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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
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Anonymous US law student! Here to follow the convos on all types of law (and probably procrastinating)
![The Court’s disregard for the District Court’s factfinding
(and also, apparently, for the applicable standards of re-
view) would be troubling enough when viewed through a
mere procedural lens. But it is all the more puzzling, and
ultimately disheartening, given the extraordinary risk of
harm that today’s ruling immediately unleashes.
No one seriously disputes that, if implemented, Executive
Order No. 14210 will lead to enormous real-world conse-
quences. This executive action promises mass employee
terminations, widespread cancellation of federal programs
and services, and the dismantling of much of the Federal
Government as Congress has created it. As the Ninth Cir-
cuit concluded, the statutory shortfalls likely to result from
implementation of this Executive Order will be immensely
painful to the general public, and the plaintiffs, in the in-
terim, causing harm that includes “proliferat[ing] food-
borne disease,” perpetuating “hazardous environmental
conditions,” “eviscerat[ing] disaster loan services for local
businesses,” and “drastically reduc[ing] the provision of](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:el5eooavijpmkfnoxgqjxijk/bafkreicdjwlgi6b7ln476jhduueudzyonr65r3hnuanzwhgltkfpcgq5z4)
