SCOTUS Dismisses Alabama Death Sentence Case In Divided Ruling

The majority consisted of the court’s three liberal justices along with Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

The court’s four remaining conservative justices dissented, criticizing the federal appeals court in Atlanta for what they described as an improper analysis of the case. The dissenters argued the Supreme Court should have ordered the lower court to reconsider Smith’s claims.

Meanwhile, the high court on Wednesday refused to examine a $2.4 billion bankruptcy settlement for the Boy Scouts of America.

The nation’s highest court dismissed an appeal from a cohort of childhood sexual abuse victims who contended that the