday, the Supreme Court a request for a stay of execution from Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines, who was sentenced to death for the murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins. Hours later, Hines was executed in Tennessee.<\/p>

Read more Once upon a time: storytelling in Learning Resources v. Trump<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>

On July 27, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on its emergency docket to clear the way for the implementation of President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on mail-in voting. Twelve states later echoed this request in their own application. Last week, the group of 23 states and the District of Columbia challenging the order the court to deny these requests. On Wednesday, the Trump administration the justices to \u201cpromptly\u201d issue their decision.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

The court is set to release the second of three summer order lists on Monday at 9:30 a.m. EDT. (We discussed what these lists typically address in our July 13 newsletter.)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Morning Reads<\/h2>

How a Covid-Era Scramble Transformed Supreme Court Arguments<\/h3>

Adam Liptak, The New York Times<\/svg><\/span><\/p>

A new study on Supreme Court oral arguments from October 2005 to April 2026 \u201crevealed momentous changes in a cautious institution,\u201d according to The New York Times. Among other shifts, the research highlighted how the average length of argument has expanded in the years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the court conducted its arguments by telephone. \u201cBefore the pandemic, arguments lasted an hour. Now they are on average nearly 90 minutes,\u201d and the arguments for high-profile cases, such as the dispute over President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs, sometimes stretch closer to three hours. The study also showed that, although Justice Clarence Thomas speaks more today than he did in the past, he is still the least talkative justice, accounting for just 3% of the justices\u2019 speaking time during the 2025-26 term. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, \u201con the other hand, has emerged as by far the most talkative justice, uttering an average of 1,263 words per case, more than double the justices\u2019 average.\u201d The Times also noted a \u201cstriking finding\u201d about Chief Justice John Roberts: The chief \u201cused to speak an average amount,\u201d but \u201chas become almost as taciturn as Justice Thomas.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Apple App Store Commission-Rate Proceedings Can Move Forward<\/h3>

Leah Nylen, Bloomberg<\/svg><\/span><\/p>

On Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan denied Apple\u2019s request to pause \u201ca lower-court proceeding over the rate it charges developers for sales outside its App Store\u201d while the Supreme Court considers \u201can appeal related to a contempt finding in the case,\u201d according to Bloomberg. \u201cThe new order, which came without comment, supersedes a temporary pause Kagan imposed Wednesday to allow more time to consider Apple\u2019s request.\u201d The case on Apple\u2019s commission will now continue before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers \u201csimultaneously with the Supreme Court\u201d case, which addresses the circumstances under which a court may hold a party in civil contempt. Rogers held Apple in contempt after ordering the company to allow game developers to use external storefronts for in-app purchases and determining that its decision to charge a 27% commission on such purchases violated that order.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Top Democrat Targets Supreme Court for Changes<\/h3>

Damian Paletta and Maya Davis, The Wall Street Journal<\/svg><\/span><\/p>

During a Thursday appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, \u201csignaled that Democrats would look to overhaul the Supreme Court if they regain power in Washington,\u201d according to The Wall Street Journal. Jeffries \u201cdescribed the conservative wing of the court as a \u2018subsidiary\u2019 of President Trump\u2019s Make America Great Again movement. He said there are a \u2018variety of different options [for reform] that are on the table, and I think we can\u2019t foreclose on any single one of them.\u2019\u201d The Journal noted that \u201cDemocratic congressional candidates on all sides of the party have criticized the court on the campaign trail, calling for term limits and an end to the 2010 Citizens United ruling that allowed corporations and unions to spend unlimited money on elections.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>

Birth Tourism Schemes Targeted by State Department Task Force<\/h3>

Andrew Kreighbaum, Bloomberg Law<\/p>

On Wednesday, the State Department announced that it launched \u201ca task force to prevent exploitation of visa programs for birth tourism.\u201d The effort draws on \u201cdata collected by multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, to review travel histories of foreign nationals entering the US,\u201d according to Bloomberg Law. The new task force is part of the Trump administration\u2019s broader push against \u201c[s]chemes facilitating travel by foreign nationals to the US with the sole purpose of giving birth,\u201d a push that has expanded since the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order on birthright citizenship on June 30. The State Department said \u201c[t]he task force has already revoked the visas of more than 600 individuals.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>

State continues Whittier voter misconduct prosecutions despite landmark U.S. Supreme Court citizenship ruling<\/h3>

Jonson Kuhn, Alaska\u2019s News Source<\/p>

After receiving \u201ca complaint about noncitizen voting,\u201d Alaska State Troopers in 2024 spoke with residents of Whittier, Alaska, about their citizenship status and ultimately launched a legal battle against an American Samoan family, accusing them of \u201cimproperly mark[ing] themselves as U.S. citizens on state voting forms\u201d when they are actually U.S. nationals, according to Alaska\u2019s News Source. The family\u2019s defense team now seeks to have the \u201cfelony voter misconduct charges\u201d dismissed, contending \u201cthat under the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Barbara<\/em>, anyone born on U.S. soil \u2013 including U.S. territories like American Samoa \u2013 is constitutionally a U.S. citizen under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.\u201d In opposing the motion to dismiss, the state did not address the Supreme Court ruling and instead \u201cargued that it is legally sufficient that Congress has historically designated individuals born in American Samoa as \u2018nationals, but not citizens, of the United States.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

On Site<\/h2>
SCOTUS Outside Opinions<\/span>

The Supreme Court expands protections for digital data \u2013 now what? <\/h3>

By Mailyn Fidler<\/p>

In a column for SCOTUSblog, Mailyn Fidler revisited Chatrie v. United States, in which the court held that \u201cone\u2019s digital location [is] firmly protected by the Constitution from police searches without a warrant.\u201d The ruling, according to Fidler, \u201copens the door to a major expansion of digital privacy under the Fourth Amendment. But the nature and extent of this privacy is far from certain.\u201d<\/p><\/div>

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SCOTUS Outside Opinions<\/span>

Once upon a time: storytelling in Learning Resources v. Trump<\/h3>

By Kendall Gray<\/p>

In a column for SCOTUSblog, Kendall Gray, who teaches legal writing to law students, explored what makes the Supreme Court\u2019s best writers good at, well, writing, by focusing on Chief Justice John Roberts\u2019 opinion for the court in the tariffs case. He emphasized Roberts\u2019 use of storytelling language and focus on the president as an actor in a narrative, rather than simply on legal principles or statutory text.<\/p><\/div>

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Podcasts<\/h2>
Advisory Opinions<\/span>

This Is Not A Vibes-Only Podcast<\/h3>

David Lat and Zachary Shemtob return as guest hosts and are joined by Adam Feldman, author of the blog Empirical SCOTUS and the Substack Legalytics, to discuss an update on birthright citizenship, some new polling about SCOTUS, and Luigi Mangione, who will soon be tried for the murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

A Closer Look<\/div>

Justice Bushrod Washington<\/h3><\/div>

While one\u2019s relatives are by no means a guarantee of success, it certainly helped in Justice Bushrod Washington\u2019s case to have the nation\u2019s first president as his uncle.<\/p>

Read more The Supreme Court expands protections for digital data \u2013 now what?<\/a><\/p>

The younger Washington was born in June 1762 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Hannah Bushrod and John Augustine Washington, the younger brother of the future president. Said to be the general\u2019s favorite nephew, Washington graduated from William & Mary at 16, then studied law there under the first law professor at an American university,\u00a0George Wythe, and\u00a0alongside John Marshall. Washington put his studies aside to serve as a Continental Army private in 1781, although whether he actually watched General Charles Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown depends on whom you ask. His uncle then arranged a Philadelphia apprenticeship with none other than James Wilson, a founder who would eventually serve on the Supreme Court and have snowballing financial problems (to put it mildly).<\/p>

Back in Virginia, Washington built a busy appellate practice, a volume of Virginia Court of Appeals decisions in 1796, took on law students of his own, including the young Henry Clay, won a House of Delegates seat in 1787, and voted to ratify the Constitution at Virginia\u2019s 1788 convention.<\/p>

In 1798, Wilson died and President John Adams offered the vacancy to Marshall, who turned it down because he wanted to run for Congress and recommended his friend Washington instead. Adams gave Washington a recess appointment that fall, and he took his oath in November 1798. The Senate confirmed him that December. Washington was the youngest justice yet at age 37 when he took his late teacher\u2019s spot on the bench.<\/p>

After Marshall became chief justice in 1801, the two voted together so reliably that Justice William Johnson described them as \u201ccommonly estimated as one judge.\u201d Exactly how rarely Washington strayed from the chief is somewhat contested (his formal dissents have been counted at one or three).<\/p>

One of Washington\u2019s best-known opinions came in 1827\u2019s Ogden v. Saunders<\/em>. Ogden<\/em> centered around whether a state bankruptcy law could wipe out debts without violating the Constitution\u2019s ban on laws \u201cimpairing the obligation of contracts.\u201d Writing for the majority, Washington held that a law already on the books when a contract is signed effectively becomes part of that contract, so applying it at a later time does not impair things. Marshall disagreed, making it the \u201conly constitutional case in which Marshall wrote a dissenting opinion.\u201d<\/p>

Some of Washington\u2019s heaviest work, though, happened off the court. From 1803 until his death he rode the 3rd Circuit, spending around four months a year holding court in Philadelphia and Trenton (far more than his six annual weeks of Supreme Court work) and adjourning daily at exactly 3:00 p.m., because, as he told one lawyer, if he wasn\u2019t in his wife\u2019s parlor within five minutes of that, \u201cshe imagines some evil has happened to me.\u201d While on circuit, Washington decided 1809\u2019s United States v. Bright<\/em>, in which a Pennsylvania militia general had used armed forces to block a federal court judgment on the state\u2019s orders. Washington held that states cannot resist federal courts at gunpoint. In 1814\u2019s Golden v. Prince<\/em>, he concluded that only Congress (not the states) could enact bankruptcy legislation.<\/p>

And then there is 1823\u2019s Corfield v. Coryell<\/em>, which began as a conflict over who could harvest New Jersey oysters, but ultimately helped define the early reading of Article IV\u2019s guarantee that a state cannot deny citizens visiting from other states the privileges and immunities it extends to its own (relevant for who could work New Jersey\u2019s oyster beds). Washington\u2019s opinion listed the rights he deemed \u201cfundamental,\u201d a citizen\u2019s right \u201cto pass through, or to reside in any other state,\u201d which has been credited with laying groundwork for the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 14th Amendment. <\/p>

Off the bench, Washington inherited his uncle\u2019s papers in 1799 and Mount Vernon itself in 1802, co-producing with Marshall a five-volume biography of George Washington. As his uncle\u2019s executor, he carried out his direction to free those whom America\u2019s first president had enslaved \u2013 although he never granted freedom to the many individuals he held in bondage.<\/p>

Washington died mid-circuit in Philadelphia in November 1829, and his wife Nancy died two days later. Both rest at Mount Vernon.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

SCOTUS Quote<\/h2>

MR. McCONNELL: \u201c\u2026 Unless there are further questions, I will waive the remainder of my time.\u201d<\/p>

Read more Trump administration asks SCOTUS to rule soon on mail-in voting<\/a><\/p>

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: \u201cThank you, counsel.\u201d<\/p>

MR. McCONNELL: \u201cUnless it’s an un-waivable right.\u201d<\/p>

(Laughter.)<\/p>

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: \u201cYou have no right to time before the court.\u201d<\/p>

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