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Fourteen cases to watch from the Supreme Court’s end-of-summer “long conference”

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But the 5th Circuit wrote that this case “may … attract the [Supreme] Court’s interest” because “[i]t tees up one of the fiercest (and oldest) fights in administrative law: the Humphrey’s Executor ‘exception to the general ‘rule’ that lets a president remove subordinates at will.”

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Separation of powers and mental health evidence in capital sentencing

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The court’s grant suggests the court may be poised to narrow the scope of standing for members of Congress to sue to enforce statutes. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , involving allegations of racial gerrymandering in a South Carolina congressional district. First up is Calcutt v.

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“Remain in Mexico” and Texas’ anti-abortion law

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After Texas and Missouri challenged that decision, a federal district court vacated the secretary’s termination, in part on the administrative-law ground that the decision was insufficiently explained. In June 2021, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the Department of Homeland Security issued a decision terminating the policy.

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