Oh, hey there, Rep. Jim Jordan, you bloviating nuisance from Buckeye hell. The Supreme Court dropped you a little present in today's mail. It's a free season's pass to Depositionland. Hope you enjoy it.

From NBC News:

The decision came almost a year after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio said that another federal judge erred in 2021 when he ruled that the statute of limitations in the case against Dr. Richard Strauss had run out. Strauss victim Steve Snyder-Hill said "justice has prevailed."

"Colleges are not going to be able to cover up and lie about sexual assault then turn around and tell you it is too late (to sue), since they were so successful in covering it up,” Snyder-Hill said. Lawyers for the survivors said OSU had "attempted to run out the clock on its accountability."

"We look forward to returning to the trial court, having our clients’ stories heard, and gathering further evidence of OSU’s widespread cover-up of Dr. Strauss’s serial predation," the statement from Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, Scott Elliot Smith, LPA, and Public Justice, said.

This means that Ohio State, having already paid out $40 million to Strauss' victims, will now face another considerable number of plaintiffs going back years. It also means that Jordan, who was an assistant wrestling coach at the time, and who, several former OSU athletes have said, was aware of Strauss' crimes, will be answering motions about sexual abuse while trying to make the case that Hunter Biden's junk was a threat to democracy an the rule of law. (Jordan's defense was, and remains, the Sergeant Schultz defense. He knew noth-INK!) This should be quite amusing.

Elsewhere on Monday's docket, the Court determined that Louisiana should redraw its election maps to provide for a second Black-majority congressional district. This is the second time in a month that the Court, which gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act when Chief Justice John Roberts declared the Day of Jubilee in Shelby County v. Holder 10 years ago this weekend, has told a state to fix its maps for this reason, having earlier sent Alabama's maps back for revision.

In a brief unsigned order, the high court lifted a stay that had put in place nearly one year ago that placed on hold a federal district court ruling ordering Louisiana Republicans to redraw the state's congressional voting boundaries before the 2022 midterm elections and create a second district that gives Black voters the opportunity to elect their preferred candidate. The case had been put on hold while the Supreme Court weighed a similar challenge to Alabama's congressional voting lines. In dissolving the stay issued last June, the high court's order said the move "will allow the matter to proceed before the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for review in the ordinary course and in advance of the 2024 congressional elections in Louisiana." In the Alabama case, the Supreme Court earlier this month invalidated the congressional map drawn by GOP state lawmakers there after the 2020 Census and found the redistricting plan for its seven House seats likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

It's important to note that, in both of these cases, the Court simply refused to consider them. This, the Court can do without leaving any individual fingerprints, leaving the wide world to speculate what's at work in the chambers of the Nine Wise Souls. Are they spooked by weeks of bad publicity in which several of them stood revealed as sublets to the titans of plutocracy? Are other justices wary of letting Justices Thomas and Alito drive the train? Let the entrail-divining begin and, for the moment, you know, gift horses, mouths.

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Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. 

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