Live blog of opinions | June 21, 2019
We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released opinions in four argued cases: Flowers v. Mississippi, North Carolina Department of Revenue v. The Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust, Rehaif v. United States and Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania. SCOTUSblog is sponsored by Casetext: A more intelligent way to search the law.
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We are here for a somewhat unusual Friday opinion announcement session. There are 16 cases left to be decided. I did another post "reading the tea leaves" -- trying to figure out who might be writing which opinions -- yesterday. The link is here (http://amylhowe.com/2019/06/20/and-then-there-were-16/) but (spoiler alert) we still don't know much about March or April, when the "big" cases were argued.
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We will get opinions at 10 am. We are not expecting orders today, although we did get a rare set of grants yesterday in a quintet of cases involving the First Circuit's ruling that the appointments of the members of Puerto Rico's Financial Oversight and Management Board were unconstitutional.
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It's likely the court will pass on the Census question and refer it back to the lower court, in light of new evidence presented. The Justices will be more willing to review it in early fall, with a quick decision thereafter. Of course the Commerce Dept. says it needs to draft the census questionnaire by this summer, but I think the court will see otherwise.
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Even putting aside the opinions and orders yesterday, there was other action at the Court, as the federal government urged the justices NOT to send the census citizenship case back to the lower court for more fact finding on new evidence and the justices turned down a Georgia inmate's request to block his execution.
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Addressing a lot of questions that have come in today, I think it's somewhat unlikely that we'll see a ruling in the census case today, if only because federal government's opposition to the challengers' request to send the case back to the district court just came in last night (and the justices may expect a reply from the challengers).
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Here is a post Amy put together answering various frequently asked questions about the release of orders and opinions. We are only expecting opinions today, not orders. https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/06/faqs-announcements-of-orders-and-opinions-3/
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Just because we are getting a lot of questions about specific cases: There is no way to know which decisions we will get today, and at this point in the term I feel like almost anything is fair game with (as I have previously mentioned) the possible exception of the census case, just because there are still filings coming in for that case.