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Federal judge blocks the Trump administration’s attempt to strip transgender protections from Obamacare, explaining (correctly) that SCOTUS’ Bostock decision means “sex discrimination” encompasses anti-trans discrimination. …d-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/123116892418.p… h/t @sarahposner
The Trump administration rushed out its anti-trans ACA rule just before Bostock came down, assuring us that SCOTUS would agree with its interpretation of sex discrimination.

“Its confidence was misplaced,” the court notes. …d-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/123116892418.p…
Wrote this when Bostock came down on June 15, feeling good about it today 😎slate.com/news-and-polit…
Trump’s clowns at HHS and DOJ spent 3.5 years crafting a rule legalizing anti-trans discrimination in health care, then released it THREE DAYS before SCOTUS ripped up their entire legal rationale. Incredible lawyering, only the best people.
Of course, if the Trump administration had simply said that legalizing anti-trans discrimination in health care is necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act, it would’ve started off with four votes in the bag at SCOTUS.
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I wrote about the white supremacists at Claremont who cooked up the objectively false claim behind the Kamala Harris birther lie: slate.com/news-and-polit… @Slate
White supremacists have a long history of challenging Black lawmakers' citizenship. Today's racists draw from this sordid tradition, and we must refuse to play along by pretending there is anything to debate here. slate.com/news-and-polit…
And yes, I’m really fucking angry that the Federalist Society continues to invite Claremont’s glorified klansmen to “debate” the citizenship of 18 million children born in the U.S. to immigrant parents. THERE IS NOTHING TO FUCKING DEBATE. THERE ARE NOT TWO SIDES HERE.
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By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court just lifted an order that had required the Orange County Jail to implement safety measures to curb its COVID-19 outbreak. All four liberals dissent. Read it: supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf…
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This appears to be Trump’s re-election plan: Sabotage the Postal Service, preventing mail-in ballots from arriving on-time, then declare victory based on the Election Day results, knowing most swing states do not count mail-in ballots that arrive late.
It doesn’t get much more brazen than this. washingtonpost.com/politics/posta…
And @ThePlumLineGS lays it all out here with the gory details: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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