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10 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
You really should read the relatively short #SCOTUS ruling tonight. The unsigned opinion for the Supreme Court is pretty much downright rude to the *conservative* panel below. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Which is yet another reason why the shadow docket’s constant per curiam treatment is inappropriate given how many cases are effectively being resolved this way — as the justices in the majority tonight themselves make clear they expect lower courts to understand.
The 2-page dissent from Kagan is just as sharp — but aimed (uncharacteristically, for Kagan) at her colleagues in the majority. (Look at that last sentence.)
Part of a data-filled thread from @steve_vladeck about part of the bigger picture of the evolution of the #SCOTUS shadow docket in recent terms:

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10 Apr
This story is amazing, but for none of the reasons intended by @politico, I suspect. politi.co/3dQwGrF
This paragraph is either an Escher drawing or a Rorschach test. I can’t decide which.
Back in 2009, I was a blogger in Columbus, Ohio, mere days before I covered the signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill-signing (it was actually the NDAA) at the White House. They welcomed me with open arms!
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5 Apr
BREAKING: Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announces he has VETOED anti-trans bill HB 1570.
Hutchinson says the bill was overbroad, restricted people’s decisions, and sent a message about Arkansas that he did not want to send. At the same time, he notes that the legislature can still make an override vote (by a simple majority).
Notable that Hutchinson said specifically that he wants transgender people in the state to know they are loved. (Albeit, in an answer defending his signing of the other two pieces of legislation that subject trans people to differential treatment.)
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5 Apr
#SCOTUS grants one new case, Brown v. Davenport (20-826), a case that could even further limit the circumstances under which federal habeas relief can be granted.
#SCOTUS vacates the appeals court judgment in the case over Trump's blocking people on Twitter as moot because Trump is no longer president. Thomas concurs.
Here is the full #SCOTUS orders list: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
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5 Apr
What an amazing Easter Sunday. The cherry blossoms are a gift that is an annual wonder. The weather was perfect. Today’s 8-miler was exactly what I needed.
In the midst of the run, as I stopped at the MLK Memorial and read the side of the statue, “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope,” I looked around at the people, slowly but surely restarting a way of living that resembles life before the pandemic, I started to tear up.
This past year has been so difficult, for so many people in so many different ways. It feels good to feel optimism again. Thanks to everyone—from the front-line workers to the scientists who brought us the vaccines to family and friends—who got us from last March to this April.
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1 Apr
The first #SCOTUS decision is in Florida v. Georgia, the original action water dispute before the justices. Florida lost and the dispute is dismissed. Barrett has the opinion for a unanimous Court. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
The second #SCOTUS decision is FCC v Prometheus Radio Project. Kavanaugh has the opinion for a unanimous Court, finding in favor of the FCC in an own ship rules dispute and reversing the 3rd Circuit. Thomas concurs. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
The final #SCOTUS opinion today is in Facebook v. Duguid. Sotomayor has the opinion for the Court, ruling for Facebook in a case about whether a Facebook security measure violates the TCPA. Alito concurs in the judgment; there are no dissents. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
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OK, it’s a perfect time to talk about World Bipolar Day, which was now yesterday. (Get it? 🙃)

Anyway, my story. I was diagnosed with Bipolar II at 20, after having had to move back home to Ohio from DC after a summer of not being able to hold down a job.
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