OA1209 - Are you done with legal doomerism? Us too. Take some time away from doomscrolling and join Matt and Jenessa for Rapid Response Friday as we consider four stories of legal corruption and authoritarianism failing in the face of honest federal judges, and a footnote about how one brave prison nurse exposed even more corruption in Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell’s special treatment by the Trump administration. <ol> <li> <a href="https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1403571/dl" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Complaint in United States v. State of New York</a>, Northern Dist. of NY (7/9/25) </li> <li> <a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70522713/united-states-v-state-of-new-york/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">New York’s motion to dismiss</a> in U.S. v. New York (8/4/25)  </li> <li> Judge Mae D’Agostino’s <a href= "https://www.brennancenter.org/media/14737/download/usvny-decision.pdf?inline=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">order granting plaintiff’s motion to dismiss</a> in U.S. v. NY (11/17/25)  </li> <li> <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.1.0_14.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Indictment of James Comey</a>, Eastern Dist. of VA (9/25/25) </li> <li> Judge William Fitzpatrick’s <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.191.0_4.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">order granting disclosure of grand jury materials</a> in U.S. v. Comey (EDVA)(11/20/25) </li> <li> <a href= "https://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/gov.uscourts.txwd_.1150387.1437.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Judge Jeffrey Brown’s order in LULAC v. Abbot</a>, Western Dist. of TX (11/18/25) </li> <li> <a href= "https://www.motleyrice.com/sites/default/files/documents/AT_HR/9-11/Docket%20%23%2011182%20-%20Order%20on%20KSA%20MTD.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Decision on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss</a> in 9/11 litigation, Southern Dist. of NY (8/28/25) </li> </ol> Check out the OA <a href= "https://linktr.ee/openingarguments" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow">Linktree</a> for all the places to go and things to do!

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