Posted on 05/15/2025 6:47:14 AM PDT by CFW
At 10:00 a.m. today, the Court will issue opinions in one or more of the cases pending for the October 2024 term. Scotusblog will be liveblogging as the opinions are released. You can follow that blog at:
A list of the pending cases can be found here:
After the release of Opinions, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the government's implementation of Trump's Executive Order on birthright citizenship.
I'm not sure how much the Court will address the actual merits of the case since the main issue is the constitutionality of federal judges issuing national injunctions.
They justices will be basically addressing the issue in three cases, Trump v. CASA, filed by immigrants’ rights groups and several pregnant women in Maryland; Trump v. Washington, filed in Seattle by a group of four states; and Trump v. New Jersey, filed in Massachusetts by a group of 18 states, the District of Columbia, and San Francisco.
You can read more about the issues the court will be hearing in this article at scotusblog:
Questions about Thursday’s oral argument in the birthright citizenship dispute?
Cspan will be streaming the oral arguments live at:
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(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Enjoy!
SCOTUS ping!
Are they for Invasion or against Invasion ? LOL
Thank you for the post and ping!
Do the right thing, SCOTUS.
🙏🏻
“Are they for Invasion or against Invasion ? LOL”
That’s the question we are all waiting to be answered. I thought the judge that ruled it WAS an invasion, and she was against it, had the right of it. Her ruling actually made sense.
Arguments should be fascinating today!
“Arguments should be fascinating today!”
Definitely! There is only one box of opinions, so probably just one or possibly two to be issued today. They usually leave the major cases until the last day and then get the heck outta Dodge. We will probably get another “just one boring opinion” day.
I can’t even get the Supreme Court’s web-page to load. Every court-watcher must be on the site this morning.
There was a tribute to the late Justice Souter before the one and only opinion was released.
Justice Kagan has the opinion in Barnes v. Felix, the only decision of the day.
The decision is unanimous.
Issue(s): Whether courts should apply the “moment of the threat” doctrine when evaluating an excessive force claim under the Fourth Amendment.
The Fifth Circuit said that in evaluating the reasonableness of the officer’s actions, you only look at “the moment of the threat” and not preceding events. The Court reverses that test 9-0, saying the “totality of the circumstances” is the right test and it has no time limit. The Court adds: While the situation at the precise time of the shooting will often matter most, earlier facts and circumstances may bear on how a reasonable officer would have understood and responded to later ones.
I agree. There is hardly any greater conflict between the English common Law practice of ascribed subjectship at birth and the principles of citizenship by consent proclaimed by the American Declaration of Independence.
I’m going to take this as a good thing, this ‘moment of threat’, unanimous decision.
“I’m going to take this as a good thing, this ‘moment of threat’, unanimous decision.”
I think it’s a good decision.
In the oral arguments, Sotomayor went off subject and started nattering about guns, Justice Roberts interrupted her without any apology and brought the arguments back on track to the subject at hand.
All the cases in the “October 2024 cases blog” have already been decided.
Am I right to assume the decisions released today are not part of these?
What three cases against Trump are yet to be decided?
I’m shocked....that Roberts reined in the Wise Latina!
Good for him, for once :-)
Where is a doorsill??
5-4 against, Roberts and ACB jumping with the lefties.
“All the cases in the “October 2024 cases blog” have already been decided.”
No they haven’t. If you go to the link of October 2024 term cases, you will see that some have “Issues” followed by “Held” showing the court’s decision. Others have only “Issues” and show no “Held” by the Court. Those without “Held” remain undecided.
I suspect you may be correct.
Justice Thomas injects a helpful reality check:
“We survived until the 1960s without universal injunctions.”
Robert Gouvais is live-streaming on YouTube, that might load.
Also, John Sauer is one sharp lawyer!
ACB sounds like she’s looking to join the liberals, again.
Probably comes down to Roberts. A slim reed to hang the hopes of the Republic on.
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