US supreme court to release decisions with blockbuster Trump and abortion cases still to come – live
Good morning, US politics blog readers. We are bracing for a morning that begins with a relative bang, when the supreme court releases another batch of opinions at 10am ET. The court, where conservatives have a six-justice supermajority and liberals a three-justice minority, has been steadily working through its backlog of undecided cases over the past weeks – meaning that most of the outstanding matters carry significant political weight. Among these are Donald Trump’s petition for immunity from the federal charges brought against him for trying to overturn the 2020 election, the squabble between the Biden administration and Idaho over whether states can be required to carry out emergency abortions, and cases that could upend federal regulations, and social media moderation.
It is unlikely that decisions on all of these cases will come out today, since the court has also scheduled Thursday and Friday to release more opinions. We won’t know in advance how many cases have been decided, or on which subjects, but chances seem good for at least one major decision to be published. We will be blogging live as they are released.
Here’s what else is going on today:
Washington DC will be digesting the fallout from yesterday’s primaries in Colorado, Utah and New York, as well as runoffs in South Carolina. Progressive Jamaal Bowman is on his way out of the House of Representatives after losing his primary, rightwing star Lauren Boebert has succeeded in winning the GOP primary in a deeply conservative Colorado district, and several Trump-backed candidates were turned away by voters in different states.
House Republicans are attempting an unusual procedural tactic to prevent top Trump ally Steve Bannon from having to report to prison by Monday to serve his four-month sentence for contempt of Congress.
Julian Assange is back in Australia, ending the Wikileaks founder’s long and controversial entanglement with the US justice system. Follow our live blog for the latest.