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All About Politics and Not the Law

…letting politics trump the rule of law, the principle that there are laws that everyone, including the government, must follow. Apparently, the senator is no longer a fan. Senator Lee,…

What Autocrats do

…does so by relying on a relatively rarely used provision of the Rules that govern civil cases in federal court. Rule 65(c) says that judges may issue a preliminary injunction or a…

Republican ACA proposal is Worse than I thought

…the bullets (re gender-affirming care, undocumented immigrants and the $5/mo minimum) were actually already included in the “program integrity rule” referenced at the end; I’ll address this below. With that…

GINNI THOMAS v. CLARENCE THOMAS

…of the government’s authority to label information it has as a “state secret” and thus to prevent its disclosure in court. It will do so, though, only in a narrow…

At least as of yesterday morning, the Democratic establishment still didn’t get it. Then again, as of late yesterday, neither did the Republican establishment. And neither did Donald Trump. [UPDATED]

…securities law. It also rewrote that Act so that it uses those forced arbitration clauses to effectively eliminate class actions. It literally rewrote the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, Rule