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Still surprised SCOTUS has not said anything yet , thought they would have wanted some clarity before the 2nd started hearing the case .
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You're missing one of the "joys" of our system. Look at the history of the Supreme Court. While there may be examples I'm not aware of, looking at the way they normally do business, they make a ruling and then, they're done with it. They don't "waste" their time correcting anyone who misinterprets it. Unless/until it comes up again in some future case they are hearing.
Making sure all the ...people understand the ruling the way the Supreme Court does, and seeing to it that those people in govt follow the ruling, including making laws in line with that ruling is not the function of the Supreme Court, (no matter how much we think we might be better off, if they did) it is the function of lower courts and other parts of government to do that.
And it is only if they fail in that, that the Supreme Courts gets another case on the matter. IF they choose to hear it. Seems that usually the high court will kick it back to lower courts until those lower courts "get it right".
I wouldn't expect to hear any kind of official "clarification" from SCOTUS unless it becomes clear that lower courts cannot or will not resolve the matter in line with whatever the SCOTUS ruling on the subject is.