SCOTUS Order/Opinion Watch

When an Order List is over twenty pages, except when they need to play catch-up and dispose of a lot of rejects, it is often a sign there is something interesting (like a per curiam) there. Today, we had an extended Thomas concurrence to the mooting of the Former Guy's Twitter case that is being seen by some as a subtweet about Fox News being worried about being cancelled or something. Thomas solo comments are a ymmv thing.

Gorsuch/Alito again is pushing for strong religious accomodations rules and there they might very well have a Court. And, SCOTUS for some reason doesn't want for now to dispose of a Medicaid work requirement rule case the Biden Administration said they no longer support ("held in abeyance pending further order of the Court"). They also granted a habeas case.

The one opinion also is noticably long and involves two old guys (Breyer and Thomas) on opposite sides talking about Google [who won] programming usage. Alito joined Thomas in dissent. Breyer tossed in the "one of the world's shortest stories," in English and Spanish. Breyer's use of hypos during oral arguments was covered in this video. ETA: Typo found; revision noted on website. Breyer with a big lecture (if old themes).