The Fifth Circuit declares the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional - Vox

Three judges appointed by former President Donald Trump handed down an astonishing decision on Wednesday, effectively holding that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency charged with protecting consumers from a wide range of predatory activity by lenders and other financial services, is unconstitutional and must be stripped of its authority...

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/20/23414311/cfpb-unconstitutional-fifth-circuit-supreme-court-trump-community-financial

5th Circuit upholds Texas social media law - The Washington Post

"Little could be more Orwellian than the government purporting to protect speech by dictating what businesses must say," said Matt Schruers, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which had challenged the Texas law. "The Texas law compels private enterprises to distribute dangerous content ranging from foreign propaganda to terrorist incitement, and places Americans at risk."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/16/5th-circuit-texas-social-media-law/

5th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstates Texas internet censorship law.

…What would the internet look like in Texas if corporations implemented these policies? In addition to a sudden surge of spam in Texans' inboxes, social media would become unusable. Major platforms would be inundated with hate: YouTube could not remove videos by neo-Nazis and Klansmen promoting racism; Twitter could not take down ISIS fighters' terrorist advocacy; Facebook could not limit Russian propaganda against Ukraine…

https://slate.com/technology/2022/05/texas-internet-censorship-social-media-first-amendment-fifth-circuit.html

The 5th Circuit lets a single judge order the deployment of unvaccinated SEALs.

The 5th Circuit let a lone judge order the deployment of unvaccinated SEALs. High-ranking officers say the decision puts the world at risk...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/unvaccinated-seals-navy-trump-judge-ukraine-russia.html

With federal vaccine decision, the 5th Circuit lawlessly transferred executive power to a rogue judge.

"The public interest is not served," Higginson wrote, "by a single Article III district judge, lacking public health expertise and made unaccountable through life tenure, telling the President of the United States, in his capacity as CEO of the federal workforce, that he cannot take the same lifesaving workplace safety measures as these private sector CEOs."…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/federal-vaccine-5th-circuit-executive-power-rogue-judge.html

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is breaking every rule in the book.

It's one thing for conservative judges to reach conservative outcomes. It's something else entirely for them to ignore the Supreme Court and standard court procedures in order to reach those outcomes. Yet in recent months, that's exactly what the radical U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit—which has jurisdiction over Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi—has been consistently doing...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/fifth-circuit-ignores-supreme-court-breyer.html

How Trump reshaped the fifth circuit to become the ‘most extreme’ US court

…One publicly mourned the "moral tragedy of abortion". Another suggested that same-sex marriage "imperils civic peace". A third tweeted negatively about Hillary Clinton using the hashtags #CrookedHillary, #basketofdeplorables and #Scandalabra…

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/nov/15/fifth-circuit-court-appeals-most-extreme-us