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WHAT? They’re working Thursday and Friday? Oh, the horror, oh, the humanity.
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Evidently, undermining democracy is getting to be full time job.
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Some clerks are working overtime. Maybe this time Scalia won’t miss cite one of his own decisions.
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Eh, they generally work Thursday and Friday, they just don’t announce decisions.
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I guess we know now what day the decision in King v. Burwell is coming out.
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old-fashioned p.r. strategy…always release the document dump on Friday afternoon.
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Come on SCOTUS…we know that most of the time people don’t pay attention to you, but at this point you’re just milking it- make the announcement already!
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I’ve got a baaaad feeling about this . . .
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Friday at 5PM?
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OMG! You must be psychic!
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Interesting. I wonder if this might be an indication that there is still an undecided or two in one or more of the cases?
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So do I, NC. Wish I didn’t.
LD
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Scalia is having a hissy fit. Thomas is nodding in agreement.
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You get the feeling that there might be some fighting over the wording of some decisions. If these decisions will live forever in infamy, Roberts wants to make sure they might have some way to smooth over the worst with historians.
But he’s screwed if Scalia writes the majority on either of the two major decisions. His personal opinions and prejudices aside, this guy has done more than any justice in memory to defy logic. He was supposed to be the intelligent, most brilliant legal conservative mind this country has ever seen. Didn’t turn out that way. He’s done more to humiliate conservative scholars than anyone.
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I think they decided a while ago. It’s the approach in how they defend their decisions that must be the problem. Roberts gets to critique and change anything he feels is weak. I’m betting that a lot of if is very, very weak legally.
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The wind up in late June or early July, don’t return until the first Monday in October, so yeah, they’re itching to get out of town.
There’s not enough attention being paid to Justice Kennedy who could decide the vote on same sex marriage. His role in advancing this cause is not well understood. Scalia’s predictable, Roberts is looking toward his legacy, but it is Kennedy who has a heart and a soul.
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Fucking drama queens.
Maybe they’re trying to finesse it so they can get out of town before people arbitrarily stripped of their insurance figure out where to find them.
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I do too. This should have been chased out of the court system for standing ages ago. I think it’s 5-4 again, and Roberts is once again the swing voter. The fact that it’s even here is ominous.