1. Next Term, Justice Sotomayor will be the senior liberal justice on the Court. And this will probably be true for many years to come. Thus, her profile in dissent will be quite large.
2. Barring an unexpected health issue, we should probably expect no other vacancies in this presidential term. The Court is now quite young (in relative terms). By my reckoning, this is the youngest the Court has been since the mid-1990s, which ushered in a decade long period when there were no vacancies at all.
Posted by Gerard Magliocca on January 27, 2022 at 01:51 PM