Ep 262 — Any Time Now, SCOTUS!

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Summary <p dir="ltr">DOCKET ALERTS:</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">The president is promising to send out $5,000 checks to every American if Republicans win the midterms.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">The Fourth Circuit became the ninth appellate court to <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.180956/gov.uscourts.ca4.180956.82.0.pdf"> find</a> that the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy for all immigrants without legal status is patently illegal.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">The Trump administration <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26/26-304/423324/20260908124848584_Jackson%20Petition.pdf"> asked</a> the Supreme Court to let it install US Attorneys without Senate confirmation. Time to bring back Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan!</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Andrew and Tristan Tate's motion for bail pending their extradition to the UK was <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.719191/gov.uscourts.flsd.719191.64.0_3.pdf"> denied</a> by a federal magistrate in Miami.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Hasbro is the latest company to tell the White House to quit using its IP in racist AI slop memes — this time the government is molesting Optimus Prime!</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">DOOFUS OF THE DAY: </p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">James Piereson has an <a href= "https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-court-packing-constitutional-dont-be-so-sure-0e602345"> editorial</a> in the Wall Street Journal wondering if adding new Supreme Court justices is illegal. It's not, and neither is saying absolute drivel in public.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">MAIN SHOW:</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">We're all <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/DocketFiles/html/Public/26A305.html"> waiting for SCOTUS</a> to say whether they're planning to let Trump burn down the midterms and refuse to deliver mail-in ballots. In the meanwhile, the US Supreme Court teamed up with the Missouri state Supreme Court to prevent a harebrained scheme by Missouri's Republican Secretary of State, Denny Hoskins, to cram down an even-more-gerrymandered congressional map that would give Republicans an extra seat in the House of Representatives. The Missouri Supreme Court <a href= "https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=239229">ruled that the new map</a> needs to be approved by the voters before it can take effect, and held Hoskins in contempt for refusing to abide by their September 3 injunction. And the US Supreme Court put the kibosh on a crazy TRO issued by a rogue Trump appointee purporting to require Missouri to use the Trump map. So it looks like Missourians are going to head back to the polls in November under the existing 2022 maps.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has a <a href= "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/10/2026-18481/decennial-census-of-the-population-of-americans-proposed-residence-criteria-and-proposed-regulations"> plan</a> to hack the 2030 Census. And that plan is RACISM.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">SUBSCRIBER BONUS:</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">We break down Law & Chaos's DOOFUS OF THE DAY, James Piereson, a non-lawyer who <a href= "https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-court-packing-constitutional-dont-be-so-sure-0e602345"> has the legal opinion</a> that expanding the Supreme Court is unconstitutional, even though it definitely isn't.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Lopez Garcia v. Guadian [Fourth Circuit, mandatory detention]</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72052515/oscar-lopez-garcia-v-robert-guadian/"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72052515/oscar-lopez-garcia-v-robert-guadian/</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Petition for Cert In US Attorneys Case</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26/26-304/423324/20260908124848584_Jackson%20Petition.pdf"> https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26/26-304/423324/20260908124848584_Jackson%20Petition.pdf</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">US v. Tate</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73656030/united-states-v-tate/"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73656030/united-states-v-tate/</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">People Not Politicians v. Hoskins [MO Supreme Court]</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=239229">https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=239229</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">James Piereson, "Is Court Packing Constitutional? Don't Be So Sure," Wall Street Journal, Sep. 7, 2026</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-court-packing-constitutional-dont-be-so-sure-0e602345"> https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-court-packing-constitutional-dont-be-so-sure-0e602345</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Mail-In Ballots at SCOTUS</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/DocketFiles/html/Public/26A305.html"> https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/DocketFiles/html/Public/26A305.html</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Proposed Census Rule Change</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/10/2026-18481/decennial-census-of-the-population-of-americans-proposed-residence-criteria-and-proposed-regulations"> https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/10/2026-18481/decennial-census-of-the-population-of-americans-proposed-residence-criteria-and-proposed-regulations</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Show Links:</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.lawandchaospod.com/">https://www.lawandchaospod.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">BlueSky: @LawAndChaosPod</p> <p dir="ltr">Threads: @LawAndChaosPod Twitter: @LawAndChaosPod</p> <p> </p>

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