Welcome to this edition of Supreme Court Brief. Tuesday marked just the third time this term that the court heard back-to-back cases rather than calling it a day after a single argument.

I wrote about the first of those, McElrath v. Georgia, here. The double jeopardy case asks whether the state of Georgia can reprosecute a man in the stabbing death of his adoptive mother after a jury had already acquitted him as legally insane in a previous trial. The Georgia Supreme Court had vacated the acquittal after finding it "repugnant" to, or incompatible with, the jury's other conclusions that he was guilty but mentally ill as to other counts for the same killing.

The justices seemed deeply skeptical of Georgia's attempt at a retrial, with Justice Neil Gorsuch saying at one point, "an acquittal is an acquittal is an acquittal since time immemorial." As one expert told me, "I would not be surprised by a 9-0 decision here."