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Originally Posted by nationalsfan
Also is july 23rd the deadline for the govt to respond to one of the rulings?
Wonder if it's all of these deadlines plus the SC vacancy forcing them to move it to 8/8
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I don't see why the vacancy would have made this deadline change. The Supreme Court term begins in October. Pushing it back by two weeks would have accomplished nothing with regard to a vacant SCOTUS seat.
Regardless, SCOTUS does not automatically fast-track cases just because of contradictory rulings from the courts below.
Gay marriage had contradictory rulings and took a good while to be settled by SCOTUS.
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