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’s husband; father of daughters; Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts ; #SCOTUS nerd ; new book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocket; #LGM
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I'm really excited to introduce my new (free) weekly newsletter about the Supreme Court, "One First." I've wanted to do this for a long time, but Twitter's impending demise finally got me in gear. First installment drops Monday; sign-up link (with more details) in next tweet:
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Updating my tracker of suits Ken Paxton has filed against Biden policies in Texas courts: Image 1 lists all 26 suits, including where they were filed, odds of drawing that judge, and subject matter. Image 2 breaks out *all* of Texas's divisions to show how Paxton exploits them.
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This is at least the second time I've been called a "Croatian Nazi" on this site. Leaving aside that I'm Jewish, do people somehow think that Vladeck is a Croatian name? (It isn't.)
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Typical that a Croatian nazi would simp for a case that upheld the milk lobby's crushing of a healthy, inexpensive nourishing food desperately needed by poor people.
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On Tuesday, Ken Paxton filed his 25th suit against a Biden policy in Victoria — where it had a 100% chance of being assigned to Judge Drew Tipton. Now, DOJ is moving to transfer the case to Austin — or, at least, to a *different* Southern District judge: utexas.box.com/v/DOJ-Transfer
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Two caveats to this data: First, it does not include suits Paxton filed in other jurisdictions, including district courts outside of Texas or directly in the Fifth Circuit. Second, it does not include suits filed by *other* Texas state actors (e.g., the General Land Office).
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Updating my tracker of suits Ken Paxton has filed against Biden policies in Texas courts: Image 1 lists all 26 suits, including where they were filed, odds of drawing that judge, and subject matter. Image 2 breaks out *all* of Texas's divisions to show how Paxton exploits them.
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Yesterday’s tweet about Texas’s judge-shopping is *already* out of date. Paxton filed suit number 26 today in Amarillo (which has a 100% chance of drawing Judge Kacsmaryk), challenging a new Labor Department rule about investment of pension trust assets: texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/
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Updating my tracker of the suits Ken Paxton has filed against Biden policies in Texas courts: Image 1 is a list of all 25 suits, including where they were filed and their subject matter. Image 2 is a breakdown of *all* divisions in Texas, to illustrate how Paxton exploits them.
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It says everything that needs to be said that Carolene Products — a case in which #SCOTUS articulated the appropriate limits on the role of unelected judges vis-a-vis the democratically accountable political branches — is on this list. Judicial power for me, but not for thee.
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If I ran a vote of people I liked to come up with the top 20 list of worst Supreme Court decisions, and this is what the vote was, I simply wouldnt have published the results.
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I’m really grateful to for providing free CPR/AED training to staff and faculty. It’s a sobering way to spend a Thursday afternoon, but it’s vastly preferable to the alternative…
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You may note an apparent discrepancy between the two charts. But the odds column in the first chart refers to the odds at the time that *that* lawsuit was filed. The second chart, because it's not case-specific, refers to the odds of drawing specific judges as they stand *today.*
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Two caveats to this data: First, it does not include suits Paxton filed in other jurisdictions, including district courts outside of Texas or directly in the Fifth Circuit. Second, it does not include suits filed by *other* Texas state actors (e.g., the General Land Office).
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Updating my tracker of the suits Ken Paxton has filed against Biden policies in Texas courts: Image 1 is a list of all 25 suits, including where they were filed and their subject matter. Image 2 is a breakdown of *all* divisions in Texas, to illustrate how Paxton exploits them.
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I can hardly wait to read this and assign it in my judicial politics class.
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If you've been waiting to order my forthcoming book on #SCOTUS's "shadow docket" (due out from @BasicBooks on May 16), now's a *great* time. Today through Friday, Barnes & Noble is offering 25% off pre-orders with the code PREORDER25: barnesandnoble.com/w/the-shadow-d Thanks, @BNBuzz!
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All 25 of Ken Paxton's suits against Biden policies filed in Texas have been brought in the same six small or single-judge divisions: Victoria (Tipton): 7 Amarillo (Kacsmaryk): 6 Galveston (Brown): 4 Fort Worth (O'Connor/Pittman/Means): 4 Lubbock (Hendrix): 2 Tyler (Barker): 2
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Another day, another Ken Paxton lawsuit challenging a Biden administration immigration policy (this one about parole). And no surprise: he filed it in the Eastern District’s Victoria Division — where it has a *100%* chance of being assigned to Trump-appointed Judge Drew Tipton.
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Note what’s missing: Austin (where the Attorney General sits); Houston; Dallas; El Paso; San Antonio; Laredo; Anywhere else along the border. Yes, the rules (unfortunately) allow if, but at some point, shouldn’t the judges be less-than thrilled by the message Paxton is sending?
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All 25 of Ken Paxton's suits against Biden policies filed in Texas have been brought in the same six small or single-judge divisions: Victoria (Tipton): 7 Amarillo (Kacsmaryk): 6 Galveston (Brown): 4 Fort Worth (O'Connor/Pittman/Means): 4 Lubbock (Hendrix): 2 Tyler (Barker): 2
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Another day, another Ken Paxton lawsuit challenging a Biden administration immigration policy (this one about parole). And no surprise: he filed it in the Eastern District’s Victoria Division — where it has a *100%* chance of being assigned to Trump-appointed Judge Drew Tipton.
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Another day, another Ken Paxton lawsuit challenging a Biden administration immigration policy (this one about parole). And no surprise: he filed it in the Eastern District’s Victoria Division — where it has a *100%* chance of being assigned to Trump-appointed Judge Drew Tipton.
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Eleanor Custis Wright — who, among other things, was the widow of Professor Charles Alan Wright — passed away this weekend at the age of 98. She was a remarkable woman who led a remarkable life: statesman.com/obituaries/pac זיכרונה לברכה
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📻Loved today's "One First," the new SCOTUS-themed newsletter from that comes out every Monday? Learn more about big SCOTUS news from Prof. Vladeck's appearance this morning on 👇 (And more "One First" here: stevevladeck.substack.com)
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Many questions are swirling around the U.S. Supreme Court this term. Why the delay in issuing opinions? What’s with the inconclusive results of the Dobbs leak probe? And what big cases will impact Texas? @UTexasLaw's @steve_vladeck has more. texasstandard.org/stories/today-
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(This is the first time Justice Barrett has ever read an opinion from the bench; the Court hasn't done this since February 2020, eight months before her confirmation.)
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First (but not last) #SCOTUS ruling in an argued case is Arellano. Barrett for a unanimous Court in an equitable tolling dispute involving veterans' claims: supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf
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