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SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, September 30
By Kelsey Dallas and Nora Collins, on Sep 30, 2025
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s investiture ceremony took place on this day in 2022, but she actually had been serving on the court for three months by that point after taking the Constitutional Oath and Judicial Oath on June 30. As the most junior justice, she’s in charge of taking notes during the justices’ private conferences, among other tasks.
Morning Reads
- Federal courts may quickly face curtailed operations if government shuts down (Devin Dwyer, ABC News) — Federal courts may be forced to “quickly curtail operations” if the funding battle in Congress leads to a government shutdown this week, but the Supreme Court “would be largely unaffected,” according to ABC News. “In the event of a lapse of appropriations, the Court will continue to conduct its normal operations,” Supreme Court spokeswoman Patricia McCabe told ABC. “The Court will rely on permanent funds not subject to annual approval, as it has in the past, to maintain operations through the duration of short-term lapses of annual appropriations.” Lower courts, on the other hand, may have to delay trials and other hearings, because they have fewer funds on hand due, in part, to “years of tighter budgets and rising costs.”
- The Roberts court turns 20 (Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service) — Monday marked 20 years since Chief Justice John Roberts became the leader of the Supreme Court. And as the Roberts court enters its third decade, it’s preparing to take on a number of major issues, including “elections, free speech and executive authority,” reports Courthouse News Service. “While the justices have pushed back against claims of judicial activism, the Supreme Court 2025 lineup presents a slew of opportunities for the Roberts court to overturn precedent and issue decisions that could ripple across the U.S. for the next 20 years.”
- ‘The Supreme Court got it wrong’: SC Attorney General calls for death penalty for child rapists (WIS News 10 Staff) — Nearly half of state attorneys general sent a letter to the Justice Department and White House General Counsel this month in which they called on federal officials to support their effort to challenge a 2008 Supreme Court decision that “barred states from imposing the death penalty in cases of child rape where the victim did not die,” according to WIS News 10 in South Carolina. That decision, in Kennedy v. Louisiana, said that imposing the death penalty in such cases violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
- Ex-Michigan football players vow to appeal after NIL lawsuit against BTN, NCAA dismissed (Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press) — It’s been four years since the Supreme Court shook up the world of college sports by holding that the NCAA had violated antitrust laws by limiting the kinds of compensation its schools could provide to student-athletes. That decision cleared the way for college athletes to be paid for their name, image, and likeness, or NIL, rights, while also prompting a new wave of lawsuits. One such suit brought by 300 former Michigan athletes against the NCAA and Big Ten Network over the use of their NIL rights was recently dismissed by a district court, which determined that “it fell outside of the statute of limitations,” according to the Detroit Free Press. The athletes’ attorney has vowed to appeal all the way “to the Supreme Court if necessary.”
- The Roberts Court Turns Twenty (Steven Vladeck, One First) — Steve Vladeck also covered the first 20 years of the Roberts court on Monday and contended that the chief justice is not doing enough to steer the court to more stable ground as it struggles with a reputational crisis. “Roberts could move the Court by voting differently in some of these cases; he has chosen not to. Roberts could speak up more about the unprecedented institutional (and physical) threats to the judiciary; save for one cryptic statement about impeachment, he has chosen not to. Roberts could write separately in cases in which he believes he is obliged to grant emergency relief to the Trump administration but doesn’t wish to condone its (public or litigation) behavior; he has chosen not to,” Vladeck wrote.
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