All the new developments (Aguilar, and suicide of Abbott) are well covered by Gura. I love this zinger: Respondents
claim that the lower court “put the State to its burden,
and determined that the State had satisfied that
burden.” BIO 14. Some burden: “[I]t is the legislature’s
job, not ours, to weigh conflicting evidence and
make policy judgments.” App. 38a (citation omitted).
He also points out MD's "93.7%" approval rate is a farce, as the state stopped disclosing numbers of permits issued after 2011. After the District court win, applications went up 25%-obviously because people thought they now had a chance to actually get the permit.
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