SCOTUS Watch

After a single action on Friday (a stay in a non-hot button case with only RBG publicly dissenting), today's order list was again low drama. They are in recess now and will be back in late February. Meanwhile, birthday boy (65 so can be there for another twenty years) will preside over the impeachment trial. An execution the liberals (noticeably Kagan too, who often doesn't get involved) already found problematic is scheduled in a week or so. So that and/or other unscheduled order stuff will likely pop up. Note again they are slow-walking (March argument) the Trump financials stuff as an impeachment goes on.

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand/A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame/Is the imprisoned lightning, & her name/Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows worldwide welcome...”Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me/I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” https://t.co/gqvQR2VXdO

— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) January 27, 2020

Sigh. On "Order Day," SCOTUS slipped this in (it isn't even in the Order List slot, put in the "Opinions Related to Orders" slot) later on with Gorsuch/Thomas having a separate statement complaining about nation-wide injunctions (a serious concern if one open to reply but the opposition to it seems selective). A brief rejecting it on the merits. The liberals should have explained their vote. Not the first time I'm annoyed at quiet dissent.