Dana El-Kurd
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4,891 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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If the standard set by Judge Ho and his peers in New Orleans remained in place, Kavanaugh warned, quote, Governing, he suggested, would become impossible.
It wasn't just on the issue of legal standing that the Supreme Court found the Fifth Circuit Court's judgment lacking.
In the case of Rahimi v. The United States, the Fifth Circuit overturned a federal law that prohibited domestic abusers from buying firearms.
The highest court on June 21st, 2024, overturned that decision by an eight to one margin.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who generally supports a very broad view of gun rights, said that history, quote, confirms what common sense suggests.
When an individual poses a clear threat of physical violence to another, the threatening individual may be disarmed.
Roberts also suggested that the Fifth Circuit misunderstood the Supreme Court's view of the Second Amendment.
Professor Yu told us that as conservative as the Supreme Court majority might be, outside of Clarence Thomas, they have found the Fifth Circuit's rulings to be an embarrassment to conservative judicial philosophy.
On that, again, I think that was an 8-to-1 opinion, and Clarence Thomas was the only person who would agree with the Fifth Circuit.
So in general, I think the Supreme Court is definitely conservative, but the Supreme Court appreciates a certain type of conservativeness that they can chew on, and it's something that it can lace with some academic legitimacy and not just some sort of attention-seeking...
paragraphs that would make people feel some sort of feeling.
On the last day of its 2024 session, the Supreme Court sent back to the Fifth Circuit a case involving a 2021 Texas law that limited the ability of social media companies to suspend user accounts for extremist or violence-inciting content.
The law was inspired by the decision of what was then called Twitter, and now X, as well as other social media companies, to de-platform Donald Trump after the president encouraged his supporters to ransack the Capitol and stop the counting of electoral college votes on January 6, 2021.
The Fifth Circuit previously upheld the law, claiming that it rejected, quote, the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say.
Ho and his allies on the Fifth Circuit, however, are fine with censoring free expression by members of the LGBTQ community.
In March 2023, Walter Wendler, the president of West Texas A&M University, a public institution, canceled a drag show scheduled at Legacy Hall, a campus building.
Organizers plan to use proceeds from the performance to raise money for the Trevor Project, a nonprofit group that seeks to prevent suicides in the LGBTQ plus community.
In a statement canceling the show, Wendler explicitly said that his private religious beliefs guided his decision.
It is wrong.
Spectrum WT, a pro-LGBTQ student organization, filed a suit challenging the ban and requested an injunction blocking Wendler's action.
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