Justices issue orders on murder-for-hire case involving social media influencer, the role of race in seizing persons, and the execution of a Texas man claiming to be intellectually disabled

Justices issue orders on murder-for-hire case involving social media influencer, the role of race in seizing persons, and the execution of a Texas man claiming to be intellectually disabled

Over a dissent by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court on Monday sent the case of a Texas woman convicted of hiring someone to commit murder back to the lower court for another look. And its denial of review in two other criminal cases drew written dissents – one from Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, in a case involving the role of race in whether someone has been “seized” for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, and another by the cour…