[U] Latest Scheduling Order, On Grace [Carmen], et al. v. Sessions -- In DC District Court, Overnight.

UPDATED -- At 10 PM EDT: The latest status report, a coast away, in San Diego (in Ms. L.) -- was just filed in advance of the hearing tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific. It is 17 pages of ongoing reunification problems -- and some progress. That this is still underway would be a debilitating stain on any other President. After losing more lives in Puerto Rico last year than Bush 43 did in New Orleans via Katrina, and then calling it "a more minor thing" -- there are more such stains on this Presidency (45) than any in the last century. But it may well turn out that this -- the failure to reunify children he kidnapped, by means of a plainly lawless Executive Order -- will be the darkest moment in his short tenure, when the longer shadow of history is cast, a few years hence. . . . Unfathomable. [End updated portion.]

As ever, this DC process order contains a highly accelerated motion calendar, given the egregious and ongoing harms -- of ICE agents trying to fly innocent asylum seekers (in at least one case, without her minor child) out of the country while a federal TRO prohibiting just that. . . was still in full force.

So, shortly we will have more from all three: DC, San Diego and Los Angeles. Do stay tuned, once I return from my holiday travels:

. . . .MINUTE ORDER.

Upon consideration of [40] the parties' joint status report, the following schedule shall govern the proceedings in this case:

Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment shall be filed no later than September 12, 2018, and shall be no longer than 45 pages in length. Any motions seeking leave to file an amicus curiae brief in support of the Defendants, with the brief attached as an exhibit, shall be filed by no later than September 19, 2018.

The Plaintiffs' Opposition and Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment shall be filed by no later than September 26, 2018, and shall be no longer than 65 pages in length. Any motions seeking leave to file an amicus curiae brief in support of Plaintiffs, with the brief attached as an exhibit, shall be filed by no later than October 3, 2018.

Defendants' Opposition and Reply shall be filed no later than October 3, 2018, and shall be no longer than 45 pages in length. Plaintiffs' Reply shall be filed by no later than October 10, 2018, and shall be no longer than 25 pages in length.

It is FURTHER ORDERED that by no later than October 17, 2018, the parties, including those seeking leave to file an amicus curiae brief, shall submit to the Court two hard copies and one USB drive containing all submissions to the Court governed by this scheduling order, including points and authorities. All paper copy submissions to the Court shall include the headers added by the Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) System shall be single-sided, double-spaced, use 12-point Times New Roman font, and use one-inch page margins. Each set of hard copies shall be in three-ring binders, with appropriate tables of contents and tabs, and the binders shall be clearly labeled to identify the pleading therein.

It is FURTHER ORDERED that by no later than October 17, 2018, the parties shall jointly submit one copy of each principal case or authority cited by any party. The points and authorities shall be in three-ring binders, with appropriate tables of contents and tabs, and the binders shall be clearly labeled to identify the contents therein.

Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 8/29/2018. . . .

With white supremacist "church fliers" popping up in middle Tennessee (and this is a much older hate group's offshoot, from the cretins who gunned down NU Basketball Head Coach Ricky Birdsong in Skokie two decades ago, and solicited the murder of a Chicago federal judge), we must be vigilant on many fronts. But we cannot let 45's other bouts of malevolent lunacy push the above noted kidnapping of babies (by Executive Order, no less!) off the front page. Ever.

And, on a more uplifting note -- here is the Queen incarnate, from 2003 -- as we now prepare for her homegoing, in Detroit (with Chaka, Stevie and Ariana Grande to perform, along with many others -- but 45 specifically uninvited; 44 invited):



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