Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Anthony Sanchez on Thursday. More on that and the status of Oklahoma’s 25-person execution spree at Law Dork this morning: https://www.lawdork.com/p/oklahoma-executions-drummond-sanchez

Those “religious-liberty training” sanctions that a Texas judge ordered aren’t gone. In fact, they are set to go back into effect on Sunday. Thus far, the 5th Circuit hasn’t even responded to Southwest’s request about the “unprecedented and unlawful” order. https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions

Those “religious-liberty training” sanction that a Texas judge ordered aren’t gone. In fact, they are set to go back into effect on Sunday. Thus far, the 5th Circuit hasn’t even responded to Southwest Airlines request about the “unprecedented and unlawful” order. https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions

Those “religious-liberty sanctions” that a Texas judge ordered aren’t gone. In fact, they are set to go back into effect on Sunday. Thus far, the 5th Circuit hasn’t even responded to Southwest Airlines request about the “unprecedented and unlawful” order. https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions

NEWS: The 30-day hold on the “religious-liberty training” sanctions order against Southwest Airlines expires Saturday night. So far, the 5th Circuit has sat on a request to extend the stay. As of now, the ADF training is set for Sept. 26. https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-sanctions

BREAKING: The Biden administration goes to SCOTUS in case seeking to limit the admin's interaction with social media companies, asking the justices to put the lower courts' injunction on hold while the Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23977660-23a243

#SCOTUS note: There are two Alabama redistricting filings — one in the three-judge case (23A231) and one from the one-judge case (23A241). The different underlying cases lead to different procedural requests at SCOTUS, but the court is almost certain to consider them together. Background at Law Dork here: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-voting-rights-scotus-trans-care

In case you missed it: On Friday evening, both the Biden administration and the maker of mifepristone went to #SCOTUS in the case over abortion medication access. Read about it, and get the filings, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-and-mifepristone-drugmaker-go

Here’s my report on DOJ and Danco Laboratories *both* seeking cert at #SCOTUS on Friday in the mifepristone case (with both petitions posted, of course), and more. New, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/doj-and-mifepristone-drugmaker-go

Here’s the argument contents. I’m not home, but I’ll upload it once I am.

Monique Worrell sues DeSantis, as she should. The second elected prosecutor DeSantis has attempted to oust, Worrell’s suspension order was even more vague than the one issued against Andrew Warren.

“‘[D]oing the absolute minimum and proud of it’ is not the standard we should be seeking from justices.”

My new piece this evening, on Thomas and Alito (and Roberts) and ethics. https://www.lawdork.com/p/supremely-unconcerned-with-ethics

Sunday #SCOTUS thoughts … returns to Law Dork this weekend, due to Thomas and Alito’s delayed disclosure reports. https://www.lawdork.com/p/supremely-unconcerned-with-ethics

For background, I've been covering this story at Law Dork all week — since I broke the news of the prosecutor's plans: https://www.lawdork.com/p/tennessee-prosecutor-threatens-pride

And of the lawsuit against him: https://www.lawdork.com/p/blount-pride-flamy-grant-sue-anti-drag-law

BREAKING: Judge Brantley Starr doubles down on his "religious-liberty training" sanctions order against Southwest Airlines, denying a stay of the order while the airline appeals it. https://www.lawdork.com/p/religious-liberty-training-judge-denies-stay

Further Update: The plaintiffs filed their reply tonight in the Blount Pride case, and it's brutal: "Because none of the Defendants’ arguments has merit, this Court should issue a Temporary Restraining Order to maintain the status quo." https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tned.111061/gov.uscourts.tned.111061.13.0.pdf

[Full disclosure: I read a draft of Spindelman's piece and provided my thoughts on it to him.]

Also, for the lawyers (and judges), I'd recommend a read of my friend (and professor back in the day) Marc Spindelman's piece on how lower court judges shouldn't be applying Dobbs outside of abortion cases — because that was what SCOTUS told them. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4556966

Here's my Law Dork report on the July decision allowing the Tennessee ban to go into effect during the appeal, despite the 2-1 majority admitting, "We may be wrong." They later also allowed the Kentucky ban to remain in effect during this appeal. https://www.lawdork.com/p/sixth-circuit-tenn-trans-care-ban-stay-ruling

NOTE: The Sixth Circuit's arguments over Tennessee and Kentucky's anti-trans bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors start at 3:30p tomorrow (Friday). I believe we will be able to watch or at least listen to them here at that time: https://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/live-arguments