Jamie Fox
@whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social
Law professor. A skeptic, not a cynic. https://www.stetson.edu/law/faculty/home/james-fox.php
I very much doubt it argues a violation of the fifth amendment’s equal protection *clause*, as the fifth amendment has no such clause. I expect the suit argues a violation of equal protection *principles* as applied to the federal government through the fifth amendment‘s due process clause.
New case filed today argues Russ Vought’s shutdown tactics on blue states violate the fifth amendment’s equal protection clause, specifically clean energy projects cancelled in sixteen Democratic-led states
Groups Sue to Reverse Trump’s Cuts to Energy Projects in Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I very much doubt it argues a violation of the fifth amendment’s equal protection *clause*, as the fifth amendment has no such clause. I expect the suit argues a violation of equal protection *principles* as applied to the federal government through the fifth amendment‘s due process clause.
I get why blsky people are pissed at dems. But if you haven’t had your paycheck and SNAP suspended, maybe think a bit before saying dems should keep going through January. If you don’t have a decent alternative to their suffering, comfort complaining is also not a great look.
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I get why blsky people are pissed at dems. But if you haven’t had your paycheck and SNAP suspended, maybe think a bit before saying dems should keep going through January. If you don’t have a decent alternative to their suffering, comfort complaining is also not a great look.
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On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
SCOTUS Echoes Plessy v Ferguson in Greenlighting Trump's Transphobic Passport Policy
Repeating a pattern that has become all too familiar, late last week the Roberts Court issued a per curiam order staying a lower court rulin...
www.dorfonlaw.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇
4,500 you say? Mere child’s play, my friends.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
4,500 you say? Mere child’s play, my friends.
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This is a great way to create a huge administrative clusterfuck that makes ppl even madder.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is a great way to create a huge administrative clusterfuck that makes ppl even madder.
I completely get the desire to publicize good works. But fed regs in fact do say that providers should not cut deals with people using SNAP EBT cards. Providers can be fined or barred from the program. They know the risks but we need not flag folks for the malevolent admin on here.
Yesterday at the farmer’s market I saw a vendor quietly give food to someone whose EBT (SNAP) card didn’t have enough money on it.
People helping people because the president and his administration refuse to.
Even when court-ordered.
People helping people because the president and his administration refuse to.
Even when court-ordered.
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I completely get the desire to publicize good works. But fed regs in fact do say that providers should not cut deals with people using SNAP EBT cards. Providers can be fined or barred from the program. They know the risks but we need not flag folks for the malevolent admin on here.
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Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Trump‘s brilliant plan of 50 year mortgages means that after your first 20 years making huge interest payments to a bank you will have paid down almost none of the principal and they will still own the house you are living in with 30 years to go. A scam from a career con man.
The Free Exercise Clause, Trumpublican version
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Free Exercise Clause, Trumpublican version
Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.
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/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
/2 1. Real human beings will suffer from even a brief stay. 2. The government's position is transparently dishonest and in bad faith. 3. The Supreme Court has lost any benefit of the doubt. They have lost the mandate of the heaven that is the rule of law.
Nothing in basketball should be the color of Pepto Bismol. And definitely not the court.
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Nothing in basketball should be the color of Pepto Bismol. And definitely not the court.
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The government’s position is literally that the government itself is “irreparably harmed” by distributing funds
What it means is that Trump’s political position is “irreparably harmed” by disbursing SNAP funds.
This conservative SCOTUS majority won’t need any help to understand this.
What it means is that Trump’s political position is “irreparably harmed” by disbursing SNAP funds.
This conservative SCOTUS majority won’t need any help to understand this.
Is it good politics to ask the Supreme Court if you can continue starving people?
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The government’s position is literally that the government itself is “irreparably harmed” by distributing funds
What it means is that Trump’s political position is “irreparably harmed” by disbursing SNAP funds.
This conservative SCOTUS majority won’t need any help to understand this.
What it means is that Trump’s political position is “irreparably harmed” by disbursing SNAP funds.
This conservative SCOTUS majority won’t need any help to understand this.
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Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
www.heraldtribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
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While small colleges will have higher per-student operating costs, New College of Florida is blowing that out of the water. The state is asking more questions as their US News ranking is down 60 spots in recent years.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
While small colleges will have higher per-student operating costs, New College of Florida is blowing that out of the water. The state is asking more questions as their US News ranking is down 60 spots in recent years.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...
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In December 1865, 2500 Black Washingtonians petitioned Congress for the right to vote. "Experience teaches," they wrote, "that all reforms have their opponents. The same experience also teaches that apprehensions of evil arising from reforms founded in justice, are but seldom if ever realized."
Black Residents of Washington, D.C., to the U.S. Congress, December 1865
www.freedmen.umd.edu
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
In December 1865, 2500 Black Washingtonians petitioned Congress for the right to vote. "Experience teaches," they wrote, "that all reforms have their opponents. The same experience also teaches that apprehensions of evil arising from reforms founded in justice, are but seldom if ever realized."
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Did Women Ruin The Workplace
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Did Women Ruin The Workplace
Okay, a thread. (thanks to @mjsdc.bsky.social for posting on this case). The Court is lying through its teeth (precedent) - subtly changing its quote extractions to rewrite animus law and produce essential a new pro-animus "equal protection" doctrine. Here's how...1/
The requirement that challengers must show that a gov’t action “lacks any purpose other than a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” basically would mean all animus discrimination is constitutional. There is always some other “purpose.” This standard would overrule Romer and Cleburne.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Okay, a thread. (thanks to @mjsdc.bsky.social for posting on this case). The Court is lying through its teeth (precedent) - subtly changing its quote extractions to rewrite animus law and produce essential a new pro-animus "equal protection" doctrine. Here's how...1/
The requirement that challengers must show that a gov’t action “lacks any purpose other than a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” basically would mean all animus discrimination is constitutional. There is always some other “purpose.” This standard would overrule Romer and Cleburne.
NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.
Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends
equal protection principles than displaying their country of
birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to
a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential
treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to
establish that the Government’s choice to display biological
sex “lack[s] any purpose other than a bare . . . desire to
harm a politically unpopular group.” Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the
State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by de-
clining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress ex-
pressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiacrtgoecxjy5y7ojz7xzbun4c4nwutjcvqn4qb4p25ldpt6va5lu@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The requirement that challengers must show that a gov’t action “lacks any purpose other than a bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group” basically would mean all animus discrimination is constitutional. There is always some other “purpose.” This standard would overrule Romer and Cleburne.
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My weight at birth is also a historical fact but I'm pretty sure it doesn't irreparably harm the United States not to include that on my passport.
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
My weight at birth is also a historical fact but I'm pretty sure it doesn't irreparably harm the United States not to include that on my passport.
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FYI. Buses have been free in Chapel Hill and Carrboro North Carolina for over 20 years. See: chapelboro.com/news/news-tr...
Chapel Hill Transit Marks 20th Anniversary of Fare-Free Service - Chapelboro.com
Chapel Hill Transit moved to its fare-free model 20 years ago and continues to explore ways to make transit more accessible and resourceful.
chapelboro.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
FYI. Buses have been free in Chapel Hill and Carrboro North Carolina for over 20 years. See: chapelboro.com/news/news-tr...
This coming out at the same time as that Douthat what-ever-it-is is a chef’s kiss
Reporting this story, I heard near universal concern from Heritage staff of discrimination against unmarried women.
Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.
Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
Then I obtained a letter to the Heritage board from anonymous staffers that alleged the same thing — and more.
Heritage is aware that alleged behavior could create legal trouble.
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This coming out at the same time as that Douthat what-ever-it-is is a chef’s kiss
Certain Fedsoc folks: “weeeelll, it depended on whether he owed allegiance to the United States as to be within its jurisdiction in a way not really intended by the framers…why do you ask?”
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Certain Fedsoc folks: “weeeelll, it depended on whether he owed allegiance to the United States as to be within its jurisdiction in a way not really intended by the framers…why do you ask?”
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