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chrisgeidner, 6 days ago to random

Coverage of today's Florida Supreme Court decision, as can be seen from the headlines, is so bad.

Subscribe to Law Dork for legal reporting that tells you what's actually going on: https://www.lawdork.com/p/desantis-worrell-florida-supreme-court

LAW DORK DeSantis high court majority: DeSantis can easily oust people's elected prosecutors The seven-justice, all-Republican-appointee Florida Supreme Court, including five Ron DeSantis appointees, expanded DeSantis’s power to overturn the will of the voters. CHRIS GEIDNER JUN 06, 2024

chrisgeidner, 6 days ago to random

NEW: The seven-justice, all-Republican-appointee Florida Supreme Court, including five Ron DeSantis appointees, expanded DeSantis’s power to overturn the will of the voters on Thursday. https://www.lawdork.com/p/desantis-worrell-florida-supreme-court

chrisgeidner, 6 days ago to random

Horrible anti-democracy ruling out of the Florida Supreme Court today, with the 6-1 majority effectively ending the right of the state’s residents to be at all secure in the election of their prosecutors. https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2435518/opinion/Opinion_SC2023-1246.pdf

chrisgeidner, 7 days ago to random

One great aspect of having done the full 5,500-word story on the Alabama judge-shopping “inquiry” is that I’m going to be able to cover developments in this — which there will be plenty — with just a quick link back to this major report. https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-judges-lgbtq-lawyers-inquiry-part-1

chrisgeidner, 7 days ago to random

Law Dork on the Alabama judge-shopping investigation:

• The law & the lawsuits: https://www.lawdork.com/i/145276139/the-law-and-the-lawsuits
• The order & the inquiry: https://www.lawdork.com/i/145276139/the-order-and-the-inquiry
• The report: https://www.lawdork.com/i/145310153/the-report
• The judge: https://www.lawdork.com/i/145310153/the-judge
• The responses: https://www.lawdork.com/i/145310153/the-responses

chrisgeidner, 8 days ago to random

Over the past two years, as anti-LGBTQ bills and laws were proliferating, a secretive investigation into the lawyers behind many of the challenges to those laws was going on by several federal judges in Alabama. It’s still not done.

Part 1, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-judges-lgbtq-lawyers-inquiry-part-1

chrisgeidner, 9 days ago to random

I'm 2,000 words into a story involving hundreds of pages, in dozens of documents, over multiple years.

It's an important story — worth the time and money I'm putting into it. But I can only do this b/c of you.

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chrisgeidner, 10 days ago to random

The Supreme Court grants one new case, Delligatti v. U.S., a criminal law statutory interpretation case. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/060324zor_6537.pdf

chrisgeidner, 13 days ago to random

Important and horrifying news here from @ErinInTheMorn about the consequences of anti-trans activity in the UK: The criminalization of possession of puberty blockers. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/uk-secretary-uses-emergency-powers

chrisgeidner, 13 days ago to random

Donald Trump has been found guilty on all counts in New York, per @KlasfeldReports.

chrisgeidner, 14 days ago to random

Sam Alito believes you — and, perhaps, his colleagues — are stupid.

Late-night Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-believes-you-and-perhaps

chrisgeidner, 13 days ago to random

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts responds to Sens. Durbin and Whitehouse, writes that Justice Alito responded regarding recusal questions and that a meeting with Durbin and Whitehouse “would be inadvisable.”

Background on Alito’s letter: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-believes-you-and-perhaps

chrisgeidner, 14 days ago to random

Alito is insistent it is his wife who flies flags used by Jan. 6 insurrectionists, even though it fits with all we know about his worldview. And, oh, he adds that she wasn’t flying the second flag aware of its insurrectionist usage. The first, though? https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-believes-you-and-perhaps

chrisgeidner, 15 days ago to random

BREAKING: Justice Sam Alito refuses to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases or Trump cases in letter to Congress.

"My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not," he writes.

Background at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem

chrisgeidner, 16 days ago to random

OK. A lot happened over the long weekend, if you were blessedly off with a job of beach or something similar.

First up, The Washington Post acknowledged that it knew about the (first) Alito flag story since Jan 2021, and I had some questions. https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington

chrisgeidner, 16 days ago to random

SCOTUS grants one new case, San Francisco v. EPA (No. 23-753), this morning. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/052824zor_i425.pdf