Supreme Court Declines Review in 'Let's Go Brandon,' 2nd Amendment Cases

Updated on Oct. 5 at 3:36 p.m.Before the justices took the bench on Monday for the first oral arguments of the 2026-27 term, the Supreme Court issued a list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Sept. 28, where they considered petitions for review that built up during the summer recess. As it does each year, that “long conference” produced a lengthy list of denied petitions. The justices denied review in hundreds of cases, including a high-profile dispute over whether schools may bar students from wearing sweatshirts printed with the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon,” a clash over the Second Amendment rights of convicted felons, and two battles over COVID-19 vaccine mandates.In Monday’s order list, the justices also asked the United States solicitor general to share the government’s views on several cases and sent several others back to the lower courts for reconsideration in light of rulings from last term. For example, in Mullin v. National TPS Alliance, the Supreme Court ordered a federal appeals court to take another look at its decision on Venezuelans’ and Haitians’ participation in a program that allows foreign nationals to remain in the U.S. and work here when they cannot safely return home after the court held in June that the federal law creating the Temporary Protected Status program generally bars courts from reviewing the administration’s program-related decisions. Additionally, the court asked the Trump administration for its views in a trio of cases – Citiz