Overview

• Justices are privately reviewing roughly 1,000 to 2,000 summer petitions from an annual 5,000 to 7,000 filings, ultimately hearing about 60 to 80 cases each term.
• High-profile petitions include gun-law challenges such as Missouri v. United States and Wolford v. Lopez, along with Ghislaine Maxwell’s effort to overturn her sex-trafficking conviction.
• Only cases placed on a confidential discussion list are debated at the conference, and petitions not listed are automatically denied.
• Late last week, the emergency docket produced an order allowing the administration to withhold nearly $4 billion in foreign-aid funding.
• The Court has already scheduled President Donald Trump’s tariffs case for argument in early November, and it is expected to grant roughly five to 15 cases from today’s review.