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Download photo of 2022 supreme court7/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Longtime court watchers said that’s a much more substantial detail than justices used to get on trips out of Washington. During a recent trip to Chicago, Justice Elena Kagan was accompanied by about a half-dozen security personnel. However, the stresses of the past year remain evident and won’t be erased simply by the justices throwing themselves back into their work or by welcoming their newest colleague, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, as they did last week.įor one thing, all the justices remain under much tighter security than in previous years. Roberts is clearly craving a return to normalcy as the court’s new term opens Monday with arguments on federal powers to regulate water pollution and Delaware’s right to unclaimed MoneyGram checks issued in other states. ![]() “I think, with my colleagues, we’re all working to move beyond it.” It was gut-wrenching every morning to drive into a Supreme Court with barricades around it,” Roberts said. “The last year was an unusual one and difficult in many respects. Speaking at a judges’ conference in Colorado last month, Roberts sounded exhausted by it all. ![]() The normally relaxed season for heading to vacation homes and teaching abroad was marked by the most intense security footing ever for the justices, along with uncommonly public internecine strife among the court’s members, unleashed by the 5-4 decision in June overturning the federal constitutional right to abortion.Īdded to that fraught mix was a heaping dollop of suspicion in the each of court’s rival ideological camps about who was responsible for the unprecedented disclosure to POLITICO of a draft opinion in the high-stakes abortion case and uncertainty about an investigation Chief Justice John Roberts ordered into the breach. The atmosphere of secrecy around Alito’s appearance in Italy and his short-lived beard - gone by the time the justices reconvened last week - were just two indicators of the unusually tense times for the court, which returns to chambers to take up cases Monday. ![]() Alito’s appearance at the University of Notre Dame-organized conference flew under the radar for a week as he was omitted from the list of speakers made public in advance. ![]()
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