Chris Geidner: Next is Campos-Chavez v. Garland. Alito has the 5-4 decision for the court in the immigration case. Gorsuch joins the liberal justices in Jackson's dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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It's another two-box day at SCOTUS, meaning we're expecting three or four opinions (or, possibly, two very long ones).

First opinion is U.S. Trustee v. Hammons. Jackson has the 6-3 bankruptcy opinion reversing the 10th Circuit. Gorsuch dissents, with Thomas and Barrett. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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Next is Campos-Chavez v. Garland. Alito has the 5-4 decision for the court in the immigration case. Gorsuch joins the liberal justices in Jackson's dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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Breaking: The Supreme Court, on an ideological 6-3 vote, invalidates the Trump administration's bump-stock rule defended by the Biden administration. Thomas has the opinion for the court in Garland v. Cargill. Sotomayor writes the liberals' dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Justice Sotomayor is reading from her dissent, something you will not be able to hear until opinion audio is turned over to the National Archives in the fall and then made public.

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Here's my report out of SCOTUS today: www.lawdork.com/p/clarence-t...

Clarence Thomas just made mass shootings easier. With a gif.www.lawdork.com The Supreme Court's conservatives made bump stocks legal again on Friday. Sonia Sotomayor read her dissent for the liberal justices from the bench.

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lol Simpsons did it, it’s literally right there in the next sentence of the statute

Impressive how the Court was able to move so quickly to stop Colorado from applying the clear language of the 14th Amendment to stop insurrectionists from taking office yet moves so slowly when it comes to declaring that Trump is not an emperor. Golly, I wonder what can explain this disparity?

Waiting to see how many free trips Harlan Crow can put together before making a definitely-unbiased decision

Martha-Ann wonders how the slogan will fit on a flag

🫡 my anxiety can go back down for the day

man fuck these assholes congress needs to fucking pass laws to make them work harder fuck this shit i am so mad (not at you chris, sorry)

So aggravating that we don't have better rules around this transparency to confer this weird mystique around the court Opinions should be required to be read by the judges out loud in an arena as far as I'm concerned.

Reading them aloud at all is archaic. Publish them promptly. That should be enough.

So Roberts is assigning Alito and Thomas to uphold polarizing 5th Circuit opinions. I don't want to hear how he cares about the institution. As corrupt as the rest (which we know bc his wife is literally being paid by law firms that appear before the court).

Assigned the opinion and then signed on to it.

Roberts hiding under Thomas and Alito's robes

lmao

Shameful. The day after there are 20 empty chairs at the Sandy Hook graduation ceremony.

Unbelievable. They didn’t have automatic weapons at the time of the revolution!

Back in 2014, when I was still practicing criminal law, I was laying on the floor of a courtroom during this attack. Shortly thereafter, the Forsyth County Tea Party was raffling off a bump stock on the county fairgrounds. Repulsive. www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-c...

Georgia Courthouse Gunman Meant to 'Kill as Many People as He Could'www.nbcnews.com The man killed after he shot a deputy at a Georgia courthouse had been scheduled for court and had filed a lawsuit against the sheriff's department.

Fun fact: During law school, clerked for judges in Dayton municipal court. (1989) Worked on an ordinance to prohibit automatic & semi-automatic weapons in Dayton , OH. Why? to protect the police, who had revolvers. It worked. Sometime later it was repealed. 🤦

Not surprised but disgusted.

Next bump-stock mass murder in 5... 4... 3... My money's on Texxis, BTW.

Not sure how regulating a gun accessory is a Constitutional issue in the first place. It does nothing to restrict a citizen's access to the gun onto which the accessory can attach.

it's a very "well, technically" situation. what the govt did is said that a bump stock allows conversion to a machine gun, which is defined as a weapon that shoots more than one shot per function of the trigger (stuff that allows that conversion is regulated as machine guns themselves)

so the court didn't say congress couldn't ban it, just that it technically doesnt allow more than one shot per trigger pull, therefore technically doesn't meet the required definition to be called a machine gun per 26 usc 5845

From what I understood about bump stocks, it only takes one initial "active" trigger pull by the operator to start the rapid firing action. So is the argument that the trigger is being pulled once per shot despite who or what is "pulling" the trigger? If so, oy.

pretty much. they're basically a spring between the butt of the stock and your shoulder, so the gun bounces back and forth like an inch with each shot. forward into your still finger, shoots, recoils into the spring, bounces back forward, etc. wildly inaccurate because of that, too

It's a real challenge to craft legislation that doesn't give guys like Thomas a smart-ass way to overturn it. Probably impossible, actually.

part of the problem is that bump stocks weren't banned by new legislation, but by the ATF reversing its previous findings and trying to twist old definitions not saying the courts wouldn't shit over a new law, but reticence about passing new gun laws is itself a huge problem with this whole thing

Sigh. I don't know why I spend any energy arguing logic with a court that's dominated by bad faith actors.

The OED says a machine gun is "an automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed." These "originalists" don't understand current English. How can they interpret centuries old English?

No doubt soon they will make the M-28 legal, too! Nothing like a man-portable nuclear weapon, and it is even called a "gun"! They definitely didn't have that baby around in the 1700's, either, so it should be all good for Thomas to let Amazon sell them.

There should be a rule that if you get the three liberal justices, plus any Justice who isn't Kavanaugh or Roberts, you win.

Is the case where the deportation notice failed to specify important information of the time or location of the hearing?

Yep another crappy NTA case. SCOTUS seems to say, ‘yes the govt has to file a sufficient NTA, but here’s how people can still be deported if they don’t.’

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