In the year after Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, immigration issues remained in a state of relative quiescence at the Supreme Court. This isn’t to say that nothing happened during the October 2018 term. It is just that it would be tough to top the high drama and significance of the travel-ban opinion issued the second-to-last day of the October 2017 term and the day before Kennedy announced his retirement and the upcoming DACA case.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a provision of Indiana law that requires abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains, while declining to review a portion of Indiana’s law struck down by a lower court that banned abortions on the basis of sex, race, and disability.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh praised his new colleague Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as someone who is "thoroughly prepared" and has "hit the ground running."