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I regret to inform you that Chief Justice John Roberts is doing John Roberts things again. The once-proclaimed “conservative” judge, who was appointed by George W. Bush, has become a mainstay of the liberal wing of the Supreme Court, although the media will still describe him as “joining” them as if he doesn’t have permanent residence there.
Roberts ostensibly claims to be protecting the court’s reputation and limiting its impact. In reality, he’s just a spineless weasel who doesn’t want to be held accountable for what a correct ruling might mean. The court does not exist to have its reputation protected. It exists to uphold the Constitution, something Roberts should probably become more acquainted with.
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In a splintered vote with three conservative justices noting their dissents, t
he U.S. Supreme Court denied
the Alabama Attorney General’s application to vacate a federal appeals court injunction that had halted that night’s scheduled execution of III unless the state permitted his pastor to be present in the death chamber to provide religious comfort during his execution. In a second night-of-execution order, the Court lifted a stay of execution based on Smith’s claim under the Americans with Disabilities Act that Alabama had failed to make accommodations for his intellectual disability with regard to his selection of the method of execution.
At 1:31 a.m., in the dark of night on Jan. 13, the federal government executed Lisa Montgomery. She was the first woman executed by the federal government in almost 70 years and only the third woman executed by the Feds since 1900.For a short time in.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in
AMG Capital Management v. FTC, a case in which the Court will decide whether the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) is able to obtain equitable monetary relief when it sues in federal court under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act. As we previewed last summer, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider this question in two consolidated cases: (i)
AMG Capital Management, out of the Ninth Circuit, and (ii)
FTC v. Credit Bureau Center, out of the Seventh Circuit. In November, the Court issued an order briefly announcing that the cases were no longer consolidated and vacating the grant of certiorari for the Seventh Circuit’s