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Here's the (very brief) email that led to that late Jan. 3 call discussed in earlier stories between a senior DOJ official and the US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia: Image
Less than 10 hours later, BJay Pak, the US Attorney in question, had submitted his resignation. Image
After Cc'ing the senior DOJ official, Richard Donoghue, on his goodbye email to his office, which did not directly reference any of the shenanigans going on, Donoghue replied that Pak was a "class act." Image
These and much more, detailed earlier today by others, in the House Oversight release of documents today. Large PDF here: oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat… Image
A week earlier, Donoghue, the acting deputy AG at the time, sent another late Sunday night email. This one, forewarning of "antics," was sent to then-OLC head Steven Engel. Image
By New Year's Eve, Donoghue and Engel were ... not partying. Acting AG Jeffrey Rosen and his chief of staff when he was DAG, Patrick Hovakimian, were not either. ImageImage
As was reported previously, this all came to a head on Jan. 3, when another DOJ official, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, said Trump was going to be making him the acting AG and top DOJ officials went to the WH to fight out for control of DOJ. We get the emails of that evening. ImageImage
But now, this is where this all comes together. Look at that:
* At 9:47p, Donoghue tells DOJ senior staff to call in at 10p.
* At 10:09p, Donoghue tells Pak to call him ASAP. ImageImage

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Under our "financial disclosure" system, we learned of Alito's 12/31/23 stock holdings in a delayed report not filed until 8/13/24 and not posted until today.
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Aug 27
NEWS: The ACLU has filed their brief at the Supreme Court on behalf of the plaintiffs challenging Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors.

Background at Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/scotus-takes…
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Here's the ACLU brief, calling on the Supreme Court to vacate the Sixth Circuit's ruling from last year holding that the Tennessee ban is likely constitutional: supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/2…
If left uncorrected, the Sixth Circuit’s reasoning will have far-reaching consequences. It will effectively immunize all forms of government discrimination against transgender people from meaningful constitutional scrutiny. And it will force the families at the center of this case (and countless others like them) to lose the very medical care that has allowed their children to grow and thrive. This Court should vacate the Sixth Circuit’s misguided decision, reaffirm that all sex classifications receive heightened scrutiny, and remand for further proceedings or reverse the judgment.
DOJ's brief is also due today. I'll have more at Law Dork after it is in.

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lmaoooooo these quotes from ag garland's announcement of the realpage antitrust lawsuit
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*serious voice*

Here's the complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
This is such a rage-inducing complaint!
10. RealPage allows landlords to manipulate, distort, and subvert market forces. One landlord observed that RealPage’s software “can eliminate the guessing game” for landlords’ pricing decisions. Discussing a different RealPage product, another landlord said: “I always liked this product because your algorithm uses proprietary data from other subscribers to suggest rents and term. That’s classic price fixing . . . .” A third landlord explained, “Our very first goal we came out with immediately out of the gate is 4 Case 1:24-cv-00710 Document 1 Filed 08/23/24 Page 9 of 115 that we will not b...
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Here's the SCOTUS docket:

Here's the Arizona law at issue: supremecourt.gov/docket/docketf…
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Barrett joined w/ the 3 Dem appointees in voting to keep all 3 provisions of the law at issue blocked.

Thomas, Alito, & Gorsush would have allowed all 3 to go into effect.

B/c of that, we know Roberts & Kavanaugh joined CT/SA/NG to let the AZ form provision go into effect.
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This three-judge panel was all Republican appointees (but that's not really a surprise, given the fact that there's only one Democrat on the Eighth Circuit).
I will have more on this, a complicated set of cases in which one is already pending on the SCOTUS shadow docket and that has very real, day-by-day effects on people while this remains in litigation.

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