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Pam Bondi is out — and that is a good thing. She was Trump's lawyer, and DOJ paid the price.
Also: Florida will not kill James Duckett this week. And: What's next for conversion therapy bans after Tuesday's SCOTUS decision? Lastly: Law Dork in…
 • Chris Geidner
Supreme Court likely to reject Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship
As Trump sat on watching, Solicitor General John Sauer faced skeptical questions from almost all of the justices — including all three justices Trump…
 • Chris Geidner
Supreme Court holds that Colorado's conversion therapy ban "censors" talk therapists
Justice Gorsuch wrote for the 8-1 court that the law is presumptively unconstitutional as to talk therapy. Justice Jackson dissented, writing that the…
 • Chris Geidner
The birthright citizenship arguments will show what Trump has done to the United States
Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship is at the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case will test his anti-immigrant authoritarian project…
 • Chris Geidner
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Immigration in the Trump era, with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
On the birthright citizenship case being heard at the Supreme Court on April 1: "I continue to believe that this is an easy case. The 14th Amendment…
 • Chris Geidner and Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
Eighth Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, sides with Trump admin's mandatory immigration detention policy
The dissent, from a Trump appointee, highlighted the extreme nature of the Trump admin's policy, which has been rejected by district court judges across…
 • Chris Geidner
Trans West Virginians ask full appeals court to revisit alarming ruling in Medicaid coverage case
"Left to stand, the panel’s reasoning could amount to judicially-endorsed regulation of transgender people’s liberty to be themselves," lawyers for the…
 • Chris Geidner
Immigrants ask Fifth Circuit to revisit ruling on “historically unprecedented” mandatory detention policy
A 2-1 panel of the Fifth Circuit sided with the Trump admin — splitting with the vast majority of judges to consider the matter. Now, an attempt to…
 • Chris Geidner
SCOTUS right imagines ways to fight a Mississippi law that allows more people to vote
The right's hypotheticals were a MAGA-infused morning. The decision on whether states can count ballots received after Election Day will likely come…
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