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This story has run 15 times over 42 days, starting Aug 26.

  1. USPS violated a court order to finalize Trump’s mail-ballot rule; judge allows publication
  2. Judge clears Trump’s USPS mail-ballot rule; 24 states and D.C. sue hours later
  3. UpdateJudge blocks USPS from rejecting noncompliant mail ballots for 14 days; DOJ appeals
  4. UpdateMissouri asks the Supreme Court to reinstate its 7-1 congressional map three days before the ballot deadline
  5. Kavanaugh leaves Missouri's 6-2 map in place; hours later a federal judge orders the state to run the 7-1 map
  6. UpdateStates ask Supreme Court to keep new USPS ballot requirements blocked
  7. Update3-0 First Circuit keeps Trump mail-ballot rule blocked as 7 Republican officials oppose pre-November start
  8. UpdateSupreme Court leaves Trump's USPS mail-ballot rules blocked for Nov. 3 midterms in apparent 7-2 vote
  9. UpdateMail ballots will move under pre-2026 rules on Nov. 3 as the administration stands down
  10. UpdateSupreme Court lets states resume checking voter rolls against Trump's expanded federal citizenship database while the case is appealed
  11. Supreme Court votes 6-3 to let Trump deport migrants to third countries without notice or a chance to raise torture fears
  12. Supreme Court agrees to decide whether ICE can jail immigrants who entered illegally without a bond hearing
  13. Supreme Court opens its term Oct. 5 with 30 cases, after rulings against Trump on tariffs and more
  14. UpdateJustice Samuel Alito says a “concerted effort” is trying to intimidate the Supreme Court into deciding cases differently
  15. Justice Samuel Alito, 76, says he will serve through June 2027, ruling out a lame-duck retirement — this issue
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Justice Samuel Alito, 76, says he will serve through June 2027, ruling out a lame-duck retirement

Political Guyentist · October 7, 20261 min read

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Retiring in the lame duck would have let Trump name a successor before a possibly Democratic Senate is seated, but Alito said, "I intend to stick around through this term. I made that decision many months ago."

Also from AlitoBook: 'So Ordered: An Originalist's View of The Constitution, The Court and Our Country' says Obergefell (2015) was "perhaps the…2 details
  • Book: 'So Ordered: An Originalist's View of The Constitution, The Court and Our Country' says Obergefell (2015) was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty."
  • On Trump-administration rhetoric about the court, he told PBS NewsHour: "I personally am not pleased with that."

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