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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,531 posts) Thu Jul 9, 2020, 06:35 AM Jul 2020

SCOTUSblog: Live blog of opinions - Thursday, July 9, 2020

Live blog of opinions - Thursday, July 9, 2020
We will be live-blogging on Thursday, July 9, as the court releases the final opinions from the 2019-2020 term. SCOTUSblog is sponsored by Casetext: making litigation more efficient with A.I. and machine learning technology.

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Here's explainer: Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s tax returns, financial records to come Thursday https://washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-tax-returns-supreme-court/2020/07/08/d5e9ac30-c11f-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html

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The opinions will show up here:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/19

Kalvis Golde

When R numbers appear in this column on this page, we're done for the day.

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SCOTUSblog: Live blog of opinions - Thursday, July 9, 2020 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 OP

K&R demmiblue Jul 2020 #1

This will be interesting. k&r for visibility. n/t Laelth Jul 2020 #2

K&R safeinOhio Jul 2020 #3

Great list, thanks! Yesterday was interesting enough, Hortensis Jul 2020 #4

kick blogslut Jul 2020 #5

They're blogging. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #6

We have McGirt. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #7

Wow, score one for justice. lagomorph777 Jul 2020 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #11

SCOTUS finds that a huge swath of Oklahoma is still "Indian country" under current law, majority sunonmars Jul 2020 #9

SCOTUSblog: Check out our FAQs here: mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #10

Trump v. Vance: hand 'em over, possibly, one of these days. Or not. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #12

Here comes Mazars. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #13

Term over. Everyone go home. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #14

demmiblue

(36,870 posts)

1. K&R

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 06:57 AM

Jul 2020

Laelth

(32,017 posts)

2. This will be interesting. k&r for visibility. n/t

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 07:04 AM

Jul 2020

-Laelth

safeinOhio

(32,702 posts)

3. K&R

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 07:17 AM

Jul 2020

and bookmarked. Set my timer for 2 hours from now.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

4. Great list, thanks! Yesterday was interesting enough,

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 07:40 AM

Jul 2020

and now-wow list of the kind of things they left to right before leaving town so to speak.

blogslut

(38,004 posts)

5. kick

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 08:37 AM

Jul 2020

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,531 posts)

6. They're blogging. NT

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 09:37 AM

Jul 2020

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,531 posts)

7. We have McGirt.

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:02 AM

Jul 2020

We have McGirt.

It is by Gorsuch. The vote is 5-4.

"Today we are asked whether the land these treaties promised remains an Indian reservation for purposes of federal criminal law. Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word."

Amy Howe
a few seconds ago

Kalvis Golde
Here is a link: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-9526_9okb.pdf

Jul 9 2020 10:01 AM

Come back in ten minutes.

In case the court's website is crashing for anyone, here is our link to the opinion in McGirt: https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/18-9526.pdf

Kalvis Golde

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

8. Wow, score one for justice.

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:05 AM

Jul 2020

Great news.

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mahatmakanejeeves This message was self-deleted by its author.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)

9. SCOTUS finds that a huge swath of Oklahoma is still "Indian country" under current law, majority

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:06 AM

Jul 2020

SCOTUS finds that a huge swath of Oklahoma is still "Indian country" under current law, majority opinion by Gorsuch

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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,531 posts)

10. SCOTUSblog: Check out our FAQs here:

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:10 AM

Jul 2020

2 minutes ago
Hello all 30,000 of you. Sorry if we don't get to your questions because they're coming in so fast. Check out our FAQs here: https://www.scotusblog.com/educational-resources/faqs-announcements-of-orders-and-opinions/

Kalvis Golde

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,531 posts)

12. Trump v. Vance: hand 'em over, possibly, one of these days. Or not.

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:13 AM

Jul 2020

The big one (one of them).
m over (but

It is by Roberts. The vote is 7-2.

Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude, or require a heightened standard for, the issuance of a state criminal subpoena to a sitting President.

Amy Howe
a few seconds ago

Here is a link to the Vance opinion on SCOTUSblog as well: https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/19-635_o7jq.pdf

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,531 posts)

13. Here comes Mazars.

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:22 AM

Jul 2020

Kalvis Golde
Here is a link from the court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-715_febh.pdf

Jul 9 2020 10:21 AM

a few seconds ago
The website crashed

Michael Bindner

Mark Walsh
Look for it on the homepage of the court.

Jul 9 2020 10:22 AM
a minute ago
Again by Roberts, again 7-2: From the syllabus: "The courts below did not take adequate account of the signficant separation of powers concerns implicated by congressional subpoenas for the President's information."

Amy Howe

a minute ago
More of a win for the president, it appears. The question presented, Roberts writes, is whether the subpoeans issued exceed the authority of the House under the Constitution.

Amy Howe

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,531 posts)

14. Term over. Everyone go home.

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Thu Jul 9, 2020, 10:26 AM

Jul 2020

Mark Walsh
Yes, R numbers are posted. Not a real surprise there, either. We are done for the term.

Jul 9 2020 10:23 AM

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