The Next Few Weeks Should Be Exciting

Apparently the SCOTUS likes to finish with a bang. They've reserved some pretty explosive cases for the end of their session and these are biggies.

The Supreme Court has had divisive rulings this year on the environment, police power and whistleblowers, and the justices are not even through with their hardest cases.

The high court is on a tight deadline to finish before July, when justices begin a three-month break that provides time for traveling, teaching classes, writing books and relaxing.

As usual, justices have left some of the most significant cases to the very end. There are 10 rulings left, on issues from a president's wartime powers, capital punishment, Texas' political boundaries and the insanity defense.

The old SCOTUS does have a sense of the dramatic, huh?

So, how do you think the votes will go? I'd predict, but just don't have enough knowledge about the cases. Maybe Christy Hardin Smith, the artist attorney formerly known as ReddHead, at Firedoglake or Jerilyn Merrit of TalkLeft could shed some light on these issues.