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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A914 NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY No. 25A915 PETER KOSINSKI, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [March 2, 2026] The applications for stay presented to JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court are granted. The January 21, 2026 order entered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Index No. 164002/2025, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the New York state courts and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the mandate of this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from grant of stay. The Court's 101-word unexplained order can be summarized in just 7: "Rules for thee, but not for me." Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts have limited jurisdiction. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an elec-tion. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, and except for this one. Ignoring every limit on federal courts' authority, the Court takes the unprecedented step of staying a state trial court's decision in a re-districting dispute on matters of state law without giving the State's highest court a chance to act. Because that order violates basic principles of jurisdiction, federalism, and equity, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks New York state court redistricting order, over the strong dissent of the Democratic appointees.

Breaking: Supreme Court Reverses Lower Court Order That Redrew Congressional Map in Staten Island, with Ominous Implications for Voting Rights Act #ELB I’m on the road so this will be brief. The Supreme Court over the dissent of the three liberal Justices reversed a lower court order requiring the drawing of a minority opportunity district that the l...

Rick Hasen on today: “to me the headline is the Justice Alito concurrence which states that race conscious districting as required not just by the federal Voting Rights Act but also state acts and state constitutions is “unadorned” and “odious” racial discrimination.” electionlawblog.org?p=154596

How Wesley Hunt of Texas Is Working in Plain Sight With Outside Groups

A remarkable level of flouting of the remaining campaign finance rules, as everyone now knows enforcers are sleeping and SCOTUS will shrug away what’s left at some point

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Voting Rights Groups Launch Campaign to Defeat Voter ID Ballot Initiative that Would Restrict Access to the Ballot for Millions of Californians - ACLU of Northern California

The proposed voter ID initiative is voter suppression, pure and simple. It would erect new barriers to keep eligible California voters from exercising their fundamental right to vote and expose voters' sensitive personal information.

If it qualifies for the ballot, we will defeat it in November.

DOJ Examined Men in Epstein’s Orbit Accused of Sex Crimes. None Were Charged. Several women told investigators after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death that they were sexually abused by his associates. The Justice Department has said the files include unverified allegations.

"Multiple women alleged to prosecutors that they were sexually assaulted by high-profile associates of Jeffrey Epstein, according to the recently released Epstein files. None of the men were charged."

⭕️ NEW: Iranian Hotel Strike in Bahrain Injured U.S. Defense Personnel, Diplomatic Cable Comfirms U.S. lawmakers and mainstream media have described Iranian strikes on Gulf hotels as indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets. But The Washington Post reports that two U.S. Defense Department personnel were injured in an Iranian drone strike on the Crowne Plaza hotel in Manama, citing a State Department cable. The report aligns with earlier Drop Site reporting citing Iranian officials who said some Gulf hotels and buildings were housing U.S. or Israeli personnel and intelligence operations. “We [began] targeting their military bases. They evacuated their bases and moved into hotels, turning civilians into human shields,” Araghchi charged in an interview with Al Jazeera.” A senior Iranian official told Drop Site that Tehran had assembled a “target bank” of U.S. and Israeli personnel and that pinpointing these locations “caught the Americans and Israelis off guard.” The U.S. Embassy later warned Americans to avoid hotels in Bahrain.

jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill Iranian sources say some buildings/hotels hit in the Gulf were housing Israeli or US personnel or intelligence operations. That Iran “pinpointed [the] locations has really caught the Americans & Israelis off guard,” an Iranian official told @DropSiteNews https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-trump-israel-khamenei-assassination-retaliation-gulf-states

⭕️ NEW: Iranian Hotel Strike in Bahrain Injured US Def. Personnel, Diplomatic Cable Comfirms

US lawmakers & mainstream media have described Iranian strikes on Gulf hotels as indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets. But The Washington Post reports that 2 US Def. Dep't personnel were injured in...

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Q: "Do you think that Donald Trump should be deposed by this Committee?"

Hillary Clinton: "Absolutely."

"Donald Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers … That is behavior that fits a pattern if one were looking for a pattern."

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social alludes to the same thing I was thinking: Trump had to give up the law firm sanctions bc otherwise it was at risk of putting Exec supremacy over clearances at risk.

Friday, the Trump administration began stalling IEEPA tariff refunds in court. In a new @cato.org blog post, we review US regs on customs duty refunds and find that IEEPA refund delays will cost taxpayers ~$700M/month in additional interest payments owed to importers: www.cato.org/blog/tariff-...

Devastating.

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry.
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Sounds like Kash Patel is a co-conspirator covering up a murder.

they didn’t do it with CA, but are now toying with the idea that the constitution means “Republicans get to gerrymander but Democrats can’t”

Judge orders feds to return wrongly deported man to Minnesota Despite two court orders for his release, federal agents took Emilio Pena Jimenez to Mexico.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to bring back a wrongly deported man to the United States, delivering another blow in the courts to the Trump administration’s illegal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

Federal judge extends order protecting refugees in Minnesota from being arrested and deported A federal judge has extended his order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported. U.S.

A federal judge on Friday extended his order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported.

MN’s U.S. Attorney ordered to appear at contempt hearing Tuesday over violations in immigration cases The judge said he called the hearing for the U.S. government to explain why they shouldn’t be held in contempt

A Minnesota federal judge has ordered the state’s top federal prosecutor and ICE officials to appear in his courtroom Tuesday to explain why they should not be held in civil or criminal contempt for what he alleges are repeated court violations.

IV. CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, Plaintiffs' motion for a stay of agency action, ECF 49, is GRANTED. The challenged January 8 notice policy, including the purported ratification on February 2, is STAYED pending conclusion of these review proceedings, and the temporary restraining order entered by the Court on February 2, 2026, ECF 52, is hereby dissolved. A separate order accompanies this memorandum opinion. SO ORDERED. duall.Co ЛА М. СОВВ United States District Judge Date: March 2, 2026

BREAKING: Judge Cobb finds that Sec. Noem's second and third efforts to restrict congressional oversight access to federal immigration facilities still likely violate Sec. 527, issues an order blocking both during litigation.

Trump admin officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first.

That undercuts one of the key arguments for the war made by senior admin officials.
www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

I wonder if there's a connection between the lack of any stupid rules of engagement and the US/Israeli missile strikes that killed eighty or ninety schoolchildren 36 hours ago.

The time has come. Your country needs you. And what it specifically needs is for you to post on TikTok and Facebook AI videos of Trump saying he's reinstating the draft, and to ensure loyalty will be choosing soldiers only among people with pro-Trump social media content. 🫶

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

honestly, this goes in the war crimes prosecution file, a pretty clear declaration that the mission is not guided by rules rooted in the law of armed conflict

“Be relentlessly lethal” what the absolute F is that supposed to mean.

YouTube video by MS NOW BREAKING: FBI fires 7 tied to Trump classified docs case, sources tell MS NOW

The FBI has fired seven agents and support staff tied to the Trump classified documents case, MS NOW has confirmed.

MS NOW Senior Investigative Correspondent Carol Leonnig and author Christina Greer joined The Weeknight to discuss.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxZc...

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

“The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.”

Experts on Iran fired by Patel- What could possibly go wrong?

www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

The ouster of at least a dozen staffers from a counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which operates out of the Washington Field Office, was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, according to four former officials familiar with the dismissals. The dismissals came just days before the start of Operation Epic Fury and, separately, a deadly mass shooting at a bar in Austin, Texas, by a man reportedly wearing a sweatshirt that said, “Property of Allah,” beneath which was a T-shirt that was “emblazoned with a design similar to the Iranian flag,” CBS News reported Monday. CI-12 focuses on media leaks, global espionage, and international threats against America emanating from countries such as Cuba and Iran, former FBI officials tell the Sun. More broadly, CI squads are the lead domestic teams for investigating insider threats and foreign intelligence activity on American soil. In 2020, CI-12 assisted in monitoring potential retaliatory actions by Iranian-backed actors on American soil following a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps major general Qasem Soleimani, an operation ordered by Mr. Trump, former FBI officials tell the Sun.

Kash just fired some counter Iranian espionage agents.

www.nysun.com/article/excl...

"Last week FBI Director Kash Patel fired 12 FBI agents that specifically deal with Iran counter intelligence (CI-12)."

Rachel Maddow Show, Monday night.

Not a great idea.