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It’s me. SCOTUS, law & politics — including LGBTQ, post-Roe, criminal law, and democracy issues — at Law Dork. / Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Buckeye. Theater. Runner. Gaymer.

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BREAKING: Sens. Durbin, Whitehouse request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over Alito ethics scandal, call for Alito’s recusal in Jan. 6 cases. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-05-23-Letter-to-CJ-Roberts.pdf

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Previously at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem

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Justice Sam Alito — fresh off the latest report of 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

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The next five weeks are going to include a lot coming out of the Supreme Court — and the other courts aren’t going to stop, either. Subscribe to Law Dork now to support my independent legal journalism and keep up with the news. https://www.lawdork.com/

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NEW: What happened at SCOTUS today in the South Carolina racial gerrymandering case decision? A lot — but the bottom line is that this is another step in the Roberts Court's long-term project to erode voting rights protections.

Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-roberts-court-conservatives-erode

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OK, I'm at SCOTUS, where we're expecting one or more opinions in argued cases at 10a. Subscribe to Law Dork now: https://www.lawdork.com/

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It's a two-box day at SCOTUS, so we're expecting 3-4 opinions (though it, technically, could be two very long opinions).

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First decision is in Coinbase. Jackson writes for the unanimous court, affirming the Ninth Circuit.

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Breaking: The Supreme Court reverses a district court's ruling that South Carolina's congressional map contained a racial gerrymander. The 6-3 decision is by Alito, along ideological grounds. Thomas concurred in part. Kagan writes the dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf

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The final decision, also by Alito, is in Brown v. US. The 6-3 decision in an Armed Career Criminal Act application case features a Jackson dissent, joined by Kagan and, in part, Gorsuch. Sotomayor joined the majority. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-6389_6537.pdf

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Here's Coinbase: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-3_879d.pdf

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With that, 34 SCOTUS decisions remain, including Trump immunity, mifepristone, administrative agency powers, internet content moderation, EMTALA and abortion care, and more.

Thursday, May 30, is the next scheduled opinion day, as noted on the SCOTUS home page calendar.

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Here's my report out of SCOTUS today: https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-roberts-court-conservatives-erode

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Sam Alito is a problem.

The real question now is what the court does about it.

If that makes things awkward at the court, so be it. It is more important than that.

At Law Dork. Read and subscribe now: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem

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Anyway, Alito and his eight SCOTUS colleagues are due to take the bench in less than 12 hours. They are expected to issue opinions in one or more argued cases.

Subscribe to Law Dork now to keep up: https://www.lawdork.com/

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Justice Sam Alito actually is, to turn the phrase on its head, a politician in robes.

On Alito, Roberts, and the latest crisis his court is facing — whether he likes it or not: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem

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Two hundred judges is already two hundred and one, btw. https://www.lawdork.com/p/two-hundred-judges-shadow-docket-bill

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NEW from me, on Blumenthal's shadow docket bill: "No, it’s not going to become law this year. Yes, it is good that he’s doing it — and is something that Democrats should be doing more of this year, for several reasons."

Check it out: https://www.lawdork.com/p/two-hundred-judges-shadow-docket-bill

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🚨 We have a SCOTUS shadow docket bill — introduced today by Sen. Dick Blumenthal, with Schumer and Durbin among the co-sponsors. Read the bill at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/two-hundred-judges-shadow-docket-bill

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The Trump appointee overseeing an “unprecedented judicial investigation” into forum-shopping allegations—levied against some of the nation’s top LGBTQ civil rights lawyers—has threatened to jail some of the lawyers involved.

A huge story out of Alabama: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-burke-threatening-jail-lgbtq-lawyers

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This is a HUGE story, and I intend to do much more with it, but I felt it important to at least lay out the contours of this story for the public in light of Burke's latest moves — and the lawyers' decision to go to the Eleventh Circuit briefly today: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-burke-threatening-jail-lgbtq-lawyers

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NEW: An Alabama Trump appointee is threatening to jail LGBTQ civil rights lawyers https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-burke-threatening-jail-lgbtq-lawyers

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SCOTUS grants no new cases this morning. It also took no action on the Tennessee and Kentucky gender-affirming care cases, meaning these petitions will be relisted to be considered in another conference. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/052024zor_d1o3.pdf

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Justice Sam Alito sold at least some of his stock in Anheuser-Busch and bought stock in Molson Coors on Monday, August 14, 2023, amidst an anti-trans boycott.

What happened and what’s it mean? At Law Dork, I explain: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alito-bud-light-stock-sale-anti-trans-boycott

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LAW DORK EXCLUSIVE: Justice Alito sold Bud Light stock amidst anti-trans boycott effort https://www.lawdork.com/p/alito-bud-light-stock-sale-anti-trans-boycott

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ALSO, LEST YOU WONDER: Yes, justices shouldn't own individual stocks at all — please, write those stories, use this as an example! — but that isn't the point of my story, which is that a justice voting on trans cases might have participated in an anti-trans boycott. That's its own problem.

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