Live blog of orders and opinions | June 25, 2018 (with John Elwood and First Mondays)
We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released orders from the June 21 conference (9:30 a.m.) and opinions in argued cases (10 a.m.). The justices added seven new cases to their merits docket for next term. The justices announced their decisions in Abbott v. Perez and Ohio v. American Express Co. Guest bloggers from First Mondays and John Elwood of Relist Watch also joined us.
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Welcome all! I'm Dan Epps, a Co-Host of First Mondays and an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Looking forward to taking your questions with my co-hosts!Â
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Is this thing on?
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Let's start the retirement speculation! Thoughts from the panel? Did everyone see the pictures of Thomas and clerks with Pence and Trump over the weekend? Does anyone think that makes his retirement more likely? I've seen some talk about the propriety of those pictures, especially with the travel ban case coming out. Appearances are obviously not great, but I'm assuming at this point the decision is made and written?
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I was curious about something perhaps everyone else knows. Speculation has been that Alito is writing Janus (bad for us...union people). Can Justices actually pitch to Roberts "I'd like to write this" or do they have to sit quietly and hope? (and just realized it's the 17th anniversary of my own case win LOL)
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Regarding the Latin comments, a fun story: when I was clerking for Justice Scalia, I had inserted a somewhat obscure Latin phrase ("hostis humani generis") into an opinion we were working on. When he edited it, he kept it but changed "hostis" to "hostes" and I didn't know why; I was sure the original spelling was right. When I asked him, he said "because in this context it's plural, isn't it?" So, there at least used to be a Justice who really, really knew LatinâŠ
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