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💥 BREAKING: CREEK LANDS IN OKLAHOMA REMAIN "INDIAN COUNTRY"

Justice Gorsuch writes for a 5-4 majority
The case is McGirt v. Oklahoma supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf…
Case involves the Major Crimes Act and asked whether Indians committing crimes on Creek land could be subject to state criminal law. Answer: no.

A major ruling upholding the status of Native American tribal lands.
This is the second time this term Gorsuch has crossed the aisle to join the liberals and write a majority opinion. First time was the LGBT discrimination cases, when Chief Justice Roberts also joined. This time Roberts wrote the dissent for the other four conservatives.
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💥 BREAKING: SUPREME COURT SIDESTEPS TRUMP FINANCES CASE INVOLVING CONGRESSIONAL SUBPOENAS, RECORDS WILL REMAIN UNDER WRAPS UNTIL AFTER ELECTION
Case is Trump v. Mazars supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf…
Gist of the decision, which is 7-2 (with Alito and Thomas in dissent): lower courts did not take an adequate look at the special concerns involved when Congress subpoenas information about a president.

They need to try again.
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💥 BREAKING: TRUMP LOSES SUPREME COURT BATTLE WITH NEW YORK PROSECUTOR OVER HIS TAXES AND FINANCIAL RECORDS
Vote is 7-2. Chief Justice Roberts writes.

Thomas and Alito dissent.
This means a grand jury investigating the president will gain access to 8 years of Trump's tax and financial records.

It does not mean the public will see them, for now.
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We'll know shortly after 10am whether the Supreme Court will allow Congress & a NY prosecutor to enforce subpoenas they've issued for years Donald Trump's tax and financial documents.

I've been thinking this morning about what Chief Justice Roberts is thinking about these cases.
Roberts is an institutionalist who cares deeply about how the Court is perceived by the public. He would not want to be seen as shielding Trump from scrutiny to bolster his faltering re-election prospects.

But he wouldn't want to be seen as interfering to hurt Trump, either.
Roberts is also (though not always!) a judicial minimalist. He prefers to turn big questions into small ones.

A minimalist ruling here would involve remanding the case(s) to the lower courts with a standard for what's an enforceable subpoena against a president.
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