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“The Court very much resists the idea that what it’s doing is political in a number of senses, but one sense is in the kind of daily work of politics,” said Carolyn Shapiro, founder and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “So I think that also could be some of it, that for some of them they want to convey this view of themselves as being somehow writing ‘for the ages.’”

“Alexa, will you marry me?” When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos reported in 2016 that over 250,000 people had proposed to their Alexa devices, commentators laughed it off. But by 2026, people have said, “I do,” to avatars, chatbots and robots in ceremonies around the world.

“Seized properties should be put up for public auction, or there should be some other suitably public way that everyone has a fair chance of getting at the property,” said Raff Donelson, professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “If that doesn’t happen, that really ought to be a crime.”