Thread by @RMFifthCircuit

The Fifth Circuit cuts everything short on the stupid Gohmert suit with these brutal disposition. A very conservative panel btw.

https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1345543016933634048

I cannot explain how unusual and dismissive it is for the Fifth Circuit to summarily affirm without even responsive briefing. They might as well have stamped “please go away you silly person” on the top.

I’m sitting here laughing, but also, it’s terrible that the Court is presented with these stupid and shameful cases.

I’m trying to come up with what a normal non-shameful lawyer would think if they got this opinion hours after they filed a motion to expedite. Something like “I should have gone to med school because this isn’t for me.”

And away goes the mandate (which normally issues weeks after the opinion). This is lawyer babble, for my layperson followers, but the effect is to cut off further litigation in the Fifth Circuit except through an extremely unusual kind of motion.

This is very much a “our patience has run out” kind of opinion.

Note, I love these cases because I make ridiculously easy predictions and they’re always right, because the answer is 100% obvious to anyone except the Trump dead-Enders.