Published June 5, 2025
The Supreme Court today issued rulings in five argued cases (and dismissed the certiorari petition in a sixth). Four of those rulings were unanimous, and the fifth (Blom Bank Sal v. Honickman) was nearly so, with Justice Jackson concurring in all but one part of the majority.
Perhaps more remarkable, at least to those who view the Court only through a political lens, is that each of the three majority opinions by the liberal justices reached a result that would be politically coded as conservative. These three cases weren’t trivial: SCOTUSblog identified them among the eight remaining cases that it classified as “major cases.”
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Edward Whelan is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and holds EPPC’s Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies. He is the longest-serving President in EPPC’s history, having held that position from March 2004 through January 2021.
