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Scotus decisions this week2/28/2024 ![]() The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on it in December. Merits Cases SCOTUStalk Special Features About. Emergency Docket 2023 Emergency Docket 2022. October Term 2023 October Term 2022 October Term 2021 October Term 2020 Term Archive Emergency Docket. Harper’s dispute over North Carolina courts’ review of state congressional maps. Independent News and Analysis on the U.S. There is one case where the Court asked for additional briefing: in Moore v. The justices have also heard disputes over the fate of $400 billion in student loan forgiveness, religious exemptions from civil rights law, the definition of the Waters of the United States under the Clean Water Act and the Biden administration’s ability to use guidance on immigration decisions. The court heard some of its most consequential cases of the term in those first two months, including disputes over the reach of the Voting Rights Act and constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education. WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is seen prior to President Biden giving his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. The report was not able to rule out a breach of the Supreme Court’s systems or that the draft was leaked accidentally by being left in a public place. That report also found numerous shortcomings in the court’s document handling and information security that prevented staff from identifying the leaker. The map the state Supreme Court imposed ended up helping Democrats to win seven of North Carolina’s 14 congressional districts, up from five of 13 districts under the old lines. Curley released in January said staff had not been able to identify the leaker. Special Counsel Jack Smith on August 1, 2023, in Washington, D.C. ![]() Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Thomas and Gorsuch joined. Justice Kavanaugh filed a concurring opinion. ![]() A report from the Marshal of the Supreme Court Gail A. Texas (5-4 Opinion by Chief Justice Roberts and joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan and Kavanaugh on June 30, 2022. This is also the first time the court has handled writing and distributing opinions since the leak of a draft majority opinion last term. Justices might also end up forgoing concurring opinions “that don’t necessarily need to be written, just because of the volume of work that they’re obviously going to need to do to get all these opinions out in the next couple of months,” Gorod said. “When we finally see who all the dissenters were and how splintered the opinions may be, we’ll have a better sense of whether this really was an unpleasant time for the court, or whether it was just a lot of separate opinions or something like that.”īrianne Gorod, chief counsel for the Constitutional Accountability Center, said that the delay in releasing decisions may wind up with the justices curtailing the length of opinions. “It’s kind of hard to tell what’s going on,” Elwood said. The more justices write about a case, the longer it will take to release the opinion. One potential factor could be cases where justices want to write separately in the decision, Elwood said.
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