Supreme Court’s delicate dance with election involvement
Legal analysts are split on how involved they expect the Supreme Court to get in this year’s election, Supreme Court Reporter Kaelan Deese wrote this morning. Some say the light docket justices have prepared themselves is to make room for possible election-related cases, and others say that could instead be related to former President Donald Trump’s immunity cases.
“It’s pretty clear that Justice Roberts does not want the court to be moving in a direction where it is settling contentious issues that it doesn’t have to settle. You saw that as far back as the Obamacare case, when he was the vote that basically found a compromise that invalidated some provisions but not the whole law,” said Henry Olsen, an author, analyst, and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
