Opinion Day #2: DACA

As with the GLBT decision, there is a lot of talk about the game being played, but bottom line Roberts wrote the opinion saying DACA was ended the wrong way. Sotomayor separately said the equal protection argument should have been retained. As with the census ruling, the four other conservatives dissented, Kavanaugh again more politely. I figured before the opinion that this would turn on November even if it went the other way (things take time to unwind) and guess in another form, the point holds. Punting seems to be a theme this term.

There was also a conference today and there will be another decision day next week. (With one opinion last week, I joked two decision days would mean two opinions this week; well, there were three. Fifteen left, ten from May.) The justices also put the federal death penalty appeal on the fast track, but that too might turn on the election though Barr said he wants to kill someone in the summer.