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onenote

(42,581 posts)
1. The order list is separate from the issuance of opinions
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 09:40 AM
Jun 2022

I don't think Dobbs will be issued today, but the orders list doesn't isn't an indicator of which opinions will be released starting at 10 AM.

Ford_Prefect

(7,870 posts)
3. The only time they'll issue that one is when they have the 6 conservative justices in a bunker.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 10:23 AM
Jun 2022

May they ALL rot in hell.

Don't tell me about "but Roberts..." He made this court possible if not inevitable by reframing Citizens United into the beast it has become.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,307 posts)
4. Orders aren't opinions. SCOTUS may or may not release its opinion on Dobbs, but that list has
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 10:26 AM
Jun 2022

nothing to do with whether it does or not.

Patton French

(744 posts)
5. That's orders, not opinions.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 11:02 AM
Jun 2022

SCOTUS doesn’t announce in advance which opinions will be announced on which days. Here’s some helpful info:

Question: What opinions will the court issue on a given day?
Answer: Unlike some other courts, the Supreme Court doesn’t announce in advance which cases will be decided on a particular day. So normally, we don’t know which opinions we will get. The only time we have a good sense is the very last day, when the court issues its final rulings.

Question: How does the court decide the order in which opinions will be released on a given day?
Answer: The opinions are posted by author in order of reverse seniority. This means that if Justice Amy Coney Barrett has any opinions, hers are released first, followed by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and so on through the chief justice, who is always the most senior justice. However, there can be exceptions to this general reverse-seniority rule, generally when the justices are announcing decisions in two or more cases involving similar issues and it makes more sense to announce one first, even if it means disrupting the normal order for announcements.

https://www.scotusblog.com/faqs-announcements-of-orders-and-opinions/

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