The cases that remain

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

• What cases are left on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket? Here’s a look (Mark Sherman, AP)
• Supreme Court won’t weigh Louisiana direct sales ban challenged by Tesla (Ella Lee, The Hill)
• Supreme Court rebuffs effort by R. Kelly to overturn conviction (John Fritze, CNN)
• Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Done Playing Nice With Neil Gorsuch (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
• Do you think the Supreme Court is partisan? Well you’re wrong. (Dace Potas, USA Today)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 26, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinion(s).

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:

• Supreme Court ruling scrambles battle for transgender care (Brooke Migdon, The Hill)
• Supreme Court Predictions (Ed Whelan, National Review)
• Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms (The Associated Press, NPR)
• Why Is Elena Kagan Suddenly Siding With the Conservatives? (Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
• Killing Us Softly With Its Words; Maybe a little understatement from the Supreme Court is OK (Reynolds Holding, Better Judgment)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 26, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinion(s).

It’s a sweetly mild morning here on this day of the summer solstice. Outside the court, staff members of the Architect of the Capitol, who tend to the grounds not only of Congress but the court, are planting summer flowers on the north gardens of the court building.

Inside the courtroom, it seems a bit empty. Every seat in the bar section is unfilled until the contingent from the U.S. solicitor general’s office arrives. SG D. John Sauer was here Wednesday for opinions, but he is absent today, perhaps once again tied up by emergency docket matters. Deputy SG Malcolm Stewart leads five of his colleagues to the counsel tables.

On Friday, June 20, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions:

— In Esteras v. United States, the justices considered whether courts weighing a revocation of supervised release should address certain sentencing factors, such as retribution, that are not listed in the law concerning supervised release but that are part of the law governing sentencing. 

The Supreme Court on Friday shut down efforts by a retired Florida firefighter to sue her former employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act. By a vote of 8-1, the justices ruled that Karyn Stanley, who was forced to retire in 2018 because of Parkinson’s disease, cannot challenge the termination of her health insurance after she retired.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter, writing that the court’s decision “renders meaningless” the protections provided in the ADA “for disabled workers’ retirement benefits just when those protections matter most.”