estuary.us
Amateur naturalist aka citizen scientist.
Writer, photographer: https://www.estuary.us.
Founder and caretaker of a soCal pollinator garden. Native bee species fan and advocate.
Born at 317 ppm
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When I bought this I thought it was way too basic and cliche for a big city parade but I'm honestly considering it now, seems like this year is a good year for obnoxiously bright and obvious Pride gear bsky.app/profile/skwi...
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đ„ DeLauro has been relentless today in ripping apart Vought
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Give it a click for more of the story. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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"We will not stand by as the Trump administration unleashes highly destructive commercial fishing on some of the planetâs most pristine, biodiverse marine environments." - David Henkin, Earthjustice Deputy Managing Attorney
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... And the grand finale: This EO âseeks to silence speech âat the very center of the 1st Amend,â ... does so via the most âegregious form of content discriminationâviewpoint discriminationâ... all in an âattempt to âinsulate the govtâs laws from judicial inquiry.ââ ...
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... Though these quotes may sound like truisms, Iâll indulge myself by sharing two more. âWhen the govt draws legal scrutiny, its response must be to defend itself in court, not to intimidate those who would force it do so.â ...
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... And because âAn informed, independent judiciary presumes an informed, independent bar,â these EOsâ âthreaten not only the lawyers and their clients but also the ability of a coequal branch of government to function.â ...
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... And the lawyers being silenced here, play a unique role in âupholding our democracy.â ... â[t]he right to sue and defend in the courtsâ is âthe right conservative of all other rights, and lies at the foundation of orderly government.â ...
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... While âretaliationâ sounds retrospective, Bates continues, âits greatest danger lies in its prospective silencing effect.â It creates a âscheme of informal censorshipâ âanalogous to the ... prior restraints that are the âleast tolerable of all 1st Am violations.â
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... which, apparently by making meritorious arguments in court, he deems to âthreaten public safety and national security, limit constitutional freedoms, degrade the quality of American elections, or undermine bedrock American principlesâ ...
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... Not at all incidentally, Jenner is a leader in pro bono service. The American Lawyer rated it #1 in that category for 12 of the last 15 years. Trumpâs root-&-branch unconstitutional EO explicitly targets such âpowerful pro bono practicesâ ...
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... highlighting Jennerâs âpro bono representationâ of transgender clients and its once having âhosted an event interviewingâ Weissmann.â (The brief was signed by AG Bondiâs Acting Assoc AG Chad Mizelle & Dep Assoc AG Richard Lawson.) ...
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... having once employed @weissmann.substack.com
(he left the firm in 2021). Weissman had worked on the Mueller Report &, the EO says, favors âa political agenda against me.â The DOJâs briefs âdouble[d] downâ on these starkly unconstitutional objectives, ...
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... Like the other EOs, Jennerâs is, on its face, nakedly retaliatory of protected speech & association. It punishes Jenner for its âpartisan representations,â for âsupportingâ and âbackingâ transgender and asylum-seeking clients, and for ...
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... While Judge Howell, reviewing the Perkins Coie EO, found at least 9 constitutional violations, Bates focuses solely on Jennerâs âmost straightforward winner,â its 1st Amendment retaliation claim. But he then fully explores that one violation's profound threat to democracy. ...
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... âIn our constitutional order,â Bates writes, âfew stars are as fixed as the principle that no official âcan prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics. ... And in our constitutional order, few actors are as central to fixing that star as lawyers.â
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