It appears that the PDF of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v Anderson issued Monday was tampered with by probably some right wing clerk who didn’t fully cover their tracks, or at least that’s our takeaway from Slate legal expert Mark Joseph Stern’s analysis of the file’s metadata.
Stern writes that “It looks like the liberals’ opinion was originally styled as a partial dissent written by Justice Sotomayor, but got changed to a concurrence in the judgment authored jointly by all three liberals,” which to us sounds an awful lot like certain parties with an interest in portraying the bottom line of the decision as being “9-0” rather than “6-3 in part” went out of their way to fuck with it to polish the political optics of the ruling. Typical petty bullshit from the MAGA weasels.