Ellena Erskine

This week’s Relist Watch column: another capital case in which the prosecution confessed error and calls for a new trial — here in Austin, Tex., based on forensic misconduct at the police dept lab that compromised DNA evidence. Read @johnpelwood on the site and in your inbox.

RT @katieleebarlow: Just last week, I asked Georgetown about whether and how they were contemplating a Khalil-type situation with a Georget…

RT @steve_vladeck: In the birthright citizenship cases, #SCOTUS has asked the challengers to respond to the Trump administration's emergenc…

Trump has asked the justices to step in on birthright citizenship, for now, to limit the injunctions on his order. Read our explainer on the history of birthright citizenship at the court. https://t.co/4ZwLFNdKQi.

Looking for people who have used the Supreme Court’s new online seat reservation system. If this is you, send me a message/email.

As of today there are 2 opinions yet to be released from the court’s Oct. session. That suggests the ghost guns case, on the regulation of make-your-own guns, will be Gorsuch or Barrett.

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RT @steve_vladeck: Here we go: The Acting Solicitor General has asked #SCOTUS to immediately freeze (and vacate) the district court order t…

The court will hear another capital case on Feb. 24, this one over the Texas law governing postconviction DNA testing. Ruben Gutierrez maintains that a DNA test on evidence from the 1998 murder he was sentenced to death for would prove his innocence. https://t.co/zelsX0mG2x

RT @steve_vladeck: The Acting Solicitor General has notified Congress of DOJ's intent to ask #SCOTUS to overrule Humphrey's Executor—a majo…

RT @JaneMayerNYer: The ABA calls on all attorneys to support the rule of law https://t.co/7O2G2nnFt7

As efforts to block Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship work through the courts, a look at the Supreme Court’s long history on the guarantee of citizenship. https://t.co/8cQkYVBfPB

Alabama and 18 other Republican-led states are asking the court to block efforts in other states to hold big oil accountable for misleading the public on the cause of climate change and the dangers of fossil fuels. @johnpelwood with another Relist Watch https://t.co/k9oFCz4rOE

Five new cases added to the court’s docket this afternoon

Katie Barlow @katieleebarlow

NEW: Supreme Court takes up case out of Montgomery County Public Schools on whether it burdens parents' religious freedom to require elementary school students to receive instruction on gender, sexuality when the parents oppose on religious grounds and no opt out. @fox5dc

RT @brianstelter: The company praises Trump, points out that he has tons of followers on TikTok, and says "more to come" >>>