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Chris Geidner
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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.

Alabama has decided in effect, to ignore the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling.

Abha Khanna, one of the lawyers who argued at SCOTUS against Alabama and will be back in court Monday, talked with me at length about the case and much more: https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-qa-with-abha-khanna

Alright! I've got a big interview coming out at 8p. If you're interested in voting rights and democracy, make sure you're subscribed to Law Dork now: https://www.lawdork.com/subscribe

Did you see? A federal judge in Idaho put the state’s new anti-trans school bathrooms law on hold for now — a ruling that came a week before the new school year is set to begin in Idaho. https://www.lawdork.com/p/idaho-schools-bathroom-law-tro

NEWS: On Thursday, a federal judge in Idaho put that state's new anti-trans schools bathroom ban on hold by granting a temporary restraining order: https://www.lawdork.com/p/idaho-schools-bathroom-law-tro

I am hard at work today on the two (2) remaining Significant Projects™️ and will be and over the weekend as well, so I'll be off-line a bunch of the coming days. Will, of course, come up for air if major news breaks. Hope everyone is having a good day!

Trump asked for more time to respond to Smith’s request on the protective order, which had followed Trump’s Truth social post — and was quickly denied by Judge Chutkan. 5p Monday deadline for a response stands.

A weekend read from Law Dork: My Q&A with Ohio Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, who talks with me about being an out lesbian Dem leader in the midst of a GOP-led anti-LGBTQ legislative wave — and on the eve of Tuesday’s pivotal Issue One vote. https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-qa-ohio-nickie-antonio

Over at Law Dork, I laid out the questions and major issue that still remain unresolved a week after Justice Alito’s latest WSJ interview was published. https://www.lawdork.com/p/alito-moore-wsj-questions

NEW: A week after Alito’s latest WSJ airing of grievances, some big questions remain unanswered. Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alito-moore-wsj-questions

BREAKING: Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought a superseding indictment against Donald Trump in the documents case out of federal court in Florida, adding charges and a new defendant.

Stephen Miller is coming for DEI — and his group is trawling for new clients here on Twitter. https://www.lawdork.com/p/stephen-miller-america-first-legal-diversity

For those who missed it Friday, my first go at a look at this #SCOTUS term, at Law Dork (to which you should subscribe if you haven’t already done so): https://www.lawdork.com/p/6-3-supreme-court-means-what-it-means