| 25-6255 |
Aaron J. Thorpe v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-ii criminal-procedure executive-power final-conviction prosecutorial-discretion separation-of-powers |
In our constitutional system of separated powers, Article II vests the Executive Branch with the plenary authority to initiate and terminate criminal … |
| 25A451 |
Anthony Boyd v. Kay Ivey, Governor of Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-violation due-process execution-date executive-power judicial-function separation-of-powers |
Whether the separation of powers and due process are violated when a state executive officer, who also holds exclusive clemency power, is authorized t… |
| 25A443 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Application |
Amici (23) |
executive-power federal-law-enforcement immigration-enforcement national-guard presidential-authority state-preemption |
Whether the President has the unilateral constitutional authority to deploy the National Guard to protect federal personnel during civil unrest withou… |
| 25A264 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (4) |
administrative-agency article-ii executive-power federal-trade-commission presidential-removal separation-of-powers |
Whether the President possesses the constitutional authority to remove a Federal Trade Commission commissioner at will without cause, notwithstanding … |
| 25A227 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Global Health Council, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-08-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure-act executive-power impoundment separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation ultra-vires |
Whether the Administrative Procedure Act permits non-governmental organizations to challenge executive branch policy decisions through ultra vires cla… |
| 24-1287 |
Learning Resources, Inc., et al. v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-06-17 |
Pending |
Amici (12)Relisted (2) |
congressional-authority economic-regulation executive-power international-emergency-economic-powers-act tariff-policy trade-law |
Whether IEEPA authorizes the President to impose tariffs |
| 24A1203 |
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, et al. v. New York, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-law article-iii executive-power reduction-in-force separation-of-powers subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the district court exceeded its Article III jurisdiction by enjoining the Executive Branch's internal workforce management decisions at the De… |
| 24A910 |
Department of Education, et al. v. California, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (1) |
administrative-discretion district-court-jurisdiction executive-power federal-grants judicial-review separation-of-powers |
Whether a federal district court exceeds its jurisdictional authority by compelling the Executive Branch to reinstate and fund federal grants that hav… |
| 24A738 |
Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. aka Halkbank v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-prosecution executive-power foreign-sovereign-instrumentality international-law separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity |
Whether a foreign state-owned bank can be criminally prosecuted in U.S. courts despite claims of sovereign immunity under international and common law |
| 24A666 |
Donald J. Trump v. New York, et al. |
New York |
2025-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (2) |
criminal-prosecution executive-power presidential-immunity state-court transition-period trump-v-united-states |
Whether a sitting or president-elect enjoys absolute criminal immunity from state court prosecution during the transition period between election and … |
| 24-232 |
Duke Bradford, et al. v. Department of Labor, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-law constitutional-delegation executive-power federal-contractors minimum-wage procurement-act |
Whether the Procurement Act authorizes the President to require federal permittees to pay their employees a minimum wage and whether such delegation v… |
| 24-5215 |
Patrick Wayne Baker v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law due-process executive-power judicial-branch judicial-power legislative-authority separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation texas-government unconstitutional |
Whether Tex. Gov't Code 508.283(b)(c) violates due process and should be declared unconstitutional? |
| 24A11 |
Alaska, et al. v. Department of Education, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (4) |
administrative-law executive-power heroes-act major-questions-doctrine statutory-interpretation student-loan-forgiveness |
Whether the Secretary of Education exceeded statutory authority under the HEROES Act in implementing a broad student loan debt cancellation program wi… |
| 23-1323 |
Consumers' Research, et al. v. Consumer Product Safety Commission |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Relisted (3) |
administrative-agencies administrative-law agency-structure article-ii civil-procedure constitutional-law executive-power executive-removal humphreys-executor presidential-authority separation-of-powers |
Whether the for-cause restriction on the President's authority to remove Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission violates the separati… |
| 23-7318 |
Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection executive-power individual-rights intellectual-disability judicial-review separation-of-powers state-sovereignty |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th… |
| 23-6247 |
In Re Tonya Knowles |
|
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ai-governance civil-rights constitutional-transfer due-process executive-order executive-power impeachment presidential-election presidential-power separation-of-powers transfer-of-power white-house-authority |
Can a peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate employee, Donald Trump, transfers power to Artificial Intelligence via an Executiv… |
| 23-6246 |
In Re Tonya Knowles |
|
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power impeachment impeachment-power presidential-election presidential-transition separation-of-powers |
Can a Peaceful transfer of power occur if a White House subordinate transfers Power to Artificial Intelligence via an Executive Order? |
| 23-5211 |
Andrew Cook v. Robert Martin, Warden, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abstention amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process executive-power executive-powers general-warrants judicial-abstention younger-doctrine |
Whether there are issues of Constitutional importance regarding the 4th, 6th, 8th and 14th Amendments |
| 23-69 |
PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
|
executive-power judicial-review legislative-power separation-of-powers standard-of-review statutory-delegation tariff-regulation trade-expansion-act |
Whether separation of powers principles require courts to resolve ambiguity in statutory limits on delegations of legislative power to the Executive |
| 23-5086 |
Betsy Sachs v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority |
First Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-constraints due-process executive-power finra-immunity non-delegation-doctrine private-delegation quasi-governmental quasi-governmental-entity securities-regulation |
Does FINRA have immunity? |
| 23-22 |
Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-authority department-of-homeland-security employment-authorization executive-power immigration-law major-questions-doctrine nonimmigrant-visas statutory-interpretation |
Are the statutory terms defining nonimmigrant visas in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15) mere threshold entry requirements that cease to apply once an alien is a… |
| 22-1186 |
Citizens for Constitutional Integrity, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-rulemaking cloture-rule congressional-review-act due-process equal-protection executive-power legislative-power legislative-rule separation-of-powers voting-thresholds |
Whether the Congressional Review Act violates the separation of powers |
| 22-7698 |
Tristan Kareem Davis v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appointments-clause civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-power senate-confirmation sentencing sixth-amendment statutory-maximum tenth-amendment territorial-governance |
Whether the court exceeded its authority by not having a jury at the sentencing hearing to sentence Davis beyond the statutory maximum |
| 22-847 |
Virginia Silva-Navarro v. Roosevelt REO PR Corporation |
First Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction due-process executive-power federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts foreign-entity-litigation jurisdiction precedent standing supreme-court-precedent tax-collection |
Are lower courts in the federal system to follow the case law of this Honorable Court? |
| 22-730 |
Michael Rop, et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
|
acting-director acting-officials appointments-clause constitutional-limits executive-power federal-housing-finance-agency presidential-powers principal-officer senate-confirmation separation-of-powers |
Whether the challenged decisions of the 'Acting' FHFA Director should be vacated because the Constitution does not permit the President to designate a… |
| 22-5823 |
Edward Simmons v. James LeBlanc, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitution executive-power legislative-power separation-of-powers standing |
whether-the-house-of-representatives-has-standing-to-bring-a-civil-action-against-the-executive-branch |
| 22-274 |
Steven Donziger v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8) |
appointments-clause criminal-contempt criminal-procedure executive-power federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure interbranch-appointments judicial-power separation-of-powers special-prosecutor |
Whether Fed. R. Crim. P. 42(a)(2) authorizes judicial appointments of inferior executive officers |
| 22-241 |
Marie Farrell, et al. v. Kathleen Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights disabilities-education due-process executive-agency executive-power idea individuals-with-disabilities-education-act injunction-standard pendency-provision public-interest school-mask-mandate state-executive-power |
Whether the State Executive's promulgation of a statewide school mask mandate that conflicts with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDE… |
| 22-234 |
Texas, et al. v. Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law civil-procedure due-process executive-power federal-rule immigration intervention judicial-procedure litigation-strategy public-charge standing |
Whether petitioners were entitled to intervene in defense of the Rule |
| 21-1389 |
Jeremy Bates v. Donald J. Trump, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
article-iii-standing attorney-general citizen-taxpayer-suit civil-rights derivative-standing due-process executive-power presidential-misconduct separation-of-powers standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a citizen may have standing to sue the President derivatively on behalf of the United States |
| 21-1084 |
Janet Heltzel, et al. v. Glenn A. Youngkin, Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
contract-clause due-process executive-power monument monument-preservation property-rights public-opinion restrictive-covenant takings |
Does the Obligation of Contracts Clause prohibit the abrogation of the Commonwealth's agreement to preserve a monument? |
| 21-6312 |
Manuel Melgar-Diaz and Joaquin Benito-Mendoz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law congressional-delegation constitutional-authority constitutional-law executive-power government-branches legislative-delegation legislative-power non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers |
Whether Congress can delegate its authority to another branch of government consistent with the Constitution by merely providing an 'intelligible prin… |
| 21-702 |
Shahen Minassian v. Seda Galstian Aghaian, et al. |
California |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
equitable-remedy executive-orders executive-power federal-preemption illegal-contract international-emergency-economic-powers-act international-trade-sanctions iran-sanctions iranian-transactions-and-sanctions-regulations national-security |
Whether a state court may fashion an equitable remedy for enforcement of an illegal contract for services concerning blocked property prohibited by in… |
| 21-5663 |
Justin Michael Rossi v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation declaration-of-independence declaratory-relief due-process executive-power government-formation international-law pro-se-petition revolution sovereign-immunity sovereignty |
Whether United States citizens have the right, duty, and privilege to alter, abolish, and form a new government |
| 21-339 |
Ali Hamza Suliman Al Bahlul v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law agency-discretion agency-head appointments-clause binding-upon-all executive-power final-and-conclusive judicial-review principal-officer sole-discretion statutory-interpretation |
Is an agency head a principal officer under the Appointments Clause? |
| 21-5369 |
Michael Alexander Rivera v. Unknown |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process executive-power pardon separation-of-powers standing |
Whether the United States Constitution justifies and executes the President's actions as reasonable and necessary when granting a pardon is never a si… |
| 20-8210 |
Anthony A. Patel v. Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County, et al. |
California |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process executive-authority executive-power judicial-authority judicial-independence martial-law presidential-powers separation-of-powers supreme-court-justices |
Can the Executive Branch impose martial law on courts? |
| 20-850 |
Big Time Vapes, Incorporated, et al. v. Food and Drug Administration, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
administrative-discretion administrative-law constitutional-limits executive-authority executive-power legislative-authority legislative-delegation non-delegation-doctrine separation-of-powers tobacco-control-act tobacco-product-regulation |
Whether Petitioners have stated a claim that § 387a(b) grants excessive policymaking discretion to the executive branch to determine which tobacco pro… |
| 20-298 |
El Paso County, Texas, et al. v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Pending |
|
appropriations-clause border-wall caa congressional-spending department-of-defense executive-branch executive-power separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation transfer-of-funds |
Whether the Executive Branch's expenditure of $2.5 billion on border-wall construction violates the CAA and thus the Appropriations Clause |
| 20-138 |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. v. Sierra Club, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (16)Relisted (2) |
administrative-law appropriations appropriations-transfer department-of-defense executive-power judicial-review national-security separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether respondents have a cognizable cause of action to obtain review of the Acting Secretary's compliance with Section 8005's proviso in transferrin… |
| 20-5178 |
Jimmy Fernetus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment district-court eighth-amendment executive-branch executive-power legislative-branch legislative-power minimum-mandatory-sentence separation-of-powers |
Whether the separation of powers doctrine prohibits the legislative and executive branches from forcing a district court judge to impose a minimum man… |
| 20-5136 |
In Re Abdul Mohammed |
|
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court due-process executive-committee executive-power federal-courts judicial-procedure legal-order mandamus mandamus-petition standing |
whether the Executive Committee's Order entered against the Petitioner on June 17, 2020 is legal |
| 19-8889 |
Hector Guagua-Alarcon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii article-three due-process executive-branch executive-power federal-jurisdiction maritime-drug-law maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that jurisdiction exists? |
| 19-1427 |
William Price Tedards, Jr., et al. v. Doug Ducey, Governor of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
election-date election-writ executive-authority executive-power legislative-power senate-vacancy seventeenth-amendment state-executive state-legislature temporary-appointment |
Does A.R.S. § 16-222 conflict with the Seventeenth Amendment's requirement that state executives 'shall issue writs of election' and limit state legis… |
| 19-8789 |
Susana E. Verduzco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process executive-power federalism immigration-status obstruction-of-justice racial-discrimination state-sovereignty |
Whether the U.S. Constitution and federal law(s) grant the Executive Branch the power to intervene in a state's legal action between citizens, overrid… |
| 19-635 |
Donald J. Trump v. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., in His Official Capacity as District Attorney of the County of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response Waived |
article-2 article-ii article-two constitutional-law criminal-investigation executive-power grand-jury-subpoena immunity president presidential-immunity separation-of-powers subpoena supremacy-clause |
Whether this subpoena violates Article II and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution |
| 19-5622 |
Cairo Lopez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment booker cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process executive-power mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences sentencing separation-of-powers standing |
Whether combining in the Executive Branch the power to charge and the power to control sentences in statutory mandatory minimum cases violates the Fif… |
| 18-751 |
Metropolitan Interpreters & Translators Inc. v. Francisco Bates, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process employee-polygraph-protection-act executive-branch-review executive-power federal-contractor federal-contractors judicial-review polygraph polygraph-examination security-clearance standing |
Whether the Employee Polygraph Protection Act supersedes the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual's authorization of federal agencies… |
| 18-589 |
Chad Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. v. Martin Jonathan Batalla Vidal, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-discretion daca-policy deferred-action due-process executive-action executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-law judicial-review separation-of-powers standing |
Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable |
| 18-588 |
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (5) |
administrative-law administrative-law-review administrative-procedure-act agency-action deferred-action due-process equal-protection executive-discretion executive-power homeland-security immigration immigration-policy judicial-review standing |
Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable |
| 18-587 |
Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Regents of the University of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (5)Relisted (5) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure-act administrative-procedure-act-apa deferred-action-for-childhood-arrivals-daca department-of-homeland-security-dhs dhs-policy due-process equal-protection executive-power immigration immigration-enforcement immigration-law judicial-review standing |
Whether DHS's decision to wind down the DACA policy is judicially reviewable |
| 18-6502 |
Chris Jonathon Epperson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process executive-power foreign-affairs foreign-policy national-security political-question separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Whether the President has the authority to unilaterally revoke a prior President's executive order regarding foreign policy and national security matt… |
| 18-5878 |
Johnson Christopher Jamerson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
but no text of a SCOTUS petition for writ of cert I cannot generate a question presented or identif please provide the full text of the petition. civil-rights due-process executive-power legislative-authority prison-conditions prison-operations regulatory-compliance regulatory-oversight standing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in deciding the case without applying the law to the facts of the case |
| 18-5813 |
Gregory D. Kilpatrick v. Jennifer Henkin |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review standing administrative-law civil-rights due-process executive-power judicial-review standing |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the case for lack of jurisdiction |
| 18-5702 |
Miguel Angel Mejia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-iii article-three drug-enforcement executive-power jury-trial maritime-drug-law-enforcement-act maritime-law sixth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the MDLEA violate Article III and the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial by giving dispositive weight to the Executive Branch's assertion that… |
| 18-5550 |
Mario Lopez-Pacheco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process executive-power immigration immigration-review judicial-discretion mendoza-lopez-standard noncitizen-rights prejudice standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether a noncitizen who is not afforded the opportunity to apply for available relief has suffered prejudice |