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Gamble vs. United States
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-pardon-orrin-hatch-supreme-court/571285/
Bfd
(1,406 posts)Trump, family, on down to Graham, McConnell Grassley & every one who lined up to be a part of the coup against the US Govt.
Kavanaugh is their "Get out & stay out of jail free card."
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(29,557 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)..who seem to think that he personally will strip the sin out of the law for them.
Gamble isn't even on the calendar yet, and probably won't be heard before 1/2019. The US Government's response is due on 10/25, and the response to them by Gamble is expected a month after that. They don't schedule arguments in the second half of December. (BTW the US Government is actually defending the status quo. They argued against SCOTUS taking the case to begin with.)
Most civil libertarians think that double jeopardy is a bad thing. (And many states forbid it in their own constitutions.) In 2016, Ruth Bader Ginsburg pretty much called for the elimination of the dual sovereignty exception to the double jeopardy clause, in a separate opinion in another case (and was joined by Clarence Thomas in the opinion).
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/15-108_k4mp.pdf (pg 22)
The ACLU has filed an amicus brief in the Gamble case, calling for its elimination. I would be shocked if the 4 liberal judges vote to keep it.