WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Friday, April 11

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

• US Supreme Court tells Trump administration to facilitate return of Salvadoran man deported in error (John Kruzel & Andrew Chung, Reuters)
• Supreme Court says Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported man (Justin Jouvenal & Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
• The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived (Adam Serwer, The Atlantic)
• The Biggest Threat to Public Education Is Coming From an Unexpected Place (Aaron Tang, Politico) 
• The Apathetic Court (Duncan Hosie, The New York Review of Books) 

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Thursday, April 10

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

• Supreme Court lets Trump remove independent regulators, for now (Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
• Rulings in New York and Texas Curb Deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador (Alan Feuer & Jonah E. Bromwich, The New York Times)
• Supreme Court tepid on Trump while defending power to check president (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)
• Supreme Court denies request to halt Karen Read murder retrial as jury selection nears end (N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Christopher Cann, & Jessica Trufant, USA Today)
• The Supreme Court Doesn’t Need Facts (Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic)

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Wednesday, April 9

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

• Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press)
• Was the supreme court’s deportation ruling a win for Trump or immigrants? (Alice Speri, The Guardian) 
• Judge Boasberg cancels hearing on Trump deportations after Supreme Court ruling (Katherine Faulders, Alexander Mallin, & Peter Charalambous, ABC News)
• In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Retreats From Confrontation (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• Trump’s Triple Win at the Supreme Court (Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal)

EMERGENCY DOCKET

Justices pause order to reinstate fired federal employees

The Supreme Court on Tuesday paused an order by a judge in San Francisco that would require the federal government to reinstate more than 16,000 workers who were fired by six agencies earlier this year. A group of nonprofits challenging the layoffs argued that the terminations by the Office of Personnel Management violated several different parts of the federal law governing administrative agencies. But by an apparent vote of 7-2, the justices nonetheless put the order by Senior U.S. District Judge William Alsup on hold while the challenge to the firings continues, explaining that the nonprofits do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge the terminations.

In a brief unsigned order, the court explained that it was not weighing in on the claims by other plaintiffs in the lawsuit – specifically, unions representing government employees, whose claims Alsup did not address because he concluded that he likely did not have the power to hear them. The court also did not weigh in on the propriety of the firings more generally.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor indicated that she would have denied the Trump administration’s request to pause Alsup’s order.

WHAT WE'RE READING

The morning read for Tuesday, April 8

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

• Supreme Court Clears Way for Venezuelan Deportations to Resume, for Now (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times)
• Supreme Court says Venezuelans Trump wants to deport must be able to ‘actually seek’ relief before being deported (Josh Gerstein, Politico)
• Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador (Mark Sherman, The Associated Press)
• Trump Tariffs Hit With Lawsuit by Group His Supreme Court Adviser Funded (Shane Croucher & Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek)
• New York gun restrictions stand after high court declines review (Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service)