11:53 AM, JUNE 20 2013
by Juli Weiner
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The Supreme Court was quite the tease this morning, issuing several decisions but none pertaining to affirmative action, gay marriage, or the Voting Rights Act. Jurisprudence diehards will argue that this morning’s three B-side rulings—that “the court can’t require that civil society groups affirm their opposition to prostitution and sex trafficking to receive funding,” something with class-action arbitration, and another thing about prior convictions influencing the severity of sentencing for later crimes—are important, too. These nerds are not wrong, but the decisions that brought 50,000 people to SCOTUSblog this morning will come next Monday at the earliest. Boo! Hiss!
Meanwhile, according to a CNN poll conducted last week, 48 percent of respondents “approve of the job the Supreme Court’s doing, with an equal amount saying they disapprove.” Will the protracted dramatic tension cause those figures to become more lopsided? Or will America forgive the Supreme Court for tricking an attention-deficit nation into learning about “class-action arbitration”?
Tune back next week as the highest court in the land issues . . . Anthony Kennedy’s screenplay. No, it’s not what you were hoping to read, but you’re on SCOTUSblog anyway, so let him know what you think of the well-endowed, crime-fighting “Andrew Kentucky” character. Believable?
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