Yes. A normal certiorari petition requires 4 justices to vote to hear the case. A bill of complaint requires 5. Alito expressly joined Thomas. It is possible another justice or two voted to hear the case but did not join the dissenting opinion.
Update on the tragic bus crash in Virginia:
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) May 29, 2026
Five people are dead, including a 13-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, after the driver of a motorcoach slammed into stopped traffic on I-95. @FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs and our investigators are on the ground at the crash… pic.twitter.com/NWPBd9aLPr
Thanks for reporting. Glad to see mr Duffy’s comments, but deeply saddened by the losses of life.
🚨California Truck Driver with “No Name Given” on His CDL Released by Arkansas Highway Police
— American Truckers United (@atutruckers) June 10, 2026
Arkansas highway police pulled over a truck driver who struggled to understand basic English instructions. Officers required him to identify himself — and the California CDL literally… pic.twitter.com/WA58IQsFuT
This Haitian illegal alien truck driver, who was given a CDL by Massachusetts, STRUCK AND KILLED a Pennsylvania State Trooper.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 6, 2026
The illegal alien, Michael Bon, veered into the right-hand shoulder and struck Trooper Michael Pahira as Pahira was conducting a routine commercial… https://t.co/UjqNyFnFuG pic.twitter.com/0GPX46fIHU
More failure of governance…from fiscal incontinence, to refusal to apprehend/prosecute violent criminals, to “trumping” up crimes against law abiding members of the non-woke majority, etc. etc.,ho hum.
Local link…
https://www.2822news.com/news/local-news/funeral-arrangements-announced-for-trooper-pahira/
BREAKING: DOT confirms to us that the truck driver who allegedly kiIIed 21-year-old UMass goalie and rising soccer star Tobias Forsythe, FAILED AN ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 7, 2026
The driver was Uzbek national Bekhzod Asrarov.
DOT tells me he FAILED an English language proficiency… pic.twitter.com/dMF2wXBz89
The particular killer here had a Green Card. But the noteworthy thing is that his driving school gave instruction in other than English:
This video appears to feature Indian national Kuljeet Singh Kang boasting (in Punjabi?) about receiving his Commercial Driver's License after attending Hawk Truck Driving School in Palatine, Illinois, in 2021.
— Border Hawk (@BorderHawkNews) July 7, 2026
Kang was just arrested for killing Sebastian Stone, 23, in a… pic.twitter.com/O7Q0HLYqcL
Listen to this phone call 🤬
— 🇺🇸 𝓒𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓪 🇮🇹 (@CB618444) May 4, 2026
Illinois DMV is still allowing road tests for a CDL LICENSES with an interpreter in the truck!
Here’s a regular American citizen pretending she’s married to a Spanish speaking man & they tell her she can ride along to translate.
More death, more… pic.twitter.com/b5DFZzGEg7
Liberal judge gives less than five years to illegal alien who killed three people with a semihttps://t.co/QV2NPH9nkP
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) July 15, 2026