As the Supreme Court convenes for its third opinion day in just under two weeks, legal professionals and observers are gearing up for a morning filled with pivotal announcements and arguments. The proceedings kick off at 9:30 a.m. EST with the expected release of an order list, which will highlight petitions for review that have been denied. Later in the day, justices may release opinions, an event that will be closely followed and live-blogged by the SCOTUS community here.
Following the potential opinion announcements, the Court will hear oral arguments in Wolford v. Lopez and M&K Employee Solutions, LLC v. Trustees of the IAM Pension Fund. The former addresses the legality of a Hawaii statute that bars gun owners from carrying firearms onto private property without the owner’s explicit permission, while the latter involves the complex calculations required for businesses withdrawing from multi-employer pension plans.
In a parallel stream of events, the live blogging will continue tomorrow with oral arguments in a notable political case, Trump v. Cook. This case centers on former President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismiss Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expected to attend.
In other legal news, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently defended the administration’s strategy to employ the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to enforce new tariffs on certain European countries, a move under scrutiny by the Supreme Court as reported by NBC News. Additionally, a Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to hacking the Supreme Court’s filing system, an event covered by the Associated Press.
Finally, reflecting on recent upheavals in Minneapolis following ICE operations, former President Trump hinted at possibly invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military, though he later withdrew military deployments from major cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland. The Supreme Court recently blocked a similar deployment in Trump v. Illinois, citing unfulfilled conditions necessary for such action.