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Litigation in the era of Trump:

DOJ says the president had nothing to do with its decision to fire former FBI agent Peter Strzok. His lawyers respond by quoting President Trump's remarks last week taking credit for firing him and others.
Filing is here ->
There's a pretty remarkable pattern at this point of the Justice Department contradicting President Trump in court filings. And an even weirder pattern of DOJ expressly arguing the president doesn't always know what he's talking about ->
Lawyers for former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who is also contesting his dismissal, just filed a notice quoting the same Trump interview, which they say "would discredit [DOJ's] stated reason for purportedly firing" him.
Here's the latest filing from @big_cases ->
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5th Cir. The defendant "moves that he be addressed with female pronouns. We will deny that motion."
Instead, the 5th Cir. says, "courts sometimes choose to refer to gender-dysphoric parties by their preferred pronouns."

But the panel pointedly declines to extend that courtesy in its opinion, which uses the male pronouns the defendant had asked it not to use.
Then follows a long-ish discussion of gender pronouns, why they're confusing and how courts shouldn't issue orders about who gets referred to as what because people will want to be called all kinds of different things.
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A federal judge has denied Michael Avenatti's motion to dismiss in one of his pending criminal cases.
The judge said that although there's clearly animosity between Avenatti, who represented Stormy Daniels, and President Trump, "Avenatti has not offered any evidence suggesting that animosity played any role in the U.S. Attorney's decision to prosecute him."
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