"After Thursday’s ruling, voters still elect prosecutors in Florida. That is the law. But, under Thursday’s ruling, the governor is free to overturn that on a whim."
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
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.
SCOTUS also vacates and remands in a challenge to Arkansas’s congressional map in light of Alexander v. SC State Conference of the NAACP. (I’m not sure this changes the outcome; I think it primarily just forces the text in Alexander to be used.) Docket: https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-138.html
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.”
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