The Court held that the First Step Act allows district courts to consider intervening changes of law or fact in exercising their discretion to reduce a sentence.ĭobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization (6-3 Opinion by Justice Alito, and joined by Chief Justice Roberts, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett on June 24, 2022. Summary: The Court reversed and remanded the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Justice Kavanaugh, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito and Barrett, filed a dissenting opinion.) Once a defendant meets the burden of producing evidence that his or her conduct was “authorized,” the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knowingly or intentionally acted in an unauthorized manner.Ĭoncepcion v United States (5-4 Opinion by Justice Sotomayor and joined by Justices Thomas, Breyer, Kagan and Gorsuch on June 27, 2022. Section 841’s “knowingly or intentionally” mens rea applies to the statute’s “except as authorized” clause. Summary: The Court vacated and remanded the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Justice Alito wrote a concurring opinion, in which Justice Tomas joined and in which Justice Barrett joined as to Parts I-A, I-B, and II.) Ruan v United States (9-0 Opinion by Justice Breyer, and joined by Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh on June 27, 2022. The Court held that the Federal Government and the State have concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed by non-Indians against Indians in Indian country. Summary: The Court reversed and remanded the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma. Justice Gorsuch, joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan, filed a dissenting opinion.) Justice Gorsuch filed a concurring opinion. Castro-Huerta (5-4 Opinion by Justice Kavanaugh, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas, Alito, and Barrett on June 29, 2022. 29 memoranda constituted valid final agency action. The Court held that the government’s rescission of Migrant Protection Protocols did not violate Section 1225 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the then-Secretary of Homeland Security’s Oct.
Summary: The Court reversed and remanded the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Justice Barrett filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch joined as to all but the first sentence.) Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Thomas and Gorsuch joined. Justice Kavanaugh filed a concurring opinion. Texas (5-4 Opinion by Chief Justice Roberts and joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan and Kavanaugh on June 30, 2022. So I think it's an aggressive court.Biden v. And, yes, these new justices, primarily the three appointed by former President Trump, know where they want to go. I think this court has a younger majority now. And with the abortion case, the court reached out to take this case, when they didn't have to. In the gun situation, the court had been turning away numerous gun rights petitions, usually with a dissenting opinion written by Justice Thomas, saying that the court had made a constitutional orphan of the Second Amendment.īut after Justice Barrett came on the bench, the court took the case. I think it was probably clearest in their decision to take on the abortion case and the gun case. And we have seen it in a number of opinions this term. Marcia Coyle, "The National Law Journal": I think that this is a very conservative, aggressive new court. And at the end of the term, I think we have got the answer. Marcia, at the beginning of this term that just ended, there was a lot of people wondering what this supermajority, if you will, of six conservative justices would do. Marcia Coyle covers the Supreme Court for "The National Law Journal."
The court rewrote law and redefined rights in ways that will reverberate through American society for many years.Īnd with the cases they have already agreed to hear when the justices come back in the fall, there's likely to be more to come.
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