On April 13, the U.S. Supreme Court put out this announcement. It will hear ten particular cases from the group of cases that had been set for March and April, but which had been indefinitely postponed. Ordinarily the Court does not hear cases in May. It uses May to write opinions from cases that had been argued earlier.
Among the ten privileged cases are the two cases on presidential electors, and also the case on President Trump’s tax returns. But the Court did not choose Carney v Adams to be heard in May. Carney v Adams is the Delaware case over whether the state can ban independent and minor party members from being considered for a judicial position.
The Court did not say what it will do about scheduling Carney v Adams and the other cases that had been postponed, and which are not among the special ten cases.
The dates in May for the ten special cases are May 4,5,6,11,12, and 13. They will be held remotely; the justices will not be in the same room with the attorneys or with each other.
Less of a SCOTUS summer vacation ???
Can the clerks survive ???
Earlier crop of new clerks – to help olde clerks ???
How many more CRISIS election law cases — as in the WI primary case ???