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OA1275 - As June ends and another Supreme Court Season wraps, it is time to look back and survey the damage: significant blows to voting and trans rights, harder times for immigrants throughout the system, and a vast expansion of executive powers. But we also go beyond the headlines to see what has been going on with some of the Court’s more routine business. What can we learn from their more mundane 9-0 decisions--and can we actually find some good news here among the wreckage? Matt does his best. Finally, in today’s seasonal footnote: why the world believed for exactly five minutes that Samuel Alito had closed Supreme Court Season by announcing his retirement on Tuesday, and what we can learn from this weird mistake about how mainstream media covers the Supreme Court.

Executive Power / Immigration

• Trump v. Barbara — 25-365 (June 30, 2026)(birthright citizenship)

• Learning Resources v. Trump — 24-1287  (Feb. 20, 2026) (IEEPA tariffs)

• Trump v. Cook — 25A312 (June 29, 2026) (Fed removal)

• Trump v. Slaughter — 25-332 (June 29, 2026) (FTC removal)

• Mullin v. Doe — 25-1083 (June 25, 2026) (TPS)

• Mullin v. Al Otro Lado — 25-5 (June 25, 2026) (asylum at the border)

• Blanche v. Lau — 25-429 (June 23, 2026)(LPRs at the border)

• Urias-Orellana v. Bondi — 24-777 (Mar. 4, 2026) (asylum standard of review)

Criminal Law

• Barrett v. United States — 24-5774 (Jan. 14, 2026) (§924(c)/(j) stacking)

• Bowe v. United States — 24-5438 (Jan. 9, 2026) (successive §2255 petitions)

• Ellingburg v. United States — 24-482 (Jan. 20, 2026) (restitution / Ex Post Facto)

• Chatrie v. United States — 25-112 (June 29, 2026) (geofence / 4A)

• United States v. Hemani — 24-1234 (June 18, 2026) (cannabis & 2A rights)

• Hunter v. United States — 24-1063 (June 18, 2026) (appeal waivers)

• Pitchford v. Cain — 24-7351 (May 28, 2026) (Batson / AEDPA challenge)

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