Justice Thomas argues in favor of overturning the Feres Doctrine!

I am not sure why but the Feres doctrine seems to be in the news a lot these days.  Yesterday I commented on a recent bill seeking to limit the Feres Doctrine and on the fact that the doctrine is currently part of the plot of a TV show.

Today, the news is that Justice Clarence Thomas dissented in a denial of cert with an opinion in which he argued the court should have taken on the case in order to overturn Feres v. United States.  The case is called Daniel v. United States.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also would have granted certiorari.

You can find all the relevant documents about the case here.

Unfortunately, the other important part of the story is that the Court refused to hear the case, which means it refused to reconsider the Feres doctrine.

Since there have been previous attempts to get rid of it in Congress and they have all failed, I am not too hopeful in the future of the recently proposed bill. If there was going to be a change, this now rejected case was the best chance.