Good morning, everyone! Welcome to our live blog of orders and opinions.
Good morning from humid Washington.
Today's orders don't seem quite as suspenseful as in weeks past, after the Court finally denied the petitions on qualified immunity and the Second Amendment.
As John Elwood chronicled in Relist Watch, there is just one relist from last week: Kansas v. Boettger, involving what kind of intent the First Amendment requires for a conviction for communicating threats.
By the way, the next conference is packed with good cases, including several in which the US solicitor general has recommended grants, so we could be a lot busier with orders next week.
Okay, moving over to my iPad to hit refresh. We'll be back shortly and can talk about more since then.
No grants. The Court denied cert. in Kansas v. Boettger. Justice Thomas dissented from the denial of review.
Thomas says that in his view "the Constitution likely permits States to criminalize threats even in the absence of any intent to intimidate."
But in any event he believes that the Supreme Court "should squarely decide whether the Constitution permits States to criminalize threats of violence made in reckless disregard of causing fear," and so he dissents from the denial of cert.
As Ariane de Vogue of CNN noted on Twitter today, there are only 5 left from the Court's January and February sessions; 10 are from the Court's May session, which wasn't that long ago.
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