Notices by Chris Geidner (chrisgeidner@journa.host)

We talk a lot about the long-term consequences of this election to SCOTUS (and thus, to us), but there also could be immediate SCOTUS effects as well — in cases over trans rights, ghost guns, the ACA, and more.

I have the story at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/presidential-election-and-the-new-scotus-term

BREAKING: SCOTUS will not stop South Carolina from executing Freddie Owens tonight, the state’s first scheduled execution in more than a dozen years. Justice Sotomayor noted she would have stopped the execution.

Background at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/five-executions-are-scheduled-in

Sunday SCOTUS thoughts at Law Dork: Chief Justice John Roberts apparently cares about appearances — less so ethics. https://www.lawdork.com/p/john-roberts-ethics-and-appearances

The Trump appointees on a federal appeals went wild in a campaign finance ruling on Thursday, a reminder of the continuing harm from the first Trump administration and a stark warning about one of the many dangers from a second Trump administration. https://www.lawdork.com/p/dick-cheney-endorses-kamala-harris

Judge Reed O'Connor, what are you doing?

He's overseeing an X Corp. lawsuit. He invests in Tesla, he's used to invest in Twitter, and he invests in a company with a longtime relationship with Musk that also invests in X Corp. And yet, he's still overseeing X Corp.'s lawsuit against Media Matters.

Oh, and, he pulled all of his financial disclosure reports earlier this summer and they're still off-line.

A Law Dork in-depth report: https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-overseeing-an-x-corp-lawsuit

So. I’ll be publishing the big story later tonight that I’ve been working on for a bit, so that’s exciting.

Subscribe to Law Dork now if you’re in the mood for a story about a judge who really loves his stocks. https://www.lawdork.com/

It’s here, if you missed it! https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-overseeing-an-x-corp-lawsuit

NEW: A federal judge in Texas issued a revised order on Friday significantly increasing the nationwide limits placed on the Biden administration in implementing its Affordable Care Act healthcare nondiscrimination rule.

This evening, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/texas-judge-expands-nationwide-1557-rule-limits

Trump's IVF comments show just how far off his game he is. He's losing, so he's making things up on the fly without thinking through — or knowing — the consequences. For every post from the left pointing out how this is contradictory on several grounds, there's a post from the right mad he said it.

It might be time for a total and complete shutdown of the Heritage Foundation until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

NEWS: The ACLU has filed their brief at the Supreme Court on behalf of the plaintiffs challenging Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors.

Background at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-takes-up-trans-care-case-as

Here's the ACLU brief, calling on the Supreme Court to vacate the Sixth Circuit's ruling from last year holding that the Tennessee ban is likely constitutional: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-477/323499/20240827143014850_No.%2023-477%20Brief%20for%20Respondents%20ISO%20Petitioner.pdf

BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, two Trump appointees on the Eleventh Circuit issue an order allowing Florida to enforce its extreme gender-affirming medical care law — banning care for minors and restricting care for adults — during the state's appeal. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca11.87503/gov.uscourts.ca11.87503.49.0.pdf

lmaoooooo these quotes from ag garland's announcement of the realpage antitrust lawsuit

BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, SCOTUS allows lower courts to block the Biden administration's entire Title IX sex discrimination rule, despite lawsuits not even challenging most of it.

Sotomayor dissents, joined by Kagan, Jackson, and Gorsuch.

Background: https://www.lawdork.com/t/title-ix-rule

UPDATE: Texas has already gone back to the Supreme Court in the student loan cases — with Texas SG Aaron Nielson asking the court to end the SAVE Plan permanently on the shadow docket via a "summary" order. https://www.lawdork.com/i/147559088/then-theres-scotus

NEW: An appeals court blocked a Biden student loan plan — after another one had let it go forward.

What did the Eighth Circuit do on Friday, what's it mean, and what now?

This afternoon, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/student-loan-save-eighth-circuit-injunction

I took a step back on the "Project 2025 is winding down" claims to highlight that it was never really its own thing — and its "winding down" does nothing to change the far-right work behind it.

Why? All of the orgs behind it are still working away. https://www.lawdork.com/p/project-2025-is-everywhere

NEW: While Trump was rambling, I was working on this. Read away.

Now at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/project-2025-is-everywhere

In short, Project 2025 doesn’t need office space at the Heritage Foundation to continue its work.

It’s already doing it.

Today's Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/project-2025-is-everywhere