The 5-4 vote raises significant concerns about the path ahead. Also: A federal judge wipes the Biden admin's Title IX sex discrimination rule off the books.
That LGBTQ ruling is a bleak situation, indeed. A rule years in the making with careful input, hearings, and crafting is vacated by one crank with a robe.
it wasn't supposed to be years in the making - it was a "we'll do this emphatically year 1" promise from the biden team during transition, and they already had the language for it. the admin actually even tried to get out of doing a PPACA 1557 trans healthcare nondiscrimination rule at all, pushing it back by a year, each year, until ultimately telling us they'd do it next term (lol). natl lgbtq orgs pressured them into it but in the process signed off on a 1557 actively worse than naked statute + bostock. the judicial and cultural landscape would have been completely different if they'd actually engaged in rulemaking on the timeline and with the values they'd initially committed to. i've been doing this for a decade and i've never worked with a dem executive branch as fickle as this one on lgbtq policy at any level of government, and that includes john bel edwards's if you can believe it.
Probably only happened because of the leaked phone call between Trump & Alito. MSM is dying, but this shows the importance of a strong independent media. Going to be a long, bumpy ride. Refuse to kneel!
I've heard all the legalistic blibbidy-blab justifications so spare me, but I still find is shocking that a single district judge could have or even claim the authority to issue a ruling covering the entire country. If he'd issued a ruling saying the Title IX changes couldn't be enforced in the Eastern District of TN Northern Division, sure. I wouldn't agree with it, but yeah, he'd have the authority. But the whole nation?
There are 94 districts in the federal court system and as it stands, any single judge in any one of those districts can wipe out any federal rule that arises in a suit, at the VERY least delaying its implementation across years of appeals including in any district where the rule would have been approved by the federal court located there. Despite the "But"s and the "You have to understand"s, I still say that's screwed up and Congress should start taking seriously its power to regulate lower courts.
Except, of course, I expect SCOTUS would declare any such move unconstitutional. :-\
Kavanaugh pretended that the country was obviously glad about the Nixon pardon. Gorsuch made out that we shouldn't care about Trump himself but the future of the presidency when talking about the immunity decision. Their votes are somewhat unsurprising if dead wrong.
It is ridiculous that even this order had to have a caveat that suggests the result was a close question. For now, a bit of justice -- Trump will be sentenced as a convicted felon, one bit of his repeated election interference having some sort of consequence.
I am going to try to be awake and out of the shower before Merchan rules (in my time zone), so that I can savor the knowledge that Trump is actually a convicted for a long as possible.
As you’ve got to think like a gangster to understand today’s Republicans, I’m wondering if Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are positioning themselves to compete for King Donald’s favor for the moment when he finds a way to force Roberts to retire and then names whomever has kissed his a** the most blatantly to be the new Chief Justice.
The Title IX ruling almost flew under my radar. Thanks for your clear discussion. And thanks, I think, for your take on the SCOTUS order re Trump. That took the initial joy away.
This is sad! That four conservative Justices had no problem trashing the law and the constitution for good ole Trumpers the Orange Jesus! Surely is peons would have been jailed and the key thrown away!
What makes a society great is its kindness to others. The maga mentality will produce the very opposite of greatness as it willfully seeks to destroy more and more lives, creating a lowering miasma of misery.
May Trump voters who voted for others to be harmed in all ways now receive that same harm themselves! If Trump does everything he promised that will happen!
That LGBTQ ruling is a bleak situation, indeed. A rule years in the making with careful input, hearings, and crafting is vacated by one crank with a robe.
it wasn't supposed to be years in the making - it was a "we'll do this emphatically year 1" promise from the biden team during transition, and they already had the language for it. the admin actually even tried to get out of doing a PPACA 1557 trans healthcare nondiscrimination rule at all, pushing it back by a year, each year, until ultimately telling us they'd do it next term (lol). natl lgbtq orgs pressured them into it but in the process signed off on a 1557 actively worse than naked statute + bostock. the judicial and cultural landscape would have been completely different if they'd actually engaged in rulemaking on the timeline and with the values they'd initially committed to. i've been doing this for a decade and i've never worked with a dem executive branch as fickle as this one on lgbtq policy at any level of government, and that includes john bel edwards's if you can believe it.
The country has become less safe for its people.
Ditto; sadly.
Stunned at the 4 votes for Trump. Not surprised at the Title IX ruling.
It's going to be a long and dark four years
Those four didn’t surprise me at all. Roberts did though. Maybe he’s trying to make nice for a minute?
Probably only happened because of the leaked phone call between Trump & Alito. MSM is dying, but this shows the importance of a strong independent media. Going to be a long, bumpy ride. Refuse to kneel!
Ditto; sadly.
I've heard all the legalistic blibbidy-blab justifications so spare me, but I still find is shocking that a single district judge could have or even claim the authority to issue a ruling covering the entire country. If he'd issued a ruling saying the Title IX changes couldn't be enforced in the Eastern District of TN Northern Division, sure. I wouldn't agree with it, but yeah, he'd have the authority. But the whole nation?
There are 94 districts in the federal court system and as it stands, any single judge in any one of those districts can wipe out any federal rule that arises in a suit, at the VERY least delaying its implementation across years of appeals including in any district where the rule would have been approved by the federal court located there. Despite the "But"s and the "You have to understand"s, I still say that's screwed up and Congress should start taking seriously its power to regulate lower courts.
Except, of course, I expect SCOTUS would declare any such move unconstitutional. :-\
Too bad Judge Merchan can't
say, "I was only joking about
that unconditional discharge,"
or "You misunderstood what I
was saying." And give Trump
24 hrs in the NYC jail. But I'll
settle for the big red capital F
on his chest. Convicted
FELON!
I am so very sad and tired of
all this hate for anyone who is
different than an idealized
version of perfection. Gay,
lesbian, have been around for
thousands of years.
Transgender have been
around, openly, for close to
a hundred years. They are all
human beings endowed, from
birth, with the right to love
and happiness. Leave them
alone! They aren't hurting you!
Oh boy, back to the dark alleys …
Kavanaugh pretended that the country was obviously glad about the Nixon pardon. Gorsuch made out that we shouldn't care about Trump himself but the future of the presidency when talking about the immunity decision. Their votes are somewhat unsurprising if dead wrong.
It is ridiculous that even this order had to have a caveat that suggests the result was a close question. For now, a bit of justice -- Trump will be sentenced as a convicted felon, one bit of his repeated election interference having some sort of consequence.
I think I’m going to be sick-but only after Judge Merchan reads his sentence tomorrow. Maybe it will stick to him a day or two.
I am going to try to be awake and out of the shower before Merchan rules (in my time zone), so that I can savor the knowledge that Trump is actually a convicted for a long as possible.
Discrimination is discrimination regardless of the "class" being discriminated against. Equality is equality, period. Equality applies to all humans.
As you’ve got to think like a gangster to understand today’s Republicans, I’m wondering if Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are positioning themselves to compete for King Donald’s favor for the moment when he finds a way to force Roberts to retire and then names whomever has kissed his a** the most blatantly to be the new Chief Justice.
Heartless bastards
Thank you for putting the word “barely” in your headline. So important! Justice squeaked by!
SCOTUS MUST BE REFORMED!! They are currently a group of extremists out to destroy the rule of law in our country.
The Title IX ruling almost flew under my radar. Thanks for your clear discussion. And thanks, I think, for your take on the SCOTUS order re Trump. That took the initial joy away.
The sex discrimination rule decision is horrible. It is also time to limit national injunctions.
As ever, thanks so much for sounding the alarms and your common English assessment of all things legal. So grateful...
This is sad! That four conservative Justices had no problem trashing the law and the constitution for good ole Trumpers the Orange Jesus! Surely is peons would have been jailed and the key thrown away!
What makes a society great is its kindness to others. The maga mentality will produce the very opposite of greatness as it willfully seeks to destroy more and more lives, creating a lowering miasma of misery.
May Trump voters who voted for others to be harmed in all ways now receive that same harm themselves! If Trump does everything he promised that will happen!