The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday blocked an order requiring Texas officials to make mail-in ballots available to any voter who wants one due to the coronavirus ahead of elections in July. 
A federal judge tied to an ethics proposal that would bar judges from joining the Federalist Society and its would-be liberal equivalent, the American Constitution Society (ACS), was an ACS member as recently as 2010, prompting charges of bad faith from legal conservatives. 
The Supreme Court declined to take up a First Amendment challenge on Monday to the so-called integrated bar, which requires attorneys in 30 states to join a bar association and pay fees as a condition of practicing law. 
Churches in California and Illinois are challenging pandemic-related restrictions on religious assemblies in the Supreme Court, even as both states have made concessions to houses of worship in recent days. 
A Democratic elections judge in Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty to taking bribes to stuff ballot boxes, newly unsealed court documents show. 
In a blow to House Democrats hoping to unearth damaging information about President Donald Trump ahead of the November election, the Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked House Democrats from obtaining secret grand jury materials from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Victims of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in east Africa are entitled to $4 billion in punitive damages from the government of Sudan, the Supreme Court ruled Monday. The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard two cases asking whether members of the Electoral College are bound by laws requiring them to support the winner of the popular vote in their state.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Tuesday about whether President Donald Trump can block subpoenas for his financial and accounting records. The decisions will have enormous consequences for the November election. The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to delay transmission of secret grand jury materials from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to House Democrats. 