Posted on 06/11/2024 12:10:46 PM PDT by fwdude
The Supreme Court is about to drown us in a deluge of explosive and massively consequential decisions involving some of the most controversial issues of the day. Right now, the justices are scrambling to complete blockbusters involving abortion, guns, homelessness, unions, social media, online disinformation, pollution, the administrative state—and, oh yes, hundreds of Jan. 6 prosecutions, including Donald Trump’s. Yet at the moment, there’s a logjam: The court, which likes to wrap up decisions by the end of June, is way behind schedule, releasing just a trickle of minor cases several weeks in a row. Even if it stretches into early July this year, SCOTUS has teed up a chaotic finale to the term. As soon as the current logjam breaks, the court will dump everything on us all at once.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
This is a different court than what we had in the 50s and 60s, the infamous Warren Court that delivered body blow after body blow to America.
OK, slate, i totally get it: all legal decisions should be written at the 6th grade level
The opinion that is truly life changing, that needs to come down is the overturn of Chevron, which I believe will be part of these.
Chevron if you don’t know is this idiotic ruling that says when there is a dispute regarding a regulation, the law is to defer to the regulators who wrote the regulation as being correct and given preferred treatment. It is absolute horsecrap, and helped create the regulatory state/swamp we deal with today.
The other thing that needs to happen, but I don’t know if any cases were on the docket for this one, is the insanity that religion of any form in a public institution is a state sponsorship of religion. This is another insane ruling by the activist court of the late 60s and 70s that needs squashed....
Way more than last 10 years.
This ruling in 1984 helped leapfrog the administrative state to the lawless insanity that it is today.. this was a horrible decision, and its abolition will begin to allow the undoing of the regulatory state.
The problem has been that Federal agencies think that they can interpret and extend the laws in whatever way suits them. They are only supposed to follow the laws passed by the legislature. The federal agencies need to be put back in their lane.
Best post of the thread!
and the left has pissed off many of the conservatives recently!
that should help us :)
Yes. Too many forget the carnage THAT court inflicted on America, and the damage only became evident in many cases years later.
no the court is 5 to 3 conservative, with 1 moderately conservative 6th vote on most issues.
The opinion that is truly life changing, that needs to come down is the overturn of Chevron, which I believe will be part of these.
Yup, overturning this would be a massive body blow to the administrative state, which pretty much runs things these days.
It’ll make Congress actually have to do its job.
Translation: the Deep State rules.
Chevron is huge. It is the one that impacts everyone. If it goes the wrong the Government gets the right to control pretty much everything
When did President Trump get prosecuted for January 6?
4-4? In what world? How so?
Funny that the editors of Slate who have no problem with a 12,000 page omnibus bill released and voted on in 36 hours get their undies in a twist over a couple of dozen SCOTUS decisions released in a few weeks after having been mulled for 5 months. Their real complaint is not that there will be decisions that upend the status quo, but rather that they are unlikely be in line with progressive thinking. God bless the little hypocrites.
Yup. I've got a new pair of pouncing shoes all ready to go.
Yeah don’t think for a minute Judge Merchan didn’t do more to shape the immunity decision than the verbal arguments in front of the justices. That kangaroo court proved too little presidential immunity is more dangerous to the republic than too much.
it’s his immunity case. they need to rule he HAS presidential immunity which makes all his cases go away
If they’re saying this now, they must be terrified. I would imagine they’ve had meetings, conference, calls, etc.
Opinion days are scheduled on both Thursday and Friday of this week. I assume they will have two opinion days next week and the following week as well. There are 30 opinions remaining to be issued for this term so they will have to average 10 a week to be done by the end of June.
The cases for this term are listed here:
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/terms/ot2023/
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