Lydia Wheeler
@WheelerLydia
Supreme Court reporter at Bloomberg Law. Co-hosting @BLaw's "Cases and Controversies" podcast. Tips: [email protected]. DM for Signal.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar is rejoining Cooley LLP, where she worked before representing President Joe Biden’s administration at the US Supreme Court. w/@jstnhenry87 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bi…
Good morning from the Supreme Court on the last day of the term. We’re expected to get 6 rulings starting at 10 on Obamacare preventive services, religious opt outs to LGBTQ-themed books in elementary school, and Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions.
We've got 6 decisions coming from the Supreme Court tomorrow, which is the last day of the term. They involve Trump's efforts to restrict birthright citizenship, an age verification law for porn sites in Texas, and Obamacare's no-cost coverage of preventive health services.
NEW: SCOTUS ruled for South Carolina in its bid to exclude a Planned Parenthood affiliate from its Medicaid program, saying the Medicaid Act doesn’t give beneficiaries a privately enforceable right to choose a specific provider. From @WheelerLydia: news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…
Quite the scene at the Washington Hilton tonight where protesters stormed a ballroom where Charles Koch was accepting an award from the Cato Institute. Several got onto the corner of the stage while Koch was speaking.
Justice Alito still seems bothered by the inclusion of LGBTQ+ themed books in a Maryland elementary school. Alito referenced last week's case during Wednesday’s arguments over a religious charter school. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/al…
Obamacare is back at the Supreme Court in a challenge to its no-cost coverage requirements for certain preventive health care. GW professor emerita Sara Rosenbaum explains why the case is more about power than public health on "Cases and Controversies." open.spotify.com/episode/5TwDnD…
The Trump administration is defying court orders and there isn’t much the Supreme Court can do to stop it. Trump's willingness to skirt court orders is illustrating just how little power the federal judiciary has to enforce its decisions. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…
A group that’s spent the last four years attacking companies for promoting DEI and other “woke” policies is now taking aim at federal regulators in the next big swipe at the administrative state to reach the Supreme Court. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/re…
Prominent Supreme Court litigator Lisa Blatt pushed the Justice Dept. to drop a Biden-era lawsuit against a migrant children's shelter that alleges sexual abuse, @SuzanneMonyak and @JustinFWise report. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/us…
Supreme Court agrees to hear a challenge to state bans on "conversion therapy," which tries to change a child's sexual orientation or gender identity. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/su…
A new episode of "Cases and Controversies" just dropped! @GregStohr & I talk about the court's first significant ruling on Trump in his second term, arguments over a nuclear waste site in Texas, and unusual exchanges between Trump and the justices. open.spotify.com/episode/7AdIz8…