{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "During the Obama years, the ambitious large Republican states (so, Texas) filed suit against administration initiatives...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/173983774768/", "html": "<p>During the Obama years, the ambitious large Republican states (so, Texas) filed suit against administration initiatives (Obamacare, DACA) in federal courts in remote regions of their states with a good chance of this one oddball judge going their way</p><p>under Trump, Dem states (CA, WA) have been doing the same but the trends been going long enough the nonpartisan bar\u2019s been working up antibodies already, I hear different streams of \u201cend forum-shopping\u201d and \u201cend nationwide injunctions from subnational courts\u201d</p><p>So that</p><p>But there was this one LEFT trick under Obama, California did it with its initiative-passed gay marriage ban and I remember it coming up somewhere else, of an executive in charge of legal process inviting a friendly-sourced lawsuit and just declining to defend it, which under our adverserial legal system generated results that wouldn\u2019t be approved and couldn\u2019t be rejected by any voter-accountable agent</p><p>that still needs to be patched</p>"}