Supreme Court: Order/Opinion Day

The Good Fight: I re-read Danielle Steel's book, which involves a woman who lives thru about thirty years of history from World War II to the early years of the Nixon Administration.  The book was pretty good, if not too dramatically deep (sort of her style), though after a while it was like "okay ... what ELSE historically is these people going to encounter?!" 

It might be included in the future among the history books on the Books in a Flash website.  The website covers non-fiction, but the history aspects of this book is a sensible fit, including a twist of the normal format where I featured a sort of "for further reading" list covering the many events covered in the book.  

The connection here is that not only did she become a civil rights lawyer, but her grandfather became a (fictional) Supreme Court justice while her dad became a district court judge (appointed by Ike). Her grandfather is fictional but is a sorta more liberal fill-in of one of two actual replacements of liberal justices' Rutledge and Murphy. No opinions of Justice McKenzie though.

Orders:  At times, the Monday Order List is not too exciting, grants dropped on Friday.  But, this time, before their mid-winter recess, the orders did not include various bookkeeping matters.  

The cases involved important matters involving the administrative state, but the big ideological news is taking two cases challenging affirmative action in education. And, one was particularly "I want it now!" because the appellate level was skipped.  I understand the YOLO energy, but figure it might be more of the Roberts long game, if at a somewhat quicker speed.  

This won't be something to be "reassured" about, sure thing, though life is often a matter of finding some limited chances where you can.  Some simply will find that naive, but pure evil is hard to find.  This might sound precious to some people though many in need (and I'll tell you, I'm sometimes in need too, even if I'm a white male) will agree.

Opinions: We have (after a typo in her last no one cares opinion was fixed) another no one cares Sotomayor opinion about ERISA.  Barrett didn't take part; no separate opinions and this one is under ten pages long.  Let's see if she has a statement regarding a capital case later in the week. And, what else happens.