Thread by @SCOTUSblog

1/ A quick thread on the five new cases the Supreme Court agreed to hear this morning. ⬇️

https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1443570412437209093

2/ The campaign-finance case, FEC v. Cruz, is a challenge from Ted Cruz to a federal law that limits how (and how much) a candidate can loan money to his or her campaign and then recoup that money after the election. More on the case here: scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…

3/ Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation involves procedural issues under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in a case in which the family of a Holocaust survivor seeks the return of art stolen by the Nazis.
scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…

4/ In Concepcion v. United States, the justices will again revisit the topic of sentencing reductions under the First Step Act, the criminal justice reform law passed in 2018. This case involves what a trial court must consider in handing down a reduced sentence.

5/ Shurtleff v. Boston involves a First Amendment case about the city of Boston's refusal to allow a Christian organization to briefly fly a flag on a city hall flag pole, despite allowing other private civic groups to fly their flags.

6/ And finally, Boechler v. CIR involves, well, a technical issue in a tax case. Specifically: "Whether the time limit in Section 6330(d)(1) is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule subject to equitable tolling."

7/ The court took no action this morning on some of the most high-profile pending cert petitions, including a Second Amendment challenge to a New Jersey ban on high-capacity magazines and two cases on state laws restricting abortions of fetuses with Down syndrome.