Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” As the final weeks of the current Supreme Court term unfold, Court scholars and others intensely sift the tea leaves for evidence of the new Roberts Court’s direction.
The Court in recent years has wrapped up its work by the end of June. The Roberts Court began the traditional final month with 28 cases to be decided (counting consolidated cases as one) and, as also is traditional, with some of the most difficult and potentially significant cases of the term in that group.
