Down to the wire

The Supreme Court's session ends this month.  There are some serious issues they're expected to rule on.

Trump’s assertion that former presidents enjoy criminal immunity for official acts now rests with the justices, who are hearing his appeal in his federal election interference case.

The Supreme Court’s decision stands to impact not only whether Trump’s charges in the case, as well as those brought in Georgia and Florida, must be tossed, but also whether the three cases proceed to trial at all.

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Several cases involving social media not yet decided by the Supreme Court could have resounding implications for free speech online.

The rights afforded to social media platforms are on the line in two cases stemming from controversial laws regulating social media bans in Texas and Florida.

The laws aim to prevent social media companies from banning users based on their political views — even if users violate platform policies.

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In the biggest abortion dispute at the Supreme Court since the conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade, the justices are set to hand down a ruling that could restrict access to mifepristone, a widely used abortion pill.

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Now, the justices are set to decide the constitutionality of the federal crime of gun possession for people under qualifying domestic-violence restraining orders.

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The second gun case on the justices’ docket this term doesn’t concern the Second Amendment. Instead, it considers the legality of the Trump-era regulation banning bump stocks, which outlaws owning the devices by categorizing them as machine guns.

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The justices this month could do away with Chevron deference, a bedrock precedent of administrative law that for decades has bolstered federal agencies’ powers to regulate wide areas of American life.

The doctrine instructs judges to defer to an agency’s interpretation of a law when it is ambiguous.

Cited in thousands of subsequent decisions, it has provided the executive branch with wide latitude to implement policy change in countless areas, including environmental protections and cryptocurrency.

But conservatives have increasingly looked to eliminate the precedent as part of a broader attack on the “administrative state.”

At oral arguments, some of the Supreme Court’s conservatives who have long criticized the precedent railed against it, but it remains unclear if a majority is willing to put Chevron deference on its deathbed.

  The Hill

They've already put decency and equity on their deathbeds. I wouldn't hold out for anything less here.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 11:04 am:

I see what you did there, Steve.  LOL.