As I know others have observed in the comments, the justices issue opinions in order of reverse seniority. So we won't hear from Justices Barrett, Kavanaugh, or Gorsuch (again) today, but we could hear from any of the rest of the justices.
Re the Nance v. Ward case: The prisoner, Michael Nance, is on death row in Georgia, where the only authorized execution method is lethal injection. Nance says that a medical condition will cause his veins to "blow" from a lethal injection, creating a risk of debilitating pain. He has identified the firing squad as an alternative method.
For those wondering Seniority list, in order from least senior to most senior: Barrett, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Kagan, Sotomayor, Alito, Breyer, Thomas, and CJ Roberts
The Court said only that the Miranda rules "were necessary to safeguard that right" against compelled self-incrimination "during custodial interrogation."
Miranda, he says, "did not hold that a violation of the rules it established necessarily constitute a Fifth Amendment violation, and it is difficult to see how it could have held otherwise."
Kagan contends that Miranda confers a right, and that the Court's decision today "strips individuals of the ability to seek a remedy for violations of the right recognized in Miranda."
The court holds that New York's "proper-cause" requirement to obtain a concealed-carry license violates the Constitution by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense.
Thomas says in the intro that the court is holding "that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.
The New York "proper cause" requirement violates the Constitution, Thomas explains, because it only allows public-carry licenses when an applicant shows a special need for self-defense.
The court rejects the "two-part" approach used by the courts of appeals in Second Amendment cases. "In keeping with Heller," Thomas writes, "we hold that when the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual's conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct."
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