There are 18 cases remaining in the term. Here are the highlights of the court’s docket
Under normal circumstances on decision days at the end of June, the Supreme Court emerges from behind crimson curtains to finally issue the most controversial cases of the term after months of closed-door deliberations. Wearing their judicial robe and exhausted from the final push of work, the justices take their seats and the majority opinion is read by its author.
Roberts may be working on an alternative opinion, analyst says 02:57In the draft opinion, Alito said that Roe"must be overruled." If the five-member majority holds, it will wipe away near 50-year-old precedent and change the landscape of women's reproductive health going forward.Supporters of abortion rights are clinging to the fact that Alito's opinion was a draft and hope it only reflects an opening salvo written after the justices cast initial votes at conference.
Toobin: SCOTUS says this is history, we're dealing in the present 02:56Climate changeThe justices unexpectedly also agreed to decide a case concerning the EPA's authority to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, in a dispute that could cripple the Biden administration's attempts to slash emissions. It comes at a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the accelerating pace of global warming.
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