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8 Mar, 11 tweets, 5 min read
And here we are! Good morning, everyone!
SCOTUS takes no action on Mississippi's 15-week abortion yet. So, once again: The justices could be sitting on the case before months before agreeing to hear it (which happens occasionally), or they could've denied cert and someone is writing a dissent. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
SCOTUS takes up one new case, an interesting civil rights/4th Amendment dispute which I'll let SCOTUSblog summarize. scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…
Gorsuch dissents from the court's refusal to hear a Confrontation Clause case involving forensic evidence. (Good for him.) Here's that earlier dissent, which Sotomayor joined. supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
And the Supreme Court has officially cleared its plate of all Trump's election lawsuits.
Now we await opinion(s) at 10 am.
Just one opinion today, in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski. An 8–1 decision with a majority opinion by Thomas. Only Roberts dissents. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Just before oral arguments, Robert P. George made this prediction; he correctly guessed the outcome and vote split, but got the dissenter wrong. I don't know why he thought Sotomayor would dissent.
Anyway, the chief justice rarely pens a solo dissent—this is pure speculation, but I suspect he sometimes signs onto opinions he does not fully agree with to avoid dissenting—and when he does write a lone dissent, it's worth reading. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Update: National Law Journal says this is Roberts' FIRST solo dissent! Wild. I was thinking of his opinion in this case, but that was a solo concurrence in the judgment, not a dissent. supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf…
I mostly remember this Roberts opinion because it includes a fun "pop quiz" with the answer provided in a footnote. supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf…

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6 Mar
lol I guess I touched a nerve
This reminded me of my last DM to Ed, which he never responded to🤔
Folks, there’s a lesson here: Don’t DM people to call them nasty names. It makes you look like a thin-skinned bully 100% of the time.
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5 Mar
I'm not sure I'll ever get used to conservative proponents of the unitary executive theory defending agency independence and complaining about presidential termination of executive officials who wield executive powers. I thought these guys didn't believe in independent agencies!
Anyway, the EEOC is not an independent agency, though that's a common misconception. Neither its general counsel nor its commissioners are shielded by for-cause termination under any statute. Gustafson does not have a leg to stand on; this is all political posturing.
One could argue that the EEOC is "independent" in the sense that it is not under the direct control of the president, but that is because of tradition, not law. No statute bars the president from removing its general counsel or commissioners, for any reason. So this is silly.
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5 Mar
!!! Justice Breyer has revised this opinion to insert the words "with respect" before "I dissent." supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
It is impossible to draw any other conclusion.
BRB combing through all the anonymous accounts who criticized me for noting the lack of "with respect" to figure out which one is Breyer
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4 Mar
Good morning! The Supreme Court will issue opinion(s) today at 10 a.m. As usual, we do not know what we'll get, so buckle up!
First opinion of the day is also Justice Amy Coney Barrett's first signed opinion of the court. It is a 7–2 decision limiting the reach of the Freedom of Information Act. Breyer and Sotomayor dissent. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf… Image
By tradition, a new justice's first opinion is usually a unanimous one. But Barrett's first opinion draws a sharp dissent from Breyer, who closes not with the traditional "I respectfully dissent" but rather "I dissent." Might not seem like much but it signals strong disagreement.
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2 Mar
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case this morning that could effectively doom what remains of the Voting Rights Act. Listen here: c-span.org/video/?507934-…

Background here: slate.com/news-and-polit…
Justice Kagan: If a state cancels Sunday early voting, and Black people vote on Sunday ten times more than white voters, is that legal under the Voting Rights Act?

Michael Carvin, representing the RNC: Yes.
Justice Kagan: If a state allows only Election Day voting, and only opens the polls between 9-5, and voters of one race are ten times more likely to work a job that prevents them from voting during that time, is that legal under the Voting Rights Act?

RNC’s Carvin: Yes.
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1 Mar
Biggest news from today's Supreme Court orders: The court will hear a challenge to the federal government's denial of Supplemental Security Income—a benefit available in all 50 states—to residents of Puerto Rico. A big territorial rights case. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
SCOTUS also took up a case I am not following, Babcock v. Saul, but here's the question presented. scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…
The Supreme Court once again took no action on Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban. It's really hard to read the tea leaves here. Maybe the court refused to hear the case and a justice (Thomas) is writing a dissent from denial of cert. Maybe they're just punting a decision.
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