The Court released its opinions in the following cases:
45 6/22/23 22-23 Pugin v. Garland BK 599/1
44 6/22/23 21-1484 Arizona v. Navajo Nation BK 599/1
43 6/22/23 22-381 Yegiazaryan v. Smagin SS 599/1
None of them is the much-awaited affirmative action case, but each is interesting, in my personal view, because of the dissents that Gorsuch joined in each case.
I consider Gorsuch to be of import here because he is the Justice who wrote the opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, and there took a very literalist approach to interpretation of the relevant statute.
Personally, I think there are good odds that Gorsuch will be the author - or main mover behind - the Court's ultimate opinion in the education discrimination case, and I suspect that he will take the same literalist approach there (which would be good, because it would cut against continued racial discrimination in the name of "fixing" prior discrimination).
These dissents then, to the extent that they might provide further illumination on the extent to which Gorsuch is such a literalist, could be helpful.
Like trying to read tea leaves.
