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Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com |
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Legal journalist and beachgoer. I write about courts, the law, and the politics shaping them. I also edit inquest.org, an online magazine for decarceral ideas.
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Cristian Farias
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I’d add Elizabeth Prelogar. Her future and that of the administration’s policies before a hostile and revanchist Supreme Court largely rests on her shoulders.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.
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Cristian Farias
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Kid 1: We should listen to some patriotic songs! Kid 2: Like “The Star Spangled Banner”! Me: Guys, I can’t really handle patriotic songs all that well. But I’ll make an exception for the classic “Party in the U.S.A.” by Miley Cyrus. Them: Yay! (And then Siri keeps the playlist non-patriotic.)
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Chris Geidner
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NEWS: Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee in Kansas, today blocked the Biden admin Title IX rule as to Alaska, Kansas, Utah, & Wyoming — but also any school nationwide where Young America's Foundation members or the kids of Moms for Liberty go. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Chris Geidner
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Breaking: Judge Ada Brown, a Trump appointee in N.D. Texas, has blocked the FTC’s noncompete rule, limited to the named plaintiffs, in an APA challenge as likely contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious. The rule is set to go into effect in September. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Cristian Farias
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As the nation and the rule of law burn all around us, we have no other choice but to tan.
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Cristian Farias
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I’d only add that: After decades of insistence that finality of state court judgments and no retroactivity are sacred, the Supreme Court can absolutely be expected to interfere with a final state-law judgment against Donald Trump, and to do so retroactively.
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Cristian Farias
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How quickly we forget: There are so many things from the first Trump presidency that were plainly unconstitutional that courts never adjudicated, much less touch. Emoluments, racism in policymaking, animus toward religious minorities, vindictive deployments of agencies. The courts won’t save us.
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Cristian Farias
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That’s from this: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Cristian Farias
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Apple, tree, etc.
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Cristian Farias
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The notion that a teenaged Neil Gorsuch developed some sort of lifelong trauma as a result of his mother quitting the EPA due to mismanagement, and that becoming a defining moment that led to deep-seated grievances against federal agencies is . . . quite something. Sounds like fanfic but maybe not.
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Quinta Jurecic
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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not
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Cristian Farias
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SCOTUS inserting themselves on a decided state-law matter retroactively, despite loving finality of state court judgments and hating retroactivity, is exactly why they’re gonna interfere here.
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Cristian Farias
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I’m so tired. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Cristian Farias
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Almost no one paid attention to Corner Post yesterday, with good reason. But it was yet another power grab under which no government rule, no matter how old and settled, is safe.
Not even the decades-old one approving mifepristone. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Cristian Farias
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From one of Donald Trump’s first acts in office, the Muslim ban, to one of his last, his lawless attempt to hold on to power, the Supreme Court has enabled, turned a blind eye to, and done nothing to prevent abuses that are bound to repeat themselves tenfold. Trumpism thrives under John Roberts.
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Cristian Farias
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“The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.” And I’d add that John Roberts has all but effectively overruled United States v. Nixon. There’s no sense in being able to subpoena evidence of presidential lawlessness when that evidence can’t be used in court.
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Cristian Farias
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Rain or shine, hot or cold, it’s never expected under any circumstance.
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Cristian Farias
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Don’t lose sight of the Corner Post ruling today. Together with last week’s destabilizing administrative law cases, this one will render government rules vulnerable to facial challenges—no matter how old the rules.
Ketanji Brown Jackson sounds the alarm.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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Cristian Farias
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Few things terrify a Jersey boy more than driving out of state and pumping his own gas. Ask me how I know.
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Quinta Jurecic
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I missed that Barbra Streisand weighed in on chevron
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Cristian Farias
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as you know, i'd smash that link so hard. do it!
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Lawrence Hurley
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As I wrote in October: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Cristian Farias
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i kinda hinted at this yesterday in a roundabout way bsky.app/profile/cris...
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Popehat
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.
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Cristian Farias
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One problem of having so many former prosecutors as legal commentators is that people will think that the Supreme Court handing Capitol rioters a temporary win is the story of the day. When what should be leading every newscast is that is that the Supreme Court is making our nation ungovernable.
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Cristian Farias
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I'm A Legal Academic. The Supreme Court Just Destroyed My Syllabus for the Fall. In this essay, I will . . .
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Cristian Farias
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Another year, another chance for the Supreme Court to render so many people's legal education, including my own, appreciably irrelevant. So much of what we learned in constitutional and administrative law is no longer in the books.
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Cristian Farias
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The bottom-line of the end of the 40-year-old Chevron doctirne, from Justice Elena Kagan's dissent.
Shorter: Judicial supremacy over policy.
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Cristian Farias
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I imagine it would be journalistic malpractice, after today’s Supreme Court ruling regarding emergency abortion care, to not ask the candidates whether they intend to maintain the Justice Department’s litigating position that federal law is supreme over—and thus preempts—extreme state abortion bans.
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David William
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Thinking of Aaron Swartz and the miscarriage of justice in light of this announcement.
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David Noll
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The right to trial by jury is of such importance and occupies so firm a place in our history and jurisprudence that debt collectors can slip a fine print clause into an online form and block you from obtaining any meaningful relief for flagrant violations of the law.
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Cristian Farias
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No need to dismantle administrative agencies in one fell swoop. The Supreme Court can just allow piecemeal litigation against them bit by bit, creating uncertainty and rendering government inadministrable for years and years—thanks to a newly discovered understanding of Our Highest Law.
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Cristian Farias
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The deregulatory, air-polluting Supreme Court is back, baby. Come back tomorrow for the likely end of administrative law as it's been known for many decades.
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Cristian Farias
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And here’s the text of the as-yet-unpublished opinion: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
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Cristian Farias
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Bloomberg published more details about the EMTALA opinion that was inadvertently posted to the Supreme Court’s website. The vote was 6-3, with three conservatives joining the liberals, but one of them still lamenting the status quo.
What a hot mess.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Cristian Farias
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The way they gloss over the facts boggles the mind.
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Cristian Farias
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The Supreme Court will be issuing decisions in a few, so of course I have a knot in the pit of my stomach, as one does in a normal society where life-altering rulings come down at random, unannounced, during beautiful summer days.
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Cristian Farias
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yeah, someone else pointed that out in the comments. heartbreaking. 😔
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Cristian Farias
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oh no, that’s certainly worse than an unspeakable act of violence
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Cristian Farias
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In a suspect New Jersey parking lot next to a Dunkin Donuts. It’s truly confounding.
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Cristian Farias
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The uncertainty of whether this doggo is lost or wanted for murder is killing me.
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Cristian Farias
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Pecs or ass for benching and back-squatting, two very bro-y lifts. Pecs or abs may work, too.
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Mark Joseph Stern
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It’s too soon to say with certainty that the Supreme Court’s conservatives are laying the groundwork to overturn Obergefell and abolish constitutional protections for same-sex couples.
But IF that’s the plan, this is exactly what it would look like. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Cristian Farias
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quite a bit of engagement on that tweet
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Cristian Farias
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This reminded me that at least one Supreme Court justice—Clarence Thomas—believes that the “Congress shall make no law” part of the First Amendment means that states are free to set up their own little theocracies.
No, really: www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/0...
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Cristian Farias
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One more.
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Cristian Farias
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Felt especially bendy today.
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Jonathan Cohn
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Police spending in every city crowds out far worthier causes. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/n...
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Cristian Farias
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you nailed rahimi.
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