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Posted on 06/18/2026 6:45:23 AM PDT by CFW
The Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions from the October 2025 this morning at 10:00.
Scotusblog will be liveblogging the release and we will be following along.
There are 20 decisions pending for this term and we expect all opinions will be released by June 30th. You can find a list of the cases at October 2025 cases. Note: The word "held" after the case name indicates the Opinion has already been released. The word "Issues" indicates the questions to be resolved by the Court.
You can find the Opinions on this term's previously decided cases at October 2025 Opinions. Today's opinions will be uploaded just after the case is announced from the bench.
Chief Roberts has written 3 opinions, Thomas 5, Alito 2, Sotomayor 5, Kagan 4, Gorsuch 5, Kavanaugh 2, Barret 5, and Jackson 6. There have been 9 per curiam.
There are several big cases on which we are awaiting decisions.
Little v Hecox
Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Watson v RNC
Whether the federal election-day statutes, 2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1, preempt a state law that allows ballots that are cast by federal election day to be received by election officials after that day.
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Whether Executive Order No. 14,160 complies on its face with the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment and with 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a), which codifies that clause.
Blanche v Lao
Whether, to remove a lawful permanent resident who committed an offense listed in Section 1182(a)(2) and was subsequently paroled into the United States, the government must prove that it possessed clear and convincing evidence of the offense at the time of the lawful permanent resident's last reentry into the United States.
Mullin v Doe
Whether the Trump administration can end the Temporary Protected Status program for Syrian nationals.
And several more. Let's see what we get today!
SCOTUS ping!
Two boxes today so there is more than one opinion to be released. The boxes hold copies of the opinions for reporters. They can hold 1-3 opinions each, so with two boxes, we can probably expect 3-5 opinions this morning.
Jackson can write??
“ Jackson can write??”
Crayons
Her clerks can.
We have our first opinion.
US v. Hemani
Issue Area
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(3), the federal statute that prohibits the possession of firearms by a person who “is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance,” violates the Second Amendment as applied to respondent.
Held: The government’s prosecution of Mr. Hemani under §922(g)(3)’s unlawful user provision is inconsistent with the Second Amendment.
The court rules that the government’s prosecution of Ali Hemani, who admits that he uses marijuana a few times a week, for having a gun is inconsistent with the Second Amendment.
It’s by Gorsuch and pretty much unanimous.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1234_g2bh.pdf
A rare Alito-Kagan concurrence
Justice Alito: “In these circumstances, marijuana use today is like alco-hol use at the founding.”
Gorusch emphasizes that the decision is a “narrow one. We do not address efforts to ban addicts, or those presently intoxicated, from possessing a firearm.”
The court is also not addressing federal laws that make it a crime to have a gun after being convicted of a felony.
LOL
Good................
I hope they rule that it does preempt state laws if a federal election is on that ballot.
The remedy for the states is simple. Send out separate ballots for federal and state races.
-PJ
Excellent.
L
We have the next opinion. It is Hunter v. US, from Justice Kagan. The vote appears to be 8-1, with Thomas dissenting. Lots of concurring opinions.
Issue Area
(1) Whether the only permissible exceptions to a general appeal waiver are for claims of ineffective assistance of counsel or that the sentence exceeds the statutory maximum; and (2) whether an appeal waiver applies when the sentencing judge advises the defendant that he has a right to appeal and the government does not object.
Held: An agreement not to appeal a sentence is unenforceable when it
would result in a miscarriage of justice—meaning, when it would leave
in place the kind of egregious error that would bring the judicial system into disrepute.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1063_5ifl.pdf
The remedy for the states is simple. Send out separate ballots for federal and state races
Very simple solution. But the left will say that is too complicated.
IIRC SCOTUS hands down their biggest decisions in June.’’
Yes. The last two weeks of June is the busiest. The justices head out of DC for their vacations at the end of the term. We will get all final 20 opinions over the next 2 weeks.
We have the final opinion of the day, in T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation.
It is by Justice Sotomayor.
It’s an interesting lineup — 5-4, with Barrett, Roberts, Kagan, and Gorsuch in the dissent.’’
Issue Area
Issue: Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which prevents parties who lose in state courts from challenging injuries caused by state-court judgments, can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court.
Held: The Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal district court jurisdiction over cases brought by state-court losers complaining of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the district court proceedings commenced and seeking district court review and rejection of those judgments, regardless of whether the state-court judgment remains subject to further review in state appellate proceedings.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-197_bp7c.pdf
LOL! I like that!
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