SCOTUS End-of-Term Review

The typical SCOTUS term ends on June 30 annually. So I’m behind schedule in doing a review. However, there have been additional emergency rulings coming up every few days, so maybe that’s for the best.

The emergency rulings are mostly related to this administration’s immigration policies, those before the end of term and after. So we’ll take a brief look at some other cases first, and then look at some of the immigration-related cases.

US Supreme Court Building, from a visit in 2015

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A Flood and Tears

 

Texas faces its share of natural disasters: hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, freezes, hail, heatwaves, and floods. (We think we’re relatively safe from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.) Sometimes the disasters are combined—such as happens when hurricanes come with accompanying tornadoes and floods. It was a year ago July 8 that Hurricane Beryl blasted through.

We Texans think we’re fairly resilient. But this current disaster, hitting the Texas Hill Country, is going to take a while.

image from here

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The Heaven-Rescued Land Celebrates Another Birthday

I’m going to put off doing the annual SCOTUS session wrap up for a few more days to honor our country for the 249^th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

It’s nice to have a celebratory holiday in the middle of summer, with fireworks to end a day of sunshine, barbecues, and watermelon. But somewhere in the celebration we ought to take a solemn pause, and think about what it means.

We declared independence—from a tyrannical government. The British later became our friends, but it was a painful breakup there for a while.

We began an experiment in self-government—still underway

 

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