NEW: DOJ has gone to SCOTUS over the 5th Circuit's "administrative stay" in the Texas SB4 immigration case that would allow the law to be enforced starting March 10. DOJ wants the district ct injunction against SB4 to remain in effect, blocking the law. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24455809-23a814
Although nothing is certain with SCOTUS, it is sensible for all of us to prepare for the Trump Fourteenth Amendment ballot case out of Colorado to be the ruling we get at 10 a.m. Monday.
First take out of SCOTUS arguments: The Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling kicking Trump off the ballot is all but certain to be reversed. The question is how: Does a majority reach a conclusion? Does it definitively resolve Sec. 3 as to all pre-election questions? Does it do so period?
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BREAKING: Supreme Court, on 5-4 vote, grants DOJ request to enforce immigration policy over Texas decisions to install razor wire fencing along the border. The 5th Circuit had sided with Texas. The Chief Justice and Justice Barrett joined the three Dem appointees.
“I think it’s paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws,” the one Republican-appointed judge on the panel said.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear cases over eased access to medication abortion drug mifepristone. The court also denied a request from challengers to hear their challenge to the 2000 approval of the drug. More to come at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/
Re: mifepristone. This is the best-case scenario for abortion rights supporters. DOJ and Danco *asked* SCOTUS to take the case over eased access because the 5th Circuit decision would've ended the eased access. The challengers said, though, "If you take their case, take ours, too." SCOTUS did the first, not the second.
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I'm just seeing the Rainbow Bridge news. I guess we will now get to learn what happens when this sort of news breaks in this post-Twitter-as-the-common-space era — and what we've learned about how to understand breaking-news reports in such situations. My rules: Be skeptical, wait, and don't share things that aren't clearly sourced and credibly confirmed.