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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coalition for TJ got crushed.  Judge canceled the trial scheduled for next week.  [/quote]

Bad take. Judge, who previously declined to dismiss the case, said he can rule from the bench because the material facts are not in dispute.

And some of those facts are anything but favorable to FCPS.

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While it's theoretically possible for him to rule for the plaintiffs, I think that it's much more likely that this signals a favorable conclusion for FCPS. Kinda how all those recalls for board members are going. Anybody can sue anybody for anything. You need actual legal grounds to win.[/quote]

Another bad take.

This is a federal lawsuit, not a state-law recall procedure.

If the suit were frivolous, the judge would have granted FCPS's prior motion to dismiss the case for failure to state a claim.  He did not do so, and that allowed the plaintiffs to go ahead and obtain discovery in the case, some of which indicates that FCPS's intentions were race-driven.

What the judge did earlier this week is indicate that he's prepared to rule on motions for summary judgment, because the key facts are evident, and there's no need to convene a jury to resolve disputed facts.  He may rule for the plaintiffs, or he may rule for FCPS, but the fact that he's going to issue an opinion in the first instance actually expedites the inevitable appeals that will be taken here.  In fact, there's a reasonably good chance it may make its way to the Supreme Court, and then Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor will be the only ones defending what FCPS has done.  [/quote]

But here’s the thing… courts can mandate that a policy be removed, but they cannot mandate that a policy be reinstated. All a victory would do is force FCPS to come up with another way to accomplish the same goal. And they will.

Elect a new School Board in late 2023. Then you’ll get what you want.[/quote]

Judges have discretion in fashioning the relief they consider appropriate.

And change could come to a Governor’s School before 2023 or [b]if the state Senate flips Republican in 2023[/b].  It’s not all about what the FCPS School Board wants when it comes to TJ. [/quote]

State Senate elections in Virginia are happening at the same time as the School Board elections. They're in November of 2023, meaning that policy change won't happen until January 2024.[/quote]

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