Were There Last Minute Changes to Trump v. Anderson?

As Mark Joseph Stern noted yesterday on Xitter, the three-justice opinion concurring in the judgment appears to have been originally drafted as an opinion by Justice Sotomayor "concurring in part and dissenting in part." So either Justice Sotomayor was confused about how to style an opinion that reaches the same bottom line judgment of the majority (unlikely), or something changed in one or both opinions. [Sidenote: Who thinks to check metadata by double-clicking random parts of an opinion or searching for ghost text?]

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There are other indications things may have been revised quite late. 

Ed Morrissey

I saw some discussion about the metadata floating around yesterday. Professor Adler does an excellent job in covering it and explaining some of the arguments. 

I must admit, though, that I didn't take any of this seriously. The opinions are the substance, not the metadata. The finished product goes into the record, and the in-chambers discussions mean nothing at all to anyone except the justices involved. To the extent that the finished product lacks synchronicity (which Professor Adler notes), it's likely because the court felt it was necessary to publish this before Colorado's primary and other primaries that might be impacted by it. 

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