Good morning, everyone. I can't top Mark's intro, so I won't try.
However, I can say something that I only get to say once a year, which is that we DO have a pretty good idea of what opinions we are getting today: McGirt v. Oklahoma, about whether much of eastern Oklahoma is in fact an Indian reservation; Trump v. Mazars, about whether various congressional committees can subpoena the president's financial records; and Trump v. Vance, about whether a New York grand jury could subpoena the president's financial records.
I also want to say that if you have been reading SCOTUSblog for the past four years and liked what you saw, that's largely due to the efforts of our editor Edith Roberts, who rarely appears on the live blog but without whom the blog could not function. Today is Edith's last live blog before her retirement. We're so grateful for her work as an editor and for her as a colleague and we'll miss her. And for the sake of my sanity, let's hope this is the only retirement announcement I have to report on today.
Let me add my congratulations to Edith, an exacting editor but one who has been a joy to work with over these last four years.
Lots of questions about the Trump financial records cases. I think the conventional wisdom is that the court could split and rule for Trump on the congressional cases but against him on the NY grand jury case. There's a subset of conventional wisdom that suggests that the court could split within the congressional cases -- e.g., the court upholds at least one of the subpoenas (I think more likely the one from the intel committee, perhaps) but rejects another (perhaps oversight and reform)).
But I also want to caution that I think that the May arguments were particularly difficult to game because they were held by phone, so we couldn't see the justices, and the unusual format meant that everyone asked questions (and it was great to hear from Justice Thomas), but it was harder to figure out whose concerns were the biggest and most genuine.
The comments are coming in so fast that when I try to hit the button to post one it is jumping around the screen.
By the way, as at least one commenter noted, yesterday we had a non-COVID-related emergency election filing, asking the justices to reinstate a ruling by a federal district court in Florida that struck down a law requiring residents with prior felony convictions to pay court fees and costs before they are allowed to vote. The Campaign Legal Center has announced the filing but I don't think it has been docketed yet (or I haven't been notified why it has been docketed yet), so I don't think the court has called for a response yet. But the deadline for voter registration for the Florida primary is less than 2 weeks away, so I would expect the court to act relatively quickly.
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