A look back at 2019: A tale of two terms? Friday, December 27, 2019

SCOTUSblog

Any review of a calendar year at the Supreme Court necessarily includes two different terms: the term that ends in June and the new one that begins in October and will run into the following year. But a look back at 2019, in particular, reveals two very different terms. In the wake of the June 2018 retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who for many years had been the court’s “swing justice,” and the contentious confirmation hearing for Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Kennedy’s successor, the term that ended in June 2019 was a relatively quiet one. The court issued major rulings on partisan gerrymandering and the census, but the conventional wisdom was that the justices were trying to keep a lower profile.

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