SCOTUS Watch Thread
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Supreme Court Allows E.P.A. to Limit Power Plant Emissions
It was a provisional victory for the Biden administration, whose climate initiatives have been stymied. Challenges to the rule are still moving through the lower courts.
ADevilYouKhow
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Samuel Alito and Princess Gloria Bonded Over Catholicism and Ending Abortion
Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis bonded with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. over Catholicism and ending abortion. She introduced him to her sumptuous world when he visited her Bavarian palace.
Jfc
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US Supreme Court tosses intellectual disability ruling on death row inmate — Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday a judicial decision that had spared a man convicted of murder in Alabama from execution because he was found to be intellectually disabled.
apple.news
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Veteran
Sam Alito Got Knighted... Just Like The Founding Fathers EXPLICITLY MADE UNCONSTITUTIONAL - Above the Law
It turns out Sam Alito hates the Constitution as much as you thought he did.
abovethelaw.com
1/11
@lionel_trolling
Amy Comy Barrett wrote that the 14th Amendment is "possibly illegitimate" in case you are wondering how a birthright citizenship decision might go
[Quoted tweet]
'..the possibly illegitimate Fourteenth Amendment..'
Amy Coney Barrett 2016
2/11
@reflectronic
there is a reason why originalists always find a way to exclude the 14th amendment from their thinking
3/11
@ksjfdiewn332444
I'm no lover of ACB, but the flow of that argument is really the opposite of what you're saying because even an "originalist Justice" would not overturn "super precedents" like those examples because "no serious person would propose to undo [them] even if they are wrong".
4/11
@C_W_England
Did this not come up at the hearings? Seems like it should have been disqualifying.
5/11
@AsimovsGhostIII
Wait, if they're going to push an irregularity in ratification argument to suggest the 14th should be repealed, couldn't the same be argued of the Constitution's ratification as a whole?
6/11
@JamesMiles21
5th circuit already agrees
[Quoted tweet]
Judge Ho’s birthright citizenship walkback begins reason.com/volokh/2024/11/11…
7/11
@kfgpnz
Do irregularities in the ratification of the constitution itself pose a problem for originalism? The Articles of Confederation could only be amended unanimously, so the constitution wasn't really the law of the land until mid-1790, surely? After Washington was already president!
8/11
@jmayerfeld
Would you consider posting on Bluesky? More and more people are leaving Twitter for Bluesky.
9/11
@SummerGleaming
Chuck it on the RBG legacy pile
10/11
@jacobtaber
In context, she is clearly describing thing that might arguably be unconstitutional under originalism but which the Courts would never set aside--she's not overturning the Fourteenth Amendment any more than she's going to hold that West Virginia is not a state.
11/11
@phylliswjordan
And West Virginia, too. Damn
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@lionel_trolling
Amy Comy Barrett wrote that the 14th Amendment is "possibly illegitimate" in case you are wondering how a birthright citizenship decision might go
[Quoted tweet]
'..the possibly illegitimate Fourteenth Amendment..'
Amy Coney Barrett 2016
2/11
@reflectronic
there is a reason why originalists always find a way to exclude the 14th amendment from their thinking
3/11
@ksjfdiewn332444
I'm no lover of ACB, but the flow of that argument is really the opposite of what you're saying because even an "originalist Justice" would not overturn "super precedents" like those examples because "no serious person would propose to undo [them] even if they are wrong".
4/11
@C_W_England
Did this not come up at the hearings? Seems like it should have been disqualifying.
5/11
@AsimovsGhostIII
Wait, if they're going to push an irregularity in ratification argument to suggest the 14th should be repealed, couldn't the same be argued of the Constitution's ratification as a whole?
6/11
@JamesMiles21
5th circuit already agrees
[Quoted tweet]
Judge Ho’s birthright citizenship walkback begins reason.com/volokh/2024/11/11…
7/11
@kfgpnz
Do irregularities in the ratification of the constitution itself pose a problem for originalism? The Articles of Confederation could only be amended unanimously, so the constitution wasn't really the law of the land until mid-1790, surely? After Washington was already president!
8/11
@jmayerfeld
Would you consider posting on Bluesky? More and more people are leaving Twitter for Bluesky.
9/11
@SummerGleaming
Chuck it on the RBG legacy pile
10/11
@jacobtaber
In context, she is clearly describing thing that might arguably be unconstitutional under originalism but which the Courts would never set aside--she's not overturning the Fourteenth Amendment any more than she's going to hold that West Virginia is not a state.
11/11
@phylliswjordan
And West Virginia, too. Damn
To post tweets in this format, more info here: https://www.thecoli.com/threads/tips-and-tricks-for-posting-the-coli-megathread.984734/post-52211196
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Supreme Court grapples with FDA's refusal to approve flavored vapes — NBC News
As e-cigarettes have flooded the market, the FDA's role in approving new tobacco products is put under a microscope.
apple.news
ADevilYouKhow
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Inside the Supreme Court Justices’ Ethics Debate
In private meetings and memos, the justices made new rules for themselves — then split on whether they could, or should, be enforced.
ADevilYouKhow
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The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders
Greg Abbott is taking a stand to protect his state’s right to let children die in the Rio Grande, and four justices of the Supreme Court are encouraging him to do so.
www.theatlantic.com
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Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Supreme Court to Hear Catholic Charity’s Bid for Tax Exemption
The justices agreed to hear an appeal from a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the charity’s activities were insufficiently religious to qualify.