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Interesting data in this article on how the justices may inadvertently tip their hands with their voices
I wrote about it here a year ago
economist.com/democracy-in-a…
At my request, the researchers ran the data to try to predict the outcome of two of last year's big cases (on gay-wedding cakes and gerrymandering) by listening closely to Justice Kennedy's pitch. (Results weren't great.)
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The current Supreme Court term is shaping up to be something like that. 1/

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MORE SCOTUS NEWS: CJ Roberts joins liberals in DENYING a Trump administration's request to stay lower-court ruling against his asylum ban. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh dissent.
If/when this comes to SCOTUS for full review, Roberts is anything but a sure vote to line up against the administration again. Given his uber-deferential opinion in Trump v Hawaii (the travel-ban case) last June, he's quite unlikely to halt an asylum ban on the merits.
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Signs in the SCOTUS orders list this morning of the new conservative majority's strategy: go after agencies' leeway in interpreting their own regulations (a @FedSoc priority), but steer clear (for now) of abortion-related controversies.
The Court denied Gee v. Planned Parenthood & Andersen v. Planned Parenthood (PP funding challenges) and granted Kisor v. Wilkie (challenge to Auer deference) supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
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