Posted on 03/04/2025 7:02:54 AM PST by CFW
At 10 a.m. EST, the court expects to issue one or more opinions in argued cases from the current term.
Following the opinion announcements, the court will hear oral arguments in Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
scotusblog will be live-blogging the release of Opinions at the link below:
(Excerpt) Read more at scotusblog.com ...
Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, No. 23-1141 [Arg: 3.4.2025] Issue(s): (1) Whether the production and sale of firearms in the United States is the proximate cause of alleged injuries to the Mexican government stemming from violence committed by drug cartels in Mexico; and (2) whether the production and sale of firearms in the United States amounts to “aiding and abetting” illegal firearms trafficking because firearms companies allegedly know that some of their products are unlawfully trafficked.
SCOTUS ping!
Good morning!
Do you mean to tell me the Supreme Court justices are no longer comatose?
The Supreme Court’s opinions are usually posted in reverse seniority order, with the most junior justice announcing first. However, there are some exceptions to this rule. (Per Google AI)
We have our first and only opinion, in San Francisco v. EPA.
City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 23-753 [Arg: 10.16.2024]
Issue(s): Whether the Clean Water Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency (or an authorized state) to impose generic prohibitions in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits that subject permit-holders to enforcement for violating water quality standards without identifying specific limits to which their discharges must conform.
It is by Justice Alito, and it appears to be 5-4. Barrett has a dissenting opinion joined by Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson.
The court holds that federal environmental laws do not give the EPA the power to include “end results” provisions in permits for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
Determining what steps a permittee must take to ensure that water quality standards are met is the EPA’s responsibility, the court holds, and Congress has given it the tools it needs to make that determination.
“The Supreme Court’s opinions are usually posted in reverse seniority order, with the most junior justice announcing first.”
Correct. So if the first Opinion issued is from Justice Thomas, then you will only hear more from him or the Chief Justice on that opinion day.
The Opinion on the EPA case is here:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-753_f2bh.pdf
There will be another opinion day tomorrow. My internet is acting wonky so hopefully I can do another thread tomorrow.
If you are interested in the Smith & Wesson case, you can listen to oral arguments at the link below:
And here is the direct link to the SCOTUS oral argument audio (oral arguments are not video streamed).
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx
Barrett again. What a ho.
Such a disappointment but it was obvious she was squirrely from the get go.
Amy is turning out to be more D than R
What SPECIFICALLY do you object to in the Opinion that she wrote?
Amy is turning out to be more D than R
Agreed.
The oral argument is very interesting and also very revealing when you hear the questions from different Justices.
The justices who do this lie their sorry asses off to get on the Court. Says much about the quality not only of the USSC, but also of the effectiveness of the selection and vetting process.
Justice Kagan loves hypothetical possibilities that are nowhere near close to the issue at hand. It helps her muddy the waters for her fellow leftist justices. DEI on display today.
We have a few real winners on the SC right now. The left has pushed activists w/o any understanding of Government, the Constitution and existing law. Senate Republicans have done considerable damage to our Country by not rejecting these nominees despite the clear incompetence and politicization elicited under questioning during confirmation. Collegiality is over rated and is not reciprocal in any case.
I think the GOP deliberately allowed these DEI judges to be confirmed. There were several instances in which if all GOP Senators had appeared for the vote, many of the judges wouldn’t have been confirmed.
The GOP highlighted the judges lack of knowledge of the Constitution during confirmation hearings, and then took extra steps to make sure they were confirmed.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The post-FDR era, Constitution-ignoring Supreme Court seems to never make the effort to clarify that constitutionally undefined, so-called "independent federal regulatory agencies" like the EPA have no express constitutional authority to exist imo.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
But the EPA is found in the politically correct interpretation of the Constitution's delegation of legislative powers to post-17th Amendment (popular voting for federal senators) ratification Congress.
"Article I, Section 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives [and non-popularly-elected bureaucrats running Federal Reserve, IRS, EPA, BLM, NIH, CDC, FWS, DHS, DOL, USDA, FCC, FTA, FTC, DOE, ATF, etc.]."
Love your handle; no need for a slogan. No. 10 is my darling, too. So ignored so often at our peril.
I’m hoping that after the ruling last year which basically overturned the Chevron deference, we will see more power taken away from federal agencies which allows them to “make law”.
On the current case being argued the left knows that if they win with this case, it opens the door to destroying all gun manufacturers and dealers. That’s their goal. BTW, the biggest gun seller to Mexican cartels is the U.S. government.
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