This week, as the nation braces for historic rulings on gay marriage and affirmative action, the Supreme Court will end its term in a hail of tweets, shares and eyes glued to the indispensable SCOTUSblog. The results will be as immediate as a refreshed Web page.

“It gets a whole lot more attention than it used to,” said Michael McConnell, a Stanford University law professor and former federal appeals court judge who clerked for the late Justice William Brennan in the early 1980s.

As usual, the high court, starting Monday, will save its most bitterly contested and controversial cases for last. And the wait will be over for everyone anxiously preparing for the legal fate of California’s same-sex marriage ban and the 1996 federal law barring benefits for same-sex couples.

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