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FYI: It appears that an unreleased Supreme Court decision was *briefly* made public on the Courtโ€™s website this afternoon for a moment before shortly being taken down. As a reminder, a Supreme Court opinion is not final until itโ€™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!

Itโ€™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 โ€œFischer v. United States.โ€ 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 5โ€“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 tomorrowโ€™s already scheduled opinion day. There are currently 6โ€“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!


Itโ€™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 6โ€“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 6โ€“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, itโ€™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 6โ€“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!

Itโ€™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 Smithโ€™s team regarding hundreds of January 6 prosecutions.


Stay tuned at 10amET and remember, as soon as the opinion is available on the website, itโ€™ll be sent here immediately.
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NEW: Here is the first opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a 6โ€“3 opinion delivered by Justice Barrett. Justice Jackson filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Sotomayor and Kagan joined. The case is called Corner Post v. Board of Governors, FRS.

Here is the link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1008_1b82.pdf
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NEW: Here is the second opinion of the day from the Supreme Court. It is a presumably 6-3 rationale ruling (9-0 on judgment) delivered by Justice Kagan. The case is called Moody v. Netchoice.

Here is the link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-277_d18f.pdf
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(Next opinion is Presidential Immunity, but still waiting for it).
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NEW: Here is the final opinion of the term from the Supreme Court. It is a 6โ€“3 opinion delivered by Chief Justice Roberts. Justice Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Kagan and Jackson joined. This case is Trump V United States.

Here is a link to the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
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(HOLDING: Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presump-
tive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no
immunity for unofficial acts.)
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That officially concludes our coverage of the 2023-2024 Supreme Court term. Thank you all for joining us along the ride of this historical year. We have grown massively over this term with new subscribers every day, and we deeply appreciate all your support. However, our job is far from done. We will continue to give you complete coverage of the Supreme Court for its 2024-2025 term. Enjoy the rest of your Summer and we will see you back in the Fall. (We will cover orders, including the โ€œclean-upโ€ order list coming soon, throughout the summer in the meantime).
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