Tomorrow starts the final tsunami of decisions of the term, Tuesday and Thursday this week, Monday of next week and possible Tuesday and Wednesday of next week will be decision days.
Just sitting and waiting until those decisions drop, but two quick notes.
If Dobbs drops and Alito is still the author, conservatives have won and no need to even look at the actual decision. If Dobbs drops and the Chief Justice is the author, that means one of the Justices retreated and conservatives can, without reading the decision, can proceed to bang heads on desk while liberals on the other hand should read to find out how much they lost and how much they kept.
If NYS P&R drops and Thomas is the author, ditto to the above. If NYS P&R drops and the Chief Justice is the author, ditto to the above.
There, I just saved everybody some time.
Well, until either or both of those decisions drop.
The fourth opinion today was by the Chief Justice, so if we see either Dobbs or NYS Pistol & Rifle today, it would be by the Chief Justice.
I imagine we will get one more opinion today by the Chief Justice or possibly a per curiam.
For those unfamiliar, on opinion days the Justices release decisions in reverse order of seniority, meaning that once the Chief Justice releases an opinion, any additional opinions would be by the Chief Justice.
I was very disappointed in the leak, though the draft itself was well written. As for the investigation, that has been kept under wraps, no developments to share that I know of.
THOMAS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS, C. J., and ALITO, GORSUCH, KAVANAUGH, and BARRETT, JJ., joined. ALITO, J., filed a concurring opinion. KAVANAUGH, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which ROBERTS, C. J., joined. BARRETT, J., filed a concurring opinion. BREYER, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which SOTOMAYOR and KAGAN, JJ., joined.
It’s more then that…those 3 support/believe that Constitution supports special privileges for elites that rest of society doesn’t get that same luxury.
That’s the direction that libs…whether on that bench or here on this very forum have taken us.
Is this now where liberals have to scream about justices legislating from the bench or how they are part of some deep conspiracy or that a SC Justice has somehow been threatened or bribed.
You know, the usual guff we read when a SC decision does not go the way cons expect or want
In fact, JUSTICE BREYER all but admitted that his Heller dissent advocated for intermediate scrutiny by repeatedly invoking a quintessential intermediateÂscrutiny precedent.
Although Heller concerned the possession of a handgun in the home, the key point that we decided was that “the people,” not just members of the “militia,” have the right to use a firearm to defend themselves.
What is the relevance of statistics about the use of guns to commit suicide? See post, at 5–6. Does the dissent think that a lot of people who possess guns in their homes will be stopped or deterred from shooting themselves if they cannot lawfully take them outside?
Second Amendment prevents democratically elected offiÂcials from enacting laws to address the serious problem of gun violence. And yet the Court today purports to answer that question without discussing the nature or severity of that problem.
