Welcome to Supreme Court Brief. The justices have wrapped up their November argument session and will return to the bench Dec. 2 for the court’s major Second Amendment challenge this term. In the meantime, all eyes are on two Trump-related tax cases that recently landed at the high court. Veteran SCOTUS advocate Jay Sekulow is counsel of record on one of the two petitions. An immigration scholar chides the solicitor general and others for using “illegal” and “undocumented” in referring to DACA recipients. Plus: U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr’s partisan speech at the Federalist Society included lots of snippets about the Supreme Court.
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