<img src="https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-loaded/v1/QPcfu4rSBcYyOB_7XoZZG3n9ye8UNv30" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="The morning read for Monday, May 19" title="The morning read for Monday, May 19"> <p>Hi, everyone! I am very excited to be joining SCOTUSblog as its executive editor. Please feel free to reach out to me at zachary@thedispatch.com, even if just to say hello. </p> <p>Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:</p> <ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5304103-sotomayor-urges-action-on-birthright-citizenship/">Courting Controversy: Justices’ side commentaries undermine the Supreme Court</a> (Jonathan Turley, The Hill)</li> <li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/supreme-court-alien-enemies-act-deportations.html">Supreme Court Retains Block on Using Wartime Law to Deport Venezuelans</a> (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times) </li> <li><a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/413340/supreme-court-police-shooting-barnes-felix">The Supreme Court just got an important police violence case right</a> (Ian Millhiser, Vox) </li> <li><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/17/trump-legal-strategies-federal-judges-injunctions/83673013007/">‘Spaghetti against the wall?’ Trump tests legal strategies as judges block his policies</a> (Bart Jansen, USA Today)</li> <li><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/politics/john-roberts-samuel-alito-take-stock">Alito and Roberts take stock as they near their third decade on the bench </a>(Joan Biskupic, CNN)</li>
</ul> <p><strong>Coming up:</strong> On Thursday, May 22, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinions.</p>
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Hi, everyone! I am very excited to be joining SCOTUSblog as its executive editor. Please feel free to reach out to me at zachary@thedispatch.com, even if just to say hello.
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:
Coming up: On Thursday, May 22, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinions.
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