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Here’s a “grim bit of trivia” about the FTC’s click-to-cancel rule:
One of the lawyers suing to block the immensely popular new Federal Trade Commission regulation happens to be the wife of one of the judges sitting on that appeals court. Don’t worry though:
Federal law mandates that judges recuse from cases in which their spouse represents a party, so even if [James] Ho, one of the Fifth Circuit’s thirstiest culture warriors, were assigned to the panel, her involvement is less a five-alarm legal ethics fire than a grim bit of trivia about just how tight-knit the conservative legal movement can be.
(Relatedly, last year, Ian Millhiser at Vox called James Ho “the edgelord of the federal judiciary,” describing him as “a Breitbart comments forum come to life.”)
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