DOCKET ALERTS:
Trump says he's going to get the Supreme Court to reconsider its birthright citizenship ruling "IMMEDIATELY." (He's not.)
He also says he's going to get SCOTUS to reconsider its denial of certiorari in the E. Jean Carroll case, and thus he shouldn't have to pay the $5 million he owes her. (Again, he's not.) Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the escrowed funds to be disbursed to Kaplan, holding that it was time for Trump to "do equity and pay the judgment." And the Second Circuit summarily refused his "emergency" request for an administrative stay of the disbursement order. Pay up, a-hole!
The DC Circuit rebuffed Trump's petition to get his name slapped back on the Kennedy Center pending appeal of the ruling that it was illegal to put it there in the first place.
Olympian David Hearn was arraigned today in DC Superior Court on felony charges for having vandalized Trump's janky Reflecting Pool remodel.
Former Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan was given a $5,000 fine but no jail time after being convicted of obstructing ICE by letting an immigrant defendant exit the courtroom using the jury door. The government had sought an eight to ten-month custodial sentence.
DOOFUS OF THE DAY: Ken Paxton, who separated from his wife two years ago, and still continues to use his former marital home as his address for voting purposes, according to ProPublica.
MAIN SHOW:
The Eleventh Circuit upheld an injunction blocking much of Florida's Stop WOKE Act (get it? get it?), which barred university professors from taking a position on "controversial" ideas like systemic racism. The state's theory is that professors are government employees, and employers can regulate speech, and thus teachers are just like Walmart greeters who can be given a strict script. The judges did not agree.
In Georgia, a federal judge quashed a subpoena for a vast trove of data on every person who worked on the 2020 election. Judge William Ray reasoned that any "crime" committed would be outside the statute of limitations, and so he need not reach the propriety of the subpoena to quash it.
According to a recently filed lawsuit, the Trump administration has been violating its own policies and handing Iranian asylum seekers over to the Iranian government — even after we started bombing the country.
Maine senatorial candidate Graham Platner has dropped out — sort of. We'll discuss the legal implications and what happens going forward.
SUBSCRIBER BONUS:
Update on the "Judgefight" from Ep. 243. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in DC says that the Trump administration cannot use the Social Security database to bulk-verify state voter rolls. Judge T. Kent Wetherell in Florida says that they must. Now what?
Carroll v. Trump [SDNY docket]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65895581/carroll-v-trump
Carroll v. Trump [Second Circuit docket]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73589905/carroll-v-trump/
Beatty v. Trump [Kennedy Center, DC Circuit docket]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73477160/joyce-beatty-v-donald-trump
US v. Dugan
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70255566/united-states-v-dugan
Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on "Illegal Voting." He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-voter-registration-election-law
Pernell v. Commissioner of the FL State Board of Education [11th Circuit Stop WOKE]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.80813/gov.uscourts.ca11.80813.11014486517.1.pdf
Iranian American Legal Defense Fund v. Rubio [docket via CourtListener]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73581390/iranian-american-legal-defense-fund-v-rubio/
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 21-A, §374-A [candidate dropping out statute]
https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/21-a/title21-Asec374-A.html
League of Women Voters v. DHS (DC Cir appeal) [docket via CourtListener]
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.43348/
League of Women Voters v. DHS (Sooknanan SAVE docket) [docket via CourtListener]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71499795/league-of-women-voters-v-us-department-of-homeland-security/?order_by=desc
State of Florida v. DHS (Wetherell SAVE docket) [docket via CourtListener]
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69271601/state-of-florida-v-department-of-homeland-security/?order_by=desc
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