Welcome to Supreme Court Brief. It was an action-packed Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, which handed down two opinions, heard two oral arguments, and issued two major orders in a pair of high-profile immigration cases out of Texas.
The first decision announced Tuesday, FBI v. Fikre, was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch and allowed a Muslim American man to pursue his lawsuit against the FBI over his placement on the “No Fly List.” The government sought to escape the suit by taking him off the list and offering a half-promise not to put him back on it, but Gorsuch wrote in a unanimous opinion for the court that that wasn’t good enough and that the suit can proceed, at least for now.
