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Gabriel Malor
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Pretty ballsy filing from Roger Stone's lawyers arguing he didn't violate the district court's order not to post on social media about his case.

Says he was merely responding to the threat to the jury pool posed by others. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6174…
Stone denies that his posts were "statements" within the meaning of the court's order because other people authored the headlines he posted and he literally was simply asking question.

No, I am not kidding.
It's a really aggressive motion. There's no hemming and hawing, not even a shadow of a nod toward an apology, or an assurance that it won't happen again.

Just straight up: this is the government trying to intimidate Stone.
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10th Cir., 2-1, rejects qualified immunity for deputies who walked a pretrial detainee through a hospital in the nude.

Notes "law-enforcement officers in this circuit have been taught this lesson [about involuntary exposure of the nude body] repeatedly." ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/18/18…
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Judge Tymkovich has been on a mission to revive application of the shocks the conscience test for a few years now. This is another one of those cases.
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Here's the thing. Many people seem to be unaware that all but a few states *still* have what you would call "forced busing."

This takes the form of court-imposed school districting for the purpose of desegregation. There are more than 100 of these still in effect across the U.S.
Mini-history lesson. Back after Brown v. Board, many localities tried to get out of desegregating by creatively redrawing their school districts.

After a great deal of angsting, the courts ultimately decided that they could impose desegregation by imposing school districts.
These desegregation orders were basically open-ended until the court that issued it decided that the school had sufficiently and persistently desegregated.

In the past 15 years, courts have been making those certifications.
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Out of curiosity, I checked into the most recent school busing decisions in the circuit courts, just to see what they look like.

There aren't many of these anymore. They usually take the form of localities trying to get out from under decades-old desegregation orders.
The most recent is from the 11th Cir. A mostly white Alabama city tried to secede from a county-wide school district that had been created by a desegregation order. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/f…
Some city residents organized, first on Facebook, and, fascinatingly, the evidence from the Facebook posts of residents' racial animus was imputed to the secession decision ultimately made by city officials.
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Roger Stone's lawyers say they weren't trying to use court filings to stir up publicity for his book. "There was confusion."
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(when in doubt, blame the lawyers.)
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