Meanwhile, I’m rushing off to #SCOTUS, where we have orders at 9:30a, followed by the possibility of opinions — the first of June 2018 — at 10a.
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Breaking:
#SCOTUS grants DOJ's request to vacate the DC Circuit's decision in Azar v. Garza, the case involving the undocumented teen who was seeking an abortion.Show this thread -
SCOTUS does not address the merits of the underlying abortion case. It applies Munsingwear — a prior case — to vacate the lower court's decision. After all of that waiting, there were no dissents and it's not clear it will have much effect on the other cases at this point.
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There also was no action on the allegations DOJ made against the ACLU lawyers on misconduct.
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If you put the pieces of this short, 5-page decision together—underlying abortion case, simple Munsingwear vacatur, no action on alleged misconduct, no real effect on future cases—the time this took (to get no dissents) makes a little more sense (but still not a ton of sense).
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tl:dr: This doesn't mean much. The main reason we were paying attention was because, given how long they had it, we presumed a justice must have been writing a fiery dissent. No one did, though, and there were no sanctions, either, so this sort of goes into the ether.
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Here is the full
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It's a two-box day. Opinions shortly.
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The first decision is in Lamar, Archer & Cofrin LLP v. Appling. Sotomayor, affirming the 11th Circuit. There are no dissents.
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The first decision of June: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1215_gdhk.pdf …
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The second decision is from Kennedy: Hughes v. US, reversing the 11th Circuit. Roberts dissented, joined by Thomas and Alito. Sotomayor concurred.
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Here's the Hughes opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-155_2bo2.pdf …
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Justices out of order —> Alito has the opinion in Koons v. US, affirming the 8th Circuit in a unanimous decision.
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On page 3 of Alito's decision, it cites to the Hughes decision, which explains why the Hughes decision had to come first.
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Here is the Koons decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-5716_jhek.pdf …
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BREAKING:
#SCOTUS rules in Masterpiece Cakeshop that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission's actions violated the Free Exercise Clause. Justice Kennedy writes the opinion of the court. Only Ginsburg and Sotomayor dissent.Show this thread -
Reading from the bench, Justice Anthony Kennedy says that when the Colorado Civil Rights Commission considered the Masterpiece Cakeshop matter "it did not do so with the religious neutrality that the Constitution requires."
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Here is the Masterpiece Cakeshop decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf …
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My breaking
@BuzzFeedNews report (with much more to come) —> The Supreme Court Just Ruled (Narrowly) In Favor Of The Baker In The Same-Sex Wedding Cake Casehttps://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-baker-marriage-colorado-masterpiece-cake?utm_term=.pgdrOP39Y …Show this thread -
Here's my updated report on what happened — and what didn't happen — in today's Masterpiece Cakeshop decision at
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AT THE END OF THE DAY: In the two big
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Nonetheless, the issues remain — as the class-action case involving whether undocumented teens can seek abortions while in federal custody still exists and a different cert petition raising the same question as in Masterpiece (Arlene's Flowers) is pending before
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