Good morning! At 10 a.m., the Supreme Court will issue opinion(s). SCOTUS scheduled this opinion day rather abruptly just yesterday. We have good reason to suspect it will do *something* in the census case given the tight timeline, but we'll find out soon enough.
Yesterday, SCOTUS declined to block a Kentucky order closing religious schools due to COVID—but only because the order is about to expire. There's no constitutional infirmity since Kentucky closed public schools, too, but Alito and Gorsuch were still mad.
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1339755556907708417
BREAKING: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that the challenge to Trump's executive order excluding undocumented immigrants from the census count for congressional apportionment is premature, dismissing the case. All three liberals dissent. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
The six-justice majority expresses "no view on the merits of the constitutional and related statutory claims presented" but holds that the plaintiffs lack standing and the case is not yet ripe for resolution.
The liberals dissent on all fronts AND say Trump's policy is illegal.
The liberals dissent on all fronts AND say Trump's policy is illegal.
Breyer, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, lays out the unfortunate consequences of today's decision quite bluntly. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf… 
This decision puts immense pressure on the Census Bureau, which has said it *might* not be able to create the data necessary to exclude undocumented immigrants until after Trump leaves office. If it can't, Biden will undo this. If it can ... yikes, it's gonna be goddamn mess.
P.S. The Supreme Court uses "impact" as a verb now.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
