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JUST IN: The Supreme Court has added *seven* new cases to its 2023-2024 term docket. Among those are a wide variety of issues, including a case involving a ban on gender affirming care for minors.

We will also expect more opinion days added this week. We will let you know when those are as soon as they are announced on the website.

Here is a link to the order list: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/062424zor_e18f.pdf
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JUST IN: The Supreme Court will announce one or more opinions in argued cases on both Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week! There are still 12 to 14 cases outstanding for the court to decide, including abortion, Chevron, presidential immunity, etc. there is a chance that all could be released this week and there’s also a chance that there could be some opinion days next week. As always, we will provide you with the opinions as soon as they are released.
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Good Wednesday morning everyone!


It’s round one of three rounds of opinions this week, the justices will convene at 10amET to deliver one or more opinions in argued cases this term. There are still a dozen outstanding cases for the Court to issue opinions on, including abortion, Chevron, and Presidential immunity. Chances are we will likely receive one of those today.

As always, when the opinion is available on the website, we will send it here. Stay tuned and buckle up!
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NEW: Here is the first opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a 6-3 decision delivered by Justice Barrett. Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Thomas and Gorsuch joined. This case is called Murthy v. Missouri.

Here is a link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411_3dq3.pdf
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NEW: Here is the second (and final) opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is another 6-3 decision delivered by Justice Kavanaugh this time. Justice Jackson filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Sotomayor and Kagan joined. The case is called Snyder v. United States.

Here is a link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-108_8n5a.pdf
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That’s all for today folks. Only two opinions today, which means unless the Supreme Court somehow releases the rest of the docket over the next two days, there is a likelihood that we will be coming back in July (next week) for more opinion days. Join back here tomorrow morning same time for another set of opinions, *hopefully* more than what was released today.
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FYI: It appears that an unreleased Supreme Court decision was *briefly* made public on the Court’s website this afternoon for a moment before shortly being taken down. As a reminder, a Supreme Court opinion is not final until it’s officially released from the justices themselves during the regular opinion releasing sessions. If *that* opinion is released tomorrow, it will be sent to this channel as all other opinions have and will be when they are made available.
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Happy Thursday Everyone!

It’s round two of opinions this week, the justice will convene at 10 AM ET to release one or more opinions in argued cases this term. There are still plenty of outstanding cases, including abortion, Chevron, Presidential Immunity, as well as the Jan 6th defendant case β€œFischer v. United States.” All of them are possible today, and hopefully we will receive more than two opinions, unlike yesterday. We will know this morning whether there will be more opinions next week or not. (The Chief Justice tends to announce the last day of opinions on the penultimate day).

As we have all term, we will send you the opinion(s) as soon as they are available on the website.
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NEW: Here is the first opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a 5–4 decision delivered by Justice Gorsuch. Justice Barrett filed a dissenting opinion, which Justice Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson joined. This case is called Ohio v. EPA.

Here is a link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a349_0813.pdf
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NEW: Here is the second opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is another 5-4 decision again delivered by Justice Gorsuch. Justice Kavanaugh filed a dissenting opinion, in which Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Sotomayor and Kagan joined. This case is called Harrington v. Purdue Pharma.

Here is a link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-124_8nk0.pdf
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NEW: Here is the third opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a 6-3 decision delivered by Chief Justice Roberts. Justice Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Kagan and Jackson joined. The case is called SEC V. Jarkesy.

Here is a link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-859_1924.pdf
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NEW: Here is the fourth and final opinion (well not necessarily an *opinion*) of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a Per Curiam, with concurrences and a dissent from Alito, in which Justice Thomas and Gorsuch joined. Justice Jackson concurred in part and dissented in part. The case is called Moyle v. United States, which deals with the Idaho abortion law.

Here is a link to the Per Curiam: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-726_6jgm.pdf
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Given the Chief Justice has not announced tomorrow will be the final day (Court has adjourned now) that all but ensures we will be coming back next week. More opinions coming tomorrow, and we could find out when the next opinion day is.
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JUST IN: The Supreme Court will announce one or more opinions on Monday July 1, in addition to tomorrow’s already scheduled opinion day. There are currently 6–8 cases pending, we could wrap up the term on Monday. We will see you all tomorrow morning.
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Good Friday morning everyone!


It’s round three of opinions this week, the justices will convene at 10 AM ET to deliver one or more opinions in argued cases this term. There are between 6–8 cases pending, and we also have another opinion day on Monday, which means the Court could finish by then. Of course, we will know when the last opinion day is as soon as the Chief Justice announces it, which we will be looking for today.

As always, as soon as the opinions are released on the website, we will provide them to you here.
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NEW: Here is the first opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a 6–3 opinion delivered by Justice Gorsuch. Justice Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Kagan and Jackson joined. The case is called Grant Pass v. Johnson.

Here is the link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
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NEW: Here is the second opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a 6-3 decision delivered by Chief Justice Roberts. Justice Kagan filed a dissenting opinion, in which Sotomayor and Jackson joined. The case is called Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. The Court has overruled the Chevron doctrine.

Here is a link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf
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(As a reminder; the delay is not on our end, we work on SCOTUS time, when the opinion is available on the website, it’s immediately sent this channel).
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NEW: Here is the fourth (because Chevron was two cases) and final opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a 6–3 opinion delivered by Chief Justice Roberts. Justice Barrett filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Sotomayor and Kagan joined. This case is called Fischer v. United States. This case relates to the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.

Here is the link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-5572_l6hn.pdf
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JUST IN: Chief Justice Roberts has just announced Monday will be the FINAL day of opinions, which means we will know the outcome of the remaining major decisions on Monday.
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Good Monday morning everyone!

It’s the final day of opinions, which means unlike the other opinion days, we know what cases will be released this morning. Although the order of the releases is not predetermined and merely a guess, we will find out between 10amET-11amET (depending on how long it takes to read the opinions and possible dissents from the bench) on how the Court rules on Presidential Immunity. On Friday, the court issued a decision on Fischer v. United States, which did a major blow to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team regarding hundreds of January 6 prosecutions.


Stay tuned at 10amET and remember, as soon as the opinion is available on the website, it’ll be sent here immediately.
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