New blog: I wrote about a beloved animated series with spooky vibes and two gothic LA Noir TV movies of vastly different quality.

Twitter is so grim now the memory of this glorious day doesn't even feel real. One of the most annoying people mistakenly revealing his open tentacle porn tab then spending hours trying to tweet through it. It's like something from a fable, or a half-forgotten dream.

RT @linamkhan: To recap:. Firms have been making people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription, trapping Americans in nee….

RT @Suzanne08053: @GodLitigation Here's a link to the decision.

RT @GodLitigation: Oh no, it finally happened:

RT @LeeHepner: Some democracy you’ve got there. Would be terrible if RealPage came along and sued it into oblivion.

RT @MattZeitlin: Few people are more powerful than reporters shouting questions at trump, he never rules anything out, he will always take….

RT @MarcGoldwein: OBBBA borrowing is 5-8 times as high as the most extreme estimates of the federal cost of illegal immigration. https://t….

"Why should one federal judge—perhaps a very extreme judge, on either side—have the power to dictate government policy for the entire country? Good riddance" @nicholas_bagley writes in The Atlantic.

I think of it as less libs vs cons than industry groups vs the administration of government. Was it "conservatives" who wanted to strike down the SEC rule requiring hedge fund execs to disclose side deals to their investors or was it the Association of Private Fund Managers?.

RT @EmjayEdu: @tedcruz I asked CHatGPT to analyze that list of films, look for similarities, and rank the films by how "woke" they are. Her….

Ah the Supreme Court ruled nationwide injunctions are bad unless they're used to block the administrative state.

Due to a nationwide injunction the $8 cap never went into effect. This April, the Trump administration scrapped the credit card late fee cap altogether, as it has done to most Biden-era consumer protection measures. Point is, the old system served the business lobby well.

Then the Fifth Circuit made sure attempts to undermine their authority would not happen again. The posted a new special order staying all transfers for 21 days unless both parties consent.

Pittman tried to transfer the case to DC but the Fifth Circuit blocked him. They seemed displeased at the idea that they were not entitled to oversee all federal rulemaking: “This case is not one where Fort Worth citizens have a lesser stake in the litigation that DC citizens.”.

“Venue is not a continental breakfast” Pittman wrote. The rule was promulgated in DC, the government agencies are in DC, most of the plaintiffs are based in DC, most of the attorneys involved work in DC. What on earth was this case doing in Fort Worth?.

This time it ended up before Judge Mark Pittman in the Northern District of Texas. But then, a twist. Pittman was sick of the overt venue shopping and wanted no part of it.

In 2024 the CFPB issued a rule to lower credit card late fees from $32 to $8, saving customers $10 billion annually. Like every Biden action impacting finance, the Chamber of Commerce and trade groups immediately sued in a court under the heavily conservative Fifth Circuit.

I don’t think people realize how extreme the judge shopping/nationwide injunction tactic has been so here’s a quick story about what happened when the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau tried to cap credit card late fees at $8.

Basically everything Biden tried to do - ban noncompete agreements, student debt forgiveness, cracking down on payday lenders, etc etc etc - was immediately blocked by nationwide injunctions from the Fifth Circuit. Next Dem president may have just been unshackled.

RT @amandalfischer: Wow, Judge Torres in the Ripple case DENIED the joint motion with the SEC to vacate the injuction & reduce XRP’s penalt….