Chris Geidner

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.

Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com
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2024-09-21 01:40:43

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UPDATE: After Gov. McMaster denied Owens clemency, the execution went forward. Freddie Owens has been killed. His time of death, per the AP, was 6:55 p.m.

2024-09-21 00:38:24

BREAKING: SCOTUS will not stop South Carolina from executing Freddie Owens tonight, the state’s first scheduled execution in more than a dozen years. Justice Sotomayor noted she would have stopped the execution.
Background at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/five-executions-are-scheduled-in
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2024-09-19 16:40:08

NEW: Over the next week, five states plan to carry out an execution. Multiple cases involve strong innocence claims, and one case features a man whose execution was already botched once previously.
Today, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/five-executions-are-scheduled-in

2024-09-18 16:02:11

The effort to kill the NLRB might heat up quickly.
I have the latest at Law Dork on the multiple appeals challenging the constitutionality of the agency charged with enforcing labor laws in this country. https://www.lawdork.com/p/challenges-to-the-nlrb-are-multiplying

2024-09-16 15:43:34

John Roberts likely cared enough about all of Sam Alito’s ethical issues to keep Alito’s name off of January 6 cases — but not enough to push for Alito’s recusal, at least not in any way that is publicly known or has been reported.
Analysis at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/john-roberts-ethics-and-appearances

2024-09-14 19:35:02

Jay Sekulow, who was a key Trump lawyer, is now representing the Nevada Green Party at SCOTUS.
Sekulow's group, ACLJ, was formed by Pat Robertson to fight the ACLU, and ACLJ's advocacy arm, ACLJ Action, is on Project 2025's advisory board.
Read about it at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/green-party-nevada-scotus

2024-09-11 07:41:58

It’s important, even as we’re discussing how Trump word-vomited all over America tonight, that we not lose track of the fact that other Republicans are just as eager to jump on the anti-democracy bandwagon.
Read about it at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/abortion-missouri-jay-ascroft-democracy-fail

2024-09-09 23:42:14

NEW: DOJ announces "new guidance addressing limits on when and how jurisdictions may remove voters from their voter lists." It appears at points to be all-but-explicitly addressing the Georgia portal. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25108562-nvra_list_maintenance_guidance_final
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2024-09-04 19:55:16

Judge Reed O'Connor, what are you doing?
He's overseeing an X Corp. lawsuit. He invests in Tesla, he's used to invest in Twitter, and he invests in a company with a longtime relationship with Musk that also invests in X Corp. And yet, he's still overseeing X Corp.'s lawsuit against Media Matters.
Oh, and, he pulled all of his financial disclosure reports earlier this summer and they're still off-line.
A Law Dork in-depth report: https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-overseeing-an-x-corp-lawsuit

2024-09-04 04:13:14

I put a ton of work into this report, as I think it’s important on a case level, judge level, and system level. Please, check it out. https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-overseeing-an-x-corp-lawsuit

2024-09-01 19:19:36

On Friday, a federal judge in Texas expanded nationwide limits placed on HHS's implementation of its healthcare nondiscrimination rule — nearly two months after the rule went into effect.
The judge is a Trump appointee, and the appeal will be heard by the Fifth Circuit.
Read about it at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/texas-judge-expands-nationwide-1557-rule-limits

2024-08-28 19:45:33

It might be time for a total and complete shutdown of the Heritage Foundation until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
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2024-08-23 18:45:46

lmaoooooo these quotes from ag garland's announcement of the realpage antitrust lawsuit
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2024-08-23 02:19:31

Finally, VP Kamala Harris will be speaking tonight.
Here's what I'd like to see her say about the courts: https://www.lawdork.com/p/kamala-harris-dnc-speech-and-the-courts

2024-08-22 20:31:53

BREAKING: SCOTUS, on a 5-4 vote, allows Arizona to enforce AZ law requiring "documentary proof of citizenship" to register to vote on state forms, but, over 3 noted dissents, keeps other parts of the law blocked applying that requirement to those registering w/ the federal form.
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2024-08-22 04:44:40

More on the story Oprah is telling about the New Orleans Four: https://voicesofthecivilrightsmovement.com/articles/new-orleans-4
And, here is Tessie's obituary: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/12/tessie-prevost-williams-desegregation-dead/

2024-08-20 21:32:12

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But, don't fret, Santos is appealing. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.615855/gov.uscourts.nysd.615855.31.0.pdf
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2024-08-20 20:58:04

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Jimmy Kimmel Live had solicited the videos under fake names, then aired them in a segment, essentially, asking what they could get Santos to say. (FAC is first amended complaint.) Transformative, and, ultimately, fair use, Judge Cote, a 77-year-old Clinton appointee, ruled.
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2024-08-20 20:51:58

Not only did George Santos plead guilty in his criminal case Monday, but he also lost his lawsuit against Jimmy Kimmel for absurd Cameos that he did and that Kimmel aired. The judge found that Kimmel's fair use defense applied and dismissed the lawsuit. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.615855/gov.uscourts.nysd.615855.29.0.pdf
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2024-08-20 17:27:54

Following Friday’s SCOTUS order, you might have heard, from some corners, that it was a unanimous ruling against the transgender protections in the Title IX rule.
It was not.
I explain that and much more at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-order-on-the-title-ix-rule-explained

2024-08-17 01:20:13

NEW: Tonight’s SCOTUS Title IX ruling — and a lawsuit taking aim at the EEOC and Title VII that the Heritage Foundation filed before Matt Kacsmaryk by teaming up with Texas.
Read and subscribe to Law Dork now: https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-5-4-title-ix-shadow-docket-denial

2024-08-08 22:49:26

In short, Project 2025 doesn’t need office space at the Heritage Foundation to continue its work.
It’s already doing it.
Today's Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/project-2025-is-everywhere

2024-08-08 22:38:37

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Put this — links about the ~actions~ of some of the far-right organizations behind Project 2025, groups that keep on going regardless of what folks claim is happening to Project 2025 — in your pipe and smoke it. https://www.lawdork.com/p/project-2025-is-everywhere
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2024-08-08 22:16:09

NEW: While Trump was rambling, I was working on this. Read away.
Now at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/project-2025-is-everywhere
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2024-08-07 01:01:14

Tim Walz: A public school teacher who was in the military and supported queer students in the 1990s while coaching a winning football team who talks about his own family's experience with IVF and can lay out attack line after attack line against his opponents while still talking about the importance of joy.
What a moment. What a pick.

2024-08-06 19:11:20

NEWS: Twitter/X wants to force people to advertise there, and they're going to court. Elon and Linda went forum-shopping, filing this case in Wichita Falls Division so that Judge Reed O'Connor was guaranteed to be assigned the case. Here's the complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.393003/gov.uscourts.txnd.393003.1.0_1.pdf
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2024-08-06 03:42:02

Gorsuch telling those seeking SCOTUS reform to "be careful" is particularly galling in light of today's news of yet more unreported Thomas trips.
Why is Gorsuch lecturing us?
Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/gorsuch-be-careful-thomas-more-trips

2024-08-04 04:33:13

Purity tests. Control. Policing of bodies. That’s what that has always been about, and the outright hate and absurd weirdness that this boxing situation is bringing out this week is making that undeniably clear as people just flat-out lie and goalpost shift by the minute.

2024-08-02 21:44:02

"There are no trans athletes at the Paris Olympics.
So bigots manufactured them."
Thank you, Katelyn, for writing this.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-boxer-imane-khelif-anti-trans-rcna164721

2024-07-31 15:24:56

On Tuesday, Judge Annemarie Axon rejected the Alabama-led request of four states to block the Biden admin’s new Title IX sex discrimination rule.
A Trump appointee, she was the first judge to do so — and she did so in a blistering 122-page ruling.
Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-axon-title-ix-ruling

2024-07-31 06:03:41

Judge Annemarie Axon utterly destroyed Alabama's arguments against the Biden administration's new Title IX rule. It was a wonder to read such an incredible ruling — and yet a huge disappointment that this was the first one.
Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-axon-title-ix-ruling

2024-05-21 04:45:45

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