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Today's order list from #SCOTUS: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/062617zor_8759.pdf …

SCOTUS is hearing Masterpiece Cakeshop case, after lots and lots of relisting. Gay rights/religious liberty/discrimination case

SCOTUS summarily reverses in Obergefell follow-on from Arkansas about spouse names on birth certificates. Gorsuch dissents ,w Alito, Thomas

Interesting that Roberts did NOT dissent, more of a sign he's accepting Obergefell as settled law Case is Pavan v. Smith

Every indication that Gorsuch will be among the most conservative, if not THE most conservative Justice on SCOTUS, as many of us said.

Gorsuch defenders in Pavan will say he's just asking for a full hearing (the Court summarily reversed). But clear where he'd go on merits

Gorsuch statement in Hicks indicates that, like Scalia, he may surprise in some criminal cases siding with defendant.

Gorsuch also dissents, with Justice Thomas, in Second Amendment case today---CA concealed carry law.