SCOTUS Sets Special May Sitting In Birthright Citizenship Case
Today the Supreme Court set oral argument for the birthright citizenship cases on May 15:
Consideration of the application (24A884) for partial stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is deferred pending oral argument. Consideration of the application (24A885) for partial stay presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is deferred pending oral argument. Consideration of the application (24A886) for partial stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the Court is deferred pending oral argument. The applications are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. The applications are set for oral argument at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
May and June oral arguments are quite rare. (I do not count regularly-scheduled cases from the April sitting that spill into May.) In 2017, I tracked three such cases in recent decades:
1. Raines v. Byrd (1996) involved the Line Item Veto Act. This bill had a direct appeal from D.D.C. D.D.C resolved the case on April 10, and the Court noted probably jurisdiction two week
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