Josh Divine

I have taken employment that precludes making public political comments. This profile will no longer be updated concerning those issues.

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Getting ready yesterday for my first oral argument since my accident. Wheelchair is new. Beard is new. Also new: the oral argument went for 1.5 hours.

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Some personal news, as they say. As sad as I am to leave my post as Missouri Solicitor General, I’m excited to serve the American people as a federal district court judge.

[US District Court MOED @USCourtsMOED]

Today, Joshua M. Divine was sworn in by Chief Judge Clark as the Eastern District’s seventh active U.S. District Judge. Judge Divine served in a variety of roles in the public sector, most recently as the Solicitor General for the State of Missouri. https://t.co/IU0fY3UbME

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

If only there were a recent case from the Supreme Court that might give folks guidance on whether this is legal. They could even put “Harvard” in the case caption to make it super clear.

[Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon]

EXCLUSIVE: Internal documents reveal a pervasive pattern of racial discrimination at Harvard Law Review.

Writing the foreword to the Harvard Law Review's Supreme Court issue is arguably the most prestigious honor in legal academia. Since 2018, only one white author has penned it—and that's no coincidence, according to internal documents obtained by our Aaron Sibarium.

They show that race plays a far larger role in the selection of both editors and articles than the journal has publicly acknowledged.

Here are 7 DEI policies the Harvard Law Review doesn’t want you to know about: 🧵

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

For decades the settled view was that the President rarely, if ever, can be enjoined. In the middle of the night, SCOTUS enjoined the President, without the district court or Fifth Circuit having an opportunity to rule, and without letting the President respond. Extraordinary

[Trent McCotter @TrentMcCotter]

Get ready for lower courts to announce that they may now directly enjoin the President himself at the drop of a hat, citing the unreasoned SCOTUS majority order a few days ago--despite 150 years of contrary SCOTUS caselaw

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

The dominoes are starting to fall for Google. This is the *second * major antitrust case they have lost in less than a year. This one is about advertising. The first one held Google to be a monopolist in search.

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

Googles potential dismantling by the federal government could bring about the most consequential reshaping the internet in a generation

founders tried to unseat the company — which created the perfect internet business model — for nearly 30 years

perhaps the US of A has done it

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

According to this suit, it's not a coincidence that Facebook routinely copies features from other platforms, such as Facebook's attempt to clone X.
https://t.co/i8wRQDwQT7

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Today, Facebook is in trial over antitrust allegations. Why? Smoking gun emails like these:
- Zuck: "Instagram can hurt us," so we should buy it to "neutralize a potential competitor"
- "what we’re really buying is time"
- FB “can likely always just buy any competitive startups”

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Let’s go!!

[Senate Cloakroom @SenateCloakroom]

Invoked, 53-46: Motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar #46 Dean Sauer to be Solicitor General of the United States.

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Why is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch running pieces complaining that "Catholics" have been put on courts "on purpose"? Is it still the 1850s?
https://t.co/cbiiTVUraI

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Was thrilled to introduce Justice Thomas to dedicate the conference room in memory of such an inspiring alum of the Missouri Attorney General’s office.

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Facebook and Google censored this info in 2020—following behind-closed-doors pressure from Fauci. You weren’t allowed to publicly say what intelligence operatives had privately concluded. What government and Big Tech did at that time will have long-lasting damage on public trust.

[Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright]

"A classified dossier compiled by Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, was passed to then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the start of the outbreak in March 2020 which stated: 'It is now beyond reasonable doubt that Covid-19 was engineered in the WIV.'"

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

@fedjudges Missouri v Department of Education, two TROs last September in student loan litigation. Later converted into a PI in early October, which DOJ didn’t appeal.

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

@VivekGRamaswamy @Eric_Schmitt @AndrewBaileyMO One of my favorite cases I’ve worked on as Solicitor General. Thrilled to have led the team under AG Bailey’s leadership to obtain this critical victory.

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

@MSierenMO @abigailmarone Between this and two student loan cases, like $725 billion!

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

‼️BREAKING. We just won a $24 BILLION judgment against China for the actions it took to worsen COVID in Missouri.

[Eric Schmitt @Eric_Schmitt]

🚨BREAKING: When I was AG in Missouri I sued China for unleashing Covid on the world

My successor & friend @AGAndrewBailey continued the work & today the court awarded Missouri $24+ Billion in damages

Missouri can now seize assets

Just call us the Show Me (the money) state.

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Judgment here: https://t.co/YD0fx3dsZp

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Very BIG news incoming

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

You have to wonder whether the people dropping these suits are doing so because they don’t want to create more unitary executive precedent.

[Alanna Durkin Richer @aedurkinricher]

Hampton Dellinger says he's abandoning his legal battle to keep his job as head of the Office of Special Counsel. It comes after the DC appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration in removing him from his post.

https://t.co/kyDoCf7EBU

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Very spicy opinion from Justice Alito (+3 others), dissenting from the Supreme Court allowing "an act of judicial hubris" to force taxpayers to spend $2 billion, contrary to the President's directives. "I am stunned," he says, at the district court's "self-aggrandizement."

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has *upheld* a lower court's order forcing USAID/State to immediately pay ~$2 billion owed to contractors for work they've alreayd performed.

Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch/Kavanaugh dissent, https://t.co/k86ttz6Wdt

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

As I predicted, the DC jury's $1 million award against a @NRO contributor was struck down. The court knocked the $1 million judgment all the way down to $5k, recognizing that the DC jury's $1 million award was grossly excessive and thus unconstitutional. https://t.co/6opKGOBsm1

[Josh Divine @JoshDivineMO]

Supreme Court in State Farm case: "few awards exceeding a single-digit ratio between punitive and compensatory damages, to a significant degree, will satisfy due process." This is a 1 million:1 ratio. It's a seven-digit ratio. Likely strong argument to reduce the award.