Three Wins Today: May 23, 2025

I had the absolute honor to go LIVE with Mike Levin today, so I kinda procrastinated a lot in a state of awe the rest of the day, therefore it’s late and this will be short.

1. Within hours of Harvard filing a lawsuit, Obama appointee, Judge Allison Burroughs granted a TRO against the administration barring international students. They’re not doing so well messing with Harvard.

2. George W Bush appointee Judge John Bates struck down DT’s EO targeting the law firm Jenner and Block. He said:

   This case arises from one of a series of executive orders targeting law firms that, in one way or another, did not bow to the current presidential administration’s political orthodoxy. Like the others in the series, this order—which takes aim at the global law firm Jenner & Block— makes no bones about why it chose its target: it picked Jenner because of the causes Jenner champions, the clients Jenner represents, and a lawyer Jenner once employed. Going after law firms in this way is doubly violative of the Constitution.

   Never in my life did I think I’d get excited about the wording from a Bush appointee on anything, but wow that’s clear where he stands.

3. The Senate passed a bill to place a Monument to Black Wall Street in the historic Greenwood District by unanimous consent. James Lankford (R-OK) who introduced the bill with Cory Booker said:

   What we did today with unanimous consent didn’t change the property rights of any person in Tulsa or in Oklahoma. It didn’t add any eminent domain. It didn’t change codes. It didn’t give the federal government control of any square inch of my great state it just gave a designation, a monument designation to that area very similar to some other places, that it’s just a designation so that we will always remember as a nation something significant happened here.

   Not a fan of his qualifiers, but a win is a win, and a Republican championing this is absolutely a win. And so is not a single one of the 53 Senate Republicans raising an objection.

   Now it is headed to the House. I hope for good things there.

So those are today’s wins, remember that tomorrow is my day off, I will make a post, but it will be your job to fill it. So start looking for wins now!

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