Live blog of opinions | June 22, 2018 (with First Mondays)
We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released opinions in Carpenter v. United States, Currier v. Virginia, Ortiz v. United States and WesternGeco LLC v. ION Geophysical Corp. Guest bloggers from First Mondays joined us from 9 to 9:45 a.m.
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Good morning, everyone, and welcome back! The Supreme Court will release more opinions at 10:00am today; until then, we'll be live-blogging and taking your questions. I'm Ian Samuel, a lecturer at Harvard Law School (and soon-to-be professor at Indiana University), and co-host of First Mondays.
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So....considering everything this term, how does this sound for a likely lineup? The February seems hardest to predict at this point, as it depends on what the actual decision says.
Roberts - Carpenter
Breyer - Florida
Kagan - Dalmazzi
Janus - Alito, Ginsburg, or Gorsuch
Ohio - Ginsburg, Alito, or Kagan
Currier - Thomas, Kagan, or Ginsburg
Thomas - NIFLA
Roberts - Trump
Thomas - Abbott
Alito - WesternGeco -
Interesting article on Slate about Kagan today. Interesting premise is that some of her votes with the conservatives may be to ameliorate what would be harder rulings.
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Back to Gill, earlier this week. It seems to me that Chief Justice Roberts fatally wounded the "efficiency gap", but no one has noticed yet...
Consider that the "efficiency gap" ("EG") does not work for single districts. (For example, a very competitive district with a split of 51% party A and 49% party B would have an off the charts high EG of 48%, whereas a grotesquely packed district of 75% party A and 25% party B would have an ideal EG of 0%, which is the opposite of how the EG has been advertised...)
Any thoughts?