SCOTUS Decision this Friday. What is your guess?

[aggiesal]

Supreme Court adds Friday as additional opinion day this week. (It previously announced Thursday as an opinion day.)
Which ever it is, the big bomb will drop on Friday at 4:55 pm EST

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[LonePirate]

1. The Dobbs decision will be the very last one issued this year, perhaps not arriving until the 30th.

The gun case might come earlier but I doubt it will be this week. Next week will be the real shit show.

[qazplm135]

5. Seems awfully unusual

to have a decision day where the decisions literally drop end of the work day on a Friday. That seems a more likely spot for Dobbs then simply being the last one of the session.

[LonePirate]

9. The Friday date is likely due to sheer volume of decisions waiting to be handed down.

The Court almost always waits until the very last day to hand out the biggest decisions of the year and Friday is definitely not the last day for decisions.

[qazplm135]

11. usually isn't always

and they could have picked another day to hand them down.

At any rate, we don't know when any decision will be handed down, could be end of year, could be Friday, could be tomorrow.

My point is that there's no guarantee it will be the last decision handed down nor is it crazy to think end of the day on Friday is a possibility.

[Polybius]

17. "could be end of year"

Has to come before the end of this term, otherwise they would have o dismiss it. Term technically ends in October though.

[qazplm135]

21. I didn't mean it literally

good lord.

[Polybius]

23. I take everything literally

It is one thing that I can not help, I don't understand exaggeration. I meant no harm.

[Polybius]

16. No more "sheer volume" is left

There are 13 opinions left, and they've been averaging 10 a week the past couple of weeks (5 this Tuesday). There will be onions Thursday and Friday this week, and probably on two days next week, so they will easily get there.

[Celerity]

15. It is not unheard of for the SCOTUS to not finish its term until the first week of July, so we may

(emphasis on may) have to wait until as late as July 7th (a Thursday) or even July 8th (a Friday, obviously).

I will be shocked if we do not know by the end of the 8th.

[Polybius]

18. True

Last year they stood until July. However, there are only 13 opinions left. Tuesday they released 5, and last Thursday 6. They are ahead of schedule now.

[Celerity]

19. +1

[drray23]

2. I hope it's the abortion case.

When they announce it, it will saturate the airwaves and people will be diverted from paying attention to the hearings.


We have another hearing tomorrow and then won't until after 4th of July.

This should give enough time for being able to give each event the focus it deserves . Obviously the roe vs wade repeal is earth shattering and has to be front and center to mobilize people for November.

It's equally important that the full scope of what Trump and his goons did to try to steal the election and overturn democracy be fully acknowledged.

So, announcing the abortion case Friday maybe the best outcome in terms of the timeline.

[FBaggins]

3. Not just an added Friday but at the end of the day?

Yeah… that’s likely to be the big ones.

[former9thward]

12. The OP said end of the day, not the court.

[Novara]

4. I think they'll issue it tomorrow

To steal attention from the hearing. They're pissed off that it leaked so they're going to try and steal attention from the hearing by issuing it tomorrow.

I hope to hell I'm wrong.

[Mad_Machine76]

6. I wish that they'd just do it

and get it over with. This waiting is interminable and, barring, some kind of surprise, we've been preparing for it for over a month now.

[Novara]

7. I'd rather see it Friday but if they only have two days to issue rulings, I assume they'll ...

... be utter assholes and do the abortion ruling tomorrow.

[Mad_Machine76]

8. Whenever it happens, it happens

It's going to be a s**tshow now matter when or how it does.

[Groundhawg]

10. I've decided the Roe decision won't be released until the very last day

Whenever that is.

[former9thward]

13. The SC issues their decisions in the morning, not the late afternoon.

[Lucid Dreamer]

14. Maybe 2am? That would be fun. nt

[Polybius]

20. Now it looks increasingly possible, perhaps likely

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4 opinions were released today, dropping the total to 9 left. There are likely few opinion days remaining: tomorrow, and two or three next week.

[roamer65]

22. I'm following the guidance of PP of Wisconsin.

Last day of scheduled abortions is this Saturday.

The ruling will be next week.

[SCantiGOP]

24. Minority votes will only count as 3/5 of a vote

in an opinion written by Clarence Thomas.
He will cite the fact that the precedent was in the Constitution for a long time.

[edhopper]

25. 14th Amendment

Invalid.

[aggiesal]

26. 82% of us, nailed it. ...

We have a Kings and Queen court.
No longer a Supreme Court.