Posted on 06/17/2019 6:02:16 AM PDT by SMGFan
Anticipation is growing for the Supreme Court’s biggest decisions of the year.
With just two weeks left in the month of June, the justices have yet to issue rulings in 24 cases, including high-profile decisions that will affect the census citizenship question and partisan gerrymandering.
The final stretch may also signal how the new conservative majority will rule on other major cases down the line, providing a glimpse of some of the issues the justices could take up when their next term starts in October.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The angry losers on the bench will have their say.
Which judge will decide most of the cases?
How many will be 5 -4 in our favor?
Currently today and next Monday are the only days listed for 24 decisions?! Will any opinions on cases hold off until next year?
What a way to run a country. Eagerly awaiting the decision of 5 people in robes in late June.
It’s just government by drum roll. Every decision every announcement. Think O.J. on a regular basis.
There is an awesome quote from John C. Calhoun about this: (paraphrasing)
“The only alternative to states’ rights is to await the rulings of the black robed deities of the Court no matter how unpopular or nonsensical they are.”
Spot on.
In my opinion Congress needs to change the Constitution, according to Article 1 sec 2 you only are required to tell Census how many people live in the house.
See 55 Men and the Constitution by Rodell.
Hmmm. More books, reading is my weakness. Thank God for audible or i would never get anything done.
If they don’t allow the census to ask whether people in this country are United States citizens or not, we are finished.
This has become the damn lottery. This is not how courts are supposed to function.
I hate the phrase “partisan gerrymandering”
Gerrymandering is partisan by definition.
Every part has always drawn every district it could to its own advantage, any time it had the chance to.
“Gerrymandering” is always what the other party does, and such it’s been since well before there was even a Republican party.
That’s the only thing I’ve told census takers the last two cycles. If an implied right to privacy allows abortion, then my right to privacy allows me to not tell some FedGov busybody how many bathrooms in my house. Among other things.
The other problem noted in the book was where we are at today....when the have nots outnumber the haves.
Citizens with their age give the number of eligible voters in any one district. A valuable stat.
The fouding fathers kinda blew it with the courts. The SC needed some kind of check. 5 unelected people should not have unchecked power to thwart the will of millions.
It's called Supreme Powerball.
There is no conservative majority.
At best we have 4 leftists, 2 moderates and 3 conservatives.
Today was not a good day for our side.
Congress can legislate the jurisdiction of the SC, at least in many cases.
And Congress can certainly legislate the entire jurisdiction of lesser federal courts.
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