Wonder if they’re going to save all of the other decisions until after the debate, or drop them before in order to burn up the news cycle during the debate?
This is where we stand on the cases not yet decided.
October sitting: All opinions have been released;
November sitting: All opinions have been released;
December sitting: There is two cases pending. A case involving the Securities Exchange Commission, and a bankruptcy case regarding Purdue Pharma;
January sitting: Two cases remain. These are the two Chevron deference cases. Relentless and Loper Bright. I suspect the Opinion in those cases will be released as one.
February sitting: Four cases pending.
Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, (a Administrative Procedure Act issue), the Ohio v. EPA case, and the two First Amendment cases. Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, and NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton.
March sitting: Two cases remaining to be decided. Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe and then the First Amendment case of
Murthy v. Missouri. This is the case regarding government using social media to censor speech they don’t like.
That brings us to...
April sitting: There are five cases remaining. The Trump immunity case and the Fischer case involving Jan 6 defendants.
Third is Snyder v. US, (Whether section 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(B) criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions a state or local official has already taken or committed to take, without any quid pro quo agreement to take those actions).
The final two from the April sitting are City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, (Whether the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.); and
Moyle v. U.S. (Whether the Supreme Court should stay the order by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho enjoining the enforcement of Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother, on the ground that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts it.)
We will definitely get Opinions on Wednesday before the debate. Which ones they will be are anyone’s guess but I bet they will wait until after the debate to issue the immunity case.