Good morning everyone. It is humid here in Washington again today.
We're getting some questions about opinions and opinion days, which we can address after orders.
Waiting for orders from last Thursday's conference.
As John Elwood explained in his Relist Watch, there were no relists from the previous week's conference, so it's not clear whether we will get any grants today. Last week the Court added another conference to its calendar, for this Wednesday.
But lots of interesting stuff on last week's conference, including the dispute over the Mueller grand jury materials and the federal lethal-injection protocol.
Also a couple of cases in which the solicitor general (whose last day is July 3) had recommended grants.
Don't see anything on the Mueller grand jury case. As one of our commenters notes, lots of denials, which I will get into in a second.
Justices denied cert in Bourgeois v. Barr, the challenge to the federal government's lethal injection protocol.
Ginsburg and Sotomayor would have granted the stay application and the petition for cert. The government has scheduled three executions for July, I believe.
Interestingly, both CVSG's are for petitions filed by former Solicitors General (Pauls Clement and Greg Garre).
Some other denials -- in Mutond v. Lewis, in which the government had recommended a grant; also in NBD v. Kentucky, in which the government had recommended a denial.
One of the CVSG's, FMC Corp. v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, addresses tribal court jurisdiction over non-tribe members. It presents questions similar to case in which the Supreme Court was left evenly divided after Justice Scalia's death a number of years ago.
With another conference on Wednesday, the court is likely to update the electronic docket today. It will be interesting to see what cases get relisted for Wednesday; a not-insignificant number of cases have already been distributed for the "long" conference in September.
Last week, at a teleconference held by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Paul Clement said that at the rate the court was issuing opinions, the court should finish by Aug. 10.
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