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What's Left at SCOTUS? A Rundown of the Decisions We Can Expect on Friday

Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate said "Public Advocate has filed 20 amicus briefs in the past 12 months. Some have been successful, some not and some are pending. So we are holding our breath on the remaining decisions including our legal brief supporting age restrictions on pornography directed at children."

Redstate posts:

It's been a very active term at the Supreme Court this year, and we are now truly in the home stretch. With 10 cases left to be decided and only Thursday listed as a decision day, there was some speculation the court might release all 10 at once - or possibly announce one more decision day.

Rather than bombard us with 10 in one day, the Chief Justice announced Thursday morning (after the court issued just four opinions) that the remaining decisions would be handed down on Friday.

That leaves us with six to go. Below is just a brief rundown as to each (in the order that they were argued), so you can know what to look out for on Friday morning (beginning at 10:00 AM Eastern):

  1. Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton - Texas has a law requiring online "adult entertainment" sites to restrict minors' access to sexual materials with age verification. It now faces a First Amendment challenge, and the question is whether the law must withstand the heightened "strict scrutiny" examination or need only meet the "rational basis" standard.
  2. Louisiana v. Callais - This one involves redistricting. A Louisiana federal court found that the state likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by failing to create a second minority-majority district. The legislature redrew the map with two majority-Black districts, but the new map was then challenged by a group of voters who maintained that, in itself, was impermissible racial gerrymandering, while the legislature maintains it was political, not racial.
  3. Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers' Research - Congress created the Universal Service Fund to subsidize telephone and high-speed internet service for underserved areas. The FCC created a private non-profit to administer the fund, and a consumer group challenged this as a violation of the non-delegation doctrine (i.e., the principle that Congress cannot pawn off its legislative responsibilities on other entities).