District Court | Douglas County KS
The 7th Judicial District Court of Kansas includes court divisions, Clerk of the District Court, Court Trustee, Court Services, Citizen Review Board and the Self-Help office.
At 1:30 Central/2:30 Eastern, my colleague @harperseldin.bsky.social will be in state court in Kansas asking a judge to block the new law that invalidated the driver's licenses of trans people across the state. You can tune into the hearing here
06.03.2026 14:27 β
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FFS
06.03.2026 14:30 β
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Has anyone else pointed out that Mel on the Pitt and Ted on Schittβs Creek are basically twinsβespecially when they tell jokes?
05.03.2026 16:40 β
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*redistricting
05.03.2026 16:03 β
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Thatβs not typical boilerplate saying the court isnβt expressing an opinion on the merits. Itβs more like expressing an opinion on the merits but saying that still doesnβt provide a basis to enjoin the election in advance.
05.03.2026 16:01 β
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βIt would be a perilous mistake to infer from our application of Scott that these
holdings and claims fail any aspect of the βlikelihood of successβ criterion in Rule 3:26(d)(i). In the absence of Scott, the de facto preliminary injunction may have survived our review solely under Rule 3:26(d).β
This SCOVA decision allowing the districting referendum seems to forecast pretty strongly that the court will ultimately invalidate the redirecting if it passes.
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
05.03.2026 16:00 β
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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
βOnce again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,β Judge Walker writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
04.03.2026 23:03 β
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The "meritocracy" exposed: Internal emails reveal how the Trump administration hires legal interns
βYou MUST be aligned politically with President Trumpβ¦ GPA is not a strong factor.β
1.Internal emails from Liberty University Law School, obtained by Popular Information, reveal how the Trump admin hires interns.
Students were informed about "exciting" legal internships at Labor Department.
βYou MUST be aligned politically with President Trumpβ¦ GPA is not a strong factor.β
04.03.2026 13:42 β
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Even putting aside the implications for the laws of war, someone who describes mass killing in this way is not well, nor is the society that empowers that person to kill.
04.03.2026 13:56 β
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Oof. The facts of this case.
bsky.app/profile/gabr...
03.03.2026 23:48 β
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Along with Virginia, the Supreme Courtβs decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), would have placed reasonable persons in the positions of Principal Anderson, Superintendent Lockhart, and the Board members on notice that the sex-segregation policy was unconstitutional.7 The question presented in Brown was: βDoes segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though physical facilities and other βtangibleβ factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?β Id. at 493. The Supreme Court held βit does,β id. at 493,βconclud[ing] that in the field of public education the doctrine of βseparate but equalβ has no placeβ because β[s]eparate educational facilities are inherently unequal,β id. at 495.8 This landmark
10th Cir.: it was clearly established law that public school district could not sex-segregate male and female fifth-graders based on outdated stereotypes.
Says the school's separate-but-equal argument would put them on the wrong side of Brown v. Board. π±
www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...
03.03.2026 20:24 β
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Truly pathetic.
03.03.2026 17:52 β
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Very stable genius strikes again.
03.03.2026 16:56 β
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'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
03.03.2026 14:46 β
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Contrast this with Justice Alitoβs dissent in AARP arguing that the habeas petitioners should have waited longer for the district court to rule on their emergency motions.
03.03.2026 14:15 β
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Scenes from a personalist regime
03.03.2026 13:45 β
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In any event, folks should remember this the next time someone goes around accusing civil rights orgs of attempting to βevadeβ CASAβs promotion on facial injunctions with 23(b)(2) classes. If this isnβt an evasion of CASA, then nothing is.
03.03.2026 04:47 β
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All the Court says is they have standing because they are the object of the regulationβbut that just goes to traceability and redressability. I doesnβt show a concrete and non-speculative imminent injury in fact.
03.03.2026 04:45 β
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Would genuinely like to hear SCOTUSβs explanation for why parents in Mirabelli who do not have non-hypothetical kids whose gender identity is currently being concealed have standing for injunctive relief under Clapper.
03.03.2026 04:43 β
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Wait thereβs more! The Court has had a bunch of chances to consider this exact issue βthe regular wayβ, via a full merits case, Kagan writes. But it chooses to weigh in prematurely via the shadow docket on a subtle and super controversial question.
03.03.2026 00:15 β
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Kagan: βA mere decade ago, this Court would never have granted relief in this posture. (Indeed, I am confident that the plaintiffs would never have thought to ask, at this stage, for the Courtβs involvement.)β
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
03.03.2026 00:14 β
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Kagan correctly notes the contrast with how the Court treated the substantive due process rights of parents supporting their trans kids in Skrmetti
03.03.2026 00:10 β
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This is an issue the court has repeatedly declined to grant cert on and on which every court of appeals has come out the other way.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
03.03.2026 00:04 β
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Aaaaand more from SCOTUS tonight: bsky.app/profile/lawr...
02.03.2026 23:37 β
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