And, in other news never to be reported by the R-G, three (3) more US Supreme Court cases were decided today despite having an eight (8( person court since Justice Scalia's death in February.  

Two were unanimous and one was 6-1 with the Chief Justice not participating.  That makes 45 decisions since Scalia died and only two of them were different because of the 4-4 tie situation.  The Democratic Republic lives, despite President Obama and Senator Merkley spotting falling bits of the sky all this year.  

Oh,  One of the Unanimous reversals was of our liberal 9th Circuit Court, as usual.  

They wanted to let off a tribal member with multiple domestic assault convictions from being treated as an habitual offender.  The Congress enacted the law because "“[C]ompared to all other groups in the United States,” Native American women “experience the highest rates of domestic violence.”  The 9th Circuit wanted to let him off.

Justice Ginsburg wrote the Unanimous opinion.