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“Let yourself go,/ Relax,/ And let yourself go.Relax,/ You’ve got yourself tied up in a knot.” I had originally reacted with incredulity about a recent effort to paint Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court as largely irrelevant to the fate of Roe v. Wade and constitutional protection for reproductive rights. I drafted

“So let the chips fall where they mayAnd let these matters be settled this wayWe’ll let our judgement get carried away”

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled, as described by Chief Justice Roberts in his dissent, that “a huge swathe of Oklahoma is actually a Creek Indian reservation, on which the State may not prosecute serious

“Found
alternative sides to the things that were said”

Acting
in Pidgeon v. Turner (HT @JoeDunman for the opinion copy), the Supreme Court of Texas (SCOTX) has gratuitously protracted
the efforts of the city of Houston to treat its lesbian, gay, and bisexual
employees constitutionally and hence equally. The court unanimously reversed a lower appeals court’s

“You got
your tricks

Good for
you

But there’s
no gambit I don’t see through”

Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit unanimously held that the federal trial judge in Seattle who granted
a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) suspending Trump’s immigration ban executive order (EO) did not exceed his discretion.  The

“Memories to be erased

And nasty old stuff you’ve been hiding”

The
Harvard Law Review recently published its issue dedicated in memoriam to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  I know the point of such exercises is to say
nice things about the person memorialized. 
But I would hope that even an academic such