@Youdon’tsay, just checked and that case is listed on the SCOTUS Blog’s Upcoming Petitions link as being considered at conference yesterday, so a Monday grant/deny is possible when they issue orders or they may hold over for further consideration.
Love this kind of stuff:
Question: Considering the advent of technology (liveblogging, for instance), has there ever been such a collective bated breath for a decision?
Amy Howe: Publishing this one because, as a word-ie, I’m so delighted with your correct use of the word “bated.”
…and four boxes today!
Wow!!! Didn’t think it would come today.
Thanks, all.
And OMG!
YES!!!
Congrats for your brother, @scout59.
Thanks, @2VU0609 !
And even though I’m not very enamored with Scalia, this part of his dissent makes me laugh:
from the footnote on page 7 (note 22): he says, “If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.”
This is literally the post draft I had when I got the text:
“My dad went to high school with one of the women in the Michigan marriage equality suit. We’re all not so patiently waiting. He’s convinced the ruling will come today sometime, I think it’ll be Mon”
It doesn’t feel real. I am thankful to have the SCOTUSBlog and you lovely people to share this with as I’m home alone and carless for the weekend.
RBG is also doing a lecture that afternoon of the opera premier with singers performing scenes during it. It is suppped to be live webcast. DD is scheduled to be in one of the scenes.
For serious SCOTUS nerds, it’s always fun to go back and read the View from the Court article by Mark Walsh. He details which prominent guests were in the courtroom (retired justices, spouses, people like Ted Olsen, etc.) and also describes the justices’ reactions. He was particularly amusing a few weeks back when Justice Scalia accidentally called his dear friend, RBG, Justice Goldberg. He said she is normally stoic, but totally dissolved in laughter after the Chief Justice pointed out the error for his correction and Scalia followed up with a “Sorry, Ruth” as an aside before proceeding.
I was disappointed in Roberts. Haven’t read his entire opinion, just a few excerpts and I don’t think saying it’s not in the Constitution is genuine. Almost nothing is actually in the Constitution and nearly all decisions read rights and powers into it.
Although we’ve had the “big” decisions, I’m on the live blog this morning to see how the last 3 cases come down. Anyone else?
Fisher - part 2 granted for argument next term.
I’m still reading/watching - although my levels of obsession and anxiety are way down, compared to last Friday!
Really?? This is a tradition for the Supreme Court?
Yes 
BTW, the SCOTUS cafeteria is a great place to get lunch when you are in DC, even in the middle of summer with nary a justice in the building. Inexpensive and great atmosphere for SCOTUS nerds.
Argh. That Fisher case didn’t die …
I love that Breyer’s dissent in the death penalty case, joined by RBG, suggested it was time to revisit the death penalty and I suspect that we will see more on this issue in the next few years.
^ connected to Justice Kennedy’s invitation for someone to bring a solitary confinement case, the laws surrounding our jail system could be interesting.