Forget it ketanji it’s chinatown

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At the end of ChinatownAs our protagonist looks at the evil guys winning, he’s pulled away and admonished, “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.” The term lives on a warning when corruption runs so deep that there is no fight against it. In the film, the evil guy is a rich real estate baron that manipulates a government agency and Bilk’s elderly for his personal profits. Despite the pervasive crime, he is news that is backed up by law enforcement that helps and monet his dirty work. In the event that it sounds like anyone you know.

Also the evil guy is a pedophile sexally attractive to his daughter. Do with this information what you want.

IN Trump v. American Federation of Government EmployeesThe Supreme Court again invoked the inconsistent shield on its Shadow dock to knock down a preliminary launched in the northern district of California, which had blocked executive order # 14210, Trump’s 5-page Edict, turning the federal government’s “big balls” with a mission to cut the federal labor force. While the executive branch is listened to a staff to the fire agency, the plan for wholesale intestinal departments may Approved and funded Of Congress without Congress Measurement runs for well -established Predent, not to mention “Great Question Teaching” that conservative legal scholars invented to prevent democratic presidents from taking basic performing action through an agency (which, says, DOGE) without the express written consent of the House Senate and projected Major League Baseball. Given that the legal landscape supported the Supreme Court openly the order …

Psyche!

The order’s injunction was based on its perception that executive order no. 14210, 90 bold. Reg. 9669 (2025) and a common memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personal Management Implementing that executive order is illegal. The Becuse government is likely to be successful with its argument that the executive order and memorandum are legal – and because the other factors that carry on which a stay is satisfied – we give the application.

Likely to succeed … Why? The court refuses to say. But the government is likely to be successful, we are sure of in the two sections authorized by approving the dismantling of the federal government, while the profits can be hashish out later. Can this strategy result in irreparable damage? The unsigned majority opinion does not even mention that part of the mandatory relief equation.

They must have forgotten it as if it were a point of the first change or something.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the lonely Disnt, though Justice Sotomayor wrote a competition that might as well have said: “Forget Ketanji, it’s Chinatown.

Justice Sotomayor, Competitor for the award of Stays. I agree with Justice Jackson that the president cannot restructure federal agencies in a way that is incompatible with the congregation offices. See Post, Kl. 13. Here, however, the relevant executive orders directly consists of direct agencies for planning reorganizations and reductions in effect

This seems like sotomayor that runs back his strategy from DVD c. DHS box. In this case, also a Shadow Docket opinion, Sotomayor wrote a long view that undertook to characterize the majority opinion. Hi, if the Republican Justices want to shake responsibility with unsigned, unclassed orders, why not take the initiative? Signaling to the lower courts that the government had flanked the procedure and only appeals to the preliminary injunction – undoubtedly too broadly because it used “every stranger” – and not the remedial order – specifically for certain persons already sent to Africa. Therefore, the thinly justified Shadow Docket -Opinion did not properly stop the remedy order. It had the benefit of being both smart and precise. The Supreme Court went ahead and issued a follow -up that clarified that they would also remain the remedy order. They based it on Dicta from an incomparable decision from 1947. Really.

Here Sotomayor makes pretty much the same goal and leans into the idea that the executive order required DODE for first level Shooting everyone and the courts can decide if this plan is an illegal vrak later.

Kagan ended by the way DVD Clarification and apparently also this opinion. It seems that she is using a strategy she has used before, whether she sits with the majority on formula, respect for the previous groups in the hope that they will return the benefits.

But Justice Jackson was not a willingness to let it slip. The disputed order can only be asked only Musk’s Minions for a plan, but the question is in itself an attack on the separation of power and the short offered to explain how the preliminary injunction failed to clear all the established consentations. Unfortunately, as Jackson explains, common sense and well -off legal principles of a powerful obstacle ran: “This map is demonstrated enthusiasm for green light this president’s legally questionable acts in an emergency.”

Jackson elaborates on this story, discussing both several times that Congress authorized presidents to embark on reorganization efforts, and the times when presidents asked to execute less government reorganization and Congress told them. Including, for the record, Donald Trump, who in his first period understood – who are we doing… who Had people who worked for him then Who understood – that the White House could not start reorganizing the government after Congress refused.

It will not shock you at all to Jackson also managed to remember the irreparable injury of the test.

The people who may “know” the answer to these questions are that the district judges themselves. The fact that Justice Jackson once served as a district judge shines through in the contempt she has for two-step-removed appeal jirk dies who replace their reasoning to a lawsuit without benefit for the post or courtesy of a real opinion. “” “[H]Unbreaked and meaningless, “to use her words. But hey, maybe Amy Coney Barrett can channel his experience of classifying papers to Godd Jackson again to awake knowing how the dishes actually work.

It’s easy to say that Justice Jackson is better off the case here, as one only one boothing to defend her attitude, but it’s hard to see the majority would come ahead on any of these arguments. The last time they tried Jackson on injunctions, they refused to “live” on her arguments. At least to ignore them, Alterner avoids further embarrassment. But maybe, just maybe, should we have the top short put the limited effort required to try to respond?

Ah. There I go again. I can hear it gently over my shoulder, “Forget it, Joe. It’s a first street.”

(Meaning on the next page …)


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