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Marcia McCormick

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Getting too old for this @#$%. SLU lawprof. Worklaw, conlaw, gender & sexuality, plus general quirkiness are my jams.


Marcia McCormick's avatar Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social
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Too much symbolism here with the vandalism of this statue in Houston. I love the sentiments of the artist to leave the damage and not repair it.
Statue Honoring Women and Justice Vandalized at University of Houston www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/a...

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I complained about expensive cars in "putty colors" as a rich asshole flex so much, my spouse looked it up. Apparently it's a thing, jalopnik.com/you-can-than...

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Anna O Law's avatar Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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Agnostic on Biden staying or handing over to Harris, but we've been here before.

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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter's avatar Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter @susanrinkunas.com
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Here's anti-abortion activist Mark Lee Dickson—who works with lawyer Jonathan Mitchell—previewing plans to challenge abortion ballot measures under the Comstock Act. Cites Arizona and Nebraska as targets. Abortion amendments aren't slam dunks
alabamareflector.com/2024/07/01/m... @statesnewsroom.com

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Spoiler: none of the emails are worth your time, either. Usual suspects with usual scripts, mostly.

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It's got the ready and able language that worked recently for standing in the Fearless case, but nothing else.

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Yeah. Possibly negative stars. He is the author of Texas's SB 8, and has a cottage industry of terrible litigation/lobbying.

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That's possibly the least reprehensible thing he has done.

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The complaint is here, but it's one of the grossest things I've read in a while so don't read before eating. I suppose I'm lucky that, as a non-TT person, no one is going to misrepresent me as "unqualified Asian gay man" — yet. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2q5ws...

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One of those was on my back porch a year or so ago. I almost burned the house down. But it turns out they didn't usually sting people unless you step on one. And they eat cicadas. So bonus!

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Hey lawprof friends. This may not be on your radar, but it should be

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Jennifer Bard's avatar Jennifer Bard @profbardlaw.bsky.social
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Hope to post later today, a completed essay on how this will effect the healthcare industry & everyone who ever needs healthcare-it throws everything-EMTALA, ADA, Medicaid, Medicare, COBRA, HIPAA & ACA into free fall

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It's possible that I'm old, naive, or mistook Schoolhouse Rock for reality. Or all three.

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Yeah. I miss a majority in Congress that at least seemed to care about policy driven by evidence and about making people's lives better.

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Yeah. It could lead to a revitalized nondelegation doctrine or its modern version, the major questions doctrine.

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That's fair. I'm just trying to parse why this case and this issue and not others they have declined. And the but-for analysis is straightforward. But for this politically unpopular diagnosis, these patients could take puberty blockers and hormones.

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We are awaiting an en banc decision on the 8th circuit case, that must people here expect to follow Skrmetti. And I have some hope there is enough evidence of bad intent to decide this on rational basis under Romer. And because it's EP, it's not vulnerable to the history and tradition nonsense.

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I am hoping that it is significant that the Court granted only the US government's petition and only the EP and not DP issue. There may also be enough animus evident in the legislation to fail rational basis comfortably under Romer. We'll see, though.

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Woohoo! I just finished reading all my mail* and am caught up! *Holiday cards from 2022

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court will review whether bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors violate equal protection guarantees, hearing the appeal brought by the Biden administration in response to Tennessee's law. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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OMG. Can this guy get any more embarrassing?!?! Wait. Don't answer that.

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And as positive as this standing decision turned out to be (and there may be some landmines in it), it predicts nothing about limits on state regulation or bans.

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I feel like this is a universally applicable warning.

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Florida’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors and many of its restrictions on similar adult care are unconstitutional. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com

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Or the end of small pattypan squash, although the red dot in the center is throwing me there.

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And the little round purple bushes look like purple carrot maybe because they have a core. I agree the talk ones look like eggplant skin. And the light color shapes at the bottom, summer squash.

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I think it looks like yellow pepper, at least the big arc.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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conservatives — both litigants and jurists — are twisting and perverting 19th century civil rights legislation, as well as the reconstruction amendments, to neuter the ability of public and private actors to address racial disadvantage www.cnn.com/2023/10/02/u...

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Kevin van Haaren's avatar Kevin van Haaren @kevin.crime.group
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Holy shit Missouri’s court of appeals does the right thing, rule school district discriminated against a trans male in dividing him to use the men’s restroom & locker rooms. It’ll be appealed to the MO Supreme Court of course, I probably shouldn’t be hopeful.

www.kmbc.com/article/miss...

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Indeed! I put in my time and am grateful to have had the opportunity and to not have it anymore.

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That's some high level passive persuasion technique deployment there.

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