The U.S.will issue decisions onfor the summer, including those that are emergency appeals relating to U.S. President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Cases on the court’s emergency docket are handled swiftly, and decisions often come without explanations of the justices’ reasoning.
Decisions released today will be related to appeals on birthright citizenship, an online age verification law in Texas, the Education Department’s firing of nearly 1,400 workers and DOGE-related government job cuts.
Here's the latest:
Supreme Court doesn't rule on Louisiana's second majority Black congressional district
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12:44 p.m. ET:on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall.
The case is being closely watched because at arguments in March several of the court’s conservative justices suggested they could vote to throw out the map and make it harder, if not impossible, to bring redistricting lawsuits under.
The case involves the interplay between race and politics in drawing political boundaries in front of a conservative-led court that has been skeptical of considerations of race in public life.
Justice Clarence Thomas noted in a brief dissent from Friday's order that he would have decided the case now and imposed limits on “race-based redistricting.”
The order keeps alive a fight over political power stemming from the 2020 census halfway to the next one. Two maps were blocked by lower courts, and the Supreme Court intervened twice. Last year, the justices orderedto be used in the 2024 elections, while the legal case proceeded.
The call for new arguments probably means that the district currently represented by Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields probably will remain intact for the 2026 elections because the high court has separately been reluctant to upend districts as elections draw near.
The state hasto replace its so-called jungle primary with partisan primary elections in the spring, followed by a November showdown between the party nominees.
The change means candidates can start gathering signatures in September to get on the primary ballot for 2026.
Trump says he will ‘promptly file’ to push policies after court’s decision
Noon ET: Speaking from the White House, Trump said he would try to advance restrictions on birthright citizenship and other policies that had been blocked by district courts.
Trump calls court ruling a ‘monumental victory’
Noon ET:The president, making a rare appearance to hold a news conference in the White House briefing room, said Friday that the decision from the Supreme Court was “amazing” and a “monumental victory for the Constitution,” the separation of powers and the rule of law.
Vance praises court ruling on ‘ridiculous process’ of injunctions
Noon ET:“Under our system, everyone has to follow the law—including judges!” Vice President JD Vance wrote on the social platform X.
Nationwide injunctions have become a key brake on Trump’s efforts to dramatically reshape the government, frustrating him and his allies.
Options remain ‘for individuals to obtain relief from the courts,’ legal group says
Noon ET:Skye Perryman, the president and CEO of the nonprofit Democracy Forward, called the court’s birthright citizenship decision “another obstacle” to the protection of constitutional rights, but added that “a number of pathways remain for individuals to obtain relief from the courts.”
Democracy Forward has ledover pauses to federal funding.
“Lawyers in this nation will find a way or make one in the work to achieve what our Constitution mandates and our nation promises,” Perryman said in a statement.
Immigrant advocates say the court has ‘invited chaos, inequality’ with ruling
Noon ET: The Supreme Court ruling “opens the door to a dangerous patchwork of rights in this country, where a child’s citizenship may now depend on the judicial district in which they’re born,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge, a nonprofit group that supports refugees and migrants entering the U.S. “This is a deeply troubling moment not only for immigrant families, but for the legal uniformity that underpins our Constitution.”
“Birthright citizenship has been settled constitutional law for more than a century,” he said in a statement. “By denying lower courts the ability to enforce that right uniformly, the Court has invited chaos, inequality, and fear,” Vignarajah continued.
Court upholds Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online porn
11:30 a.m. ET:on Friday upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children under 18 from seeing online pornography.
Nearly half all states have passedas smartphones and other devices make it easier to access, including hardcore obscene material.
The ruling comes after an adult-entertainment industry trade group called the Free Speech Coalition challenged the Texas law.
The group said the law puts an unfair free-speech burden on adults by requiring them to submit personal information that could be vulnerable to hacking or tracking. It agreed, though, that children under 18 shouldn’t be seeing porn.
A leading adult-content website, Pornhub, has stopped operating in several states, citing the technical and privacy hurdles in complying with the laws.
The Supreme Court has confronted the issue before. In 1996, it struck down parts of a law banning explicit material viewable by kids online. A divided court also ruled against a different federal law aimed at stopping kids from being exposed to porn in 2004 but said less restrictive measures like content filtering are constitutional.
Texas argues that technology has improved significantly in the last 20 years, allowing online platforms to easily check users’ ages with a quick picture. Those requirements are more like ID checks at brick-and-mortar adult stores that were upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1960s, the state said.
Vice President JD Vance hails ‘huge’ Supreme Court decision
11:24 a.m. ET:Vice President JD Vance said the justices were “smacking down the ridiculous process of nationwide injunctions.”
He also shared a post from conservative commentator Sean Davis, who said the court was “nuking universal injunctions,” which liberals have sought from district judges to slow down Trump’s agenda.
Birthright citizenship case ruling will cause ‘chaos and confusion,’ group says
11:23 a.m. ET:Lupe Rodríguez, executive director of National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, said the decision “opens the door to discrimination, statelessness, and a fundamental erosion of rights for those born on American soil.”
“By lifting the injunction on this cruel and unconstitutional executive order, there will be chaos and confusion for families across the country as citizenship may depend on the state you were born in,” Rodríguez said in a statement.
The cases now return to lower courts, where judges will have to decide how to tailor their orders to comply with the high court ruling. The conservative majority left open the possibility that the birthright citizenship changes could remain blocked nationwide.
New York AG calls Supreme Court ruling a profound setback
11:22 a.m. ET:The ruling, which said individual judges don’t have the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, left unclear the fate of Trump’s birthright citizenship order, which would deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of people who are in the country illegally.
“While I am confident that our case defending birthright citizenship will ultimately prevail, my heart breaks for the families whose lives may be upended by the uncertainty of this decision,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.
‘The lives of thousands of Americans will be upended’
11:21 a.m. ET:Common Cause President and CEO Virginia Kase Solomón said the Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of injunctions issued by federal judges leaves thousands of people vulnerable.
“The lives of thousands of Americans will be upended, and many will be wrongfully deported. The ruling undermines the ability of the federal courts to protect the Constitution from a president with no respect for the rule of law and a dislike for people who don’t look like him,” Solomón said in a statement.
Solomón predicted the Trump administration would use the ruling to “illegally deport citizens in violation of the 14th Amendment.”
“Ultimately, the courts will rule against this blatantly unconstitutional act by the president. But the ruling today prevents lower courts from stopping unconstitutional acts nationwide before they do serious harm,” she said.
Many justices have raised concerns about nationwide injunctions
11:20 a.m. ET:In the past, at least five of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have raised concerns about the orders, but it hasn’t just been conservatives.
Speaking at the Northwestern University School of Law in 2022, Kagan warned of “forum shopping,” when litigants file suit in courts they hope will be receptive to them.
“In the Trump years, people used to go to the Northern District of California, and in the Biden years, they go to Texas,” she said. “It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”
Trump plans news conference to celebrate Supreme Court ruling
11:10 a.m. ET: The president posted on his Truth Social media network that the ruling was a “GIANT WIN.”
“Even the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been, indirectly, hit hard. It had to do with the babies of slaves (same year!), not the SCAMMING of our Immigration process,” Trump said in the post.
He announced he plans to have a news conference at 11:30 a.m. at the White House.
Key part of Obamacare coverage requirements preserved
11:04 a.m. ET: The Supreme Court rejected a challenge from Christian employers to a key part of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive health care coverage requirements, which affects some 150 million Americans.
The 6-3 ruling comes in a lawsuit over how the government decides which health care medications and services must be fully covered by private insurance under former President Barack Obama’s signature law, often referred to as Obamacare.
The Trump administration defended the mandate before the court, though the Republican president has been critical of his Democratic predecessor’s law.
Nationwide injunctions have become a favored judicial tool during Trump presidency
11:03 a.m. ET:A Supreme Court opinion limiting the use of nationwide injunctions takes aim at a judicial maneuver that has soared in popularity during the first several months of Trump’s second term.
A Congressional Research Service report identified 25 cases between Jan. 20 and April 29 in which a district court judge issued a nationwide injunction. Those include cases on topics ranging from federal funding to diversity, equity and inclusion considerations to birthright citizenship, the subject at issue in Friday’s Supreme Court opinion restricting their use.
That number is in contrast to 28 nationwide injunction cases that CRS identified from former President Joe Biden’s administration and 86 from Trump’s first term.
The report cautions that it’s not possible to provide a full count since nationwide injunction is not a legal term with a precise meaning.
Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books
11:02 a.m. ET:ruled on Friday that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using.
The justices reversed lower-court rulings in favor of the Montgomery County school system in suburban Washington. The high court ruled that the schools likely could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious objections to the material.
was not a final ruling in the case, but the justices strongly suggested that the parents will win in the end.
The court ruled that policies like the one at issue in the case are subjected to the strictest level of review, nearly always dooming them.
The school district introduced the storybooks, including “Prince & Knight” and “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” in 2022 as part of an effort to better reflect the district’s diversity. In “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding,” a niece worries that her uncle won't have as much time for her after he gets married to another man.
The justices have repeatedlyin recent years and the case is among several religious-rights cases at the court this term. The decision also comes amid increases in recent years infrom public school and public libraries.
Many of the removals were organized by Moms for Liberty and other conservative organizations that advocate for more parental input over what books are available to students. Soon after President Donald Trump, a Republican, took office in January,called the book bans a “hoax” and dismissed 11 complaints that had been filed under Trump's predecessor, President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Court OKs fee that subsidizes phone, internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas
10:52 a.m. ET:on Friday upheld the fee that is added to phone bills to provide billions of dollars a year inin schools, libraries and rural areas.
The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed an appeals court ruling that had struck down as unconstitutional the Universal Service Fund, the charge that has been added to phone bills for nearly 30 years.
At arguments in March, liberal and conservative justices alike expressed concerns about the potentially devastating consequences of eliminating the fund, which has benefited tens of millions of Americans.
collects the money from telecommunications providers, which pass the cost on to their customers.
A Virginia-based conservative advocacy group, Consumers' Research, had challenged the practice. The justices had previously denied two appeals from Consumers' Research after federal appeals courts upheld the program. But the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, among the nation’s most conservative, ruled 9-7 that the method of funding is unconstitutional.
Sotomayor accuses the Trump administration of “gamesmanship” in dissent
10:43 a.m. ET: She wrote that Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order has been deemed “patently unconstitutional” by every court that examined it.
So, instead of trying to argue that the executive order is likely constitutional, the administration “asks this Court to hold that, no matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the Executive to stop enforcing it against anyone,” Sotomayor wrote.
“The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it,” she wrote. “Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along.”
Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined her in her dissenting opinion.
Attorney general applauds limits on nationwide injunctions
10:35 a.m. ET: “Today, the Supreme Court instructed district courts to STOP the endless barrage of nationwide injunctions against President Trump,” U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on the social platform X shortly after the ruling came down.
Bondi said the Justice Department “will continue to zealously defend” Trump’s “policies and his authority to implement them.”
Universal injunctions have been a source of intense frustration for the Trump administration amid a barrage of legal challenges to his priorities around immigration and other matters.
Nationwide injunctions limited, but fate of birthright citizenship order unclear
10:24 a.m. ET: The outcome was a victory for Trump, who has complained about individual judges throwing up obstacles to his agenda.
But a conservative majority left open the possibility that the birthright citizenship changes could remain blocked nationwide. Trump’s order would deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of people who are in the country illegally.
Birthright citizenship automatically makesan American citizen, including children born to mothers in the country illegally. The right was enshrined soon after the Civil War in.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor is reading her dissenting opinion from the bench, a sign of her clear disagreement with the majority’s opinion.
The other big cases left on the docket
The court seems likely to side with Maryland parents in a religious rights case over LGBTQ+ storybooks in public schools, but other decisions appear less obvious.
The judges will also weigh a Texas age-verification law for online pornography and a map of Louisiana congressional districts, now in its second trip to the nation’s highest court.
The justices will take the bench at 10 a.m. ET
Once they’re seated, they’ll get right to the opinions.
The opinions are announced in reverse order of seniority so that the junior justices go first. The birthright citizenship case will likely be announced last by Chief Justice John Roberts.
A U.S. Supreme Court police officer stands watch as anti-abortion protesters rally outside of the Supreme Court on Thursday in Washington.
