October sitting: All opinions have been released;
November sitting: All opinions have been released;
December sitting: There is two cases pending. A case involving the Securities Exchange Commission, and a bankruptcy case regarding Purdue Pharma;
January sitting: Two cases remain. These are the two Chevron deference cases. Relentless and Loper Bright. I suspect the Opinion in those cases will be released as one.
February sitting: Four cases pending.
Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, (a Administrative Procedure Act issue), the Ohio v. EPA case, and the two First Amendment cases. Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, and NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton.
March sitting: Two cases remaining to be decided. Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe and then the First Amendment case of Murthy v. Missouri. This is the case regarding government using social media to censor speech they don’t like.
That brings us to...
April sitting: There are five cases remaining. The Trump immunity case and the Fischer vs. U.S. case involving Jan 6 defendants and the obstruction charged brought against many.
Third is Snyder v. US, (Whether section 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(B) criminalizes gratuities, i.e., payments in recognition of actions a state or local official has already taken or committed to take, without any quid pro quo agreement to take those actions).
The final two from the April sitting are City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, (Whether the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment” prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.); and
Moyle v. U.S. (Whether the Supreme Court should stay the order by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho enjoining the enforcement of Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortions unless necessary to save the life of the mother, on the ground that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act preempts it.)
The Justices issue Opinions in order of reverse seniority. (Example, if the first Opinion announced is written by Kavanaugh, that means we will not hear from Jackson or Barrett today.) The reverse order is Jackson, Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Sotomayor, Kagan, Alito, Thomas, Roberts.
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SCOTUS Opinion Day ping!
Here we go
Just thinking, how sweet would it be for the SCOTUS to render opinions that throw out all the Trump legal stuff - one day before the “great debate?”
Wishful thinking, I know . . .
The communists are *this* close to destroying our Constitutional Republic.
Certainly positive SCOTUS decisions will help to at least slow the communist coup d’état.
Looks like a real gut punch...bye,bye Freedom of Speech!
SCOTUS sets policy, then does nothing when the Circuit Courts of Appeal “misapply” that policy, in most cases.
Looks to me like the social media case could have been a slam dunk had Musk provided information. That’s because the plaintiffs have to show close correlation between the gov communication and the harmful resulting actions of the platform. Sounds like the plaintiffs here just didn’t have sufficient data/proof according to the majority opinion.
But Musk had more than enough data to show causality to harm, had he made that available (instead of his fake little limited hangout releases).
So plaintiffs couldn’t prove direct orders from government. Plausible deniability.
So we see more typical Roberts Court thinking. The case is not totally evaporated; they just didn’t tie their left shoestring first and then their right shoestring second.
Come see us again when you tie your right shoestring first.
congress needs to pass a law that citizens ALWAYS have standing to sue the government when the government has abused power and subverted the civil rights of any citizen.
Stabnding is when there are five votes not to decide an issue. The Court has absolutely no consistent principles on the matter. Not thr liberals. Not the conservatives. And not the ball less moderate three (Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett). The sooner one accepts that it’s a cover for indecision the closer to reality one gets.