HUGE Day at the Supreme Court

[The Hitman]

Everyone knows that today the Kagan hearings begin in the Senate. Well, at One First street things are going to really heat up.
4 decisions will be coming down this morning.

McDonald v. Chicago (http://scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=McDonald_v._City_of_Chicago) This of course is a big one, probably the biggest since Citizens United, and will determine whether handgun ownership is a "fundamental" right under the Bill of Rights. If the NRA pulls this one through, say goodbye DC gun laws. :( How perverse that will be that they can't get congressional representation nor decide their own gun policy.

Christian Legal Society v. Martinez (http://scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Christian_Legal_Society_v._Martinez) Determines whether our public universities will have to subsidize Christian hate speech (although this could majorly backfire on the conservatives)

Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB (http://scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Free_Enterprise_Fund_and_Beckstead_and_Watts,_LLP_v._Public_Company_Accounting_Oversight_Board). Another big case in white collar crime.

Bilski v. Kappos (http://scotuswiki.com/index.php?title=Bilski_v._Kappos): Less political (and of interest to many readers here) but read how it could have a huge effect on intellectual property.

I'm not feeling much too confident about these for our cause, Especially McDonald. I could see the conservatives carrying the day 5-4, 5-4, 5-4. But we shall see.

[xchrom]

1. i'll be pleasantly surprised if all of these aren't 5-4.

we'll lose the gun case -- the nra has the conservative court locked up.

[The Hitman]

2. Should know in about 4 minss

exciting.

[spanone]

3. with this court, it's frightening

[Unvanguard]

5. Longer, it will be orders first, and then opinions, and each opinion takes a while.

But yes, exciting.

[Unvanguard]

4. We will probably win CLS v. Martinez. Probably a Ginsburg opinion.

McDonald and FEF, we will lose.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. If it goes as expected, many of us will consider McDonald a win

I support all of the BOR, not just some of them

[The Hitman]

10. Yeah

Lord knows we need jury trials in civil suits for $20.

[Unvanguard]

11. Okay.

My political views have never been determined by the wording of clauses on documents from the eighteenth century, and that applies to all of the Bill of Rights.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R #4 for, thanks. n/t

[Catshrink]

7. Justice Ginsburg's husband died over the weekend...

[The Hitman]

9. Gun Rights Prevail. 5-4

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf