Supreme Court allows Trump to ban transgender people from military

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 Lets Trump Enforce Transgender Troop Ban as Cases Proceed (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• In win for Trump, Supreme Court allows ban on transgender troops to take effect (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
• Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts (Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker)
• Shadow Docket Requests Threaten to Delay High Court Opinions (Lydia Wheeler & Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)
• Trump Says ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked if He Must Uphold the Constitution (Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal)

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

• Trump administration asks judge to toss suit restricting access to abortion medication (Lindsay Whitehurst & Rebecca Boone, The Associated Press)
• Trump to continue Biden’s court defense of abortion drug mifepristone (Daniel Wiessner, Reuters)
• What the Constitution, Supreme Court say about ‘due process’ for Trump deportees (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)
• An anti-trans lawmaker brings a Supreme Court case that she absolutely must win (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
• Trump’s Justice Department Is Squandering Its Biggest Asset (Ankush Khardori, Politico)

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the justices on Monday afternoon that Congress has given the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services the power to appoint members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, while the lawyer for a group of individuals and small businesses challenging the constitutionality of that group’s structure countered that Congress failed to do so. The arguments came in relatively rare supplemental briefs filed at the justices’ request two weeks after the oral arguments in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management. 

Under the Affordable Care Act, the task force – an independent panel of experts – makes recommendations about which “preventive health services” private insurers and group health plans must cover at no additional cost to the patient. One such recommendation, made in June 2019, was for the HIV prevention medicine pre-exposure prophylaxis, known as PrEP.

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

• A fight over marijuana ads in Mississippi hits the Supreme Court (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
• Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let DOGE View Social Security Data (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
• The Increasingly Overloaded Emergency Docket (Steve Vladeck, One First)
• Is This the End of the Separation of Church and State? (Ruth Marcus, The New Yorker)
• Transgender service members warn SCOTUS of ‘Un-American’ purge if Trump ban is reinstated (Christopher Wiggins, Advocate)

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

The Supreme Court continues its recent streak of “promoting” relists to granted cases, as the court granted review in The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. v. Palmquist, a lawsuit by parents seeking to hold a baby-food producer responsible for their child’s autism. The justices agreed to decide whether a federal district court’s final judgment in favor of the producer must be completely thrown out when the case is sent back to the state court because the district court should not have dismissed another defendant, the grocery chain Whole Foods, from the case.