[U: Order Entered -- TRO Extended, To March 1.] Judge Amy Berman Jackson Is Holding A Hearing -- In DC, On Hampton Dellinger's Purported Firing -- I'm Listening In, Now. She's Crushing The Tangerine 2.0 Positions.

This is one of perhaps six hearings in the next forty-eight hours, that will set all this nonsense up, for the appeals from Tangerine 2.0's losses. [This is a case that has been bounced out of the Supremes once already -- against Trump's pleadings.]

The hearing is now concluded. So -- updating my score-card here: Team Tangerine 2.0 is now about two for 28. Hilarious. Here's the full extended TRO as entered by Judge Berman-Jackson, and a bit:

. . .The Court is well aware that the case is in the very unusual posture of being the subject of an application before the Supreme Court before a final order has been issued and before the United States Court of Appeals for the District Columbia has had the opportunity to review that final order. It recognizes that the Supreme Court – with the understanding that the TRO expires at midnight tonight – is holding the application in abeyance until that time. So it is incumbent upon this Court to resolve this matter even more expeditiously than the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure would ordinarily permit; and the Court will do so.

Given the significance of the constitutional questions presented, though, it is also incumbent upon the Court to give full consideration to all of the arguments advanced during today’s hearing before it finalizes its opinion. It is also necessary to give close consideration to all of the pleadings submitted by the parties after the TRO issued, and to rule on questions raised after the defendants asked the Supreme Court to take the case. This includes defendants’ thirty page motion for summary judgment [Dkt. 22], filed on Friday, February 21, which advances arguments concerning the Court’s authority to impose equitable remedies for the first time before this Court; plaintiff’s forty-page opposition and cross motion for summary judgment, filed on Monday, February 24; defendants’ reply, filed on February 25; and plaintiff’s cross opposition, which is not due until tomorrow. This is particularly true now that the motion for a preliminary injunction has been consolidated with the merits, as defendants requested. . . .

[Team Tangerine 2.0] counsel for the defendants indicated a lack of familiarity with the relevant legislative history and proposed to look into it as the subject of a supplemental filing, she voiced defendants’ objection to any extension of the TRO for the same reasons they opposed it in the first place. . . .

The Tangerine 2.0 lawyer was largely ill-prepared (hadn't read the legislative histories) related to this proposed extension of the TRO -- preventing Trump from firing Hampton Dellinger, until at least Saturday, March 1, 2025. It would not surprise us, if the Tangerine 2.0 loons decide to go back to the Supremes yet tonight, since the Supremes punted only until end of day, today. Judge Jackson's order is clear -- she needs until Saturday to sort all the silly spaghetti Trump has thrown at the wall here. Let's hope Justice Roberts is wise enough to let that happen. Onward.

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