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Josh Block

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Attorney @ACLULGBT. He/him. Views expressed here are my own.

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Keep the nominations coming.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

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Julia Azari's avatar Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social
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i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate

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I imagine that it's very fun to be a district court judge urged to follow another circuit's terrible opinion, because you really don't have to refrain from saying "that court is on drugs"

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Appropriately declining to follow the Fifth Circuit in defying binding precedent.

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Even as someone immersed in it for research, I don't any of us has fully grokked how quickly Christian nationalism has been, and is being, mainstreamed.

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Texas Supreme Court Justices Friday ruled that a Waco judge who had refused to officiate same-sex marriages had a right to sue the State Commission on Judicial Conduct for reprimanding her.

www.chron.com/politics/art...

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Can still enforce through 1983, right?

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Can still enforce through 1983, right?

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And the new “explain something even better” doctrine the court created yesterday.

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Where the fuck was this guy last night?!

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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among other things, she seems pretty irate over j6 in her Fischer dissent

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Kagan's response on this is perfect. I'm not sure Roberts would even disagree that this is his preferred modus operandi.

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Kagan's response on this is perfect. I'm not sure Roberts would even disagree that this is his preferred modus operandi.

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"The Court, for its part, has not deferred to an agency interpretation under Chevron since 2016." And that is supposed to reflect the incoherence of Chevron, as opposed to the fact that there was a major change to the Court's personnel in January 2016?

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"If that is the majority’s idea of a “dizzying breakdance,” ante, at 32, the majority needs to get out more" (Kagan's dissent)

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“In a unanimous decision, nine judges held that there was no legal basis for the longstanding military exemption given to many ultra-Orthodox religious students.” www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/w... 🎁

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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ah a totally normal thing to do for a potential administration that totally intends to abide by the rule of law

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Liz Sepper's avatar Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social
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This one - involving the definition of liberty under the Constitution - is going to lead to a LOT of tea leaf reading about Justice Barrett and about the future of other liberties (same-sex marriage, contraception, etc)

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Respecting the rule of law by passing unconstitutional statutes.

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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NEW: A mandamus order from the Fifth Circuit and a “notice of compliance” in Alabama show how far removed reality is from the ideal of “equal justice under law” engraved above the U.S. Supreme Court’s doors.

Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/two-courts...

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JP Collins's avatar JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social
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The Senate will vote today on the motion to invoke cloture. Senator Schumer also filed for cloture on the nomination of Nancy Maldonado to the Seventh Circuit.

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Judge Liles Burke issued a disturbing order in the Alabama judge-shopping investigation on Friday evening. Here’s what it means, and how it spells likely danger for the LGBTQ civil rights lawyers being targeted by the investigation. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-lile...

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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very easy to make fun of this given all the other times that we've seen stories like this about people who continued to support him. on the other hand, he does genuinely seem worse now

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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Fun how for at least one of the modern day political parties in this country, an attempted coup that came with an actual body count can just end up, with the passage of a little time, being a awkward disagreement among friends, like an argument over tipping wait staff www.axios.com/2024/06/13/t...

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The oral argument in this case created some false hope that the outcome would be different, but they ultimately fell in line with a hardcore 6-3 decision.

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It’s one thing to say Bostock didn’t purport to resolve how its principles would apply in sex-separated contexts, but the idea that Bostock doesn’t apply to Title IX at all is so ridiculous that Jonathan Mitchell conceded it was wrong during oral argument in Neese at the Fifth Circuit.

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The opinion says that sex discrimination under Title IX doesn’t even encompass sex stereotyping. So I guess Ann Hopkins can’t get fired for not dressing more feminine and wearing make up, but she can be denied admission to college because of it?

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The opinion says that sex discrimination under Title IX doesn’t even encompass sex stereotyping. So I guess Ann Hopkins can’t get fired for not dressing more feminine and wearing make up, but she can be denied admission to college because of it?

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Just making things up. No citation for any of this because it’s not true.

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Not for nothing, but the Court also comes dangerously close to confining Havens to its facts.

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Even as they lost, ADF succeeded in expanding doctor’s right to refuse treatment far beyond their wildest dreams 10 years ago.

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: NYC comptroller Brad Lander has assembled a collection of advocates and attorneys to develop a legal strategy to force NY to implement congestion pricing. Press conference tomorrow. (gift link)

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These guidance documents also never had any independent force anyway and have been enjoined by a court in Tennessee for several years.

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If he rules on a case challenging the rules, yes. But that’s not this case, and his reasoning doesn’t have any precedential effect.

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