The Supreme Court received over 30 emergency applications since July, leaving the justices little summer break. Election disputes dominated: it kept a lower-court block on new USPS ballot rules and let the government use SAVE to check voters' citizenship.
Missouri's congressional-map fight reached the court three times in a month. On Friday, the justices paused an appeals-court ruling against using the 2022 map in November, citing ballots already printed and mailed; the stay leaves that map in place for the election.
A 5-4 Supreme Court order also paused a lower-court ruling blocking above-ground construction of the White House ballroom, saying the National Trust for Historic Preservation likely lacked standing to sue. The administration's separate request to pause an order requiring notice and a chance to raise persecution or torture concerns before deportations to countries not listed on removal orders remained pending.
