The Supreme Court starts to hand down its final decisions of the term Wednesday, with Donald Trump’s immunity claim outstanding and several other important cases due as well. The justices don’t say which opinions are coming when, but here’s the dozen we’re waiting for:
- Trump v. United States. The appeal that’s holding up a federal election interference trial asks whether — and if so, to what extent — a former president enjoys presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts. It was the final argument of the term and may be the final decision.
- Fischer v. United States. This is separate from Trump’s case but is potentially related because it addresses the scope of obstruction charges against Jan. 6 defendants. Two of Trump’s four charges in his Washington indictment involve obstruction, so this decision could affect his case in addition to lower-level Jan. 6 defendants more broadly.
- Moyle v. United States. The other big abortion-related case this term, after the court’s mifepristone ruling earlier this month. It’s a clash between Idaho’s near-total abortion ban and a federal law requiring emergency medical care.
- Relentless v. Department of Commerce/Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. These cases are important because the court could use them to overturn the longstanding precedent of a case called Chevron, which requires deference to administrative agency expertise. Ditching Chevron could give more power to Republican-controlled courts.
- Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy. Another appeal about federal agency power, regarding the SEC’s enforcement proceedings, with implications for other agencies, too.
- Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency. This one involves the Biden administration’s “good neighbor” air pollution reduction policy, which the GOP-appointed majority sounded poised to rule against at the hearing.
- Social media and the First Amendment. The court has two sets of issues to decide on this subject: one about Florida and Texas laws emanating from conservative censorship complaints, in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton. The other is Murthy v. Missouri, a Republican challenge to the Biden administration’s contacts with social media companies.
- City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. This case deals with homelessness, specifically whether the Eighth Amendment’s cruel and unusual punishment ban allows municipal ordinances that punish people for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go.
- Harrington v. Purdue Pharma. The opioid crisis surfaces in this appeal over the controversial bankruptcy settlement that exempts Sackler family members from future liability.
- Snyder v. United States. The latest political corruption case asks whether a federal bribery law criminalizes payments in recognition of actions a state or local official has already taken or committed to take, in the absence of any quid pro quo agreement to take those actions.
- Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. This one involves a regulation that caps debit-card processing fees, in an appeal that a progressive group writes “is intended to allow a swarm of legal challenges to rules that have protected the American people from bad actors and corporate malfeasance for decades.”
The court is set to hand down opinions on both Thursday and Friday and possibly could go into a rare July session next week, though there’s no official word yet on when the court will wrap up.
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