The U.S. Supreme Court appears to be in no rush to fill up its docket for the October 2023 term. The justices decided not take up any new cases in their orders list Tuesday following the holiday weekend, leaving this term’s caseload at a little more than half-full for at least another week. 

Among the rejected petitions: an appeal by Missouri and other states to revive a challenge to President Joe Biden’s executive order directing agencies to consider the social costs of greenhouse gasses, along with disgraced coal magnate Don Blankenship’s challenge to the landmark First Amendment ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan. The latter prompted Justice Clarence Thomas to write an opinion again calling on the court to revisit that foundational press freedom ruling in a future case. 

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