@PhilHollowayEsq Wanted to circle back on this one, Phil.
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Jordan Fischer
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Jordan Fischer
@JordanOnRecord
Senior reporter at @BLaw covering the Supreme Court. Previously, courts & investigations at @WUSA9. Hot sauce enthusiast. Opinions my own.
Washington, DC Katılım Mart 2015
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@JordanOnRecord As a veteran defense lawyer, I’ll say that such a frivolous motion sounds great to the client and his family, but it isn’t going anywhere
Lots of lawyers sling around lingo but most of it is nonsense
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I asked a veteran defense attorney a little while ago what their first move would be in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case.
Motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution, they told me.
Acting AG Todd Blanche@DAGToddBlanche
Welcome back.
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The Supreme Court dismisses as improvidently granted a death penalty case out of Alabama about how state courts should analyze multiple IQ tests.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Jackson, writes that it was a poor vehicle to decide the question. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p…
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First SCOTUS opinion of the day is on withdrawal liability in multiemployer pension plans under ERISA.
Justice Jackson writes for a unanimous court. Opinion: supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
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Federal judges have expressed frustration repeatedly over the past year with having to read the tea leaves of the Supreme Court's unexplained emergency docket decisions.
Last night, a South Carolina district judge had the rare chance to take his vexation directly to a justice.
Jordan Fischer@JordanOnRecord
Judge Richard Gergel asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tonight whether lower courts are supposed to follow SCOTUS' often unreasoned emergency docket decisions over decades-old precedent. That's a "legitimate question," Jackson said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ju…
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Judge Richard Gergel asked Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tonight whether lower courts are supposed to follow SCOTUS' often unreasoned emergency docket decisions over decades-old precedent.
That's a "legitimate question," Jackson said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ju…
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The Supreme Court stays a Fifth Circuit order that barred mail delivery of mifepristone nationwide.
Justices Thomas and Alito dissent, w/ Thomas arguing any mail delivery violates the Comstock Act and Alito saying the stay undermines the court's holding in Dobbs.
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Richard Glossip, who won a rare victory at the Supreme Court last year, gets bond as he heads toward retrial on murder charges.
Glossip has spent more than two decades on Oklahoma's death row for the 1997 murder of his boss, Barry Van Treese. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bo…
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In one of two unanimous opinions delivered today, the Supreme Court said federal law doesn't bar state negligent hiring claims against freight brokers.
The case is Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II. Justice Barrett writes for the court.
news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p…
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NOW: Virginia Dems/AG file expected emergency appeal to SCOTUS asking justices to stay Virginia Supreme Court's order invalidating the redistricting referendum.
They argue the state Supreme Court's order misreads federal law fixing a single day for congressional elections.
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Star litigator Neal Katyal raised eyebrows this week with a TED Talk revealing his use of an AI model he said helped predict questions from Supreme Court justices "almost verbatim." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ka…
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Paul Clement notched 9 more Supreme Court arguments this term—bringing the modern record for SCOTUS advocates into view. That hasn't escaped him.
"My running joke is, 'I can tell you how many arguments I've done, but who's counting?'" Clement said. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pa…
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Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court arguments are going too long and are "maybe not as focused as usual."
He suggested the court may look at reining them in a bit over the summer break. (via @SuzanneMonyak)
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ro…
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NOW: The Supreme Court rejects a long-shot request from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to recall its fast-tracked Louisiana congressional map mandate.
No justices note a dissent this time. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…
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Why so many Scalia clerks was the question, and two formers pointed in part to the case arguments he would preside over among his own clerks.
Speaking tonight in Dallas, Justice Amy Coney Barrett--a '98-'99 Scalia clerk--says they helped her "really hone my analytical skills."
Jordan Fischer@JordanOnRecord
Former clerks of the late Justice Antonin Scalia argued in a whopping 52% of all cases the Supreme Court heard this year. No other justices' chambers came close to putting up those kind of numbers. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/sc…
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NOW: The Supreme Court agrees to expedite issuing its mandate in Louisiana v. Callais instead of allowing the normal 32-day waiting period to elapse.
Justice Jackson dissents, accusing the court of causing "chaos" in Lousiana. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…
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NOW: Justice Samuel Alito grants a one-week administrative stay halting a Fifth Circuit order that blocked mailing of the abortion drug mifepristone nationwide.
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Former clerks of the late Justice Antonin Scalia argued in a whopping 52% of all cases the Supreme Court heard this year. No other justices' chambers came close to putting up those kind of numbers. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/sc…
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First Choice Women's Resource Centers was represented by Alliance Defending Freedom and Erin Hawley, in her second appearance before the court. She previously argued the mifepristone case in 2024.
Comes a month after another ADF victory in Chiles v. Salazar.
Jordan Fischer@JordanOnRecord
The Supreme Court unanimously sides with an anti-abortion group who says a subpoena from the NJ Attorney General's Office seeking donor lists violated their First Amendment rights. Justice Gorsuch writes for the court. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/su…
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Different set of facts driving the higher sentences in the Handy case.
The Handy defendants forced their way into a clinic—injuring an employee—and received enhancements for obstructing a victim in a medical emergency who collapsed outside. Six also got perjury enhancements.
Mary Margaret Olohan@MaryMargOlohan
The Biden DOJ requested an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life defendants. That compares to the average sentence of 12.3 months Biden DOJ requested for pro-abortion defendants. Per today's DOJ report on anti-Christian bias: "Pro-life defendants were ultimately sentenced to an average of 14 months, while pro-abortion defendants were sentenced to an average of 3 months."
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The Supreme Court unanimously sides with an anti-abortion group who says a subpoena from the NJ Attorney General's Office seeking donor lists violated their First Amendment rights.
Justice Gorsuch writes for the court. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/su…
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