Camilla Taylor
@camillabtaylor.bsky.social
Atty, LGBTQ rights advocate
Exactly. Where is the modern day George Dale, a Muncie IN newspaper editor who spent his career exposing Klan members in the 1920s? blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/koo-koo-side...
June 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Exactly. Where is the modern day George Dale, a Muncie IN newspaper editor who spent his career exposing Klan members in the 1920s? blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/koo-koo-side...
Cogent points here.
Six takeaways from Skrmetti are circulating widely. All six contain errors:
1. The first takeaway quotes a law professor suggesting that a loss in Skrmetti will make other trans rights cases harder. In fact the opinion is narrow.
1. The first takeaway quotes a law professor suggesting that a loss in Skrmetti will make other trans rights cases harder. In fact the opinion is narrow.
June 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Cogent points here.
heartbreaking for TN youth, but let’s be clear about what this opinion does NOT do: greenlight other healthcare bans or anti-trans discrimination. It’s limited to equal protection claims re: healthcare for kids where there’s no animus or pretext for anti-trans discrim.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors in a huge setback for transgender rights.
Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors, big loss for transgender rights
The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights.
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June 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
heartbreaking for TN youth, but let’s be clear about what this opinion does NOT do: greenlight other healthcare bans or anti-trans discrimination. It’s limited to equal protection claims re: healthcare for kids where there’s no animus or pretext for anti-trans discrim.
Great news for brave mission-driven nonprofits committed to serving LGBTQ people, combatting systemic racism and related health disparities, and ending the HIV epidemic. The court condemned these executive orders for discriminating, chilling protected speech, and more. Go team!
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump's "anti-DEI" and anti-trans funding orders, as applied to organizations that sued in a case led by San Francisco AIDS Foundation and filed in federal court in San Francisco.
Judge Jon Tigar (Obama)'s opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Judge Jon Tigar (Obama)'s opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
June 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Great news for brave mission-driven nonprofits committed to serving LGBTQ people, combatting systemic racism and related health disparities, and ending the HIV epidemic. The court condemned these executive orders for discriminating, chilling protected speech, and more. Go team!
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For the non-lawyers, it is rare for a federal circuit court to expressly remind another branch of its obligations by appealing to their better angels. This order is all the more extraordinary because Wilkinson is a Reagan appointee.
If you’re looking for a jurist pulling the fire alarm, this is it.
If you’re looking for a jurist pulling the fire alarm, this is it.
Whew, this conclusion from the Fourth Circuit:
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
"We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital to the American ethos."
April 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
For the non-lawyers, it is rare for a federal circuit court to expressly remind another branch of its obligations by appealing to their better angels. This order is all the more extraordinary because Wilkinson is a Reagan appointee.
If you’re looking for a jurist pulling the fire alarm, this is it.
If you’re looking for a jurist pulling the fire alarm, this is it.
Reposted by Camilla Taylor
Courts are meeting the moment.
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.
Maybe it's not the judges?
March 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Courts are meeting the moment.
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These are the heroes of our time. Be on the right side of history folks. Do right by the rule of law and democracy. Do NOT be a coward who obeys in advance!
March 29, 2025 at 4:22 AM
These are the heroes of our time. Be on the right side of history folks. Do right by the rule of law and democracy. Do NOT be a coward who obeys in advance!
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👏 HUGE WIN: Today, a federal district court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction immediately blocking enforcement of the Trump administration’s executive order banning transgender people from enlisting or continuing to serve in the military.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
👏 HUGE WIN: Today, a federal district court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction immediately blocking enforcement of the Trump administration’s executive order banning transgender people from enlisting or continuing to serve in the military.
@hrc.org
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