Supreme Court Achieves Historic Unanimity but Tougher Cases Loom

The US Supreme Court’s unanimity in early decisions will be hard to maintain as the justices decide controversial questions on presidential immunity, abortion, and the so-called administrative state.

The court has issued 18 opinions in argued cases so far this term, 15 of which have been unanimous.

The more than 80% figure represents the most harmony at the beginning of a term in the court’s modern era, according to Adam Feldman, the creator of the blog Empirical SCOTUS.

Unanimous rulings released by May 1 have ranged from 30% to 58% since 2017, the year when the first of Donald Trump’s ...