“Today’s ruling is not just a setback for those Louisiana prisoners convicted by non-unanimous juries who have already exhausted their direct appeals it portends a fundamental shift in how the Supreme Court handles claims from all state and federal prisoners based upon decisions handed down after their conviction,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law. “If the right to a unanimous jury is so fundamental – if a verdict rendered by a divided jury is ‘no verdict at all’ – then Thedrick Edwards should not spend his life behind bars over two jurors’ opposition. In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan, joined by the court’s other two liberal members, wrote that last year’s decision “comes with a promise, or at any rate should.” The 6-3 majority decision was penned by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was joined by the court’s other conservative members. The ruling is a loss for Thedrick Edwards and hundreds of others in Oregon, Louisiana and Puerto Rico, jurisdictions that allowed non-unanimous verdicts before the Supreme Court’s decision last year in Ramos v. Scott Bomboy is the editor in chief of the National Constitution Center.The Supreme Court said on Monday that a decision last term holding that the Constitution requires unanimous jury verdicts for state criminal trials does not apply retroactively. The court must decide whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as it considers cost, non-air impacts, and energy requirements, or if those EPA powers were limited by Congress under the Clean Air Act. The justices will consider whether a hospital employee can sue a police officer personally, because the officer did not read the employee his Miranda rights before questioning and arresting the man for assaulting a patient. The justices must decide whether the state of Oklahoma can prosecute non-Indians who allegedly committed crimes against Native Americans on tribal lands. The court will consider whether New York state’s denial of concealed-carry licenses for self-defense violates the Second Amendment, and whether individuals generally have the right to carry concealed firearms outside the home for the purpose of self-defense. New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. The school did not re-hire Kennedy after the prayer controversy. Kennedy, who prayed with students after a game on a public football field. The justices will consider whether a public school violated the First Amendment rights of a football coach, Joseph A. These two cases address the issue of due process for noncitizens who have spent more than six months in immigration detention and their rights to a hearing before an immigration judge to determine if they can be released on bond. The Dobbs case received recent publicity when a draft opinion was leaked to an online publisher. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. The outcome of the case could overturn precedents establishing the right under the federal constitution to pre-viability abortions established in Roe v. The court will consider whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional. The issue in this case is whether a state law prohibiting students from using a generally available student-aid program at private schools offering religious teachings violates the First Amendment’s Religion and Equal Protection Clauses.ĭobbs v. The current administration claims it can end the policy under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The policy requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they await a hearing in a U.S. The court will consider the Biden administration’s decision to end the “remain in Mexico” policy also known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). The justices will decide whether North Carolina lawmakers may intervene in a lawsuit to defend the state’s voter-ID law because they disagree with the litigation strategy of the state attorney general, who is already representing the state, and what standard would allow lawmakers to intervene in the future. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP Here is a list of the major decisions expected from the nine justices.īerger v. With the Supreme Court approaching the start of summer, the justices will likely decide the court’s major remaining cases by late June.
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