Welcome to the end of June, the time of year where all eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court as it wraps up its term. We have at least two opinion days this week, today and Thursday. Here’s a look at the major cases still awaiting decisions:
Trump cases
The justices have yet to rule on four major cases involving the president. They include his effort to restrict birthright citizenship, fire a member of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors, oust a Federal Trade Commission member and end protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria.
The court has backed Trump in a series of decisions issued on an emergency basis since he returned to office last year. But, based on questions posed by the justices during arguments in the cases, Trump may lose on birthright citizenship and the Fed firing.
“Culture wars”
The court is also due to decide a number of cases concerning U.S. "culture wars.” There is a pending Second Amendment case over a Hawaii gun law which could shed further light on the legal framework it adopted in a 2022 decision in a case called New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
The justices are also set to decide the legality of laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender athletes from female sports teams amid intensifying efforts by the Republican president and various states to restrict the rights of transgender people.
Also pending is a decision in a religious rights case involving a Rastafarian man who sued Louisiana prison officials after guards shaved him bald in violation of his religious beliefs in a case brought under a U.S. law protecting incarcerated people from religious discrimination.
Election law
There are also two election-related cases left: A Republican bid to limit mail-in voting and a free speech challenge to a federal campaign finance law that limits spending by political parties in coordination with candidates running for office in a case involving Vice President Vance.
Read more about this term’s major cases here.
