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Fragile vessels, unlawful encouragement, and an unchastened district attorney.

New testimony reveals one of Mr Trump’s White House lawyers telling law professor John Eastman he was ‘out of his effing mind’ for suggesting that then-vice president Mike Pence unilaterally throw out electoral votes for Joe Biden

Eugene has a post on today's decision by the Fourth Circuit (per Judge Heytens) on Rep. Madison Cawthorn's challenge to the disqualification litigation. I wanted to highlight one point. After giving a close textual read to the 1872 Amnesty Act, and concluding that it does not provide a blanket future…

From Cawthorn v. Amalfi, decided today by the Fourth Circuit (Judge Toby Heytens, joined by Judge James Wynn): {In January 2022, shortly after the North Carolina state legislature redrew its congressional districts, a group of voters in Representative Madison Cawthorn's district filed such a challenge. According to the voters, Representative…

The result might have been different "if plaintiff's speech had occurred off-campus."

From White Coat Waste Project v. Greater Richmond Transit Co., decided today (quite correctly, I think) by the Fourth Circuit (Judge Julius Richardson, joined by Chief Judge Roger Gregory and Judge Paul Niemeyer): When White Coat Waste Project tried to run an advertisement denouncing animal experimentation with the Greater Richmond…

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Plasma, prisons, and political parties

The Court makes other people follow the text and history, but at least when it comes to certiorari, the justices lose their religion.