The Trump administration notched itself an illusory victory in federal court this week in one of the ongoing legal battles over the federal use of state National Guard troops to police American cities.
On Monday, a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in a 2-1 ruling, stayed a temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who was appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term in office.
By Friday, the full 9th Circuit administratively stayed the panel’s own stay – “[w]ithout objection from the panel,” an order notes.
That’s a really cool name for lying you got there.
I can see why lawyers would use this overly polite language, it sounds more gracious in court so its more likely somebody will admit the error earlier and save time. The headline does say “lying” so its not the usual case of editorial malpractice.
Basically, they took away the temporary restraining order on the use of national guard, found out trump and the other republicans lied, then let the restraining order stand.
“Plaintiffs write to alert the Court of a material factual error by defendants on which the panel relied to grant a stay pending appeal,” the citation of supplemental authorities reads. “Given that reliance, and the gravity of the interests at stake, plaintiffs ask that the panel immediately withdraw its order or, in the alternative, that the en banc court immediately vacate it.”
So, they will be held in contempt and locked up, right? Right?.. Right?
And disbarred
and have bits of their corpses displayed in front of the courthouse as a warning to all attorneys who might hold the truth in contempt
edit: oops, skipped a few steps
I didn’t understand most of these legal sounding words. I have no idea what the conclusion of this is. So they allowed him to break the law, or stopped him again from breaking it? Can someone translate this to normal english please
Trump admin lied, so the higher court stopped stopping the stop the lower court put to the administration’s activities in Portland.
That means the court is currently saying “Trump cannot send troops to Portland”.
Stop my head hurts
Maybe some kind of diagram or timeline would help…
Trump deployed National Guard troops to Oregon. Oregon sued for an emergency restraining order to stop him. The court issued the restraining order. Asked to review the finding of issuing the restraining order, the initial court that issued the restraining order decided that, upon further review, it should stand because the Trump admin lied.
A judge issued a retraining order preventing Trump from deploying the Guard to Portland while the legal fight over it continues.
The Trump admin appealed that order. Their argument was that the administration couldn’t otherwise enforce federal law. Their evidence they needed manpower from the guard was that they’d had to deploy 115 federal protection service officers (25% of the entire country’s manpower) from other posts around the country to try and maintain order. The 9th circuit panel agreed that was compelling and put a stay on the restraining order.
But the 9th circuit since learned that they hadn’t actually deployed those 115 officers.
Since that was the basis of the decision, the stay was lifted, and the restraining order is back in effect.
This is the one good thing to come from LLMs. You can feed legalese into them and ask it to talk like a normal person.
I’m not sure it’s the legalese here but the double and triple negatives. Yet those are accurate and meaningful in this case
This was not an “error”. It was a lie.
