Purity tests. Control. Policing of bodies. That’s what that has always been about, and the outright hate and absurd weirdness that this boxing situation is bringing out this week is making that undeniably clear as people just flat-out lie and goalpost shift by the minute.
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Justice Sam Alito — fresh off the latest reportof his apparent support for insurrectionists — wrote the court’s majority opinion Thursday, severely limiting the power of the Civil War Amendments to protect voters from lawmakers’ racial gerrymanders. https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-roberts-court-conservatives-erode
NEWS: Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) joins the Senate Judiciary Committee, giving the Democrats a majority on the committee yet again.
Of note, Butler will be the first out LGBTQ person ever on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
U.S. District Judge John Heil III, a Trump appointee, rejected challenges to the law in a Thursday ruling — the first district court judge to reach such a conclusion. Here’s my Law Dork report on the ruling, its cause, and the fallout: https://www.lawdork.com/p/oklahoma-anti-trans-care-ban-in-effect
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U.S. District Judge John Heil III, a Trump appointee, rejected challenges to the law in a Thursday ruling — the first district court judge to reach such a conclusion. Here’s my Law Dork report on the ruling, its cause, and the fallout: https://www.lawdork.com/p/oklahoma-anti-trans-care-ban-in-effect
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In summary: A Trump appointee in Oklahoma will not stop that state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors from going into effect. Expect an appeal from those challenging the law in short order.
In summary: A Trump appointee in Oklahoma will not stop that state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors from going into effect. Expect an appeal from those challenging the law in short order.
Following the district court’s order on Thursday setting a new congressional map for Alabama, Republican Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, who has fought to conduct elections with illegal congressional maps, backed down. https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-new-congressional-map-order
Law Dork has been covering this case, most extensively in a Q&A with Abha Khanna, one of the lawyers who successfully argued the Voting Rights Act case at #SCOTUS last term. https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-qa-with-abha-khanna
Law Dork has been covering this case, most extensively in a Q&A with Abha Khanna, one of the lawyers who successfully argued the Voting Rights Act case at #SCOTUS last term. https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-qa-with-abha-khanna
A key Americans with Disabilities Act case before #SCOTUS this term is about accessibility information on hotel websites, but oral arguments on Wednesday focused on whether the plaintiff could bring the lawsuit and whether the case is moot. At Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-ada-testers-standing-mootness
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Update: Responses to the #SCOTUS stay requests from the challengers in the Louisiana redistricting case are requested. Any responses are due by 5p Oct. 10. (The dist ct remedial hearing that the 5th Cir halted was supposed to start tomorrow.)
If you missed my Law Dork piece on Judge Jeff Sutton's Sixth Circuit ruling upholding TN and KY's bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors — an opinion that ignores the reality of this anti-trans moment — check it out today: https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-jeff-sutton-ignores-anti-trans-reality
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NEW: A federal judge in Texas struck down S.B. 12, the state’s new anti-drag law that includes both civil and criminal penalties, declaring it to be unconstitutional and barring state officials from enforcing it.
At Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/texass-anti-drag-law-is-unconstitutional
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