Chris Geidner

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Ah, Texas is trying to be a little sneaky here, spreading the wealth. When I saw an E.D. Tex. Sec. 1557 case, I thought I should check, and, shock, the case was filed in a division where 100% of the cases go to Trump appointees. www.lawdork.com/p/trans-heal...

Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee, issued a nationwide Title IX rule injunction covering all children of "Moms for Liberty" members this week. That's bad enough, but the procedural/notice mess he made of it is also really absurd: www.lawdork.com/i/146289012/...

Update: There were four rulings. (Story updated to include a Texas/Montana Section 1557 injunction.) www.lawdork.com/p/trans-heal...

NEW: A trio of federal court rulings this week have blocked Biden administration efforts to protect LGBTQ people in getting healthcare and going to school without discrimination. www.lawdork.com/p/trans-heal...

Trans healthcare anti-discrimination rule blocked nationwide as other LGBTQ rule challenges proceedwww.lawdork.com Some aspects of the rule enforcing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act go into effect on Friday. Also: Another Title IX rule injunction.

I would have held off on publishing this, but one of these is a nationwide injunction blocking the gender identity protections under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and the judge issued it yesterday — one business day before some of the rule goes into effect on Friday.

My three immunity-related SCOTUS stories at Law Dork this week: 1. The ruling: www.lawdork.com/p/robertss-m... 2. The conservatives: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-dec... 3. The chief justice: www.lawdork.com/p/the-spinel...

The spinelessness of John Robertswww.lawdork.com Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't want to lead. He is, though, carefully setting up a path to allow the right-wing court to respond to whatever comes its way in 2025.

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Time and time again, Chief Justice John Roberts made clear that this SCOTUS term was a term of contingent planning, leaving open two paths depending what happens with the election. @chrisgeidner.bsky.social wrote all about it at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/the-spinel...

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In case after case, the Supreme Court has whispered, “We’ll hold off to see whether Donald Trump finds his way back into office,” even as the justices acted — repeatedly — to make that possible, if not more likely. From @chrisgeidner.bsky.social —>

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I feel like a fool, a real rube, for having not previously predicted cops demanding free OnlyFans access arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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A lot has happened in this past week, but don't forget that Neil Gorsuch and the rest of the conservatives said cities can criminalize needing a blanket in the cold.

The Supreme Court's cold ruling criminalizing homelessness: Justice Gorsuch's horrifying opinion in the Grants Pass case recalls an earlier heartless dissent. www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

Assuming Wiener (sr status) participates, it will be an 18-member court — with 2 GOP appointees on the panel who already voted to partially uphold the district court's injunction, plus 5 Dem appointees on the court. I'm watching Richman, Haynes, and Willett here. Maybe Wilson?

UPDATE: Jonathan Mitchell and Kyle Duncan get another go at the First Amendment, as the Fifth Circuit this evening announced — after business hours going into the holiday weekend — that they're taking the Llano County library books litigation en banc. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Here's the 2-1 panel opinion, which was vacated with this evening's en banc grant. Duncan had dissented back in June, and Mitchell represents Llano County: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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FYI, DC: “This is a precautionary notice to all customers to boil water that may be ingested due to water of unknown quality. Customer should not drink the water without boiling it first.“

DRINKING WATER ADVISORY: DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory for All Customers in the District of Columbia, the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport | DC Waterwww.dcwater.com

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We live in deeply unserious times

NEWS: Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee in Kansas, today blocked the Biden admin Title IX rule as to Alaska, Kansas, Utah, & Wyoming — but also any school nationwide where Young America's Foundation members or the kids of Moms for Liberty go. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Three things here: • The rule is not going into effect until September. • This ruling would block it from being enforced against the plaintiffs but is not a “nationwide injunction” blocking the rule as to everyone. • The final ruling, expected in Aug, could be more broad.

Breaking: Judge Ada Brown, a Trump appointee in N.D. Texas, has blocked the FTC’s noncompete rule, limited to the named plaintiffs, in an APA challenge as likely contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious. The rule is set to go into effect in September. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NOTE: This is *substantially* more broad than initial reporting I saw of this injunction — which just referenced the applicability in the four states.

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This is a notable part. She denies the Chamber associational standing for the injunction ... essentially because they did nothing specific to ask for it? Lol.

I mentioned the spinelessness of Chief Justice John Roberts on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social last week, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head. So, I wrote about it today at @lawdorknews.bsky.social —>

Fun facts: Law Dork got new subscribers from 49 states and DC, as well as at least 35 countries, in June. (New paid subscribers from 40 states and DC, too!) Thanks, all.

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substackwww.lawdork.com The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Going on a blocking tear this morning, so be warned!

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

Biden is to meet with Democratic governors at 6:30p Wednesday, per White House schedule for tomorrow, just out.

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Here was my second go: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-dec...

The Supreme Court's Declaration of Independence — a few days earlywww.lawdork.com Yes, the court gave Trump a win on Monday — but don't be fooled: Even there, the Supreme Court was consolidating power for itself. That wasn't all on Monday, either.

At Law Dork today, a big-picture look at what the SCOTUS conservatives did in four decisions obliterating agency power — cutting down congressional and executive power and building up the judiciary’s power — over the past week: www.lawdork.com/i/146213411/...

NEW: "Even where the court appears to give power to someone else, be sure to look behind the curtain and see if Chief Justice John Roberts still has his hands on the strings." This afternoon, at Law Dork —>

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I'll have much more going forward, but here was my first go at Law Dork at Monday's immunity ruling from the Supreme Court: www.lawdork.com/p/robertss-m...

Roberts's majority backs Trump in finding an expansive presidential immunitywww.lawdork.com Sotomayor's dissent for the liberals warned of her "fear for our democracy."

Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.