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The Supreme Court will be issuing Opinions at 10:00 a.m. this morning for the October 2023 term. You can read the opinions released thus far at Supreme Court opinions.The attorneys at scotusblog will be liveblogging the release of opinions from the pressroom. There are four cases remaining undecided for the October 2023 term. October sitting: All opinions have been released; November sitting: All opinions have been released; December sitting: All opinions have been released; January sitting: All opinions have been released.February sitting: There are three cases pending.Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, (an Administrative Procedure...

The Supreme Court will be issuing opinions on cases from the October 2023 term at 10:00 a.m.You can read the opinions released thus far at Supreme Court opinions.There are eight cases remaining on the document.October sitting: All opinions have been released; November sitting: All opinions have been released; December sitting: All opinions have been released;January sitting: Two cases remain. These are the two Chevron deference cases. Relentless and Loper Bright. I suspect the Opinions in those cases will be released as one.February sitting: There are three cases pending. Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, (an...

The Supreme Court of the United States will be issuing Opinions today beginning at 10:00 a.m. Attorneys with scotusblog will be live-blogging from the press room and I will be posting the Opinions of the Court here.A list of all the cases from the October 2023 cases is listed here: October 2023 term. A short descriptive of the issue(s) before the court is included. If the case has already been decided that fact is indicated as well.

We have the first decision from Justice Jackson. Coinbase v. Suski. It is unanimous, with a concurring opinion from Gorsuch. Here is the link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-3_879d.pdf The court holds that when parties have agreed to two contracts -- one that sends arbitrability disputes to arbitration, and the other either explicitly or implicitly sending such disputes to the courts -- a court must decide which contract governs. --- We have Alexander v. SC Conference of the NAACP. It is by Justice Alito. The vote is 6-3. Here is the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf The SC gerrymandering case, which was a case about whether South...

For Jews in America and around the world, Israel represents a thriving land of survival and opportunity, and not only for my people. Nowhere else in the Middle East are those of all races, religions, sexes and sexual orientations welcome to live in peace and prosperity. Now the dream is dying — thwarted by people who’d like nothing better than to see Israel wiped from the map. It’s a sad day across the United States and abroad as whiny, privileged college students and thrill-seeking provocateurs, egged on by leftist professors, the “mainstream” news media and numbskull politicians, foment pro-terrorist, anti-Jewish...

We have the first opinion, from Justice Jackson in Rudisill v. McDonough. 8 The vote is 7-2, with a dissent by Thomas joined by Alito. This is a case about education benefits for veterans and whether the veteran can access benefits under the Post-9/11 Veterans Act without being subject to limits imposed by the Montgomery GI Bill. The Court holds that service members who, through separate periods of service, accrue benefits under both bills, can use either one, in any order, up to a 48-month aggregate cap. Kavanaugh files a concurring opinion that Barrett joins. Decision is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-888_1b8e.pdf The...

From Amy Howe at Scotusblog.com "We're expecting one or more opinions in argued cases this morning. As is almost always the case, we don't know how many opinions we'll get or which ones. We are only waiting on two decisions from October, and they're both significant ones: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association, and Alexander v. SC Conference of the NAACP. As our regular readers know, the parties in the SC case had originally asked the court to act by January 1, but the lower court in the case ruled late last month that the congressional district...

SCOTUS issued opinions at 10:00 this morning on the following cases: We have two opinions, apparently. The first is from Justice Jackson, in McElrath v. Georgia. It is unanimous. McElrath v. Georgia, No. 22-721 [Arg: 11.28.2023] Issue(s): Whether the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was previously acquitted. The court holds that the jury's verdict that McElrath was not guilty of "malice murder" by reason of insanity constituted an acquittal for double jeopardy purposes despite any inconsistency with the jury's other verdicts. The state court's decision is reversed...

Harvard University has been ranked the worst school for free speech in the U.S. - with the Ivy League institution being awarded zero points out of a possible 100. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression releases a similar list of rankings for American institutions of higher education every year. For 2023, Harvard - which has never performed well by FIRE's standards - was dubbed an 'abysmal' place for free speech. Despite being arguably the most elite academic institution in the country, Harvard's 0-point score was a full 11 points behind the next worst school on the list, fellow Ivy...

Dr. Anthony Fauci said it is not in his lane to say whether or not individuals should be “allowed” to voice opinions on social media that he believes could harm the public, claiming not to “know what the legal or other First Amendment issues are associated with that.” Fauci, during his November 23 deposition as part of the lawsuit lodged by Missouri and Louisiana over the Biden administration and federal officials allegedly colluding with social media companies to censor speech throughout the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, was pressed on his opinion of social media censorship. At one point, he was presented...

As China celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of its Communist Party last week, the Pew Research Center released a new report showing that unfavorable views of Beijing have reached historic highs in 17 advanced economies. As Statista’s Niall McCarty notes, in most places, large majorities of the public also agreed that China is not respecting the personal freedoms of its people. Views of China are broadly negative across most of the world’s advanced economies including approximately three-quarters of respondents in Japan, Sweden, Australia, South Korea and the United States. While overall views did not change significantly in most...

Yesterday a sort of running gag on alternative names for Biden took place. Like Beijing Biden, my favorite. How about we come up with bumper sticker suggestions? Not for commercial purposes of anyone here, although I don’t doubt some particularly nice ones might be filched for that purpose. No matter. But, it would be interesting to see what sort of pithy (on a bumper sticker afterall) sayings we can create expressing our opinions of what is slithering into the seats of power. I’ve one on my own car now, for several weeks now. Picked it up in a local gun...

I'm interested to know how the atmosphere in your neighborhoods is, especially since one state after another is verifying the Biden presidency. There is so much evidence that when the vote counting stopped on November 3rd, all the states suddenly went from leaning Trump to Biden by the morning. Is no one else outraged? I realize the media will not report, but I knew a lot of democrats who were going to vote for Trump this time around (in spite of the RINOs) and was wondering if all the mail in votes from democrats, who were voting for Trump, AUTOMATICALLY...

We have asked voters here (please, you must have early voted or are definitely going to vote to participate) to tell us what they think about CNN versus a reliable news source elsewhere. Comments will be unedited (by me). Just don't use profanity, which is the rule here, and try to be as coherent as possible.

Over all, there are some really valid points here. Not one politician has died from the virus, lost their job, or had their business looted. Or, missed a haircut. Or wears a mask unless on camera Y’all know you’re being played right? ***************************** Remember how we panicked when we couldn’t find any toilet paper? What are we going to do when we can’t find a cop? ***************************** NYC just defunded the very people that ran into the burning Towers on 9/11. Think about it!!!! ***************************** If we all started wearing masks with “Trump 2020” on them, how long before experts...

An old Cold War joke reports an international poll that asks the same question in every country: “Excuse me, what’s your opinion of the meat shortage?” The Poles say, “What’s meat?” The Chinese say, “What’s opinion?” The Americans say, “What’s shortage?” The Israelis say, “What’s excuse me?” No Chinese has ever run a community school board, a Little League association, or a volunteer fire brigade. For the past 2,500 years, and probably the past 5,000, orders in China have flowed downward from the top, through a vertical hierarchy. Everyone in the U.S. has an opinion about politics–we have to choose...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to visit President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.

Students at the University of Chicago have been warned not to expect safe spaces or trigger warnings in the wake of several disrupted events at the institution at the hands of protesters. University officials are said to have told first-year students starting in the fall of its commitment to freedom of expression, saying it wanted civility and mutual respect but that it would still seek out ideas or opinions that were unpopular. The move comes after three high-profile incidents this year in which speakers invited to the university were interrupted or shut down and amid a trend of increasing political...

Donald Trump is doing Harry Houdini’s act. In the 1890s, Houdini was famous for performing a trick he called “Metamorphosis.” The magician’s hands would be tied securely behind his back and he’d climb into a sack that was tied at the top with a knotted rope. Then the bag with Houdini inside was placed in a wooden trunk, which was locked and secured with leather straps. Houdini’s wife, Bess, his assistant, would draw a curtain around the locked trunk and step inside. The audience heard her clap her hands once, twice, three times — and on the third clap Houdini...

The week that was supposed to see multiple candidates drop out of the race for the Republican nomination saw none drop as all 15 candidates qualified for the South Carolina ballot by the September 30, 2015 deadline. For the first time in a long time, the media isn’t talking about a candidate that has dropped out. Donald Trump appeared on “60 Minutes” in a wide-ranging interview. During that interview Trump came out with new policy positions, many of which raised eyebrows. Will Lindsey Graham be the only U.S. Senator not on the stage at the CNBC debate at the end...