#lawfedi

for may years i was jealous of @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk , but as of couple of months ago -- not anymore. https://www.quorum.no/skriv/006/

In the SEIU v. USDOJ case, the one concerning an injunction to Trump regime to stop threatening election workers and officials with prosecution, a very unusual process is now occurring. The Ninth Circuit consists of 29 judges total. When an en banc hearing is held, in the first instance only a subset of these hears the case. That’s what happened earlier today, when the subgroup lifted the injunction. 1/ #LawFedi

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117531919080199006 In the lawsuit I used as an example in the thread at the quoted post, the plaintiffs won a temporary restraining order prohibiting the Trump regime from threatening election workers and officials. Tonight the 9th Circuit stayed this prohibition. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28863968-seiuthompsonca9110226pdf/ 1/ #LawFedi

Pro-democracy plaintiffs keep filing lawsuits to keep up with Trump regime’s ongoing election interference. I don’t see any legacy media reporting comprehensively on the daily encroachments by the regime or pro-democracy plaintiffs’ efforts to block them. There’s a massively important news story here that is getting covered only piecemeal. 1/ #LawFedi

Here we go: Trump regime’s latest effort to get its election interference ok’d by the Roberts Court. The regime seeks to have the Court require California to “segregate” mail ballots cast by those the regime has identified as “likely noncitizens”. This would require the Court to stay a federal district order against such segregation, an order upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r2A28lzqdS_4/v0 1/ #LawFedi

In this thread, I’m going to use a lawsuit filed yesterday on behalf of California election workers to illustrate how coordinated the Trump regime’s onslaught is and how the pro-democracy bar is well-aware of that. I note at the outset that this is not normal. We cannot have free and fair elections in the United States if lawyers must work round the clock to safeguard elections from the federal government to close ballot access and disrupt the counting of millions of Americans’ votes. 2/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/117363281371414513 jfc