Live blog of opinions | June 27, 2019
We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released its final opinions of the term: Mitchell v. Wisconsin, Rucho v. Common Cause, Lamone v. Benisek and Department of Commerce v. New York. SCOTUSblog is sponsored by Casetext: A more intelligent way to search the law.
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In regards to the census case, if the court rules that the citizenship question is allowed, does that mean the question will be on the census, or does it mean we will have to wait for them to address the other questions raised by the challengers? Bottom line, when will we know for certain if the citizenship question will be on the census?
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Good morning, everyone! So exciting to be here. We're expecting to get the rest of the opinions in argued cases, one way or another. So we're waiting on Carpenter v. Murphy (argued in December); the two partisan gerrymandering cases (argued in March), the census case (April), and Mitchell v. Wisconsin (April).
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It was quiet overnight in the Supreme Court in the census case. But there were developments overnight in the census case in Maryland, where the plaintiffs asked the district court for an injunction blocking the government from printing the census questionnaire with the citizenship question until it can decide the question of whether Secretary Ross acted with discriminatory intent. As Ann Marimow of The Washington Post reports, the district court just told the government that if it wants to respond to that request, it needs to do so by 8 pm tonight.
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Given the developments below, wouldn't the Court take a huge hit to its legitimacy if it ruled with all the factual development ongoing below? I don't see why they can't DIG now and reconsider in the fall. Sure, the census forms need to be printed, but does it really take the government half a year to print forms?
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In this post, Amy answers "frequently asked questions" about orders and opinions. (Note: Today we only expect opinions, not orders.) https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/06/faqs-announcements-of-orders-and-opinions-3/
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It seems that the court stopped short of allowing out of state liquor stores from selling across state lines to consumers. There is a stay at the 6th Circuit on a decision that allows Indiana liquor stores to ship to Michigan (Lebamoff v. Snyder) and a similar case in the 7th circuit. Any idea if these would be heard or any weight from yesterday's decision applied to them?
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Why do people keep asking if Justice Thomas may retire? He has said repeatedly that he is not. He appears to be having a great time on the court, more than one other justice agrees with his ideas, liberal justices including Ginsburg join his opinions and he even assigns opinions to them, he isn't openly questioning Marbury v. Madision.
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@timothy re: Thomas retirement. I think people suspect him of wanting to step down because he knows that if after the 2020 election he may have to server at least another 4 years if a democrat wins. I don't htink he would want to retire and tip the court to the left.
Of course he could retire June of 2020 if the democrats pick a solid choice who has a good chance to beat trump, especially if the economy turns south. McConnell wouldn't care about being hypocritical for ramming through a new judge in an election year.
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