Sunday, March 9, 2025

I Won't Even Bother To Link Tangerine 2.0's Latest Three Page "Response" -- On USAID Cut-Offs. It Is Simply... Silly.


Team Tangerine this morning (Sunday, in DC) claims that the blanket terminations. . . were not blanket.

They claim that ordering "more detailed, individualized and expanded" rationales (their own words, in emails!) for those terminations. . . doesn't defeat them ALREADY being "individualized" -- despite the fact that there was literally. . . no text with them. Just a list of terminated contracts and L/Cs.

This silliness is compounded by the fact that the Tangerine 2.0 forces say "the list alone would have satisfied their legal obligations". Yes, of course -- but that fails to deal with this fact:

The express rulings of Judge Amir Ali (and Judge AliKhan and Judge McConnell and Judge Vargas) specifically held that the first "list only" was why in larger part. . . each granted TROs.

The list only didn't comply with applicable law -- and that is now the law of the case, in these suits. It cannot be challenged without either a motion to reconsider, or an appeal. And Team Tangerine 2.0 has already lost on its interim appeals -- all the way to the Supremes. It is the law of the case.

As I say, there is nothing of note -- by the government politicos / Tangerine forces -- here, in the extraordinary Sunday motion for leave to file.

So. . . Monday ought to be an entertaining day in DC, indeed.

नमस्ते

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