Judge blocks U.S. officials from tech contacts in First Amendment case ( www.washingtonpost.com )

It should be self-evident that issuing an emergency stay on the Fourth of July is unusual. The most charitable view I can apply is the judge wanted to be an answer to a trivia question — anything beyond that is misconduct.

There’s also nothing in the story that points to a need for an emergency order in the first place. Now, if holiday news were a parade of mass shootings, maybe that would be a reason to just churn something out into the news cycle to distract.