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1. Many of those cases will wind up on the 'emergency docket'..

Fri Jun 20, 2025, 09:00 PM

Jun 20

SCOTUS Blog explains it here:

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/emergency/emergency-docket-2024/
https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/10/symposium-shining-a-light-on-the-shadow-docket/

As of now, they've handled 102 cases this term, with 7 pending. More than half of those are death penalty cases. There's always court business going on, even between the terms. (The justices may not be there, but their clerks and other staff are).

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Many of those cases will wind up on the 'emergency docket'.. Princess Turandot Jun 20 #1