Looking Ahead: October Term 2025
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” a Yankee skipper informed us. And more apt for this journal, the greatest lawyer of the ancient world relates “Vetus autem illud Catonis admodum scitum est, qui mirari se aiebat quod non rideret haruspex haruspicem cum vidisset.” And if we to are follow the elder Cato’s admonition, all predictions and forecasts are in some sense folly. Having acknowledged the wisdom of sages, ancient and modern, it still behooves us to peer into the upcoming Supreme Court Term on a somewhat firmer basis of already accepted cases, as well as reading the entrails of the emergency docket…
September 19, 2025
Originally Published in Cato Institute Supreme Court Review: 2024-2025