Ahem. How The Argument Time Will Be Split — Next Thursday Morning, At The Supremes — On The Colorado DQ-ing Of Tangerine Case Appeal…

You know full well, we won’t be able to resist listening in, and if my other time commitments permit, i’ll live blog it.

I expect Colorado to have the upper hand on the actual law’s clear mandate — and on what the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment’s framers… at the time, plainly intended.

But Alito / Thomas are the wild cards: will they pull a political (non-legal) rabbit out of the hat, by swaying any/all of Gorsuch / Barrett or Kavanaugh? We shall see — here’s the morning’s SCOTUS minute order:

…23-719 TRUMP, DONALD J. V. ANDERSON, NORMA, ET AL.

…The motion of respondent Griswold for divided argument and for enlargement of time for oral argument is granted in part, a total of 80 minutes is allotted, and the time is divided as follows:

40 minutes for petitioner, 30 minutes for respondents Anderson, et al., and 10 minutes for respondent Griswold….

Onward, grinning — ever, grinning.

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