Posted on 06/21/2022 3:35:30 AM PDT by Morgana
Praise God. Let’s have this discussion.
How far out of Dodge will it be necessary to go & when might it be safe to come back? Just wondering. It occurs to me that many arrests may need to be made after this decision. It’s probably not all bad as I imagine some of the people who could be vigorously involved might have need to be locked up for a considerable time.
That’s how it works...Look it up...
I give 5-10 posts once the opinions are released before the usual low intellect crowd heads on over and says “SCOTUS is corrupt”, “Roberts illegally adopted his kids”, “Roberts went to Epstein Island”, “Scalia was murdered”, etc.
So predictable.
Nothing I look up supports your contention. I don't believe your claim.
The Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may from time to time prescribe rules for the conduct of their business. Such rules shall be consistent with Acts of Congress and rules of practice and procedure prescribed under section 2072 of this title.
I don't doubt that SCOTUS has a seniority practice that it follows, and maybe Congress did direct the order of releasing SCOTUS opinions. But "look it up" isn't a strong defense of your claim.
I thought that was last week
Here’s the bigger tea leaf. Since Roberts has written twice from December now, it’s a near certainty that he IS NOT writing Dobbs.
I think Alito has it. Can’t be guaranteed, but the tea leaves are as clear as they can be.
If Roe is overturned, it will be because McConnell refused to give Garland a hearing when Scalia died.
You know that right?
If he had caved, Garland, and not Gorsuch would be sitting on the court right now. Trump wasn’t in office.
How soon people forget.
Just look at least year’s decisions: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/20
Three decisions were released on July 1, 2021: the last was per curium (”by the court”) but with Kagan and Sotomayor dissenting, the 2nd to last was written by Alito, and the 3rd to last was written by Roberts, with separate concurrences and exceptions from the others in the majority, which is consistent w/ the below write-up on decisions release practices from UScourts.gov:
Opinions
All opinions of the Court are, typically, handed down by the last day of the Court’s term (the day in late June/early July when the Court recesses for the summer). With the exception of this deadline, there are no rules concerning when decisions must be released. Typically, decisions that are unanimous are released sooner than those that have concurring and dissenting opinions. While some unanimous decisions are handed down as early as December, some controversial opinions, even if heard in October, may not be handed down until the last day of the term
It seems to me that the longer the court holds onto this opinion, the greater the likelihood that it will not overrule Roe v. Wade. The intent of the leak was to put pressure on the justices and I think has been done. The government has condoned the protests outside the homes of the justices, even though it is clearly illegal intimidation. And the investigation into the leak has seemingly been swept under the rug, which means it was probably made with a wink and a nod from Roberts.
Eyeballs. Generating eyeballs is a way of increasing sales
Agree...what is...is.
Conversely, the additional time may be due to each Justice wanting to provide more and more detail to the opinion they had signed onto — each wanted a longer period to “get their oar in the water.”
Who wants to be seen as not offering any comment on the biggest reversal of the last half century?
Yours is a much more hopeful point of view!
I think he will concur. He will write an opinion upholding the Mississippi law, but say Stare Decisis means that Roe and Casey must be upheld and modified to fit a 15 week framework instead of viability.
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