The Supreme Court on Friday evening released orders from the justices’ private conference on Thursday. The justices added four new cases, involving issues such as federal sentencing, the death penalty,

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioned whether her colleagues are loosening its standards when intervening for the Trump administration.

While the justices have released decisions in cases regarding the federal TikTok sell or ban law and rules tightening restrictions on so-called “ghost guns” earlier in the term, many of the top cases are still awaiting their fate or have been decided in the closing weeks of the term, which concludes at the end of June.

The U.S. Supreme Court passed up a chance to give politicians more power over how federal elections are conducted, declining on Friday to hear a Republican challenge to a Pennsylvania judicial decision requiring the counting of provisional ballots cast by voters who make mistakes on their mail-in ballots.

Decades ago, the Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed. Now, it will weigh the use of intelligence tests in death penalty cases.

The Supreme Court on Friday mistakenly sent out email alerts to attorneys and others laying out which cases it would hear days before it was scheduled to do so, the latest major technical glitch to come from the high court during its busiest month of the year.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to hear a challenge to the legality of a restriction imposed by Washington, D.C., on large-capacity ammunition magazines in a case that gives the justices a chance to further expand gun rights.

The dispute over whether a Catholic Charities office in Wisconsin must pay unemployment taxes was one of three complex religion cases before the court.