Supreme Court Goes Back to Normal in Term With Few Blockbusters

After blockbusters dominated the docket in back-to-back terms, the US Supreme Court is returning to a bit of normalcy.

The first half of the court’s current term looked like those of the past as the justices spent most of it grappling with technical procedural questions and considering how to interpret tricky statutes.

Challenges to federal regulations for hard-to-trace “ghost guns” and access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors were the highest-profile cases argued, but a couple noteworthy disputes teed up for 2025 could make the second half of the term a little more exciting than the first.

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