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Jun 3 4 tweets 1 min read
New: Weeks before she struck down the federal mask mandate in spring 2022, U.S. District Judge Mizelle attended an all-expenses-paid retreat where a conservative group gave her a crash course in the niche legal theory propping up her opinion. huffpost.com/entry/judges-l… I reported on this group in March. Conservative slush funds write them checks to send mostly Trump judges to luxury hotels. The kind of legal analysis they evangelize is supposed to offer a rationale for making "history and tradition" the law of the land.