Chris Geidner 10 months ago

BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Education Dep't to halt payment of grants. A district court issued a TRO blocking the cancelation of the grants in a suit brought by eight states. The appeals court refused a stay pending appeal. Today, SCOTUS stayed the TRO—blocking payments.

Chris Geidner 11 months ago

BREAKING: Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue same-sex couples' marriage licenses, loses her appeal at the Sixth Circuit of a lawsuit she lost at trial that was brought by same-sex couples whose constitutional right to marry she violated. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca6.151496/gov.uscourts.ca6.151496.6015541768.2.pdf

Chris Geidner 1 year ago

Purity tests. Control. Policing of bodies. That’s what that has always been about, and the outright hate and absurd weirdness that this boxing situation is bringing out this week is making that undeniably clear as people just flat-out lie and goalpost shift by the minute.

Chris Geidner 1 year ago

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Chris Geidner 1 year ago

Justice Sam Alito — fresh off the latest reportof his apparent support for insurrectionists — wrote the court’s majority opinion Thursday, severely limiting the power of the Civil War Amendments to protect voters from lawmakers’ racial gerrymanders.

The Roberts Court conservatives erode voting rights protections. Again.

Alito's opinion severely restricts racial gerrymandering claims. Thomas would end redistricting litigation altogether. Kagan fights back.

Chris Geidner 1 year ago

The 11th Circuit—in an opinion by Judge Andrew Brasher, a Trump appointee—reinstated a man's lawsuit against an Atlanta police detective whose affidavit for an arrest warrant put the man behind bars pretrial for 15 months before all charges were dropped.

Texas asks SCOTUS to let it enforce its new immigration criminal law during appeal

The Fifth Circuit allowed Texas to do so. Will SCOTUS stop them? Also: The Eleventh Circuit said a detective might not get qualified immunity in a ...

Chris Geidner 1 year ago

Texas is defending its SB4 criminal immigration law at SCOTUS. The law is now on hold til next Monday. At Law Dork, I cover what's going on:

Texas asks SCOTUS to let it enforce its new immigration criminal law during appeal

The Fifth Circuit allowed Texas to do so. Will SCOTUS stop them? Also: The Eleventh Circuit said a detective might not get qualified immunity in a ...

Chris Geidner 1 year ago

The latest on Texas’s SB4 immigration law and qualified immunity, overnight at Law Dork:

Texas asks SCOTUS to let it enforce its new immigration criminal law during appeal

The Fifth Circuit allowed Texas to do so. Will SCOTUS stop them? Also: The Eleventh Circuit said a detective might not get qualified immunity in a ...

Chris Geidner 1 year ago

Sorry, I lack the ability to cross-post this everywhere, but there is more Fifth Circuit BS. This weekend, it’s (again) about immigration. The thread is over here bc I got the info initially there:

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There is highly questionable action from the Fifth Circuit this weekend, flagged to me by @steve_vladeck. On Saturday, the Fifth Circuit issued "a ...

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

NEWS: Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) joins the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving the Democrats a majority on the committee yet again. Of note, Butler will be the first out LGBTQ person ever on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

BREAKING: In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Jeff Sutton, upholds Tennessee and Kentucky’s bans on gender-affirming care for minors. Judge Amul Thapar joined Sutton. Judge Helene White dissented. More to come at Law Dork:

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Chris Geidner 2 years ago

So, the ins and outs and ups and downs of launching a one-person publication can be ... challenging ... at times. But, then I see things like this happening, and I'm just really happy about what Law Dork is becoming. Thanks, all.

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Chris Geidner 2 years ago

Alabama, fresh off its #SCOTUS slap-down in the redistricting case, asked a district court today to let it enforce its anti-trans ban on gender-affirming care for minors while the 11th Circuit has the case, withheld the mandate, & is deciding whether to rehear it en banc.

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

BREAKING: A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit (Elrod, Haynes, Douglas) allows Texas’s book-ban law to go into effect, issuing an administrative stay of the district court ruling enjoining enforcement of the law. Background:

Trump-appointed judge rips Texas law setting up book-ban regime for state's schools

“This is textbook compelled speech,” U.S. District Judge Alan Albright ruled in halting enforcement of the law. Texas is appealing.

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

Breaking: SCOTUS will not stop the scheduled execution of Anything Sanchez today. There were no noted dissents; Justice Gorsuch did not participate. Background:

Oklahoma's execution spree slowed — due in part to a new AG — but the killing continues

Anthony Sanchez is scheduled to be executed this week. Despite steps OK’s attorney general took to slow executions, a reminder they have not stop...

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

NEWS: Full appeals court likely to vote on whether to rehear Alabama trans care case after three-judge panel ruled in Alabama's favor last month. Background on the original decision at Law Dork:

Appeals court upholds Alabama's felony ban on minors' gender-affirming care

Three Trump appointees reversed an injunction blocking the law, allowing the ban to go into effect. Florida and Georgia rulings now in jeopardy.

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Anthony Sanchez on Thursday. More on that and the status of Oklahoma’s 25-person execution spree at Law Dork this morning:

Oklahoma's execution spree slowed — due in part to a new AG — but the killing continues

Anthony Sanchez is scheduled to be executed this week. Despite steps OK’s attorney general took to slow executions, a reminder they have not stop...

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

Those “religious-liberty training” sanctions that a Texas judge ordered aren’t gone. In fact, they are set to go back into effect on Sunday. Thus far, the 5th Circuit hasn’t even responded to Southwest’s request about the “unprecedented and unlawful” order.

"Religious-liberty training” order back in effect, training set for 9/26

The Fifth Circuit has not responded to Southwest’s Sept. 6 request for an order to keep the sanctions on hold. [Update: With no order, the sancti...

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

Those “religious-liberty training” sanction that a Texas judge ordered aren’t gone. In fact, they are set to go back into effect on Sunday. Thus far, the 5th Circuit hasn’t even responded to Southwest Airlines request about the “unprecedented and unlawful” order.

"Religious-liberty training” order back in effect, training set for 9/26

The Fifth Circuit has not responded to Southwest’s Sept. 6 request for an order to keep the sanctions on hold. [Update: With no order, the sancti...

Chris Geidner 2 years ago

Those “religious-liberty sanctions” that a Texas judge ordered aren’t gone. In fact, they are set to go back into effect on Sunday. Thus far, the 5th Circuit hasn’t even responded to Southwest Airlines request about the “unprecedented and unlawful” order.

"Religious-liberty training” order back in effect, training set for 9/26

The Fifth Circuit has not responded to Southwest’s Sept. 6 request for an order to keep the sanctions on hold. [Update: With no order, the sancti...