Posted on 05/20/2025 3:25:49 PM PDT by CFW
On Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court remanded A.A.R.P. v. Trump to the Fifth Circuit with very precise instructions.
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Last Friday, the Supreme Court vacated the judgment of our court, which had dismissed this appeal for lack of jurisdiction. The Court remanded the case back to us for further proceedings, and directed us to proceed "expeditiously." A.A.R.P. v. Trump, 605 U.S. _, _ (2025). Accordingly, this matter is expedited to the next available randomly designated regular oral argument panel.
Judge Ho wrote an seven-page concurrence. He defended his colleague, Judge Wes Hendrix, against an unfair attack from the Supreme Court:
As an inferior court, we're duty-bound to follow Supreme Court rulings—whether we agree with them or not. We don't have to like it. But we have to do it. So I concur in our order today expediting our consideration of this matter, as directed by the Supreme Court. But I write to state my sincere concerns about how the district judge as well as the President and other officials have been treated in this case. I worry that the disrespect they have been shown will not inspire continued respect for the judiciary, without which we cannot long function. See, e.g., In re Westcott, 135 F.4th 243, 250–51 (5th Cir. 2025) (Ho, J., concurring).
Ho responds to Chief Justice Roberts, who boasts that the role of the Supreme Court is to check the other branches:
It is not the role of the judiciary to check the excesses of the other branches, any more than it's our role to check the excesses of any other American citizen. Judges do not roam the countryside looking for opportunities to chastise government officials for their mistakes. Rather, our job is simply to decide those legal disputes over which Congress has given us jurisdiction.
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Here is a link to Judge Ho’s Order if you are interested. It’s just 9 pages.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69913684/25/1/aarp-v-trump/
I like this guy!
His wife, Heidi, is also nice.
Also his brothers Tally and Gung
“ Also his brothers Tally and Gung”
Sister Justa hasn’t been heard from.
Last Friday’s shenanigans from the Supreme Fart:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a1007_g2bh.pdf
Cousin Arapa is in
Thanks for posting the link to the order by SCOTUS. I should have included that link to provide background information in my original posting.
what about his Uncle Ho?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a district court giving SCOTUS such a spanking.
Ironically, her twin brother Justin Prude has been quite successful in Canadian politics
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His brother Bing is cool.
But I can’t stand his Dad Firenthe
I knew AARP had gone heavily toward the Leftist side but couldn’t believe they were so upset their maids and yard guys were being deported. They probably are but Wikipedia cleared it up in a footnote:
“The case was originally brought on behalf of two detainees using the pseudonyms A.A.R.P. and W.M.M. The court changed the case’s caption to W.M.M. v. Trump after the AARP sought to intervene, citing potential confusion with the lead plaintiff’s pseudonym and the retired adult advocacy organization.”
This apparently caused the ‘real’ AARP a lot of problems with complaints and queries :-)
Of course I had to go an look up what this case was about in the first place as I did not recognize it by the case name.
He’s right in his smackdown of Roberts. The Chief Justice made it sound like the SC is there to police the other branches of government.
How about Ida?
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