Off to #SCOTUS, where the justices still have four cases yet to be decided: the travel ban, public sector union fees, CA crisis pregnancy center disclosure law, and water rights. We’re expecting to get one or more of those decisions at 10a, but we don’t know which or how many!
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And, it's a one-box Tuesday (no more than two opinions) — so we're going to have another opinion day after today (as expected since the Chief Justice didn't say yesterday that today would be the last day of the term).
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First decision is NIFLA v. Becerra. Thomas has the 5-4 decision split along ideological lines, finding that the California law's licensed notice "likely violates" the First Amendment and the unlicensed notice "unduly burdens speech." Breyer wrote the dissent.
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Breyer, as he did yesterday, is reading from his dissent.
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Here is the decision in NIFLA: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1140_5368.pdf …
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds Trump's third travel ban. Chief Justice John Roberts writes the decision, holding in the 5-4 decision that Trump exercised his broad statutory authority to "suspend entry of aliens into the United States.
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#SCOTUS REPORT —> The Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Banhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/the-supreme-court-upholds-trumps-travel-ban?utm_term=.tneWkxMX2 …Show this thread -
Here is the Trump v. Hawaii decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-965_h315.pdf …
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Breyer, yet again, is reading from his dissent.
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Sotomayor, also, is reading from her dissent to the travel ban decision.
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REPORT —> The Supreme Court Just Axed Part Of A California Law That Requires Crisis Pregnancy Centers To Post Abortion Information https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/crisis-pregnancy-center-supreme-court-disclosure?utm_term=.qrYrWlJQg … w/
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Sotomayor: "History will not look kindly on the court's decision today, nor should it."
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, will be the last day for opinions, the Chief Justice announces.
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Note: Whenever the court says, "we may assume without deciding that plaintiffs’ statutory claims are reviewable," it means the plaintiffs lost that argument.pic.twitter.com/7ZI2KUotHx
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On those statutory claims, the court rules, explicitly, that the law allows the president to ban all people from a given country.pic.twitter.com/kMrQR36sf1
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Here's my updated, first full-run-through story at
@BuzzFeedNews on today's big#SCOTUS decision upholding Trump's third travel ban.https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/the-supreme-court-upholds-trumps-travel-ban?utm_term=.obZ3PnVx8#.kb3NRePQ5 …Show this thread -
The scene outside of
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This is true. Additionally, there were things she said in the courtroom — sometimes just an adjective here or there, but also full sentences like the one I noted above — that do not appear in her written dissent.https://twitter.com/ninatotenberg/status/1011636931548020736?s=21 …
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Great pic
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You're going to explain to all of us what all these decisions mean, right? Please?
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