In cogitating over the significance of the Brown v. Davenport grant, we noticed this and that.
This: there was another cert petition at the SCOTUS presenting more or less the same question that had been pending and relisted and rescheduled numerous times. Then the SCOTUS denied it, and Justice Sotomayor dissented.
We don’t know what to make of this at this point, and we are still digesting overall the point of interest in Brown v. Davenport, because that seems like a difficult issue intellectually, but a really insignificant issue in practical effect. It might just be another indication of an absurd insularity at the SCOTUS that they seriously looked at either of these cases, in the end taking one up and not the other, for reasons that are probably bound to be unknowable. We think there might be a tie in to a case SCOTUS handed down about four years ago. But we’re trying to digest that thought as well.
Ugh.
That: We have little noted the recent and somewhat inexplicable political travails of New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo. We say inexplicable because he had seemed to reach an apogee of popularity so recently what with all his COVID-19 briefings so well received by the usual suspects. But we are gratified to point out that we were expressing skepticism about the Governor all along. We don’t know why our observations gained no traction whatever whereas the seemingly less significant but more recent charges of misconduct are poised to derail the Governor’s tenure, other than the usual one: we cry out in the wilderness of a virtual kind.