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At the Fifth Circuit, When You Wish to Apply Qualified Immunity to Reverse Lower Court, You Say the Law is ‘Not Clearly Established’

The Northern District of Texas concluded that Dr Walsh's due process right was “clearly established,” negating qualified immunity for Defendants.

Will Biden Alter the Judiciary and Diminish The Grip the Federalist Society Has on Recommending Judicial Nominees?

The effort to change the judiciary is to change the traditional career path that leads to a lifetime appointment on the federal...

The Unconstitutional Non-Random 3-Panel Assignment in a Louisiana Appellate Court Went All the Way to the US Supreme Court. The End.

The US Supreme Court decline to hear a petition about non-random assignments of judges on appeal. After all, it involves secretive judicial...

The Anti-Consumer Watchdog is Actually a Bankers Institution. The US Supreme Court Should Dismantle the CFPB, an Unaccountable Agency.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a Bankers Institution and to call itself a Consumer Watchdog Agency is literally fraud upon...

Intervenors Submit Second Motion to Disqualify Judge Jill Pryor, Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Judge Pryor’s Order to Seal the Burkes Motion to Disqualify is unlawful and unconstitutional, pure and simple. Judge Jill Pryor’s actions demand...

DOJ Wants the Supreme Court to Issue an Advisory Opinion re CFPB’s Constitutionality

Paul Clement said, the government is not asking the Supreme Court to resolve a live dispute. Instead, he said, DOJ wants the...

April is Upon Us and It’s a Foolish Dozen of Texas Lawyers Behavin’ Badly. Then there’s the Bakers Dozen You’ll Never Know About. It’s a Secret.

US Supreme Court Justices Financial Disclosure Reports Under the Microscope

Given that basic transparency measures are anathema to the Supreme Court and its justices, we must use every available tool to ensure...

CIGNA’s Attorney Privilege Claims too Fishy for this Senior Texas Federal Judge

In summary, the court concludes that AP may successfully assert the fiduciary exception against Cigna; or, stated differently, Cigna "cannot assert the...

The Fifth Circuit is Assessing “Separation of Powers”, Yet as the Case Herein Shows, it is Guilty Itself of being Unconstitutional

Justice is not available for everyone, rich or poor, in the American judicial court system and as the framers demanded in crafting...

Texas Solicitor General Kyke Hawkins Arguments are Rudimentarily Dismissed by the US Supreme Court Justices

It probably was not a good sign for Texas in Banister v. Davis, a technical post-conviction habeas case with potentially major ramifications,...

How President Donald Trump’s Hired the Federalist Society to Change the US Federal Courts Makeup Quickly and Dramatically

In less than three years as president, President Trump has done nearly as much to shape the courts as President Obama did...

Steve ‘Foreclosure King’ Mnuchin Wants to Privatize Fannie and Freddie and This is an Early Sign It’s Primed

An accounting irregularity bordering on fraud, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac contradict themselves over net worth sweep. Steve Mnuchin is eager to privatize...

A Fifth Circuit Single Judge Decides to Get Innovative to Issue Unlawful Orders for a 3-Panel, Who are at The Federalist Society Convention in Washington D.C.

This motion revolves around the Magna Carta and the Constitution, which has been brutally slighted by Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham and the...

Someone Savvy (That Could Be The Issue) Needs to Hire a Supreme Court Clerk and/or Wordsmith from Black’s Law Dictionary to Oversee Legislative Wording as Congress is Failing Miserably

The Third Circuit’s en banc opinion created a split in the federal circuit courts of appeal, with the Third Circuit holding that...

Mitch McConnell is Talking US Supreme Court Judicial Ethics? Emmm…How’s Your Wife’s Ethics Investigation Going?

The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Monday launched an investigation into Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao over whether she is using her...

“A Republic, If You Can Keep It.” is the Book’s Title; Well, Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch Gets to Keep the $225,000 advance fee paid by the Publisher & Deutsche Bank Obtained a Free Takings Clause to Americans Homes

As one of the court’s most conservative members, Gorsuch praised federal judges who believe the Constitution is the greatest charter of human...

The Fifth Circuit Debate Originalism, a Constitutional Standard in a Divided Court in Cole v. Hunter. We Maintain, Common Sense Should be the Standard

James Wilson’s design was that every court could serve as a court of common sense: not the haphazard common sense of shallow...