So many cert denials, and lots of Davis and Rehaif GVRs, in first big SCOTUS order list of OT19

The Supreme Court this morning has released this 78-page order list that resolves lots and lots of the cases that pile up at the Court during its summer recess.  The list of cases in which certiorari has been denied runs dozens of pages, and I was a bit surprised that this order list does not have any statements from any Justices about any of these denials.  (In all likelihood, any cases the Justices thought debatable have been relisted for possible comment in later order lists.)

The order list start with a long list of cases in which "certiorari is granted, [t]he judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded" to the relevant Court of Appeals." The vase majority of the GVRs cite the Supreme Court's work in US v. Davis, No. 18-431 (S. Ct. June 24, 2019) (available here; discussed here) and Rehaif v. US, No. 17-9560 (S. Ct. June 21, 2019) (available here; discussed here).  These GVRs are not surprising, as I wondered aloud in this post back in June about the likely mess and challenge that Davis and Rehaif  surely presented for lower courts.  As is their custom, the Justices are eager to send cases back to the lower courts to start the clean up effort.

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