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Alabama passed a map this summer with just one majority-Black district after the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that two “opportunity districts” were required. Alabama was asking #SCOTUS to let it use the one-district map. The court resoundingly said no this morning.
Alabama passed a map this summer with just one majority-Black district after the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that two “opportunity districts” were required. Alabama was asking #SCOTUS to let it use the one-district map. The court resoundingly said no this morning.
On Monday, the Fifth Circuit took a series of unusual actions — each in one-sentence orders — in the Texas book-ban law case, “religious-liberty training” sanctions, and Biden admin social-media influence case. Read about the orders & effects at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circuit-adf-training-book-ban-social-media
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The court gave no reasoning for its order, which is remarkable given that the law has never been allowed to go into effect, so the order — although posed as merely “administrative” — is a ruling, at least temporarily, changing the status of state law.
The court gave no reasoning for its order, which is remarkable given that the law has never been allowed to go into effect, so the order — although posed as merely “administrative” — is a ruling, at least temporarily, changing the status of state law.
As I noted earlier, Southwest has said in court filings that the religious-liberty training is set for Sept. 26. So, there is still *some* time for action. But, the sanctions are now back in effect.
More at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions
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UPDATE: The sanctions ordered against Southwest Airlines — including the order that three lawyers attend "religious-liberty training" — are now back in effect, as no court extended the 30-day administrative stay previously issued to allow appeals. https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions
As I noted earlier, Southwest has said in court filings that the religious-liberty training is set for Sept. 26. So, there is still *some* time for action. But, the sanctions are now back in effect.
More at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions
In other news out of Texas, that "religious-liberty training" ordered as sanctions in a case against Southwest Airlines has been on hold. The stay expires in 8.5 hours, though, and the 5th Circuit has sat on Southwest's stay request. Read it at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions
If the order goes back into effect, Southwest has said that the religious-liberty training — ordered by Judge Brantley Starr to be conducted by the anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ ideologues at Alliance Defending Freedom — is set for Sept. 26. So, there is still *some* time for action after today. https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions
NEWS: The 30-day hold on the “religious-liberty training” sanctions order against Southwest Airlines expires Saturday night. So far, the 5th Circuit has sat on a request to extend the stay. As of now, the ADF training is set for Sept. 26. https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions
The SCOTUS docket will be 23A243.
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The SCOTUS docket will be 23A243.
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#SCOTUS note: There are two Alabama redistricting filings — one in the three-judge case (23A231) and one from the one-judge case (23A241). The different underlying cases lead to different procedural requests at SCOTUS, but the court is almost certain to consider them together. Background at Law Dork here: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-voting-rights-scotus-trans-care
Alabama’s AG is trying to restrict people’s rights on multiple fronts currently, defending the state’s refusal to follow the Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling and asking to short-circuit the appeals process to enforce its anti-trans law. https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-voting-rights-scotus-trans-care
@3e804985 I mean, that possibility is specifically why I wrote, “Under current rules,” in the piece. But, structural reforms weren’t the point of the piece. And every piece isn’t going to get into structural changes that are possible — particularly at a time when they aren’t going to happen.
In case you missed it: On Friday evening, both the Biden administration and the maker of mifepristone went to #SCOTUS in the case over abortion medication access. Read about it, and get the filings, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-and-mifepristone-drugmaker-go
Here’s my report on DOJ and Danco Laboratories *both* seeking cert at #SCOTUS on Friday in the mifepristone case (with both petitions posted, of course), and more. New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-and-mifepristone-drugmaker-go
If you're just catching up from the weekend, I've published two reports at Law Dork since Friday:
- one on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and Trump's disqualification from being president under it: https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-almost-certainly-disqualified
- one on the Sunday night ruling in Georgia halting enforcement of that state's new ban on hormone therapy for trans minors: https://www.lawdork.com/p/georgia-trans-minors-hormone-ban-injunction
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