Opinion

In just a month, the U.S. Supreme Court — with all nine seats filled as of this writing — will begin hearing oral arguments for what could be a bombshell term, ending just in time for the country’s mid-term elections.

The stuck-in-the mud whiners unhappy with the fresh 21st century design of the Joslyn Art Museum’s Rhonda and Howard Hawks Pavilion addition announced last week ought to get out of town more.

You can say this for Sen. Mitch McConnell: He’s consistent.

He promised to torpedo the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court following the death of Antonin Scalia, and he did. That stunt left the nation’s highest court with only eight members for more than a year and deprived President Barack Obama of the opportunity to replace a conservative Republican with a more liberal Democrat.

As the Supreme Court enters its final month of the October 2020 term, court watchers are still awaiting rulings in the blockbuster cases.

But last week’s decisions were newsworthy and included a refusal to take up Johnson & Johnson appeal over the $2.5 billion verdict in the case involving the company’s talcum powder as a causer of cancer.