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The first of what may be many appellate rulings on the Trump Administration's most controversial and questionable Executive Order.

That happened in yesterday's opinions respecting the stay in Labrador v. Poe, twice in Justice Gorsuch's concurrence (joined by Justices Thomas and Alito), and once in Justice Jackson's dissent (joined by Justice Sotomayor). Nice! For Sam's substantive analysis of Labrador, see this post.

Yesterday the Court stayed most of the district court's injunction in Labrador v. Poe, narrowing the injunction so that it protected only the plaintiffs from the enforcement of Idaho's statute restricting surgeries and other kinds of medical interventions for minors related to gender identity. Accompanying the Court's stay were three…

They'd spent up to 12 hours a day grinding out the Poe

New Netflix horror stories is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe short story

A courageous memoir of breaking free from a father’s oppression – and how poetry can be a salve against chaos

The author, who won the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year for The Botanist, talks about his working-class childhood, his former careers as a soldier and a probation officer – and surviving cancer

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