Raptorpat

Skip to 6:30 if you just want to hear what the Plan B is.

Biden's gonna do an afternoon address

There were actually two cases that SCOTUS decided: in case #1, the private plaintiffs had no standing: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-535_i3kn.pdf in case #2, the state plaintiffs had standing and the court threw out the program 6-3: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-506_nmip.pdf Whelp, back to the drawing board.

The right to refuse service stops at legally prohibited discrimination. Question in this case is whether someone can deny "expressive services" to a legally protected class because it violates their religious beliefs. Majority says yes.

First decision today is a religious rights/LGBT rights case: The Court holds that the First Amendment bars Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf

I was never a big raider because it required being out and about, but then they added the pandemic remote raids and I could latch onto raids at the park from the comfort of my own home (until they raised the price of course)

disco mentioned the exemption, so it was a thing. I think it may have been a state-by-state decision on how to implement? because really what happened if I recollect was the feds conditioned federal transportation funding on states individually raising it to 21. but I def know of people who were allowed to drink and then got cut off.

It's like when the US made all the states increase the drinking age to 21, so there are folks out there in that cohort who could go drink in bars and then suddenly couldn't again.

last day of the term is tomorrow. Student loans and a religious/LGBT rights case.

It's more like a cohort or school grade than a personal birthday.

Based on the reporting etc., they're still mostly in the "shaping" phase (probing, destroying depots and bridges, etc.) and haven't committed their main reserves to a real push yet.

Yeah head to head polls this early are functionally meaningless

ONLY 69 PAYMENTS of $4.20 AND YOUR PENIS CAN BE AS BROKEN AS MOLARBEAR'S

There's also a religious rights/gay rights case and a religious workplace accomodations care. One other that escapes me.

turns out you all just accidentally voted scoob admin

happy birthday @K_N

scoob has been practicing his kiss face

SCOTUS announced three of its remaining opinions. A jurisdiction case (Mallory v. Norfolk Southern - 5-4 Justice Gorsuch for the majority), a free speech case (Counterman v. Colorado - 7-2 Justice Kagan for the majority), and the big redistricting whammy Moore v. Harper. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1271_3f14.pdf Moore v. Harper was the case where NC's GOP legislature argued that state courts have no authority to block partisan gerrymandering because legislatures have "plenary" authority to redistrict. There was a whole lot of pants-shitting on this one, as Chief Justice Roberts wrote the Rucho decision a couple years ago that said partisan gerrymandering claims fall outside the reach of federal courts. Roberts wrote the majority opinion in Moore, joined by the libs, Kav, and ACB: Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence: Basically, they're saying that state courts can act on elections issues, but the federal courts can say "hold it you've gone too far". Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito dissented. Seven cases left to go, next opinion day is Thursday and presumably one more day after that.

lol just listen https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1673487904465616896

https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1673493762755149824

I'm still in the honeymoon period where I feel like I'm massively benefitting from the reduced commute, but there's definitely cons around the lack of forced exercise.

I fall so far behind in opening/giving gifts I was recently given a parking permit to park in my office building's garage and that's killed my fifteen minute walk to/from my car. PoGo suffering immensely.

There are ten opinions left and this is the final week of the term. I believe decisions will be announced on Tuesday and Friday. Here's a short summary of issues to clench over this week: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-student-loans-gay-rights-elections-a3007709350cd1606d5ce9ac4de957a6

also https://twitter.com/Seinfeld2000/status/1672667136270147586