What’s Left for Supreme Court this Term?

May and June are notoriously busy months at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The justices have finished hearing oral arguments in new cases, and now turn to the herculean task of getting all those argued cases finalized before the term informally ends in late June.

This term the justices have more than half of their cases pending, which is typical.

The job of clearing out those cases will be made even more difficult by the fact that new Justice Neil M. Gorsuch will likely not participate in cases that were argued before he joined the high court in April.

That means not ...