Also: Rao's statutory interpretation section — what she does with the word "improvement" at pages 8-10 — is embarrassing.

I truly kept thinking of my legislation professor and wincing. She would not be OK with this!

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Wild fact, she WAS my legislation professor, and weirdly enough the class was really good and I learned a lot from her! But now she can let her inner bad faith crank fly and it is just...good lord
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I was about to ask if there was anything substantive in the Rao dissent or if it was just another pile of meaningless screaming that should be filed in the ever-expanding "impeaching federal judges needs to be on the Democratic Project 2027 list" inbox, but that just about answers that, thanks.
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Judge Leon made short order of the statutory interpretation

I mean come on, if you signed a lease allowing for “care, maintenance, repair, alteration, refurnishing, improvement, air-conditioning, heating, and lighting,” would you think the agreement authorized you to demolish a wing of the house?
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Trump’s gonna lean heavily into the de Maximus meanings of “…alteration, refurnishing, improvement…”.
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People (rightly enough) dunk on John Roberts, but honestly look at him next to the hack work coming out of the regional circuits

Rao is hardly distinguishable from a Republican member of Congress
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