Supreme Court allows Texas to intervene in an area of plenary federal jurisdiction

The Supreme Court has refused to lift an “administrative stay ;););)” issued by 5CA, allowing Texas’s S.B. 4 to go into effect. Justice Sotomayor, writing for one of the Court’s other justices who recognizes the outcome of the Civil War, observes that this is straightforward nullification:

This being the shadow docket, the neoconfederate majority (like 5CA) issued no public reasoning at all. Trump’s last two nominees, however, filed a concurrence saying that they [Tony Soprano voice] like only some nullification:

I, for one, am sure the Fifth Circuit will respond to this admonition by responding in a very timely manner and…sorry, I can’t keep up this bit anymore [hurls phone in disgust.]