{"id":1513658,"date":"2022-06-13T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513658"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T16:49:35","slug":"scotus-releases-decisions-on-five-low-profile-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-releases-decisions-on-five-low-profile-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Releases Decisions on Five Low-Profile Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscotus-releases-decisions-on-five-low-profile-cases%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513658&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Angry mobs of demonstrators threatened to shut down the Supreme Court today in order to protest the presumed evisceration of\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em>. Instead, the justices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/slipopinion\/21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cleared out five lower-profile cases<\/a> from a backlog that had looked daunting. Even the most interesting of these, a ruling in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/21-5726_5iel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kemp v US<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on sentencing in a firearms case, was a generally unanimous ruling on a technicality.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the justices want to tire out the demonstrators?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No widely-watched rulings from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCOTUS?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SCOTUS<\/a> today. On to Wednesday. 24 cases remain. No. 5 was a decision finding judges have power to amend decisions in civil cases when they\u2019ve made a mistake of law. Actually arose in Habeas. 8-1. Thomas wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/erf5BSo857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/erf5BSo857<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshgerstein\/status\/1536358831038640129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5 rulings issued today. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Court clearing backlog.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdWhelanEPPC\/status\/1536358390162771968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So nothing on\u00a0<em>Dobbs<\/em>, the abortion-restriction case in which Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s draft opinion leaked, and nothing on <em>NYSRPA v Bruen<\/em> either. That case brings a key Second Amendment issue to the court for the first time in a decade, a challenge to a New York law that\u00a0<em>used to<\/em> require a show of cause for a permit to carry a firearm. New York rescinded it in an effort to keep the court from ruling on that issue, but the court refused to moot the case.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling on\u00a0<em>Kemp<\/em> went 8-1, with Justice Clarence Thomas authoring the decision, but it didn\u2019t do much other than firm up some technical parameters on appeals. The court ruled that lower courts should have allowed a challenge to a sentencing based on a judicial \u201cmistake\u201d on a point of law. However, Thomas also ruled that Kemp\u00a0<em>et al<\/em> still failed to meet the \u201ctimely\u201d test in raising the point, which makes this victory an empty one for the plaintiffs:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In sum, nothing in the text, structure, or history of Rule 60(b) persuades us to narrowly interpret the otherwise broad term \u201cmistake\u201d to exclude judicial errors of law. Because Kemp\u2019s Rule 60(b) motion alleged such a legal error, we affirm the Eleventh Circuit\u2019s judgment that the motion was cognizable under Rule 60(b)(1), subject to a 1-year limitations period, and, therefore, untimely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a brief concurrence to stress that she sees this as no change to previous interpretations of timeliness. Justice Neil Gorsuch only dissented to scold the court for taking the case in the first place:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From the start, granting review was a questionable use of judicial resources. The answer matters only under rare circumstances: A losing party fails to appeal or secure relief under Rule 59(e), opting instead to file a Rule 60(b) motion. That motion comes more than a year after judgment but\u2014 piling contingency on contingency\u2014within what the court would otherwise deem a \u201creasonable time.\u201d Rule 60(c)(1). By petitioner\u2019s own (uncontested) count, his is the first petition ever to present today\u2019s question for this Court\u2019s review. See Pet. for Cert. 24; Brief in Opposition 26. Beyond even that, an alternative route exists to resolve the question posed here. Congress has adopted the Rules Enabling Act. See 28 U. S. C. \u00a7\u00a7 2071\u20132077. Under its terms, a committee composed of judges and practitioners may recommend to this Court any warranted clarifications to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. \u00a7 2073. Those recommendations generally take effect upon our approval and absent congressional objection. \u00a7 2074. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully, I would have dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted. Not only does this case fail to meet our usual standards for review. \u2026 Questions like these are best resolved not through a doubtful interpretive project focused on a pronoun dropped in 1946, but through the rulemaking process. There, policy interests on both sides can be accounted for and weighed in light of the \u201ccollective experience of bench and bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gorsuch\u2019s derision on\u00a0<em>Kemp v US<\/em> aside, there are no such things as unimportant Supreme Court cases. Their scrutiny automatically raises up the issues involved even in very technical matters to precedential level, so the rulings matter in every case. Still, no one but the parties involved were sitting on the edge of their seats for\u00a0<em>Kemp<\/em> or\u00a0<em>ZF Automotive US v Luxshare LTD.\u00a0<\/em>The issues of immigration enforcement may have made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/20-322_m6hn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Garland v Gonzalez<\/em><\/a> a bit more interesting, with a 6-3 denial of the appeal by appellants to allow them a class-action status to challenge DHS enforcement of immigration law. Even that, though, has limited impact as it relates to access to bond hearings that the appellants had a legal right to demand individually.<\/p>\n<p>The significant number of cases released today may tell us a couple of things about the court. First, they seem to want to speed up releases to get out on time at the end of this month, and with 24 cases left to conclude, they may well be on pace now to keep from having to extend the term into July. And second, they may be hoping to exhaust the mobs by waiting until the end to release\u00a0<em>Dobbs<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Bruen<\/em>, although the simpler explanation there is that the Supreme Court usually releases its most controversial and heavily debated cases at the very end of the term. We can hope, though, that the mobs will get exhausted enough over the next couple of weeks anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry mobs of demonstrators threatened to shut down the Supreme Court today in order to protest the presumed evisceration of\u00a0Roe. 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