#SCOTUS grants no new cases this morning. Here is the full orders list: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
In Johnson v. Precythe, the Supreme Court allows an execution method decision — Missouri, pentobarbital — to stand that Johnson has "plausibly pleaded," the dissenters say, will be torturous for him. He sought to be executed by a firing squad instead. SCOTUS won't hear the case.
The conclusion from Sotomayor's dissent, in which Breyer and Kagan join: 
Breyer wrote a second dissent, for himself, to "add that the difficulty of resolving this claim, 27 years after the murders, provides one more example of the special difficulties that the death penalty, as currently administered, creates for the just application of the law."
One or more opinions in argued cases coming at 10a.
The first #SCOTUS decision is in US v. Palomar-Santiago. Sotomayor has the opinion for a unanimous court, reversing the 9th Circuit in a case about the standards for challenging unlawful reentry charges. The decision makes such challenges harder for some. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
There will be at least one more opinion, coming from Sotomayor, Breyer, Thomas, Alito, or the Chief Justice.
The last #SCOTUS decision today is in Guam v. US. The unanimous decision for the Court is by Thomas, reversing the DC Circuit in a case over the Ordot Dump and in a win for Guam in its efforts to get money from the US over the dump. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Twenty-seven merits #SCOTUS cases remain for June decisions. Next expected decision date would be Tuesday, June 1.
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