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Morning Docket: 02.20.25

* Ninth Circuit affirms striking down Trump’s birthright citizenship order. [Courthouse News Service]

* Supreme Court hearing reverse discrimination case on behalf of mediocre applicants everywhere. [Reuters]

* DOGE to lead purge of federal regulations, which is to say DOGE to lead overwhelming morass of costly lawsuits under the APA. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Ed Martin’s tenure as US Attorney continues to dazzle in its wingnuttery. [Esquire]

* Smile, you’re on Candid Camer– wait did he just say, “I killed her. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, convict my ass. I did it”? [Law360]

* Targeting independent agencies, the White House asks “Would anyone say these are organs of Congress?” But would anyone say these are organs of the executive either? [National Law Journal]

* “Some conservatives back ‘common-good constitutionalism'” is a weird way to begin a conversation about Adrian Vermeule’s theories. [ABA Journal]

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