I somehow missed not only this reply - but the obvious: the Appointments Clause!! Of course. 🤦🏻♀️ Just because Bondi carefully crafted the new order to avoid implicating or violating the FVRA doesn’t mean it isn’t violative of the Appointments Clause! I was getting really hung up on the minutiae.
December 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I somehow missed not only this reply - but the obvious: the Appointments Clause!! Of course. 🤦🏻♀️ Just because Bondi carefully crafted the new order to avoid implicating or violating the FVRA doesn’t mean it isn’t violative of the Appointments Clause! I was getting really hung up on the minutiae.
Republicans; so predictable.
Tacked on at the very end, it’s the not so backdoor NATIONAL ABORTION BAN!
Tacked on at the very end, it’s the not so backdoor NATIONAL ABORTION BAN!
December 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Republicans; so predictable.
Tacked on at the very end, it’s the not so backdoor NATIONAL ABORTION BAN!
Tacked on at the very end, it’s the not so backdoor NATIONAL ABORTION BAN!
Say it with me:
NATIONAL ABORTION BAN.
They just can’t help themselves.
NATIONAL ABORTION BAN.
They just can’t help themselves.
December 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Say it with me:
NATIONAL ABORTION BAN.
They just can’t help themselves.
NATIONAL ABORTION BAN.
They just can’t help themselves.
Please read what the government (and now the First Circuit) purports to be helpful and not at all unconstitutional about defining the word affiliate as it relates to an entity that provides abortion and is therefore not covered by a state’s Medicaid fund.
🚨VAGUE AND OVERBROAD 🚨
Chilling? Check!
🚨VAGUE AND OVERBROAD 🚨
Chilling? Check!
December 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Please read what the government (and now the First Circuit) purports to be helpful and not at all unconstitutional about defining the word affiliate as it relates to an entity that provides abortion and is therefore not covered by a state’s Medicaid fund.
🚨VAGUE AND OVERBROAD 🚨
Chilling? Check!
🚨VAGUE AND OVERBROAD 🚨
Chilling? Check!
I love to see how desperate the prolifers over at Susan B. Anthony ProLife America are growing. Marjorie’s most recent letter sounds like she’s on the verge of taking a hostage.
If you’re unfamiliar with the group, some photos of the 2025 Gala, honoring Mike Johnson: sbaprolife.org/latest-news/...
If you’re unfamiliar with the group, some photos of the 2025 Gala, honoring Mike Johnson: sbaprolife.org/latest-news/...
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I love to see how desperate the prolifers over at Susan B. Anthony ProLife America are growing. Marjorie’s most recent letter sounds like she’s on the verge of taking a hostage.
If you’re unfamiliar with the group, some photos of the 2025 Gala, honoring Mike Johnson: sbaprolife.org/latest-news/...
If you’re unfamiliar with the group, some photos of the 2025 Gala, honoring Mike Johnson: sbaprolife.org/latest-news/...
In light of Denmark’s military intelligence report that it has concerns about the US re: its own security, I’d like to revisit how dumb JD Vance looked in Greenland to again highlight how unfair it is to be a woman in this country.
Could you imagine if a woman VP took such unflattering photos?
Could you imagine if a woman VP took such unflattering photos?
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
In light of Denmark’s military intelligence report that it has concerns about the US re: its own security, I’d like to revisit how dumb JD Vance looked in Greenland to again highlight how unfair it is to be a woman in this country.
Could you imagine if a woman VP took such unflattering photos?
Could you imagine if a woman VP took such unflattering photos?
⚖️ NEW: the DOJ filed a motion for a 30 day extension in which to file a petition for any rehearing or rehearing en banc in US v. Giraud (the Alina #Habba disqualification case). The petition would have been due Mon. Dec 15; at the DOJ’s request and appellees’ consent it will now be due Wed. Jan 14.
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
⚖️ NEW: the DOJ filed a motion for a 30 day extension in which to file a petition for any rehearing or rehearing en banc in US v. Giraud (the Alina #Habba disqualification case). The petition would have been due Mon. Dec 15; at the DOJ’s request and appellees’ consent it will now be due Wed. Jan 14.
Hm. So this is what Bondi did.
Yesterday, on advice of counsel to the AG, Henry Whittaker, and pursuant to the Appointments Clause and 28 USC 509 & 510, Bondi divided the responsibilities of the NJUSAO among 3 separate offices, and then appointed a different lawyer to head each. OLC signed off.
Yesterday, on advice of counsel to the AG, Henry Whittaker, and pursuant to the Appointments Clause and 28 USC 509 & 510, Bondi divided the responsibilities of the NJUSAO among 3 separate offices, and then appointed a different lawyer to head each. OLC signed off.
December 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Hm. So this is what Bondi did.
Yesterday, on advice of counsel to the AG, Henry Whittaker, and pursuant to the Appointments Clause and 28 USC 509 & 510, Bondi divided the responsibilities of the NJUSAO among 3 separate offices, and then appointed a different lawyer to head each. OLC signed off.
Yesterday, on advice of counsel to the AG, Henry Whittaker, and pursuant to the Appointments Clause and 28 USC 509 & 510, Bondi divided the responsibilities of the NJUSAO among 3 separate offices, and then appointed a different lawyer to head each. OLC signed off.
No one’s talking about the BIG ABORTION BAN in the legislation introduced today by Republican Senators Mike Crapo (Idaho) and Bill Cassidy (Louisiana).
It’s called the “Health Care Freedom for Patients Act”.
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Scroll to Page 3.
#momsky #medsky #reprorights
It’s called the “Health Care Freedom for Patients Act”.
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Scroll to Page 3.
#momsky #medsky #reprorights
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
No one’s talking about the BIG ABORTION BAN in the legislation introduced today by Republican Senators Mike Crapo (Idaho) and Bill Cassidy (Louisiana).
It’s called the “Health Care Freedom for Patients Act”.
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Scroll to Page 3.
#momsky #medsky #reprorights
It’s called the “Health Care Freedom for Patients Act”.
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Scroll to Page 3.
#momsky #medsky #reprorights
Today, Republican Senators introduced legislation detailing a new health care plan.
The ABORTION BAN is on PAGE 3.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM NO.
#abortion
Link to bill:
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Link to article (doesn’t mention abortion)
www.politico.com/live-updates...
The ABORTION BAN is on PAGE 3.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM NO.
#abortion
Link to bill:
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Link to article (doesn’t mention abortion)
www.politico.com/live-updates...
December 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Today, Republican Senators introduced legislation detailing a new health care plan.
The ABORTION BAN is on PAGE 3.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM NO.
#abortion
Link to bill:
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Link to article (doesn’t mention abortion)
www.politico.com/live-updates...
The ABORTION BAN is on PAGE 3.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM NO.
#abortion
Link to bill:
www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
Link to article (doesn’t mention abortion)
www.politico.com/live-updates...
“. . . you can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl.”
— Unknown; NJ High School Yearbook
✌️🇺🇸⚖️
#Habba #NJ #DNJ #NJUSAO
#RuleOfLaw #lawsky #USA #Bondi
#Acting #Interim #Vacancy #FVRA
#SpecialAttorney #BlueSlip #CA3 #PAS
#Reform #FederalVacancies
— Unknown; NJ High School Yearbook
✌️🇺🇸⚖️
#Habba #NJ #DNJ #NJUSAO
#RuleOfLaw #lawsky #USA #Bondi
#Acting #Interim #Vacancy #FVRA
#SpecialAttorney #BlueSlip #CA3 #PAS
#Reform #FederalVacancies
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
No excuse (but, holidays) & I’m just catching up on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social Nov. 24 episode. Momentarily paused b/c I literally just spat out my water at the STRINGER BELL reference 🤣🤣🤣
We do not deserve these women!
@profmmurray.bsky.social
@leahlitman.bsky.social
@kateshaw.bsky.social
We do not deserve these women!
@profmmurray.bsky.social
@leahlitman.bsky.social
@kateshaw.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 5:08 AM
No excuse (but, holidays) & I’m just catching up on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social Nov. 24 episode. Momentarily paused b/c I literally just spat out my water at the STRINGER BELL reference 🤣🤣🤣
We do not deserve these women!
@profmmurray.bsky.social
@leahlitman.bsky.social
@kateshaw.bsky.social
We do not deserve these women!
@profmmurray.bsky.social
@leahlitman.bsky.social
@kateshaw.bsky.social
“Here, the majority invokes (though without naming) the so-called Purcell principle.”
Funny how the Supreme Court makes bad law under the shadow of the emergency docket, the district courts endeavor to apply it, and the majority blithely ignores that their actions have consequences.
Funny how the Supreme Court makes bad law under the shadow of the emergency docket, the district courts endeavor to apply it, and the majority blithely ignores that their actions have consequences.
![Cite as: 607 U.S._
_ (2025)
KagaN, J., dissenting
15
Nor does the majority have any warrant to stay the District Court's order for "alter[ing] the election rules on the eve of an election." Ante, at 2. Here, the majority invokes (though without naming) the so-called Purcell principle.
See Purcell v. Gonzalez, 549 U.S. 1, 4-5 (2006) (per cu-riam). Under that decision, courts deciding whether to enjoin an election rule or map in the lead-up to an election must consider, among other relevant equitable factors, the order's potential for causing "voter confusion." Ibid. It is an important caution. And it is one the District Court took seriously, considering how everything this Court has said on the subject applied to the facts at hand. See App. 140-
156. In then going ahead, the court was right.
Texas is not on "the eve of an election," as was true in the case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v.
Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 2020) (per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was
"just weeks" away. 549 U.S., at 4. Here, Election Day is eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which Texas could change) is in March. The District Court carefully listed the various "election preparations" underway to switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein-stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145.
Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, everyone expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it will be used in a special runoff election in the State's largest county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly concluded, "[a]n injunction in this case would not cause significant disruption." Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congressional el…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j22jo3rt2jtdh2nbaemoprcf/bafkreicmdrm6psdq3r4wculobb3kkyyozbwzjbyoghx5akxsra36tskxta@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“Here, the majority invokes (though without naming) the so-called Purcell principle.”
Funny how the Supreme Court makes bad law under the shadow of the emergency docket, the district courts endeavor to apply it, and the majority blithely ignores that their actions have consequences.
Funny how the Supreme Court makes bad law under the shadow of the emergency docket, the district courts endeavor to apply it, and the majority blithely ignores that their actions have consequences.
I really think it’s important to keep an image of Ross Douthat in one’s mind when considering his work.
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I really think it’s important to keep an image of Ross Douthat in one’s mind when considering his work.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza is a 19yr old freshman at Babson College.
She was arrested (kidnapped) at Boston’s Logan Intl Airport as she was on her way home to Texas for Thanksgiving.
Instead, she ended up shackled on a flight to Honduras. No notice. No due process.
A 19 year old college woman.
She was arrested (kidnapped) at Boston’s Logan Intl Airport as she was on her way home to Texas for Thanksgiving.
Instead, she ended up shackled on a flight to Honduras. No notice. No due process.
A 19 year old college woman.
December 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza is a 19yr old freshman at Babson College.
She was arrested (kidnapped) at Boston’s Logan Intl Airport as she was on her way home to Texas for Thanksgiving.
Instead, she ended up shackled on a flight to Honduras. No notice. No due process.
A 19 year old college woman.
She was arrested (kidnapped) at Boston’s Logan Intl Airport as she was on her way home to Texas for Thanksgiving.
Instead, she ended up shackled on a flight to Honduras. No notice. No due process.
A 19 year old college woman.
⚖️ NEW: State of Missouri, et al. v. FDA, No. #4:25-cv-01580 (E.D. Mo.) — the #FDA filed a response to the intervenor states’ motion by suggesting it owes no reply at all until the Court (Cristian Stevens) decides the govt’s pending motion to dismiss.
thus the state of repro rights 🤷🏻♀️
#abortion #mife
thus the state of repro rights 🤷🏻♀️
#abortion #mife
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
⚖️ NEW: State of Missouri, et al. v. FDA, No. #4:25-cv-01580 (E.D. Mo.) — the #FDA filed a response to the intervenor states’ motion by suggesting it owes no reply at all until the Court (Cristian Stevens) decides the govt’s pending motion to dismiss.
thus the state of repro rights 🤷🏻♀️
#abortion #mife
thus the state of repro rights 🤷🏻♀️
#abortion #mife
it’s the armpit of America, but New Jersey really is fighting the fascists. go #NJ ✌️
(this is the blue states’ case against HHS challenging section 71113 of the BBB as violative of the spending clause — judge Talwani is finally able to grant plaintiff states’ motion for a preliminary injunction).
(this is the blue states’ case against HHS challenging section 71113 of the BBB as violative of the spending clause — judge Talwani is finally able to grant plaintiff states’ motion for a preliminary injunction).
![Dec 2, 2025
Judge Indira Talwani: MEMORANDUM AND ORDER entered. Please see attached.For the foregoing reasons, Plaintiff States' Motion for Preliminary Injunction [Doc. No. 60] is GRANTED.It is hereby ORDERED that:1. Defendants, their agents, employees, appointees, successors, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants are hereby enjoined from enforcing, retroactively enforcing, or otherwise applying the provisions of Section 71113 of "An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title Il of H.
Con. Res. 14," against the Plaintiff States.2. Defendants, their agents, employees, appointees, successors, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants shall take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed in the customary manner and timeframes to Plaintiff States to reimburse claims without regard to whether the claims were filed by entities that may be "prohibited entities" as of October 1, 2025, under Section
71113.3. Defendants shall provide a copy of this Order to all personnel within the Department of Health and Human Services and all state agencies involved with the disbursement of Medicaid funding.4. Plaintiff States shall within seven days post a nominal $100 bond, to be held by the court as the bond in this matter.IT IS SO ORDERED.
(SEC) (Entered: 12/02/2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j22jo3rt2jtdh2nbaemoprcf/bafkreiaigoico75237vhku7sgkoi3d7v52xtstiobczysk67kg3tzc3esy@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
it’s the armpit of America, but New Jersey really is fighting the fascists. go #NJ ✌️
(this is the blue states’ case against HHS challenging section 71113 of the BBB as violative of the spending clause — judge Talwani is finally able to grant plaintiff states’ motion for a preliminary injunction).
(this is the blue states’ case against HHS challenging section 71113 of the BBB as violative of the spending clause — judge Talwani is finally able to grant plaintiff states’ motion for a preliminary injunction).
For example, Schiff voted yes to Bill Lewis (first pic) and yes to Harold Mooty (second pic) but what I’m more interested in is that it’s generally the same group of senators who always vote yes together. I’m esp interested when I see members of the SJC like Durbin, Whitehouse, Klobuchar & Schiff.
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
For example, Schiff voted yes to Bill Lewis (first pic) and yes to Harold Mooty (second pic) but what I’m more interested in is that it’s generally the same group of senators who always vote yes together. I’m esp interested when I see members of the SJC like Durbin, Whitehouse, Klobuchar & Schiff.
it’s me, wondering about this weird coalition, again.
does anyone have any idea what’s going on with these dems?? there must be some strategy behind these votes (aside from the fact that they’re also the ones who ended the shutdown).
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Peters
Rosen
Shaheen
Whitehouse
does anyone have any idea what’s going on with these dems?? there must be some strategy behind these votes (aside from the fact that they’re also the ones who ended the shutdown).
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Peters
Rosen
Shaheen
Whitehouse
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
it’s me, wondering about this weird coalition, again.
does anyone have any idea what’s going on with these dems?? there must be some strategy behind these votes (aside from the fact that they’re also the ones who ended the shutdown).
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Peters
Rosen
Shaheen
Whitehouse
does anyone have any idea what’s going on with these dems?? there must be some strategy behind these votes (aside from the fact that they’re also the ones who ended the shutdown).
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Peters
Rosen
Shaheen
Whitehouse
I imagined Judge Krause slapping away Erin Hawley and ADF like annoying little gnats when I first read this.
I remember my perspective started to shift when I read it; these are not good people. These are not upstanding members of the bar. They’re after something else.
Just wanted to share.
I remember my perspective started to shift when I read it; these are not good people. These are not upstanding members of the bar. They’re after something else.
Just wanted to share.
![motion until February 29, 2024. And when it did, it did not inform this Court that-three days earlier-through the same counsel representing it in this appeal-Appellant had filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the United States Supreme Court. Pet. for Mandamus, In re First Choice Women's Res. Ctrs., Inc., No. 23-941, 2024 WL 865946 (U.S. Feb. 26, 2024).
In that petition, Appellant asked the Supreme Court to "direct the district court to take jurisdiction and rule on First Choice's motion for TRO and preliminary injunction in a manner that will preserve this Court's appellate review." Id. at 5. Yet that is essentially the same relief Appellant seeks from this Court on an expedited basis. But Appellant did not advise us it was seeking that relief in the Supreme Court. Nor did Appellant advise the Supreme Court that it was filing a motion to expedite in this Court. Instead, it represented to the Supreme Court that it lacked any effective recourse... in the Third Circuit" such that "[n]othing other than mandamus will provide First Choice adequate relief." Id. at 27-28. Appellant also disavowed in the Supreme Court any need for that Court to resolve its petition on an emergency basis.
This Court will not expedite Appellant's appeal while Appellant is simultaneously pursuing extraordinary relief from the Supreme Court and representing to that Court that expedited treatment is not necessary. Moreover, Appellant's counsel are cautioned that they must exercise complete candor in all future filings in this Court. See Wharton v.
Superintendent Graterford SCI Phila. Dist. Attorney's Office, No. 22-2839, --- F.4d --.,
2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 5642, at *2 (3d Cir. Mar. 8, 2024) ("Courts rely on lawyers' honesty; lawyers may not mislead them."). Failure to do so may result in sanctions.
By the Court,
s/Cheryl Ann Krause
Circuit Judge
Dated: March 11, 2024
CJG/cc:
Erin M. Hawley, Esq.
Lincoln D. Wilson, Esq.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j22jo3rt2jtdh2nbaemoprcf/bafkreihf7szynsbjfnp2bxa64etjhveri6b7vph2specte7l3cb3wafqle@jpeg)
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I imagined Judge Krause slapping away Erin Hawley and ADF like annoying little gnats when I first read this.
I remember my perspective started to shift when I read it; these are not good people. These are not upstanding members of the bar. They’re after something else.
Just wanted to share.
I remember my perspective started to shift when I read it; these are not good people. These are not upstanding members of the bar. They’re after something else.
Just wanted to share.
As a NJ citizen and lawyer, I hope the Third Circuit’s opinion today, affirming the district court’s ruling disqualifying Alina Habba, provides “the clarity and stability” noted by Judge Fischer.
So *why* has it left me feeling so unsettled? Maybe it’s the administration’s silence 12 hrs later? 🤷🏻♀️
So *why* has it left me feeling so unsettled? Maybe it’s the administration’s silence 12 hrs later? 🤷🏻♀️
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
As a NJ citizen and lawyer, I hope the Third Circuit’s opinion today, affirming the district court’s ruling disqualifying Alina Habba, provides “the clarity and stability” noted by Judge Fischer.
So *why* has it left me feeling so unsettled? Maybe it’s the administration’s silence 12 hrs later? 🤷🏻♀️
So *why* has it left me feeling so unsettled? Maybe it’s the administration’s silence 12 hrs later? 🤷🏻♀️
Just in case you thought the white male gerontocracy was a problem only at the federal level, allow me to introduce you to NJ State Senator James Beach, who is 79 years old.
This is a man who absolutely cannot stand that Andy Kim is a “real” Senator.
This is a man who absolutely cannot stand that Andy Kim is a “real” Senator.
December 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Just in case you thought the white male gerontocracy was a problem only at the federal level, allow me to introduce you to NJ State Senator James Beach, who is 79 years old.
This is a man who absolutely cannot stand that Andy Kim is a “real” Senator.
This is a man who absolutely cannot stand that Andy Kim is a “real” Senator.
Thinking of that, and looking at the map, makes me all the happier that @drkbrandi.bsky.social is planning to
open her clinic #Luminosas in Hudson County next year!
The second observation: NO WAY did 5/5 of these fake clinics legitimately receive Google ratings of 4.9 of 5 stars; so fraudulent.
open her clinic #Luminosas in Hudson County next year!
The second observation: NO WAY did 5/5 of these fake clinics legitimately receive Google ratings of 4.9 of 5 stars; so fraudulent.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Thinking of that, and looking at the map, makes me all the happier that @drkbrandi.bsky.social is planning to
open her clinic #Luminosas in Hudson County next year!
The second observation: NO WAY did 5/5 of these fake clinics legitimately receive Google ratings of 4.9 of 5 stars; so fraudulent.
open her clinic #Luminosas in Hudson County next year!
The second observation: NO WAY did 5/5 of these fake clinics legitimately receive Google ratings of 4.9 of 5 stars; so fraudulent.
The first is that there are quite a few CPC’s in Hoboken / JC but no PP. Idk if that’s a recent occurrence, but _ugh_ I suddenly remembered the panic I felt living in Hoboken when I needed an abortion and discovering there was nowhere near me to go. I attributed it to Chris Christie at the time. 🤷🏻♀️
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The first is that there are quite a few CPC’s in Hoboken / JC but no PP. Idk if that’s a recent occurrence, but _ugh_ I suddenly remembered the panic I felt living in Hoboken when I needed an abortion and discovering there was nowhere near me to go. I attributed it to Chris Christie at the time. 🤷🏻♀️
As you know, I spend my time bemoaning that ADF wormed its fraudulent little way up to SCOTUS with their bogus, unripe claim in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin. In prep for an article about Tues’s arguments, I went back to reexamine the locations of the CPCs. Two things struck me.
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
As you know, I spend my time bemoaning that ADF wormed its fraudulent little way up to SCOTUS with their bogus, unripe claim in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin. In prep for an article about Tues’s arguments, I went back to reexamine the locations of the CPCs. Two things struck me.