The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea from Louisiana and nine other states to bar federal agencies from considering the social costs of greenhouse gases as part of their decision-making process. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices declined to reinstate a district-court ruling that had temporarily blocked the Biden administration from using the cost estimates. There were no dissents recorded from Thursday’s order.
There was a SCOTUS conference on Thursday, but so far, no more opinion days. There are thirty-three more cases pending, so it would make sense to have one next week. We are talking about half of the full rate of the whole term. This is an asinine amount of back-loading. It is also a sign of how low the turnout is, even if you factor in (making it larger, to some degree) shadow docket.
We did have an order as cited above; one of the no comment, "no" jobs. It also looks like the Supreme Court won't show up any more in person on the bench. This was sorta assumed when Roberts after the final argument tearfully noted the end of the line for Breyer.
So, we will continue to not have opinion announcements, or dissents from the bench. It is fairly far down there, but being denied a Sotomayor dissent in Dobbs (abortion) is bothersome. As is no opinion announcements available since 2019. Yes, even the beginning of the 2019-2020 term (multiple opinion announcements pre-COVID) is not available at Oyez.com
So, there will be an Order Day on Tuesday, with the holiday, and then another Thursday conference. It would not shock me if they decide to drop another opinion day, which is after all just automatically dropping opinions online. There are multiple opinions left that are not big deals.
Meanwhile, High School SCOTUS has a new entry summarizing two recent opinions. It is an impressive website and something that would have been nice back in the day when I was in high school. I first was interested in the Supreme Court back then. NYT used to have excerpts of certain opinions. I was more heavily into the courts in college, slip opinions available (this was c. 1990) in a back room. Tempus fugit.