Posted on 06/29/2023 7:07:30 AM PDT by CFW
At 10:00 a.m. this morning, the Supreme Court will issue opinions of cases remaining undecided for the October 2022 term.
The remaining cases and a synopsis of the issues presented can be reviewed here:
https://amylhowe.com/2023/06/27/the-seven-remaining-cases/
(Excerpt) Read more at scotusblog.com ...
It is by Chief Roberts.
The court holds that Harvard and UNC's admissions programs violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
I’d rather we got the gerrymandering cases. Those screwed us. Affirmative action will be nice but doesn’t affect every voter like the gerrymandering cases.
Justice Alito has two opinions. The first is Abitron v. Hetronic.
The 10th Circuit’s decision is vacated and remanded.
Decision here:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1043_7648.pdf
The second case is Groff v. DeJoy.
The decision is unanimous. Sotomayor has a concurring opinion, joined by Jackson. The Third Circuit’s decision is vacated and remanded.
No link to that case yet.
However, here is the link to the University opinion:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
That’s all the decisions for today. The final opinions will be released tomorrow.
Groff v. Dejoy Oral Argument
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Groff v. DeJoy, a case concerning the extent to which large companies must provide religious accommodations to their employees. The employer in this case is the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Gerald Groff was a rural carrier associate, which is a non-career employee position. In this role he provided coverage for career employees who were out on leave. The USPS, in a deal with Amazon, began doing Sunday deliveries. Mr. Groff, a Christian, said he would not work because of his religious beliefs. The USPS tried to accommodate this, but said the accommodations were creating additional work for others and tension among employees. Eventually, Mr. Groff was disciplined for missing Sunday shifts. He sued and argued the USPS violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act because it discriminated against his religious beliefs. Both lower federal courts ruled against Mr. Groff.
In the university admission cases, Sotomayor dissents, joined by Kagan and Jackson as it applies to the Harvard case. Jackson dissents in the UNC case, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.
I’m still trying to find the link to the decision in Groff, the religious accomodations case.
I appreciate these threads. Thank you.
“Supreme Court hands religious freedom win to postal worker who refused to work on Sunday”
I appreciate these threads. Thank you.
Happy to do my part in keeping information flowing!
Will this include the re-visitation of the Chevron decision?
Not according to Zen Master. Remember, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch didn’t even want to take Moore, as they saw NC law as making it moot. The Supes basically said that in elections, if states go too far out of line, Rehnquist’s concurrence in Bush v. Gore will be the standard.
“Will this include the re-visitation of the Chevron decision?”
The new term begins in October.
There are only three cases left in which decisions have not yet been issued for this term: 303 Creative and the two student loan cases. We will get those decisions tomorrow before the justices head out of town for the summer.
I’ll try to remember to create a thread for those decisions tomorrow (if I don’t get side-tracked and forget).
Both Bannon and my court guru Zen Master think this will substantially reverse Chevron.
I actually see this one as being a huge win for religious liberty
Yes, very handy to have a quick summation of the decision.
BTW, my court guru, Zen Master, showed me leftist reactions to Moore. Says it is not a big deal, inasmuch as Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch didn’t even want to hear it. Says it puts everything back to “Bush v. Gore,” in that state legislatures have election power, but can’t go crazy (a la AL and LA maps).
Leftists think it’s a bad decision, so it’s probably pretty good.
Your guru’s lips to God’s ears.
Re-shackling the regulatory apparatus at this point may be a case of closing the barn door after the horses have all escaped... but it still needs to be done.
There is ZERO justification for an unelected body to write defacto law for this Country.
Why bother having a Congress if the EPA/BATFE/FCC/FAA/etc can just do whatever the hell they want?
“Both Bannon and my court guru Zen Master think this will substantially reverse Chevron.”
I think they will as well and I suspect the opinion will be written by Thomas. He has been advocating in his opinions for a reining in of bureaucratic agencies for some time.
“It was 9-0 but the grouping was odd”
It appears they all agreed on the outcome but reached that outcome through varying paths.
There has been several odd groupings in decisions for this term.
WHich also means that Govt. policy pushing the BS “equity” garbage violates the 14th Amendment Equal Protection of the Law clause. About time. Sorry, gimmedats, there will never be any federal reparations. It also means, the leftist new fake definitions of words are open to attack. This is a big win.
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