Court takes up potentially important case on campaign-finance regulations

If you haven’t already, please check out our SCOTUSblog Stat Pack for the 2024-25 term, which can be found here.

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

• SCOTUS orders judges to revisit decisions on transgender health plans, birth certificates in wake of blockbuster ruling (John Fritz and Devan Cole, CNN)
• Supreme Court to Take on Major Labels’ Billion-Dollar Copyright Case Against Cox (Andrew Flanagan, Variety)
• What the Supreme Court Injunction Ruling Means for Trump’s Agenda (Zoe Tillman, Bloomberg)
• Justice Kagan Won 70% of the Time (The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal)
• Liberals Are Going to Keep Losing at the Supreme Court (Duncan Hosie, The Atlantic)

The Supreme Court on Monday morning added seven new cases, covering issues ranging from campaign-finance regulations to the flexibility of the deadline to move a case from state to federal court, to its docket for the 2025-26 term. The list of orders released from the justices’ private conference on Thursday, June 26, was one of the final opportunities for the justices to bulk up next term’s docket before their summer recess.

The cases granted on Monday will likely be argued in the fall, with a ruling to follow sometime in 2026.

On Saturday, one day after the Supreme Court handed down some of its most anticipated decisions of the 2024-25 term, Chief Justice John Roberts was in Charlotte, North Carolina, answering questions about judicial power and independence at a conference for the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, as well as the lawyers who practice in that area.

On Friday, June 27, the court issued its final opinions on the merits docket for the 2024-25 term. It decided the following cases: Trump v. CASA, Mahmoud v. Taylor, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, and Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research. Please join us over the next two weeks for our term in review series, offering expert analyses of some of the most significant cases of the term.

Also please check out our annual SCOTUSblog Stat Pack for the 2024-25 term, which can be found here.

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

• After Supreme Court term, Chief Justice Roberts shrugs off ‘venting’ by those who lost (John Fritze, CNN)
• Trump says he will move aggressively to undo nationwide blocks on his agenda (Justin Jouvenal, Cat Zakrzewski, and Jeremy Roebuck, The Washington Post)
• After criticism from MAGA world, Amy Coney Barrett delivers for Trump (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
• Justices’ nerves fray in Supreme Court’s final stretch (Josh Gerstein, Politico)
• A Supreme Court Victory for Parental Rights in the Woke Wars (The Editors, National Review)

It was a bit of a shock on Thursday when Chief Justice John Roberts announced at the end of the session that the court would next sit on Friday and “at that time we will announce all remaining opinions ready during this term of the Court.”

With six significant cases outstanding, that would make for one heckuva final day, everyone seemed to agree.