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It took 8 months to go from filing the motion for preliminary injunction to actual grant of the injunction.
It took nearly a year for the same to occur in Ezell.
It should now be clear to all concerned that preliminary injunctions are useless for preventing infringement of rights in the face of legislatures which are determined to infringe upon those rights. While PI action is indeed faster than the normal judicial approach, that is small comfort given the sheer amount of time it takes for even a PI to be had, because the end result is that the legislature will be able to infringe upon the rights of the citizenry for at least 2/3 of the time in any given year (8 months is 2/3 of a year).
I cannot regard that as an effective defense. Hence, it seems to me that the rights-infringing legislatures will win in the end, since they have no legal liability for their infringement efforts.
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