We are joined on the phone now by amy howell, cofounder of scotus blog. Today was supposed to be the last decision day of the Current Supreme Court term. How many decisions are we waiting for today . Guest we are waiting for 12. We dont actually expect today to be the last day. The Supreme Court keeps us in suspense every year with what day is going to be the last day and when they will announce the final big lock buster opinions. There is a dozen left and we expect them to finish up this week, but we still dont know how many opinions we will get today or what the last day of the term before summer recess will be. Ist for that delay, what the explanation for that . Is the Supreme Court still arguing cases and trying to come to a decision on them . Guest they are finalizing them certainly seems the case this year. A lot of big cases of the term are argued at the end. One of the big cases is the dispute over the census, whether the Trump Administration can add a question about citizenship to the census and that is the kind of case that would probably take them a very long time to decide, but it was not argued until the end of april. They are probably finalizing that opinion. Another set of cases is a dispute over partisan gerrymandering. There are two cases. Carolina whereh a map was said to be the product of gerrymandering and another one out of maryland where a Federal District court struck district. Gle partisan that case was argued in march and this has been an area the Supreme Court struggled with. Last year they had two cases, including the maryland one and could not come to decisions on the merits. These are tough issues and it is kind of like when we were all in school and many of us go down to the wire turning in a paper or a test. The justices are going back and forth probably arguing about the last couple of words and trying to get done before summer recess. Host are there any tea leaves to be read on the gerrymandering case on how the court has decided some other cases . Is there anything that points to this court moving in one direction or the other . Guest the tea leaves really come from the oral argument. The census case, there was a divide between the conservative justices on the one hand and liberal justices on the others case, the Trump Administration said it wanted to add the Citizenship Question based on a request from the department of justice which said it wanted the data from the Citizenship Question so it could enforce federal Voting Rights laws. Liberal justices were kind of down in the weeds looking at whether or not adding this question would actually make the census more accurate or less accurate and the conservative justices were up at the 35,000 foot level saying that apartment of commerce, which administers the comp census seems like they had a good reason for wanting to add the Citizenship Question and that is kind of enough for us. On the partisan gerrymandering cases, as i said, they really struggled with it and it was something they struggled with last term and they have struggled with for years. There are a couple of different