Judge Kenneth M. Karas (Bush43) assigned to this case (Lane v. James)
I'm glad it isn't an Obama or Biden appointee, however Bush43 doesn't exactly have the best lineup of judicial appointments among Republicans.
Justice Sotomayor is the justice assigned to take emergency applications from the Second Circuit. GOA doesn't have a choice in who the application goes to.
Antonyuk v. Nigrelli update:
Plaintiffs have made an emergency application for immediate administrative relief and to vacate stay of preliminary injunction issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
This will go to Justice Sotomayor who will either decide on her own...
Christian v. Nigrelli update. The remaining portions of the lawsuit that the court has not acted on (a few sensitive locations) have been stayed pending resolution of the Antonyuk appeal. Not surprising but still disappointing. From judge Sinatra who has been our MVP so far.
CourtListener doesn't have it as the stay hasn't yet made its way to the district court's docket. For whatever reason I'm unable to get CourtListener to sync with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals docket. @2Aupdates on Twitter has the order.
Edit: here is a link to the tweet with the order.
This is interesting. Hopefully when SCOTUS decides that case the opinion leans on 1791 being the correct time to interpret the meaning of the constitution as applied to the states (as is being suggested by the attorney in that clip), rather than 1868 when the 14th amendment was ratified. Justice...
Carrying in churches is still good to go. This doesn't stay the injunction in Hardaway v. Nigrelli (or in Christian v. Nigrelli). It only pauses proceedings in NYSRPA v. Nigrelli until the appeal of the preliminary injunction in Antonyk v. Hochul is resolved.