Although 9th Circuit en banc declined to vacate (erase) the panel opinion in #WavTrump, today we got more opinions from judges /1
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He doesn't discuss Trump statements in office, or those of Miller etc. But seems to say all campaign statements should be off limits /10
J. Kozinski is smart, iconoclastic, and idiosyncratic judge. His opinions (like J. Posner's) get attention because he's very smart, loud /11
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Expect the government to cite Kozinski's point (as well as Bybee's dissent, which is more on the caselaw) at every turn to support E.O. /12
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And if this case makes it to
#SCOTUS, framing it as free speech campaign issue appeals directly to Kennedy, conservatives /13 -
Kozinkski is a former Kennedy clerk by the way. All in all, this dissent matters. A lot. 14/14 <End>
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@rickhasen I respect Kozinski but this is a bad argument. Original and interesting but bad. -
Kozinski is generally fantastic, even when he is wrong. But Berzon is quite correct, this is BS.
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He's a Scalia-style asshole. Always has been and apparently always will be.
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