The Supreme Court justices are typically a harmonious bunch. Most of the court’s opinions are unanimous. Not today. The justices divided 4-3 on a criminal sentencing opinion and 6-1 on two tax decisions. Justices Kathryn Werdegar, Goodwin Liu, and Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar are in the majority on all three cases. Justice Ming Chin dissents in two.
Summaries of the three opinions will follow, but may be delayed because I’m going to a program this afternoon on the most significant of the court’s opinions in 2016-2017.
