Front row, left to right: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., Justice Samuel Alito Jr. and Justice Elena Kagan. Back row, left to right: Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Credit: Fred Schilling/Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.
It took until July 1, but the U.S. Supreme Court’s nine justices managed to close the book on a momentous October 2023 term in time to decamp Washington before the Fourth of July holiday and kick off their three-month summer recess.
While the justices take a break from the daily grind of opinion writing, and their clerks line up lucrative gigs in Big Law, the country is still reeling from a Supreme Court term that delivered a veritable firehose of politically charged decisions on issues from abortion to guns to fundamental questions about the separation of powers.
