OK. Sleep time. Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

BREAKING: DOJ does not defend legality of DHS’s pro-Trump propaganda ads in court. Instead, administration lawyers stated that the ads are ending Sunday and argued that, as such, there will be no irreparable harm if the plaintiffs don’t get an order blocking the ads. Overnight, at Law Dork:

Clarification note about the language here: Though Common Cause is the lead plaintiff, hence the name of the suit, the lawsuit doesn't seek the TRO in their name, but just in the names of a union and its PAC and an individual running for office.

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This is only responding to the TRO/705 stay request, though, so your parenthetical is both correct as to the lawsuit and confuses me a little as to how you think that figures into this response.

Common Cause's reply is almost certainly going to argue that DOJ did not defend on the merits, so they win as to likelihood of success, and they will likely argue that, as for irreparable harm, this amounts to voluntary cessation and a TRO/APA stay remains needed so the admin can't do this again.

Note: What DOJ had to file tonight was in response to a request for a temporary restraining order. This is not a response to the complaint in whole; it is opposing the TRO request. However, the likelihood of success on the merits is a part of that and generally argued in the opposition brief.

And, this is a TRO request.

DOJ also argues that the plaintiffs lack standing, and if one plaintiff has standing, venue is improper in SDNY because he's in Alabama. (Again, not merits.)

As I said to someone else recently, I eagerly look forward to a time when I never need to think about Rahm or Gavin again. (I get that, as governor of California, that’s not an option right now as to Newsom.)

(5 more points for Kimi, the person in first for the drivers’ championship.)

One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.

Another 5️⃣ for 🥇❗️

Lol. I love Max having to push back and be like, “No, I don’t count this as ‘winning’ here.”

I do love the ways that drivers come up with to tell their engineers to shut up. 🤭