Here's the DOJ brief, by Acting Solicitor General Jeff Wall, seeking to allow the federal executions, including one today, to proceed (Docket #: 20A8): https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20A8/147601/20200713150210915_barr%20v.%20lee.pdf https://twitter.com/AHoweBlogger/status/1282767781180567552

Here's the DOJ docket: https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20a8.html

Docket #s 20A6 and 20A7 present stay applications from Lee's team:

20A6: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20a6.html

20A7 is a stay application (attached image) associated with this case: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-5032.html

WHAT'S GOING ON?

DOJ is trying to execute Daniel Lewis Lee today. A federal judge in DC put the federal executions on hold, and DOJ asked Chief Justice John Roberts to issue a stay of that injunction (allowing the executions to proceed) or to vacate it altogether.

The second and third stay requests come from Lee's lawyers, and they are out of the 7th Circuit, where the execution is to take place, so they have gone to Justice Kavanaugh, who oversees requests out of that circuit.

As is the general practice in most death penalty cases, the Chief Justice and Justice Kavanaugh are likely to refer these matters to the full Supreme Court for consideration — particularly given DOJ's involvement and that two circuit justices are already involved.

As Steve discusses, these actions are part of the complex so-called "shadow docket," where the justices make big decisions with even less transparency than in the normal #SCOTUS case consideration. https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1282777792099344385

The response to DOJ's #SCOTUS request to allow today's execution to proceed is tough and strong. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20A8/147688/20200713191559277_FBOP%20SCOTUS%20Joint%20Opp.pdf

It’s 9:30pm. Still no order from #SCOTUS on any of the requests pending before it, leaving the DC district court’s injunction in place and, thus far, preventing today’s scheduled federal execution of Daniel Lewis Lee.

And there is the stay request pending at the DC Circuit as well, as Mark notes. https://twitter.com/shermancourt/status/1282843908389646342

It’s now past 10:30p, and the federal execution scheduled to take place today remains enjoined — with no word from #SCOTUS or the DC Circuit on DOJ requests to allow Daniel Lee’s execution to proceed.

DOJ did, however, just file its reply at #SCOTUS seeking to stay or vacate the injunction — still seeking to proceed.

It's past 11p now. DOJ is still enjoined from proceeding with federal executions, including the execution of Daniel Lee that was scheduled to have taken place today.

BREAKING: DC Circuit DENIES DOJ request to proceed with today's scheduled execution by denying a stay of the district court's injunction. The DC Circuit also orders expedited merits briefing in federal execution challenge.

This is the merits briefing schedule in the DC Circuit:

Here is the full DC Circuit order: https://www.scribd.com/document/469077333/DCCir-FedExecutionOrder-071320-pdf

UPDATE: DOJ did not execute Daniel Lee on Monday. An injunction remains in place, and the warrant has now expired. The DC Circuit has set an expedited briefing schedule for DOJ's appeal of the injunction halting all four scheduled federal executions.

The injunction and DC Circuit timeline would mean that all three July scheduled executions would not take place as scheduled.

DOJ's stay request is still pending at #SCOTUS from before the DC Circuit ruling. SCOTUS has not ruled on it. DOJ could file a renewed request in that matter now, adding in information about the DC Circuit ruling and still seeking a stay of the dist ct injunction.

Given that the DC Circuit has already set a quick schedule for the appeal of the preliminary injunction, it would be quite a thing for #SCOTUS — having already let the Monday warrant for the first execution pass it by — to cut that short.

To be clear, in that last tweet, I'm talking about a #SCOTUS ruling on the original DOJ stay request. To do so now, without waiting for any further briefing about the DC Circuit's ruling, seems totally unnecessary.

Here’s an enraging thread from @LilianaSegura about how incompetent and/or malevolent DOJ is when dealing with media seeking to cover information about the federal government trying to hold its first execution in 17 years. https://twitter.com/lilianasegura/status/1282793130773958656?s=21 https://twitter.com/lilianasegura/status/1282793130773958656