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'Federalist Society'

Federal appeals court to hear oral arguments in Arkansas transgender health care case

Oral arguments are set for April 11 in St. Louis in the appeal of a judicial panel's ruling that overturned an Arkansas ban on gender-affirming health care for minors.
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Is there really any doubt which team Judge Lee Rudofsky is playing for?

Judge Lee Rudofsky continues to wave his MAGA banner high.
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Rudofsky was wrong on redistricting case: Part 2

Ian Milhiser of Vox adds his voice to criticism of judge's ruling.

Ken Starr sets Capitol visit. Protest anyone?

Well isn't this special? Former Whitewater Special Persecutor Kenneth Starr will make an appearance at the Arkansas Capitol at noon Thursday and if you're allowed to attend you can snag a $15 copy of his book, "Contempt: A Memoir of the Clinton Investigation."
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Cavalacade of Trump horrors: Court-packing edition

From the horror show of the Trump administration comes the worst idea yet: A Federalist Society proposal for court packing, from the district level to the Supreme Court to erase any legay of Obama judicial appointees.

Arkansas Republicans at work to criminalize differences of opinion

I got into a lather over the weekend for impeachment talk by Republican legal giants Justin Harris, David Meeks and Jason Rapert. They want to make a high crime out of a ruling on gay marriage they disliked by Circuit Judge Chris Piazza. They want to impeach him. They are not alone in this kind of prosecutorial mindset. There's also Tom Cotton on the president. And also Tim Griffin on the Obama administration.
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While Obama was getting warm Arkansas reception, tone-deaf Tom Cotton, a foe of federal disaster funding, was blasting him in Washington

Republican Rep. Tom Cotton, speaking today before the conservative Federalist Society in Washington, used the occasion to all but brand President Obama a traitor. Tone deaf on Cotton's part, particularly from a representative with a record of voting against federal disaster aid? Particularly with the president bringing a sympathatic ear today to Arkansas?

Supreme Court members feted by key lawyer

They don't call the U.S. Supreme Court supreme for nothing. Ethical rules don't apply to them.
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Clarence Thomas' junket

Did Justice Clarence Thomas really make just a brief "drop-by" at a gathering of wealthy conservatives, as a court spokesman claimed?
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