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Matthew Segal
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The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Biden administration appeal in a dispute over emergency room abortion care in Texas, leaving in place a lower court victory for the Republican-led state: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court declines to hear Biden appeal in Texas emergency room abortion dispute
Supreme Court declines to hear Biden appeal in Texas emergency room abortion dispute

The dispute mirrors a similar case the court decided in June concerning the tension between a federal law requiring emergency room care and state laws that ban abortion.

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David Goldberger, letter on defending the freedom to engage in anti-Semitic speech in Skokie, 1978 www.aclu.org/documents/go...

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Minnesota this year eliminated prison gerrymandering. A law, signed by Tim Walz in the spring, will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state. boltsmag.org/minnesota-en...

Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering
Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering

A new law will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.

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when you're second chairing an oral argument and the partner cites a case you found

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indeed

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If SCOTUS decides the case on the merits, presumably its decision will establish the law in all circuits going forward.

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Holy mackerel SCOTUS granted cert in a Fourth Amendment case: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

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Reading this latest Jack Smith filing, it occurred to me that people haven’t quite internalized the reality that in all three cases touching on the insurrection on January 6—by far the darkest day for our democracy since the Civil War—the Supreme Court sided with the insurrectionists in all three.

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Can't comment on CA law specifically, but certainly in some jurisdictions positioning your body with the aim of blocking someone else's movement would be prosecutable.

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a lot of decisions that were arguably "egregiously wrong from the start"

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Matthew Segal
@segalmr.bsky.social
Civil Rights Lawyer | Personal Views | Not Legal Advice | law.yale.edu/matthew-r-segal
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