Am I going to make my brain explode by reading all of this bullshit, or am I going to actually enjoy my night?
Lol. These jerks doing the "DRAFT" thing and not giving us the documents in a way that we can highlight or copy and paste.
tell me you're embarrassed by your work without telling me you're embarrassed by your work
IS THIS FOR REAL?!
I honestly don't think I'm going to be able to do this.
She's giving eighth-grade book report.
SOME COMMENTATORS SAY FACT X EXISTS. We're are but a humble presidential commission, who are we to say!?
Oh, god. They literally said that two paragraphs later.
It's really unfortunate that the commission was, apparently, prohibited from viewing the work of the Supreme Court.
This mediocre history report truly is written as if it was prepared by an eighth-grader who is unable to provide any independent judgment. Why even bother having commissioners? If you can get through the wording of this third sentence without screaming, you're stronger than me.
And to be clear, I have tremendous respect for several of the members of the commission, and, more broadly, respect for most of them and their work as scholars of the law. That makes the commission’s work all the more disappointing. I’d hope to see some speak out, at the least.
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BREAKING: The full Fifth Circuit, on a 13-6 vote, upholds Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting by those convicted of any of a number of felonies. A prior three-judge panel had held that the ban violates the 8th Amendment. The full court rejected that. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Judge Edith Jones, a Reagan appointee, writes the court’s opinion upholding Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution. Here is that provision, which lists the convictions subject to lifetime disenfranchisement.
Judge James Dennis, a Clinton appointee, wrote for the six dissenters.
Breaking: Booksellers' challenge to Texas's book-ban regime succeeds at the Fifth Circuit.
Today, the full Fifth Circuit announced that the far-right judges of the court LOST a vote for rehearing en banc 8-9 after a 3-judge panel had previously upheld the dist ct's injunction.
There is highly questionable action from the Fifth Circuit this weekend, flagged to me by @steve_vladeck. On Saturday, the Fifth Circuit issued "a temporary administrative stay," allowing Texas S.B. 4 — the challenged Texas immigration law — to go into effect in 7 days.
Here's my thread on the preliminary injunction ruling from Feb. 29:
BREAKING: Fifth Circuit holds that fed'l emergency room protections (EMTALA) do not mandate that physicians provide abortions when that is the "stabilizing treatment" needed, upholding an injunction issued in a lawsuit brought by Texas. More to come: lawdork.com
For background on this issue (while I'm reading and writing), here's some a post relating to the still-pending SCOTUS stay application filed by Idaho in the inverse EMTALA litigation, where DOJ sued Idaho: lawdork.com/i/139439910/th…