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
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.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz showed today that they know what this election means, and they showed that they are more than up to the task.
The country benefits from that.
The only people who don’t benefit from it are grifters on the right who have given up any dignity to fall in line with Trump and reporters who insist upon creating false equivalencies.
They’re totally losing it, and, you know what, it’s good to see.
I’m not shedding a tear. And I’m not fighting with them. Forget that.
Nothing says confidence like going to one of the only places in America where you are guaranteed to get one particular far-right judge.
And, notably, Dillon Law Group — Harmeet K. Dhillon, a former Trump 2020 lawyer who later tried unsuccessfully to become RNC chair — is representing Twitter/X.
Tim Walz: A public school teacher who was in the military and supported queer students in the 1990s while coaching a winning football team who talks about his own family's experience with IVF and can lay out attack line after attack line against his opponents while still talking about the importance of joy.
This was a smart move by DOJ. If it was just a drafting error, this cleans it up without the court needing to do anything. (As opposed to a motion seeking clarification, which, then would mean the court would need to issue a clarifying order.)
Beyond that question, the Eleventh Circuit just blocked a federal rule with no reasoning, 24 hours after a Trump appointee issued a 122-page ruling denying that request.
With this ruling, the Title IX rule — due to go into effect on Thursday — is currently blocked in at least 26 states:
I've updated the story at Law Dork to include the Eleventh Circuit's order late this afternoon blocking the Title IX rule, an order the DOJ said it interprets as covering the plaintiff states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-axon-title-ix-ruling
Just so we’re all clear, the Eleventh Circuit order — even limited to the four states — is wild. With no reasoning, a federal appeals court is blocking enforcement of a federal rule starting tomorrow — essentially overturning a Trump appointee’s 122-page decision in doing so.
Did the Eleventh Circuit (accidentally? intentionally?) just issue an order blocking the Title IX sex discrimination rule nationwide?
I ask b/c the second sentence of that order includes no limitation — even though plaintiffs' request only asked for an injunction as to the four states.
NEW: Judge Annemarie Axon, a Trump appointee, became the first judge to reject a request to block the Biden administration's Title IX sex discrimination rule on Tuesday. She did so in a ruling that harshly critiqued the arguments made by the Alabama-led plaintiffs. https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-axon-title-ix-ruling