It’s pressure cooker time at the Supreme Court.
With oral arguments over, the justices are holed up with their clerks churning out draft opinions in pending cases, with an internal deadline of June 1. Once the opinions are circulated to colleagues, draft dissents are supposed to be done by June 15, so the justices can close up shop for the summer by June 30. But this year, undeniably, the heat has been cranked up higher than usual. The intense scrutiny given to the health care and immigration cases has brought the anticipation to unprecedented levels.
