SCOTUS Watch

After a break, they first handed down orders, including a solo dissent from denial by Thomas, the "no one cares about the 2A" Cassandra of the Court. Kinda has a point. Then, four decisions, including two criminal, Gorsuch writing a really tedious textual majority with a potshot at legislative history in one (four dissenters managed to read the text another way). Roberts and Gorsuch joined the liberals in one involving guilty pleas, here involving a 2A claim. Sotomayor and Ginsburg had two unanimous rulings with restrictive results, the latter resulting in Sotomayor/Breyer and Thomas/Alito/Gorsuch have competing concurrences to talk about legislative history. Calling Victoria Nourse, who in part supported that.

ETA: Two rejections of last minute capital appeals, one with RBG/Sotomayor dissenting as to means with Breyer noting the guy was on death row for decades and he would if given his druthers take the case to decide the constitutionality of capital punishment. That one never managed to be completed; the other guy was executed after challenges supported by top experts failed. The governor commuted a third to LWOP.