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The Supreme Court’s suddenly blockbuster term

January 12, 2024
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The Supreme Court’s suddenly blockbuster term
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Over the next four months, the Supreme Court justices will hear cases with mammoth implications for both the 2024 election and one of the central issues of that election: abortion access.

The term “has taken on tremendous weight that was not evident at the start,” says Carolyn Shapiro, co-director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Why We Wrote This

The word “unprecedented” gets tossed around a lot. But the Supreme Court is suddenly finding itself asked to decide cases with no legal precedent to fall back on. And the rulings are likely to affect the 2024 election.

“On the other hand, it’s not entirely unpredictable we find ourselves in this situation,” she adds.

Legal questions involving former President Donald Trump have been looming since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Similarly, the landmark rulings of recent years – such as overturning Roe v. Wade – were always likely to prompt follow-up cases. The court has indirectly affected elections over the years, including rulings reshaping the Voting Rights Act and campaign finance laws. But not since Bush v. Gore in 2000 will the Supreme Court have such a significant influence on a presidential election.

The cases, says Ilya Somin, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, “could have a significant indirect impact on the election, and that’s going to be on people’s minds.”

A lot can change in two weeks.

Entering its Christmas break, the U.S. Supreme Court was in a familiar place. One opinion had been issued in the now-typical slow start to the term. The highest-profile cases – touching issues like gun rights, taxation, and government regulation – had been argued. A routine term seemed in the cards, a boon for a high court coming off historic rulings in consecutive terms and now entering a divisive election year. 

A fortnight later, the Supreme Court is in a much less comfortable position. Over the next four months, the justices will hear cases with mammoth implications for both the 2024 election and one of the central issues of that election: abortion access.

Why We Wrote This

The word “unprecedented” gets tossed around a lot. But the Supreme Court is suddenly finding itself asked to decide cases with no legal precedent to fall back on. And the rulings are likely to affect the 2024 election.

The term “has taken on tremendous weight that was not evident at the start,” says Carolyn Shapiro, co-director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States.

“On the other hand, it’s not entirely unpredictable we find ourselves in this situation,” she adds.

Indeed, legal questions involving former President Donald Trump have been looming since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Similarly, the landmark rulings of recent years – such as overturning Roe v. Wade – were always likely to prompt follow-up cases.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s legal team asked three judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to declare that a president who had not first been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate was immune from criminal prosecution. In an exchange that raised legal eyebrows from coast to coast, Mr. Trump’s attorney asserted that this would hold true even if a president ordered the assassination of a political rival. The justices declined to hear the case before the appeals court weighs in, but it seems all but certain the Supreme Court will be asked to decide the issue.

And even if the justices saw it coming, they are now facing six months of political scrutiny, compressed timelines, and unprecedented legal questions. However they rule, they’re certain to anger a segment of the country and sow further distrust in their judicial integrity. And when voters head to the polls in November, the rulings are likely to be fresh in their minds.

Former President Donald Trump, with his attorneys, speaks to reporters at a Washington hotel after his hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.

November’s ballot, on the docket

Public confidence in the Supreme Court stayed near record lows last year following consecutive terms in which the six-justice conservative supermajority overturned Roe v. Wade, struck down affirmative action, and ruled that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry a firearm in public. 

Republicans, unsurprisingly, have a more favorable view of the court than other Americans. But that confidence could be tested by the end of this term.

In February, the justices will hear a challenge to a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that the 14th Amendment disqualifies Mr. Trump from running for public office because he “engaged in insurrection” on Jan. 6. Then there is the question of whether the Constitution gives a president immunity from criminal prosecution after they leave office.

The court has indirectly affected elections over the years, including through decisions reshaping the Voting Rights Act and campaign finance laws. But not since Bush v. Gore in 2000 will the Supreme Court have such a significant influence on a presidential election.

“The legal questions are different [from Bush v. Gore], and the impacts of the outcomes would be much less direct,” says Ilya Somin, a professor at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

But the 14th Amendment and immunity cases, he adds, “could have a significant indirect impact on the election, and that’s going to be on people’s minds.”

Abortion rights, redux

Meanwhile, abortion rights has been a defining issue in political campaigns since the Supreme Court overturned Roe in June 2022. Over the next six months, the court will be dealing with the fallout from that decision.

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Abortion-rights activists and counterprotesters face off outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the first anniversary of the Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, in Washington, June 24, 2023.

In mid-December, the court agreed to hear a case challenging the federal authorization of the widely used medical abortion pill mifepristone. And last week, the justices took up a case asking if Idaho’s near-total abortion ban conflicts with a federal law requiring health care providers to perform abortions for certain emergency room patients.

The Idaho case will be argued in April. The court hasn’t yet scheduled arguments in the mifepristone case. That the justices are again wrestling with this hot-button political issue “is not surprising either,” says Professor Shapiro.

“When the court [overturned Roe], it was setting itself up to be adjudicating extremely divisive and important issues regarding health care access for years to come,” she adds.

The regularly scheduled program

All these cases only add to what was already a substantial, albeit lower-profile, Supreme Court docket.

In a follow-up to a landmark gun-rights ruling in 2022, the justices will decide if laws barring domestic abusers from possessing firearms are unconstitutional. The high court will also decide if the federal government can no longer tax certain “unrealized” income. That decision could have consequences for other sections of the U.S. tax code, as well as for the $340 billion that the specific tax at issue is projected to raise over the next decade.

Finally, the justices could also overturn the Chevron doctrine. The 40-year-old precedent, which holds that federal courts must defer to an agency’s interpretation of ambiguous laws, plays a major role in the regulatory process. But conservatives have long argued that Chevron gives federal agencies too much unchecked authority, and several justices have openly criticized the doctrine.

Guns, taxes, and Chevron made for a significant but low-key start to this Supreme Court term. After the past two weeks, however, the term has taken on the weight of historic significance – on a par with those that outlawed segregation and effectively ended Richard Nixon’s presidency after Watergate.

“I’m struggling to think of any term in which the court will have decided a larger number of massively important cases,” wrote Steve Vladeck, a University of Texas School of Law professor, on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“It’s a court that is spending most of its time right in the middle of our political wars.”

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