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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 9h

Up to CA7

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 9h

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #68: notice of appeal

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 10h

We must be relentless in our resistance, merciless in our mockery, and eternal in our hope.

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 12h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 12h

Saturday: The Cronies!

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 13h

Remember, the Supreme Court okay’d this without explanation on the shadow docket

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 13h

This is a crazy must-read from @nlanard.bsky.social:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 13h

Here it is: “Defendants,1 their officers, agents, assigns entered, and all persons acting in concert with them, are temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois.”

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 13h

Trump judge

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 14h

This was probably the most absurd of Judge Nelson's sarcastic responses to Oregon's argument.

Out of nowhere, he suggested that the president could have made the decision to federalize the NG based on secret info and then suggested that's why the decision should be unreviewable. Crazy stuff.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 20h

Judge Nelson says the determination is "not all driven by what we see on the streets," suggests that there is behind-the-scenes information that we don't have.

Chaffin: on this record, there was not evidence that sporadic violence was a rebellion to justify federalizing the NG.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah he’s been a solid 2A hawk on the merits. The DE case was purely about procedural posture.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Bove is participating, and so may Mascott

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 16h

And Bove will be on the CA3 en banc panel:

www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/OralArgSumma...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Split’s gonna come from CA3 when they decide the case they’re rehearing next week

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

If Mascott gets her commission in time, it’ll be 9 Republicans and 6 Democrats on the en banc panel, making it even more likely CA3 will strike down NJ’s assault weapons ban and create the circuit split that Kavanaugh craves.

Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 14h

New: The Senate confirmed Jennifer Mascott, President Donald Trump's latest nominee to the 3rd Circuit, further shifting the appeals court's ideological balance to the right. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe but that was based on procedural posture when he’s only ever been a 2A hawk on the merits.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

Senior Judge Smith is participating

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 14h

If Mascott gets her commission in time, it’ll be 9 Republicans and 6 Democrats on the en banc panel, making it even more likely CA3 will strike down NJ’s assault weapons ban and create the circuit split that Kavanaugh craves.

Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 14h

New: The Senate confirmed Jennifer Mascott, President Donald Trump's latest nominee to the 3rd Circuit, further shifting the appeals court's ideological balance to the right. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h

#BREAKING Federal judge in Chicago temporarily blocks the Trump administration from "ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15h

Another judge calls Trump a lying illegal

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h

U.S. District Judge April Perry says it comes down to a "credibility determination."

"I simply cannot credit [the Trump administration's] declarations to the extent they contradict state and local law enforcement. … DHS' perception of events are simply unreliable."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h

#BREAKING A federal judge say she will grant "in part" a request by the state of Illinois for a temporary restraining order against the deployment of National Guard troops into the state.

U.S. District Judge April Perry is still ruling and has not outlined the details of her order.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15h

Loyalist lackeys delivering on Dear Leader's Diktat-by-DM

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 16h

And Bove will be on the CA3 en banc panel:

www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/OralArgSumma...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

Meanwhile, at some point SCOTUS will have to step in on the FiP laws bc it's getting real messy below www.courtaccountability.org/upcomingscotus

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

The very test they adopted in Bruen came from Kavanaugh's dissent in Heller II, in which he voted to strike down DC's assault weapons ban! So yeah dude's been itchy to make it happen at SCOTUS.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

Back in time for a contemporaneous 'sup bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Jun 2

There are now 4 solid SCOTUS votes to strike down state assault weapons bans, and I imagine once Trump flips a circuit to create a split on the issue, Roberts and Barrett will go along as well "in the next Term or two" as Kavanaugh says.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Jun 2

SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to MD's assault weapons ban. Kavanaugh hints it's bc there isn't a circuit split yet, but expects there to be one once Trump flips a circuit or two. Thomas writes to say he (like Alito and Gorsuch) wouldn't wait to strike. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, I am assuming there will be at least 5 SCOTUS votes to declare assault weapons (and high-capacity magazine) bans unconstitutional.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Jun 2

There are now 4 solid SCOTUS votes to strike down state assault weapons bans, and I imagine once Trump flips a circuit to create a split on the issue, Roberts and Barrett will go along as well "in the next Term or two" as Kavanaugh says.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Jun 2

SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to MD's assault weapons ban. Kavanaugh hints it's bc there isn't a circuit split yet, but expects there to be one once Trump flips a circuit or two. Thomas writes to say he (like Alito and Gorsuch) wouldn't wait to strike. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

Just to be perfectly clear: SCOTUS is now being asked to declare *all* assault weapons bans unconstitutional.

If the Roberts Court takes the case and does as asked, then every state's ban would fall...

...and Congress could only pass a federal assault weapons ban in defiance of the Roberts Court.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

Challengers to Connecticut's assault weapons ban are now asking SCOTUS to take up their case and declare all assault weapons bans unconstitutional.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

Just to be perfectly clear: SCOTUS is now being asked to declare *all* assault weapons bans unconstitutional.

If the Roberts Court takes the case and does as asked, then every state's ban would fall...

...and Congress could only pass a federal assault weapons ban in defiance of the Roberts Court.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

Challengers to Connecticut's assault weapons ban are now asking SCOTUS to take up their case and declare all assault weapons bans unconstitutional.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17h

A clean circuit split may, however, be coming soon. The full CA3 vacated its panel ruling upholding NJ's assault weapons ban, and will rehear oral args en banc on October 15. Big Q is if Bove will participate now that he's received his commission. If he does, good chance Kav gets his circuit split.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · Aug 22

Kavanaugh hinted that he voted against taking up the challenge to MD's assault weapons ban bc there wasn't yet a circuit split.

CA3 heard args against NJ's ban in July with a Dem-majority panel. Just yesterday, the full court ordered en banc args. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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