Josh Block
@joshablock.bsky.social
Attorney @ACLULGBT. He/him. Views expressed here are my own.
This sentence ranks right up there with language from Bowers and Plessy for combining cruelty and callousness.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This sentence ranks right up there with language from Bowers and Plessy for combining cruelty and callousness.
Will the same Justices who relied on Sam Bray’s work to nix nationwide injunctions listen to him on Humphrey’s Executor?
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September 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Will the same Justices who relied on Sam Bray’s work to nix nationwide injunctions listen to him on Humphrey’s Executor?
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This statement is joined by Guyatt who is often quoted by people who want to criticize gender affirming care as not being sufficiently “evidence based.”
August 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This statement is joined by Guyatt who is often quoted by people who want to criticize gender affirming care as not being sufficiently “evidence based.”
"biological pronouns"
July 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"biological pronouns"
Could have been a headline from an old The Onion article
June 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Could have been a headline from an old The Onion article
In fact, earlier in the opinion Roberts says we can’t subject medical diagnoses and treatments to heightened scrutiny because they are often “uniquely bound up in sex.” I think that shows that what is going on is just an ad hoc exception for the medical treatment context.
June 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
In fact, earlier in the opinion Roberts says we can’t subject medical diagnoses and treatments to heightened scrutiny because they are often “uniquely bound up in sex.” I think that shows that what is going on is just an ad hoc exception for the medical treatment context.
Doesn’t example from Medina which has the nursing facility as the grammatical subject of the sentence show that the 8th Cir was wrong to say the VRA was not rights creating just because the state is the grammatical subject of Section 2?
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Doesn’t example from Medina which has the nursing facility as the grammatical subject of the sentence show that the 8th Cir was wrong to say the VRA was not rights creating just because the state is the grammatical subject of Section 2?
Maybe we shouldn’t be nominating people to be federal judges if there are still outstanding criminal contempt proceedings about their conduct?
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June 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Maybe we shouldn’t be nominating people to be federal judges if there are still outstanding criminal contempt proceedings about their conduct?
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This is the time of thing Judge Boasberg would be able to look into if the DC Circuit motions panel weren’t stonewalling him.
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June 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is the time of thing Judge Boasberg would be able to look into if the DC Circuit motions panel weren’t stonewalling him.
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Even Alito thinks the majority’s argument that the law doesn’t discriminate based on trans status is bullshit.
June 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Even Alito thinks the majority’s argument that the law doesn’t discriminate based on trans status is bullshit.
Ready for more SCOTUS opinions.
June 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Ready for more SCOTUS opinions.
Every June the LGBTQ+ community celebrates pride month with a series of vigils—increasing from once a week to as frequently as on a daily basis—consulting a mystic oracle to learn what civil rights they will have for the coming year.
June 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Every June the LGBTQ+ community celebrates pride month with a series of vigils—increasing from once a week to as frequently as on a daily basis—consulting a mystic oracle to learn what civil rights they will have for the coming year.
So this popped up on my Westlaw clips and I think if you are going to compare trans people to original sin you should at least know what Genesis actually says. God had—falsely—said that if they ate the apple they would die. So, no, he did not “mean what he said.”
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
So this popped up on my Westlaw clips and I think if you are going to compare trans people to original sin you should at least know what Genesis actually says. God had—falsely—said that if they ate the apple they would die. So, no, he did not “mean what he said.”
“I wonder if I, too, am qualified to destroy a federal agency?”
May 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“I wonder if I, too, am qualified to destroy a federal agency?”
Like so much else with this administration, the attempt to purge references to trans people from medical journals was both chilling and clownish at the same time.
May 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Like so much else with this administration, the attempt to purge references to trans people from medical journals was both chilling and clownish at the same time.
En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.
May 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.
It’s only mostly dead.
May 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It’s only mostly dead.
Love this headline.
April 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Love this headline.
