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Today at SCOTUS: The Biden administration will appear before the justices asking to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- despite Biden's campaign pledge to end the death penalty and the DOJ's recent moratorium on federal executions.
Brett Kavanaugh was back on the bench today after participating in last week's arguments remotely due to his positive COVID test. Here's the full nine-person bench, in a sketch by @Courtartist.
#SCOTUS calls for the views of the US Solicitor General in Epic Systems v. Tata Consultancy Services, re whether a punitive damages award that complies with a state law that caps punitive damages passes constitutional muster
#SCOTUS will not hear Boardman v. Inslee, challenge to Wash law that protects against disclosure of personal information of in-home care providers but allows state to provide information to their union.
#SCOTUS will not take up challenge to Congress’s authority to criminalize cockfighting in Puerto Rico. Case was #20-1735, Ortiz-Diaz v. US.
Here's this morning's order list: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/101221zor_8n6a.pdf. The court adds no new cases to its docket.
