“On March 25, 2025, President Donald J Trump issued Executive Order No. 14248, Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections (the ‘Executive Order’). Among other things, the Executive Order requires the United States Election Assistance Commission (the ‘EAC’) and the Secretary of Defense to implement documentary proof of citizenship requirements with federal voter registration forms required to be used by Plaintiffs… and directs the EAC to condition statutory funding upon compliance with a ballot receipt deadline that is contrary to the respective state laws established by those thirteen States. The States have moved for a preliminary injunction barring the named Defendants (collectively, the ‘Defendants’ or the ‘Executive Branch’), from implementing these mandates of the Executive Order. After careful consideration of the parties’ filings, briefs from amici curiae and oral argument by counsel, the Court ALLOWS the States’ motion for preliminary injunction,” says a Friday order from Massachusetts US District Judge Denise Casper, in California v Trump… The other California v Trump. The one about elections, not the National Guard deployment.
That was Trump’s first defeat this morning. The second one, in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, was kind of worse for him personally because they just ruled that they’re not tossing EJ Carroll’s win against him and now he has to take it to Los Supremos, per Politico’s Kyle Cheney.
The decision was a full bencher from the appellate court. The two Trump appointees/fanboys on the circuit of course lodged a dissent and it’s pretty fucking funny where Judges Mike Park and Steve Menashi complain about the use of the Access Hollywood tape as “propensity evidence,” with the two writing “that ‘the evidence that Mr Trump seeks to keep from the trial jury is to the effect that Mr Trump allegedly has abused or attempted to abuse women other than Ms Carroll in ways that are the comparable to what he allegedly did to Ms Carroll. In other words, Ms Carroll offers the evidence to show that Mr Trump has a propensity for such behavior.’ The district court said that ‘Mr Trump almost certainly is correct in arguing that the quoted statements on the Access Hollywood tape are offered by plaintiff for only one purpose: to suggest to the jury that Defendant has a propensity for sexual assault and therefore the alleged incident with Ms Carroll must have in fact occurred.'”
Didn’t read that whole section and don’t plan on it, but it’s just fucking funny how these two twats have to parse out the shit their Orange God Emperor says in order to make their extremely technical argument about why it was improper for Carroll’s team to use that evidence. Both of them are former Alito clerks and it’s so goddamned obvious that the dissent’s an audition for his job.