The holiday season is quickly approaching, and the SCOTUStoday team recently became aware of a potential gift for Supreme Court nerds. Fort Circle Games, a company focused on developing “beautiful board games that are grounded in historical events,” is now taking preorders for First Monday in October, its new game on the history of the Supreme Court.
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s request for it to clear the way for the Federal Bureau of Prisons to implement its new policy on transgender inmates, which would prevent such inmates from obtaining gender-transition surgeries, hormone therapy, and “social accommodations.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito indicated, without explanation, that they would have granted the application. For more on the decision, see the On Site section below.
Later on Wednesday, the Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court’s interim docket, asking the justices to allow it to resume construction of its border wall in the Big Bend region of southwestern Texas. You can find Amy’s coverage of the dispute in the On Site section.
Three cities and a group that provides legal services to immigrants have asked the Supreme Court to pause an agreement between Texas and the Department of Justice that prevents enforcement of a Biden-era rule allowing immigration judges to pause certain deportation proceedings. Responses to the application are due today by 4 p.m. EDT.