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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Feb 24

REMINDERS:
* Not every post is for every person; some are to inform legal folks of something.
* If I have time & if it matters, I say more, but I don't always have time & it doesn't always matter.
* If it's important, I usually cover it at Law Dork, where I work to make reports accessible to all.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

Trump take everything.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

Truly grateful tonight for the folks at Round House, who did an excellent job with their production of The Inheritance. It felt right to spend part of National Coming Out Day in community and immersed in our stories.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

Nope!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

It’s an administrative stay. They are, and as the Ninth Circuit explained more, seeking a “status quo” protection. “How can we best change nothing while we decided what to do here?” Admin stays when used properly have nothing to do with the merits and are instead about giving the court time to rule.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

In plain English:

Troops remain federalized for now, but cannot be deployed in Illinois.

Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Background: www.lawdork.com/p/the-trials...

The trials of litigating against Trump

As Trump troop deployments are blocked in Chicago, Trump appellate appointees push back on the order blocking deployments in Portland. And, another Trump target indicted.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

In the case over Trump's National Guard deployment in and to Illinois, the Seventh Circuit grants a similar partial administrative stay while it considers DOJ's stay pending appeal:

The court stays the TRO's coverage of the federalization but denies the stay as to the TRO blocking deployment.

The following are before the court:
1. EMERGENCY MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL AND IMMEDIATE
ADMINISTRATIVE STAY, filed on October 10, 2025, by counsel for the appellants.
2. RESPONSE TO EMERGENCY MOTION FOR STAY PENDING APPEAL AND
IMMEDIATE ADMINISTRATIVE STAY, filed on October 11, 2025, by counsel for the
appellees.
IT IS ORDERED that appellants’ request for an administrative stay is GRANTED as to the
federalization of the National Guard and DENIED as to the deployment of the National Guard.
Pending a decision on the request for a stay pending appeal, the district court’s October 9, 2025,
order is temporarily STAYED only to the extent it enjoined the federalization of the National
Guard of the United States within Illinois. Members of the National Gu

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

I am not arguing with that. You just there made a compelling case without using misleading information that is not a part of the arguments at issue.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

Neither of those practices are speech, so they are not at issue and would still be able to be regulated.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

…….. ?

What the hell are you saying?

I am not criticizing “attack[s]” from the left. I am criticizing misleading slop aimed at inflaming passions while inaccurately describing what is actually going on.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...

RIP, to a legend and style icon.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

No, this is not true and, if you think that, you are way off base.

The whole problem is that this is intentionally done to inflame passions and get clicks.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

You are making my point for me.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

I am very confused here.

It is an influencer post opposing/attacking Trump and the Supreme Court from the left.

What do you not understand?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

It was absurd!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

Absolutely. Then write that.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, I’m wearing an ACT UP shirt today and I’ve been covering all of this for 20+ years. What are you talking about?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

It’s bad. I wrote about it. But, it was a case about talk therapy.

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

I don’t think you know me, or can read.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

The left-wing slop is so bad.

The Chiles v. Salazar arguments — over talk therapy — were bad enough.

You don’t need to pretend the case was about things it wasn’t about to tell a compelling story.

CROSSED OUT

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back "gay conversion therapy."
This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20h

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20h

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Reposted by Chris Geidner

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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