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The Supreme Court of the United States has so far handed down multiple per curiam opinions during its 2023 term, which began October 2, 2023, and will conclude October 6, 2024.
Because per curiam decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise noted.
Chief Justice: John Roberts
Associate Justices: Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Ketanji Brown Jackson
Full caption: | Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. |
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Citations: | 601 U.S. ___ |
Prior history: | Anderson v. Griswold, 2023 WL 8770111 (Colo. 2023) |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Oyez |
601 U.S. ___
Argued February 8, 2024.
Decided March 4, 2024.
In the lead-up to the 2024 United States presidential election, a group of voters in Colorado filed a lawsuit in Colorado state court alleging that Donald Trump was ineligible to run for President again because his actions regarding the January 6 United States Capitol attack constituted "insurrection or rebellion against the United States," and thus violated Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The trial court held that Section 3 does not apply to the office of President because the president is not an “officer of the United States." The Colorado Supreme Court reversed, holding that Section 3 does apply to the office of president and Donald Trump's actions do violate it. As a result, the Colorado Supreme Court ordered the Colorado Secretary of State to not list Donald Trump's name on the ballot for president. The United States Supreme Court granted cert and held oral arguments on the matter. The Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment gives states the power to bar candidates for state office being on a ballot after they are accused of violating Section 3, but that only Congress may enforce Section 3 against candidates for federal office.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. In it, she said that she agreed with the holding that states may not bar candidates for federal office from being on a ballot, but would not have decided whether congressional legislation is the only way to enforce Section 3 against federal candidates.
Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson filed a joint opinion concurring in the judgment. They agreed with the majority that states may not remove candidates for federal office from the ballot unilaterally, and agreed with Justice Barrett that the remaining five justices went too far in deciding that only congressional legislation can remove candidates for federal office from the ballot.
Full caption: | Michelle O'Connor-Ratcliff, et al. v. Christopher Garnier, et ux. |
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Citations: | 601 U.S. ___ |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Oyez |
601 U.S. ___
Argued October 31, 2023.
Decided March 15, 2024.
Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff and T. J. Zane were two candidates for the Board of Trustees of the Poway Unified School District in 2014. They each created Facebook pages to promote their campaigns in addition to their personal Facebook pages. After winning their elections, both individuals used the pages created for their campaigns to post updates about the school district and to communicate with their constituents. Christopher and Kimberly Garnier were two of those constituents, and they often would use the comments sections on O’Connor-Ratcliff and Zane's pages to criticize their actions, sometimes in ways that the trustees considered annoying. As a result, both trustees blocked the Garniers, who subsequently sued the trustees for violating their First Amendment rights. The district court granted the trustees qualified immunity but allowed the case to proceed on the merits. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that judgement, holding that the trustees' actions on Facebook qualified as state actions because of the "close nexus" between their Facebook posts and their official positions. The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari on this case, and in light of their holding in Lindke v. Freed, vacated and remanded it for further proceedings.
Full caption: | Sylvia Gonzalez v. Edward Trevino, II, et al. |
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Citations: | 602 U.S. ___ |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Oyez |
602 U.S. ___
Argued March 20, 2024.
Decided June 20, 2024.
Fifth Circuit vacated and remanded.
Alito and Kavanaugh filed concurrences. Jackson filed a concurrence, joined by Sotomayor.
Full caption: | Mike Moyle, Speaker of the Idaho House of Representatives, et al. v. United States |
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Citations: | 603 U.S. ___ |
Prior history: | 623 F. Supp. 3d 1096 (Idaho 2022) |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Oyez |
603 U.S. ___
Argued April 24, 2024.
Decided June 27, 2024.
The Court dismissed the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.
Kagan filed a concurrence, joined by Sotomayor. Barrett filed a concurrence, joined by Roberts and Kavanaugh. Jackson filed an opinion concurring and dissenting in parts. Alito filed a dissent, joined by Thomas.
Full caption: | ' |
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Citations: | 603 U.S. ___ |
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Full text of the opinion: | official slip opinion · Justia |
603 U.S. ___
Decided August 16, 2024.
Applications for stays denied.
Sotomayor filed a dissent, joined by Kagan, Gorsuch, and Jackson.
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