Barack Obama and Joe Biden met with 8 of the 9 Supreme Court justices this on Wednesday at the invitation of Chief Justice Roberts. In a press release, the Chief Justice invited the President- and Vice President-Elect to visit the court and make the “sporadic practice become a congenial tradition.” You can see some pictures [...]

The Supreme Court accepted six new cases and placed them on expedited review so that they can be heard in the April sitting. You can find the orders list here. The Court can hear, on average, 12 cases per sitting (2 cases per day over 6 days.) As it currently stands, the Court has accepted [...]

The Supreme Court will meet for conference today and is likely to an unknown number of cert petitions later this afternoon. Their reason for announcing granted cases today, as opposed to releasing them on Monday with the other orders, is that the court would like to hear those cases in April and the Justices would [...]