Category: Legal
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SCOTUS Watch, Snope et al.
The order list for today has come out. Snope and Ocean State Tactical are distributed for conference this Friday. They are still live. Today’s order list was 58 pages, including 30 or so pages by Thomas in different cases. I’d say a hundred cases were closed out. This looked like an end of term broom,…
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State of New York v Trump (Stop DOGING)
Whenever I see a motion for a TRO, Preliminary Injunction or a Stay, the opinion of the court always includes a reference to . These are known as the “Winter Factors”. They must be addressed in order by the court before granting any of the above. The first factor is the likelihood of success on…
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Bessent v. Dellinger, SCOTUS Watch
This matter concerns the President’s action to remove Hampton Dellinger from his position as Special Counsel for the Office of Special Counsel. Dellinger challenged his without-cause removal in the District Court for the District of Columbia. See 5 U. S. C. §1211(b). On February 12, 2025, the District Court entered a temporary restraining order (TRO)…
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SCOTUS Watch Snope and Ocean State Tactical
Not what I intended to write about. The Court has surprised me, again. Snope and Ocean State Tactical are both distributed for the conference of 2/21/2025. We will near nothing about these cases before then. This puts these cases on track for arguments in the new term. Those oral arguments could be as early as…
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The United States of America v. New York State
You might have heard that the DoJ is suing Hochul and James. This is not quite true. They are being sued in their official capacity. So the Governor, Attorney General, and head of the DMV of New York state are being sued. What is the suit about? New York will give a license to illegal…
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The Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State…
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The Boy That Cried Wolf
First, Mark Smith is a lawyer. I am not. Much of the “inside baseball” I’ve learned from listening to Mark and others like him on YouTube. His analysis of many cases is spot on. Many times his analysis guides mine. I enjoy listening to him. To put it differently, I enjoy him attempting to “make…
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Reading The Docket
Ally came to me the other day upset about the TikTok case. One of her issues was that the AP was reporting that they couldn’t report more because it was “sealed”. I found this to be unusual and went to the source to find out what is going on. What I found was somewhat different.…
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Tuesday Tunes + SCOTUS babble
Next Monday we will see Snope and Ocean State Tactical granted cert or relisted. Right now, there are 100s of lawyers writing briefs for these cases. I expect to see over a thousand pages submitted to the Supreme Court. Bruen was distributed for Conference on 4/1/2021, 4/16/2021, and 4/23/2021. Cert was granted 4/26/2021. The parties…
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SCOTUS Update (corrections and more 2)
In the order list for 2025-01-13 we have information on our three Second Amendment Cases. Gray v. Jennings on how preliminary injunctions should be handled, DENIED. Given that they were denied, I expect that we will see the case GVR once our Second Amendment case is heard. Correction: They were denied Cert. It cannot then…