Jimmy Hoover

Here, Law.com takes a look at some of the biggest cases set to be decided by the justices before the start of their typical summer recess in July.

Here, Law takes a look at some of the biggest cases set to be decided by the justices before the start of their typical summer recess in July.

The justices will consider whether the Sixth Amendment's jury trial right entitles defendants in serious criminal cases to a 12-person jury.

The court denied a petition from 98-year-old Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman seeking to challenge her suspension over her mental fitness in court.

The justices took up an appeal from the Trump administration arguing that immigrants held in detention pending deportation for serious crimes have no constitutional right to a bond hearing.

"Every day the law is enforced, Applicants are denied their basic rights to organize, advocate, express ideas, and discover new perspectives through the most important medium for human communication," lawyers for the challengers told the Supreme Court in an emergency application this week.

In a major ruling for marijuana and gun rights activists, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government may not prosecute individuals simply for being a habitual drug user in possession of a firearm.

The Supreme Court rejected the federal government's argument that an appeal waiver signed by a criminal defendant during a plea agreement is virtually always enforceable, no matter the circumstances.

"The court today neither expands nor constrains Rooker-Feldman," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her decision for the majority. "Instead, the court leaves the doctrine as it found it."

In this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, host Jimmy Hoover breaks down Thursday's decision barring federal gun prosecutions of recreational marijuana users, and other new developments at the high court.