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In her opinion, among other bases, she finds that OMB's order likely violates the "major questions" doctrine. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Incredibly chilling and clear-eyed piece from @frank-bowman.bsky.social spelling out the implications of Trump’s latest executive orders—which, stripped of their muddled legalese, essentially anoint him as a monarch with absolute power. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump Issued Perhaps His Most Terrifying Executive Order on Tuesday
Having already subdued Congress, Trump has now openly announced that the Führerprinzip governs the executive branch.
slate.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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SCOTUS' second and final decision is Lackey v. Stinnie. By a 7–2 vote, the court holds that plaintiffs' lawyers are not the "prevailing party"—and can't collect attorneys' fees—when they win a preliminary injunction, then the state repeals the challenged law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
February 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Judge AliKhan reiterates that the Trump administration has NO unilateral authority to suspend all federal financial assistance—saying the move violates the major questions doctrine, and citing Gorsuch for support. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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CA5 reverses Emperor Amarillo's attempt to bankrupt Planned Parenthood.

Unanimous, bipartisan panel of two normie GWB judges and Obama judge.
storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/02/...
February 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I remain convinced that the Supreme Court will block Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship, and will to do by a lopsided vote. Yes, even THIS Supreme Court. Here's why: slate.com/news-and-pol...
Why Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship Will Backfire at the Supreme Court
Donald Trump issued a patently unconstitutional executive order purporting to abolish birthright citizenship to children of millions of immigrants.
slate.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Donald Trump has instructed the Justice Department and DHS to rescind protections for transgender prisoners and immigrant detainees under the Prison Rape Elimination Act: theappeal.org/trump-execut...
‘People Will Die’ from Trump’s Trans Prisoner Crackdown, Experts Warn
Trump's executive order eliminating transgender rights in prison will hurt or kill trans prisoners, experts warn.
theappeal.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined.

Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.
The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "[email protected]."

chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM