The latest order over the Trump administration's actions sending flights to El Salvador on March 15. [Update: Boasberg moved things forward first thing Monday.]
Even with a legal background, I can't keep my eyes from crossing. Thanks so much for the additional detail. I think I at least get the basic understanding now.
I can't imagine finding a better place to remove much of my daily "WTAF!?" reactions in trying to follow the courts' actions than in reading your concise, well-written and easy for a non-lawyer to understand reports.
Thank you, Chris, for making a bit more explicable, the inexplicable. It seems some of the effing courts tie themselves in ridiculous knots trying to deal with Trump.
Trump judges, it seems, have codified his delay-delay-delay tactic as “proper” judicial behavior … easier than actually presenting case citations, I guess.
Superb explainer, Chris! Thank you. I especially liked the sentence from Judge Pan's opinion, "Our constitutional system was functioning as designed until a panel of this court improvidently intervened." I read this statement as a calling out to Judges Katsas and Rao for their seemingly partisan decision to grant mandamus back on August 8.
Exactly what I was thinking! I appreciate your analysis, Chris, as I feel like I am in an unlit section of tunnels that loop back into one another as I try to find my way through in the darkness, and your writings are the only beam of light, but they light the way like a thousand suns! Thank you!
The two GOP judges... couldn't agree on the reason for the mandamus, and by extension don't really have an instruction to send back down because they viewed the original order from Boasberg as "not appealable", just a "boo. nerd. you suck." note so the majority of the rest of the DC circuit (minus one judge) decided that since the mandamus both didn't instruct to do anything and couldn't be held as precedent, that they were just like "fine we know you hate him whatever let's just send it back so it can keep proceeding"?
It sounds like... bullying? It sounds like those two judges were like "We can't actually *do* anything about it but fuck your face anyway"???
Do I have that right? Could I have that right? I'm so confused.
Even with a legal background, I can't keep my eyes from crossing. Thanks so much for the additional detail. I think I at least get the basic understanding now.
This makes me ashamed to be a lawyer.
How can anyone defend this steaming horseshit?
I am so happy to be a subscriber to your blog.
I can't imagine finding a better place to remove much of my daily "WTAF!?" reactions in trying to follow the courts' actions than in reading your concise, well-written and easy for a non-lawyer to understand reports.
Thank you for your fine reporting.
Thank you for this detailed clarification even though my head is feeling wobbly after reading this.
The wheels of Justice grind slow. We’ll see if they grind “exceeding fine.”
The things mere judges will do
To avoid Rogue SCOTUS review!
Very convoluted.
Real consequences are not in place yet, but there is a possibility that it has been left open. Cheers.
Agree with sunbirdie—an excellent job of making “sense” of this messy finger painting.
Thank you, Chris, for making a bit more explicable, the inexplicable. It seems some of the effing courts tie themselves in ridiculous knots trying to deal with Trump.
I don't know how the Republic survives these judges that think the law is an instrument for Trump to achieve his aims instead of a process.
Trump judges, it seems, have codified his delay-delay-delay tactic as “proper” judicial behavior … easier than actually presenting case citations, I guess.
Superb explainer, Chris! Thank you. I especially liked the sentence from Judge Pan's opinion, "Our constitutional system was functioning as designed until a panel of this court improvidently intervened." I read this statement as a calling out to Judges Katsas and Rao for their seemingly partisan decision to grant mandamus back on August 8.
Exactly what I was thinking! I appreciate your analysis, Chris, as I feel like I am in an unlit section of tunnels that loop back into one another as I try to find my way through in the darkness, and your writings are the only beam of light, but they light the way like a thousand suns! Thank you!
I almost fainted from confusion
This explanation is what I rely on Law Dork for: unraveling the timeline and the vote counting so that we can all understand what actually happened.
Well dorked, Dork!
Okay so as I understand it...
The two GOP judges... couldn't agree on the reason for the mandamus, and by extension don't really have an instruction to send back down because they viewed the original order from Boasberg as "not appealable", just a "boo. nerd. you suck." note so the majority of the rest of the DC circuit (minus one judge) decided that since the mandamus both didn't instruct to do anything and couldn't be held as precedent, that they were just like "fine we know you hate him whatever let's just send it back so it can keep proceeding"?
It sounds like... bullying? It sounds like those two judges were like "We can't actually *do* anything about it but fuck your face anyway"???
Do I have that right? Could I have that right? I'm so confused.
The Trump appointees look bad. They don't care. If they did, they would have allowed the case to play out. This is where we are it seems.