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That the Supreme Court announces the cases they will be hearing this court session, there is a lot hanging on to today’s announcement for the trans community.

Conservative legal tactic could imperil Clinton agenda
By shopping for like-minded judges and seeking nationwide injunctions, GOP-led states have had success blocking presidential orders.
Politico
By Josh Gerstein
September 29, 2016

Conservative states are succeeding in getting friendly federal judges to issue broad—often nationwide—injunctions reining in federal government actions, thwarting key parts of President Barack Obama’s agenda and imperiling some aspects of Hillary Clinton's platform.

The tactic—amplified by the 4-4 deadlock in the Supreme Court—has already frozen Obama’s immigration policy, is limiting his efforts to protect transgender rights and could hamstring Clinton’s planned executive actions on immigration, labor and environmental issues if she wins the White House.

The shorthanded Supreme Court is expected to start adding new cases to its docket as soon as Thursday, with the new term set to open Monday. But many legal experts say that if the high court remains split down the middle on key issues, the more important action will be in the lower courts, where the red-state-led onslaught is playing out.

In its waning days, the Obama administration is continuing to push back against the conservative legal assault, with the Justice Department repeatedly opposing nationwide injunctions and pressing judges to rein in their rulings.

The right has been shopping for judges; it is no coincident that many of the cases involved with LGBT have been filed in Texas with U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth. The judge was nominated by President George W. Bush and he is a very conservative judge.

Another Texas federal judge,

Many liberal activists grumbled after lawyers for the state of Texas maneuvered to get their 26-state challenge to Obama's immigration policy in front of staunchly conservative U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville. Those activists and the Justice Department have also complained about the sweeping way in which his injunction blocked Obama’s 2014 immigration changes in 16 other states that support the president’s actions.

Perales said she strongly disagrees with the substance of Hanen's ruling, but not his power to issue it. Nor does she begrudge the conservative states for their choice of where to bring the case. "We're in the business, our civil rights organization, of putting together law reform litigation, finding an appropriate place to file and, hopefully, working that issue up to the Supreme Court," she said.

I can’t blame the conservative for choosing their judges because every lawyer does it.

But what it does is make this election very, very important because there is a huge backlog of federal judges that the Senate has been holding up in hopes of getting a Republican president that can appoint conservative Christian judges who put the Bible ahead of the Consitution.

A 4-4 Supreme Court could effectively give Texas and other GOP-led states the upper hand if they can persuade judges to block Clinton's plans on immigration or other contentious issues.

So pay attention to the cases that will be announced today, your future depends upon what the court says today.