Kennedy’s remarks were mentioned about the high recidivism, but I must have missed the rebutting to that myth.

Sex offender consequences in the Supreme Court – what’s ahead?

http://ccresourcecenter.org/2017/07/18/the-supreme-courts-mixed-signals-in-packingham/

This is where ex past facto decisions come into play. If a jurisdiction has declared their registry as punitive, then nobody currently on it can be held to a new stricter law. Also, if they change the law to be more lax, they cannot revert back and have it apply to any registrant that was on the lax laws. This is probably one of the deciding factors in Ohio right now. If they pass the lax laws and being in the 6th circuit, they can never go back.

The Supreme Court is not likely to consider it at all. The Court will consider only the questions presented related to the specific case and controversy we all call Snyder. The Court will be bound by its own stare decisis in assessing how to rule on the Snyder case IF (And I regard that as a huge IF right now) the petition for cert is granted. As persuasive authority goes, the high Court is least likely to be impressed by the outcome of a state supreme court decision.

The Chief Justice generally sets the Court’s flow of traffic. So, it’s entirely up to him. The Supreme Court is not bound by any time constraints. It can move as fast or as slow as it prefers.

Now that the Solictor General has urged SCOTUS not to review; is there a timeline for the court to make a decision to review or not to review? The original date was back in March; which is now past.

As I recall the same Doe (Doe -v- Alaska) who initiated the federal court route challenged it again on possibly different grounds again on the state court route to the Supreme Court of Alaska.

IN A NUTSHELL:
I believe the decision ONLY applies to pre-1996 defendants in state or those who move to Alaska as ex-post facto and unconstitutional parting ways with the stare decisis of the United States Supreme Courts analysis in Doe -v- Alaska.

Important caveat: I recall this from memory so please double check!

I thought that is what you might had been getting at. I agree. The U.S. is a nation of hypocrites, blinded by American exceptionalism. We are getting better, but we still have a ways to go. It is a struggle to remain patient though, it’s 2017…CMON!