Today at the 9th Circuit, @chasestrangio will be arguing in the Idaho anti-trans sports ban case, Hecox v. Little. The plaintiffs won an injunction below.
"The singular effect of the law is to exclude transgender women and girls from sports. ... This was the entirety of the debate." - @chasestrangio, arguing before the 9th Circuit in opposition to Idaho's anti-trans sports law
Judge Kleinfeld, a GHWB appointee who was born in 1945 and took senior status more than a decade ago, is most aggressively going after the plaintiffs' arguments — on standing and mootness and on the merits.
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One hundred days ago, Donald Trump was ending his time in office, but Tim Scott starts off his speech by saying Biden is divisive. OK.
Tim Scott continues trying to sell Biden as divisive.
“Families get to define [the American Dream] for themselves,” Scott says, opposing ... more schooling availability for all Americans.
Scott is most effective, rhetorically, on policing, race-based discrimination, & voting — using his own experiences w/ racism to try to push back against Dem attacks on GOP policies/positions. It was an attempt to connect, but then he just went off into defensive talking points.
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.)
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!