The Supreme Court is increasingly signaling that it will not release its final opinions this semester until July.
By tradition, Chief Justice John Roberts, on the penultimate day of an opinion, announces that the next day will be the last day.
But Roberts made no such announcement Thursday, suggesting that Friday’s scheduled release of the opinion is not the last day and that the court will not finish its work until next week.
The court generally tries to meet its self-imposed deadline of issuing all opinions by the end of June, only failing in recent memory when the COVID-19 pandemic upended normal operations.
But there is no requirement that the Supreme Court serve its normal term, barring the justices’ willingness to stick to their summer plans. Judge Neil Gorsuch, for example, is expected to travel to Portugal to teach a two-week course at George Mason University in the second half of July.
The judges still appear to be on track to finish their work soon, perhaps as early as next week, before the court closes for the Independence Day holiday on Thursday.
The court has yet to issue rulings in eight cases being discussed, including a high-profile battle over former President Trump’s immunity claims, a case that could claw back power from federal agencies and two cases related to social media.
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