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Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day
Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day
Looking ahead, arguments are done and all that's left is waiting for the opinions. The court has about 2/3rds of the opinions done, and probably another 15 or so will be easy ones from the March and April sittings that just haven't had enough time to get done yet.
That leaves about 9 or 10 that are bigger cases or otherwise seem to be taking awhile.
The only one left from November involves a citizenship question regarding differences in treatment between fathers and mothers when conveying citizenship to their foreign born children. Ginsberg is likely writing it, since she is the only one without an opinion in November.
The two left from December include one on alien detentions and then the North Carolina redistricting challenge under the VRA. Roberts presumably has the voting case, and Alito likely has the other one, though Kagan also doesn't have an opinion from that month.
Too many left to predict authors from other months. Among the bigger cases are the Missouri church playground funding, qualified immunity challenges regarding post 9/11 detentions of Muslims, the disparagement provision of the Lanham Acct regarding trademarks (which would directly affect the Redskins trademark case), whether social media restrictions on sex offenders is constitutional (doubtful), and whether the fourth amendment applies when a Mexican kid is killed on Mexican soil by a us border agent after playing in the border area.
Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day
Looking ahead, arguments are done and all that's left is waiting for the opinions. The court has about 2/3rds of the opinions done, and probably another 15 or so will be easy ones from the March and April sittings that just haven't had enough time to get done yet.
That leaves about 9 or 10 that are bigger cases or otherwise seem to be taking awhile.
The only one left from November involves a citizenship question regarding differences in treatment between fathers and mothers when conveying citizenship to their foreign born children. Ginsberg is likely writing it, since she is the only one without an opinion in November.
The two left from December include one on alien detentions and then the North Carolina redistricting challenge under the VRA. Roberts presumably has the voting case, and Alito likely has the other one, though Kagan also doesn't have an opinion from that month.
Too many left to predict authors from other months. Among the bigger cases are the Missouri church playground funding, qualified immunity challenges regarding post 9/11 detentions of Muslims, the disparagement provision of the Lanham Acct regarding trademarks (which would directly affect the Redskins trademark case), whether social media restrictions on sex offenders is constitutional (doubtful), and whether the fourth amendment applies when a Mexican kid is killed on Mexican soil by a us border agent after playing in the border area.
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