June 23, 2015 10:26 AM

Looming Supreme Court decisions will impact Texas directly and indirectly

Decisions coming on gay marriage, the Affordable Care Act, fair housing, lethal injection, and more

The majority of the cases still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court this term could have some impact on Texas, either directly or indirectly.

The court, sensitive to the scale of its decisions, has signaled its intention to issue its next round of opinions on Thursday. That’s in addition to its typical Monday opinions. It gives the media a chance to give a full day of coverage to each of the court’s two biggest pending cases: one dealing with the legality of federal tax subsidies under Obamacare and the other on a state’s ability to ban same-sex marriage.

That would leave next Monday, or possibly Tuesday, as the final day for opinions. Abortion supporters also filed a motion for a stay of the state’s abortion clinic law on Friday night, on appeal from the Fifth Circuit, and the court’s decision on that stay could come on any day. The law is set to go into effect on July 1.

By Kimberly Reeves