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Supreme Court Opinions - Tuesday - February 24, 2026
scotusblog ^ | 2/24/26

Posted on 02/24/2026 6:45:38 AM PST by CFW

The Supreme Court will be releasing opinions from the October 2025 term this morning at 10:00 a.m.

Scotusblog will be liveblogging the release and we will be following along.

A list of the cases from this term can be found Here

(Excerpt) Read more at scotusblog.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: constitution; courts; law; scotus

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SCOTUS opinions to be released both today and tomorrow.

We may get one boring opinion or several interesting ones. It's like a box of chocolates.

1 posted on 02/24/2026 6:45:38 AM PST by CFW
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Just depends how much bribe money the foreign powers and elite have left from the previous tariffs rulings as to which way these rulings will go.


2 posted on 02/24/2026 6:47:28 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Skwor

Please prove your outlandish statement


3 posted on 02/24/2026 6:50:44 AM PST by Oystir ( )
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To: spacejunkie2001; Bshaw; ptsal; 11th_VA; Reno89519; newfreep; frogjerk; OneVike; Jane Long; ...

SCOTUS ping!


4 posted on 02/24/2026 6:55:25 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Only one box of opinions today. Could be several smaller opinions or one big one.


5 posted on 02/24/2026 6:56:49 AM PST by CFW
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To: Oystir

We have the first opinion, in Hain Celestial Group v. Palmquist. It is by Sotomayor and is unanimous, although Thomas filed a concurring opinion.

This case involved a thorny question of civil procedure. If a plaintiff files a case against two corporations in a state trial court, and one of those companies transfers the case to federal court, where the other company is then dismissed from the case, what happens if a federal appeals court later determines – after the trial is over – that the second company should have stayed in the case? Does the plaintiff get a do-over back in state court?


6 posted on 02/24/2026 7:02:09 AM PST by CFW
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To: Skwor

Totally agree. Dirty court


7 posted on 02/24/2026 7:06:43 AM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: CFW

Also known as the babyfood case.

The court vacates the district court’s judgment for lack of jurisdiction.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-724_igdj.pdf


8 posted on 02/24/2026 7:07:03 AM PST by CFW
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To: spacejunkie2001

We have the second and final decision of the day. It is United States Postal Service v. Konan, from Justice Thomas.

And my internet connection just went south so I can’t see anymore info on the case.


9 posted on 02/24/2026 7:09:02 AM PST by CFW
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To: Oystir

Roberts rules Obamacare was a tax allowing congress to force everyone to buy a thing, even when congress literally said it was never a tax. Then Roberts rules Trump can’t use IEEPA after previous presidents used it frequently, See SC Thomas’s dissent.

That is my proof this court is bought.


10 posted on 02/24/2026 7:10:23 AM PST by Skwor
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To: CFW

the Barbarian?


11 posted on 02/24/2026 7:13:21 AM PST by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: CFW

The Birthright Citizenship issue should be coming up in the near future.

I’m with Trump on that one:

“Trump Predicts Supreme Court ‘Will Find a Way to Come to the Wrong Conclusion’ on Birthright Citizenship’”

— Gateway Pundit.


12 posted on 02/24/2026 7:13:55 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-351_7648.pdf

This is, as the name might suggest, a dispute over mail service – specifically, when the USPS can be sued over undelivered mail. It was brought by a Texas woman who contends that she was the victim of a “campaign of racial harassment” at the hands of two employees at her local post office.

She sued (among others) the USPS and the US under the Federal Tort Claims Act, a law that waives the government’s general sovereign immunity from lawsuits. The FTCA contains an exception that leaves immunity in place for claims “arising out of the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission of letters or postal matters.” The USPS contends that this exception applies to Lebene Konan’s case. Konan contends that it does not, because the intentional mistreatment of her mail was not a “loss” or “miscarriage.”

The court holds that the FTCA’s postal exception DOES apply when postal workers intentionally fail to deliver the mail.

The majority says that it does “not decide whether all of Konan’s claims are barred by the postal exception, or which arguments Konan adequately preserved.”

Justice Sotomayor writes that the majority’s “reading of the postal exception transforms, rather than honors, the exception Congress enacted.”


13 posted on 02/24/2026 7:15:03 AM PST by CFW
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Roberts rules Obamacare was a tax allowing congress to force everyone to buy a thing, even when congress literally said it was never a tax.

When exactly did Congress say ObamaCare was not a tax?

The ACA individual mandate was absolutely enforced through the Internal Revenue Service, through the filing of Forms 1094 or 1095. How is that NOT a tax?

14 posted on 02/24/2026 7:15:57 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: Skwor

I also had thoughts on what they just did with Trump’s tariffs....hope USPS can be better held to account it has really gone downhill


15 posted on 02/24/2026 7:21:46 AM PST by magna carta
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To: Alberta's Child

This is all I will say because you will lie about everything.

Literally to get it passed the democrats swore up and down it was a penalty, not a tax, in fact the rules they used to force it through did not allow the process for tax changes. They kept saying it was not a tax so citizens would not be upset at being taxed for it.

If you do not remember this that is your problem, go look it up.


16 posted on 02/24/2026 7:31:46 AM PST by Skwor
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To: CFW

Most everybody has opinions.


17 posted on 02/24/2026 7:33:00 AM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Skwor

An unwelcome outcome is not proof. Conspiracy minded, maybe. Proof, no. And not even close.


18 posted on 02/24/2026 7:47:05 AM PST by Oystir ( )
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To: CFW

Can you imagine that the Left wants elections done by postal mail, but also wants to protect the USPS against *deliberately* failing to deliver mail based on known, identified prejudices?


19 posted on 02/24/2026 7:51:13 AM PST by dangus
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“Can you imagine that the Left wants elections done by postal mail, but also wants to protect the USPS against *deliberately* failing to deliver mail based on known, identified prejudices?”


Feature, not a bug.


20 posted on 02/24/2026 7:57:42 AM PST by CFW
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