Live blog of opinions | June 26, 2019
We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released opinions in three argued cases: United States v. Haymond, Kisor v. Wilkie and Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association v. Thomas. SCOTUSblog is sponsored by Casetext: A more intelligent way to search the law.
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We are expecting opinions at 10am. In this post, Amy Howe answers frequently asked questions about what to expect as opinions come down. (Note for post, we are not expecting orders today.) https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/06/faqs-announcements-of-orders-and-opinions-3/
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To answer a lot of the questions that have come in, we have eight cases in which we are waiting for opinions. I have summarized them here: http://amylhowe.com/2019/06/25/eight-is-enough/. We don't know which ones we are getting today. If I had to guess, I would guess that we are getting about half of them today and the other half either tomorrow or Friday. And I would also guess that we are not going to get the census case today, just because of everything that continues to happen in that case. But we'll know a lot more at 10 am.
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Lot of questions about the significance of decisions. Tom Goldstein and Sarah Harrington will be giving a webinar on the term this Friday. More information at this link: https://info.casetext.com/supreme-court-review-registration/
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A little off topic, but I noticed that NYC just released a newly adopted rule related to NYSRPA v NYC (to be heard next term). It is clearly intended to moot the case. Can the city file a motion to moot the case over the summer (before its brief is due - early August), and can the Court rule on the motion between terms?
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Some thoughts about the census case and all of the recent filings. I don't know exactly what the Court is going to do, but I have a hard time envisioning a scenario in which the Court just dismisses the census case and allows the district court's order blocking the government from including the citizenship question to stand without weighing in on it, because it is such a significant issue.
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This is a bit of a nitpick, it bothers me every time I follow along with one of these liveblogs...why do supreme court opinions maintain such huge margins? If they are going to maintain paper copies it seems like they could make the margins smaller and save some trees.
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Haymond, the case regarding mandatory re-imprisonment for a violation of supervised release by sex offenders, is the only remaining case from February oral args. Any guess as to who may be assigned to write the majority opinion? Roberts and Alito have only authored 5 each and Ginsburg 6. Everyone else has written 7 or 8 (Thomas and Breyer).
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Have there been any recent years where one justice ended up having significantly more/less opinions than the others? Could there be a chance that, say, Thomas has several more opinions coming for us, or is it pretty much certain that he likely won’t be doing any more?
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