Originally published at: Judges Are Finding Ways to Deal With the Supreme Court’s Disastrous Shadow Docket - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. On Thursday, a federal district judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Education’s mass cancellation of grants related to “diversity” to move forward, rejecting the Trump administration’s argument that recent Supreme Court precedent required dismissal of the…
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It’s Kelley, not Kelly.
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It’s genius, and about damn time, no matter how you spell it.
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This judge is doing fine work. Keep up the resistance. We are (or were) a nation of laws.
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Interim relief ordered by the Supreme Court’s MAGA 6 on the emergency docket are intended to allow the Trump regime to do what it wants. The final decision in these cases may in many instances be different.
Why? The MAGA 6 are all-in on enabling the lawlessness of the Trump regime, but don’t want his successor, who could well be a Democrat, to do the same. This is an obvious tactic if one knows the MAGA 6 aren’t actual judges, but corrupt partisan actors.
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And pineapple on pizzas (although some folks do like to tease others about this, but really - who doesn’t!? 
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