SCOTUS Update – Year in Review

Professor Vincent Bonventre surveys the major decisions of the Supreme Court’s immediate past term and highlight the patterns in the Justices’ voting records and in the decisional record of the Court as a whole. In doing so, he will explore the extent to which the ideological and jurisprudential direction of the Court, underscored by the continuing 6-3 partisan divide, was reflected in the Court’s decisions.

Topics to be Included:

The Court, the Critiques, The Nitty-Gritty

1. The Justices
2. Varied Assessments
3. Actual Voting and Decisional Patterns

The 6-3 Court's Successes

1. The Trump Cases
   1. Immunity
   2. Insurrection Disqualification
   3. Obstruction
2. Administrative Agencies
3. Firearms
4. Gerrymandering
5. Environmental Protection 
6. Etc…

The 6-3 Splits

1. Firearms
2. Abortion
3. Agency Funding
4. Social Media
5. Etc…