If, as seems likely, there is a majority for Chief’s position, why not issue per curiam order for Court, with dissents to follow? Maybe because some members of majority want to respond to dissents *at same time* they’re issued?

Scoop: The Unredacted Email That Shows Exactly Who Knew Why WPATH Caved to Dr. Rachel Levine On Trans-Care Age Limits For two years, black bars have hid the names on the email. I got the original. WPATH's president wrote to Dr. Levine and spelled out who was in the loop as they softened the age-limit recommendations.

Don't sleep on wokeness. Reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. Woke activists are out there making a Rocky training montage somewhere away from the public eye. We can't be lazily eating chips on the couch when Woke 2.0 returns to fight.

Correct. As is this passage: Blanche’s Justice Department (he was initially deputy attorney general) has launched a series of flimsy investigations and prosecutions of the president’s purported enemies, most of which have failed in court. Vindictive prosecution is despicable whether the prosecutors responsible claim to be acting “independently” or not.

Senate Watch: If Trump is going to have any success on judicial nominations in last two years of his presidency, Republicans need to retain control of the Senate. It's 53 R, 47 D now. RCP has six toss-ups (five in seats held by Rs: AK, IA, ME, OH, TX) and current R seat in NC (Tillis) leaning Dem. If the toss-ups split evenly and Dems win in NC, it's 50-50 with VP's tie-breaking vote.

The term that I clerked for Justice Scalia was very contentious, especially because the Court was expected to overrule Roe in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. I recall discovering with alarm that the Justice's address and home phone number were listed in the local phone book. (For you youngsters, that was a big book distributed annually to all households.) When I told him that I was concerned for his safety, he shrugged and said something like, "How else are my kids' friends going to be able to get in touch with them?" (That could explain including the phone number, but not the address.)

As expected, SCOTUS rejects Trumps' unusual attempt to seek reconsideration of the court's decision in June not to hear his challenge to E. Jean Carroll's $5 million jury verdict against him.

New in Confirmation Tales: Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation Vote ... and a few more nuggets. —Sotomayor’s strange belief that there are no adjectives in Spanish. —Sotomayor’s quota mentality for judgeships. —Sotomayor’s celebration of the “importance of indefiniteness in the law.” —The White House’s scramble, immediately after Obama announced that he had picked Sotomayor, to assure abortion supporters that she was a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade. —Sotomayor’s past as a Puerto Rican nationalist and her later support for (in the words of one critic) an “affirmative action plan for Puerto Rico” statehood. —Sotomayor’s revelation, in her written responses to post-hearing questions, that her testimony that judges must “not make the law” was meaningless wordplay. Link to full post in reply.

New in Confirmation Tales: Sonia Sotomayor's Confirmation Vote ... and a few more nuggets. —Sotomayor’s strange belief that there are no adjectives in Spanish. —Sotomayor’s quota mentality for judgeships. —Sotomayor’s celebration of the “importance of indefiniteness in the law.” —The White House’s scramble, immediately after Obama announced that he had picked Sotomayor, to assure abortion supporters that she was a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade. —Sotomayor’s past as a Puerto Rican nationalist and her later support for (in the words of one critic) an “affirmative action plan for Puerto Rico” statehood. —Sotomayor’s revelation, in her written responses to post-hearing questions, that her testimony that judges must “not make the law” was meaningless wordplay. Link to full post in reply.

World Cup intersects with Supreme Court: Folarin Balogun, who just scored goal for United States, is a birthright citizen of US by virtue of his mother's temporary presence when she gave birth to him. (She was trying to return by plane to London when she was seven months pregnant, but airline staff refused to allow her to fly due to safety concerns.) No, this has no bearing on legal issue.

The two pending Supreme Court cases on state laws that protect women's sports are easy: The challenged laws define who may play in girls’ and women’s sports on the basis of sex, not on the basis of gender identity. Rather than discriminate on the basis of gender identity, they disregard gender identity. Boys can’t play on girls’ teams, and that’s true both for boys who identify as male and for those who identify as female. These rulings ought to be unanimous. 1/