Good morning and welcome to the live blog!
As David Savage of The Los Angeles Times told me a few minutes ago, it must be the final weeks of June if SCOTUSblog is at the Court... in the cafeteria.
Amy will be with us shortly in the press room. And Mark will be upstairs in the courtroom listening to the justices as they announce their opinions.
Good morning, everyone! Sorry for the delay in joining you.
Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but we don't know how many cases we are getting today or which ones. Right now, the justices only have one other day scheduled to take the bench -- next Monday -- but they will presumably add at least two or three more, although we don't know which ones yet. My guess would be that they will add Thursday this week and Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, but this is just a guess.
And before we get ahead of ourselves, we are expecting orders from last week's cases at 9:30 am. The sequel to the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, was up at last week's conference, although there's no reason to believe that this week will be the week that the justices act on it.
And perhaps most significantly, the Trump administration's petitions asking the justices to weigh in on the challenges to the decision to end DACA were considered again at last week's conference, after having been on hold for several months.
Okay, going in to wait for orders. Back soon.
The Court has sent Klein v. Bureau of Labor and Industries back to the Oregon state courts for reconsideration in light of Masterpiece Cakeshop.
The Klein case is what's known as a GVR -- the couple's petition is granted and the judgment below is vacated, but the case is remanded to the Oregon Court of Appeals. There are no new grants today.
To be clear, the justices did not add any new cases to their merits docket for next term.
The rest of the orders are pretty much a big nothing-burger, as John Elwood might say.
The justices apparently did not act on the DACA petitions, which is not surprising. We should know by the end of the day whether they have relisted them for reconsideration at this week's conference.
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