Posted on 06/20/2024 6:31:55 AM PDT by CFW
Thanks for post!
We have Diaz v. US. It is by Justice Thomas. It is NOT the last opinion.
It is 6-3, with a Gorsuch dissent joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.
This was a case about whether prosecutors in a drug-trafficking case can call a government witness to provide expert testimony to rebut a defendant’s contention that she did not know that she was carrying drugs. The question comes to the court in the case of a woman who was stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border with 28 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in her car. She maintained that the car belonged to her boyfriend and that she didn’t know that the drugs were in it.
The court holds that expert testimony that ‘most people” have a particular mental state is not an opinion about the defendant and therefore does not violate federal evidentiary rules. It is a victory for the federal prosecutors, as the court upholds the ruling in the government’s favor by the Ninth Circuit.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-14_d1o2.pdf
OK, thanks for the clarification.
We have the fourth and final opinion of the day . It is a per curiam opinion in Gonzalez v. Trevino, announced by the Chief.
This was a case about what kinds of evidence a plaintiff alleging that she was arrested in retaliation for speech protected by the First Amendment must show to qualify for the exception outlined in Nieves v. Bartlett, which holds that although plaintiffs must generally show that police did not have probable cause to arrest them, they can also show that they were arrested when others who had not been engaged in protected speech would not have been. The question comes to the court in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman who was arrested after she – accidentally, she claims – picked up a petition that she had initiated and placed it in her binder after a long meeting. She was charged with violating a state law that prohibits tampering with government records.
The per curiam opinion agrees with Gonzalez, the woman who was arrested, that the court of appeals took a view of Nieves that was too narrow. Requiring her to provide examples of people who also mishandled a government petition but were not arrested “goes too far,” the court holds.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1025_1a72.pdf
So. None of the cases we are waiting for were on the opinion docket for today.
We will do this again tomorrow. Same bat time...same bat station.
There is some waist high bicycle fencing around the building not barricades.
Ok just heard this also! Thanks for your reply!
Interesting. We have 3 mugwumps on the court that like siding with the 3 idiots on the court. This is why this country is inevitable screwed.
I am hoping also. People still have to realize that FDR committed a pretty serious infraction with interning huge numbers of American Nisei during WWII. IMO, the same thing goes with Johnson and Gulf of Tonkin...
I’m confused about this one because someone said immunity will be kicked back to the lower court to define ‘official business’. How does this shake out in this regard?
FDR committed a pretty serious infraction with interning huge numbers of American Nisei during WWII.
I can’t imagine any American court countermanding FDR’s internment order.
I wouldn’t have imagined a countermanding order effort, either. My point was that what he did as President was highly illegal, IMO and a USSC ruling that might come out as “no one above the law” would have put him in the hot seat.
...but sending at least a message I guess.
...hopefully the opinion will come down today on Trump so that we can move ON...
November 2024 cannot come soon enough for me. I'm truthfully having trouble with anxiety... shamefully.
Thanks, I hadn’t realized the order of release.
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Cast ALL your cares on Jesus, for He cares for you. Purposefully hand him every issue and problem you’re carrying and you will be liberated.
Bet all you own or hope to own on that?
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Thank you THANK YOU for this post!! I NEEDED to hear these words this morning....You are SO RIGHT!!
Cast ALL your cares on Jesus, for He cares for you. Purposefully hand him every issue and problem you’re carrying and you will be liberated.
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