SCOTUSblog's latest weekly summary frames the term as immigration-heavy. The Court received an emergency application from three cities and an immigrant legal-services group that want to pause an agreement between Texas and the Justice Department. That agreement blocks enforcement of a Biden-era rule allowing immigration judges to pause certain deportation proceedings. The Court also added three cases to its oral argument docket for the 2026-27 term from the Oct. 9 conference, covering trial-court orders in government-information disputes, material-support liability for someone who works as a cook in a terrorist group's camp, and the standard for granting a certificate of appealability.
The roundup also covers actions outside immigration. The justices granted the FCC's request to block an appeals-court decision that would have forced it to rule quickly on a challenge to a public notice extending favorable advertising rates to political parties and joint fundraising committees; Justices Sotomayor and Jackson would have denied the application. In oral arguments, the Court heard Salazar v. Paramount Global, about applying the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act in the internet era, and Beaird v. United States, about deference to the U.S. Sentencing Commission's commentary on sentencing guidelines.
Other items in the roundup include a fully briefed dispute over the Bureau of Prisons' transgender-inmate healthcare policy. Also in Morning Reads: GOP senators are backing John Eastman's Supreme Court petition, a New Hampshire case over student IDs for voting is on the interim docket, and the 3rd Circuit upheld gun rights for a man with two-decade-old DUI convictions. Since this article relies on a single SCOTUSblog summary, there are no conflicting accounts to compare.