Overnight news from Law Dork: Tennessee prosecutor who sent anti-drag law threat letter has been sued. https://www.lawdork.com/p/blount-pride-flamy-grant-sue-anti-drag-law

LAWSUIT FILED: Follow up on my Tuesday report about the prosecutor who threatened to enforce Tennessee’s anti-drag law ahead of this weekend’s pride event in Blount County. https://www.lawdork.com/p/blount-pride-flamy-grant-sue-anti-drag-law

BREAKING: Blount Pride and Flamy Grant sue prosecutor who sent anti-drag law threat letter: "The letter is a blatant attempt to chill Plaintiffs’ speech and expression protected under the First Amendment." New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/blount-pride-flamy-grant-sue-anti-drag-law

"Major questions" in the Fifth Circuit: A nuclear matter. https://www.lawdork.com/p/nuclear-waste-case-and-major-questions

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I broke the news last night that Blount County, Tennessee’s prosecutor, Ryan Desmond, is threatening this weekend’s pride event with enforcement of the TN anti-drag law that a federal judge in a case out of Shelby County has said is unconstitutional. https://www.lawdork.com/p/tennessee-prosecutor-threatens-pride

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Trans people are under attack, with government laws that take away their rights. For some, the pushback against that hate is the problem. “Compromise” is needed, and “aggressiveness” is a problem. This is a dangerous path, and I address it at Law Dork. https://www.lawdork.com/p/dangerous-arguments-and-anti-trans-laws

UPDATE: Following this TRO against Idaho's anti-trans school bathrooms ban, the state tonight filed its combined opposition to the plaintiffs' preliminary injunction motion and motion to dismiss the case: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.idd.52529/gov.uscourts.idd.52529.47.1.pdf

Here is the response to Monday's Eleventh Circuit ruling from the lawyers for the Alabama families challenging the law: "Our clients are devastated by this decision .... While this is a setback, we are confident that it is only a temporary one."

NEWS: Sixth Circuit confirms that Judges Sutton, White, and Thapar will hear the Sept. 1 arguments over Tennessee and Kentucky's bans on gender-affirming care for minors — the same judges who, on 2-1 votes, have allowed the laws to go into effect. https://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/sites/ca6/files/documents/oral_argument_calendars/09012023_arg.pdf

If you're just catching up from the weekend, I've published two reports at Law Dork since Friday:

- one on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and Trump's disqualification from being president under it: https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-almost-certainly-disqualified

- one on the Sunday night ruling in Georgia halting enforcement of that state's new ban on hormone therapy for trans minors: https://www.lawdork.com/p/georgia-trans-minors-hormone-ban-injunction

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Here’s my initial Law Dork report: https://www.lawdork.com/p/georgia-trans-minors-hormone-ban-injunction

Breaking: Judge blocks Georgia's ban on hormone therapy for transgender minors

New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/georgia-trans-minors-hormone-ban-injunction

Note: Georgia's ban does not include puberty blockers. That's why it's not discussed (or enjoined) here.

BREAKING: Fifth Circuit rules that challenges to mifepristone's initial approval and to generic approval likely fail. Court rules that the 2016 and later rule changes will likely succeed. But, all remains on hold due to SCOTUS. More to come at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/

INDICTMENT 5: Georgia v. Trump.

Also indicted, 18 others, including Giuliani, Eastman, Chesebro, Meadows, Clark, Ellis, Roman, Powell.

From Kyle Cheney: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23909543-23sc188947-criminal-indictment

While we’re waiting on Georgia, read about voting rights battles to Georgia’s west in Alabama and south in Florida: https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-qa-with-abha-khanna

In 30 minutes, Abha Khanna and others will be arguing to a federal court that Alabama's congressional map remains illegal under the Voting Rights Act.

As she told me, Alabama's behavior shows "the need for Section 2 is greater than ever, alive and well." https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-qa-with-abha-khanna