BREAKING: Justice Sotomayor, acting as circuit justice, grants Yeshiva University a stay pending further order of #SCOTUS of a New York trial court order that the religious school recognize "YU Pride Alliance," an LGBTQ-related group. 
In plain English, the school does not need to recognize the LGBTQ group for now.
This is not an order of the full court, because the application was to Sotomayor, as the circuit justice for the 2nd Circuit, and the order says nothing about her referring the matter to the full court.
The university said its club application process ran through Sept. 12, so I read this action from Sotomayor today as preserving the status quo before the Sept. 12 deadline until the court decides what to do with this. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…
For those who doubt whether this is a ruling of the full court or the circuit justice, here's where Thomas issued a similar stay in an application for a stay of execution: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
There, the full court, with no noted dissents, later denied the stay, vacating Thomas's order and allowing the execution to proceed. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor… / In other words, today's order about Yeshiva University tells us little, if anything, about Sotomayor's views in the case.
So, as noted above — and as all of the #SCOTUS nerds have been discussing elsewhere on here — now we wait for further order, almost certainly from the full court. And likely, given the time this is taking, with writings (from multiple justices?) as well.
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