@badlawyerpod.bsky.social SBF x UPOL www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/n...

Everyone should listen to this oral argument. Sotomayor very clearly lays out how the end of independent rulemaking agencies will be rulemaking agencies led by the presidency. Gorsuch immediately responds that the answer is to end rulemaking agencies full stop.

The solicitor general's position seems to be "Humphrey's Executor has created confusion in the lower courts, so my solution is to say it's an agency-by-agency determination, and who knows how it turns out?"

Is you takin notes on a criminal fuckin conspiracy?

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social petty lawyers is your whole aesthetic

I was not expecting the lawyer representing conversion therapy to say that it's not a medical treatment. I hope a justice will call out that he keeps distinguishing "treatment" from "conduct" from "speech" even though something can be all three. #scotus

@otcpod.bsky.social I was struck by the most recent pod describing how PSV + Ajax lost all their strikers to injury. Are big teams in lower-level leagues signing players that bigger clubs aren't considering fit enough? I'm thinking about PSV taking injury-prone Dest, or Bremen and Boniface

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social you discussed the Flores / Rooney Rule situation but I don't think you mentioned the absolute absurd (and now struck down) arbitration clause The Second Circuit compared it to ping pong blogs.duanemorris.com/classactiond...

The Thing That's Been Going Around Lately by Albert Camus

We've been taught to believe that, as parents, we shape a lot of our children's future, personality, knowledge, etc. So why does my toddler insist that there's no such thing as a squirrel? He has insisted since he was able to talk that they were mice, and today "NO, IT'S A DRAGON"

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social Appeals court reversed sanctions against a lawyer who fabricated an email to the judge

I simply cannot believe that paying a guy in a vest to stand by the MTA turnstiles to make sure nobody skips the fare is more cost effective than just eating the loss

Ray Bradbury ran over my toe in his wheelchair.

Paging @badlawyerpod.bsky.social ow.ly/XReN50W2Mqy

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social A brand new way to wreck your legal career using AI www.linkedin.com/posts/jamess...

When a district court opinion starts with reminding the parties what the Declaration of Independence says, you know the government is about to get a sharp smack from the Court

I've been a citizen since I was eight and this is my recurring fear, sitting like a pit in my stomach, when I'm out with my 18 month old.

Who read this headline and thought, "crimeoholics be addicted to crimeohol"? @badlawyerpod.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...

As mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka has a responsibility to ensure that facilities operating in the city are adhering to laws that protect the safety and wellbeing of occupants and residents.

post four characters you identify with 👀

Trump Admin being mad about Amazon showing tariffs shows that the tariff is not about economics. From an economics perspective, showing consumer the tariff cost could prompt them to search for similar goods without the tariff -- nudging them to find American producers of similar goods

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social "Even if respondent, at one point, had some government connection, the Referee wrote, it would not allow him to make unfounded, racist, and offensive remarks about multiple judges, attorneys, and court personnel." www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/c...

calling all trekkies!! show me one picture from star trek that perfectly embodies your aura

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social would you dip into Australian law for a lawyer who turned pretending to be sick into a huge ethical violation? www.linkedin.com/posts/alecia...

Unsurprisingly, this is how Putin remained in power.

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social we finally have the answer to "how much trouble can we get in for not filing for PHV" www.linkedin.com/posts/steven...

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Today's case may be about redistricting and gerrymandering, but a quiet theme lurking in the background is "does a state have latitude to not follow a district court order if they feel it isn't legally correct" #scotus

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social hot toppie! www.complex.com/music/a/back...

Which Supreme Court Justice will reference this in an opinion in the Reverse Discrimination case? (To be clear: parental leave should be equitable for any parent) ow.ly/c54w50V7boK

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

We should also note the Wayback Machine had a major outage in the last year, showing that it is not a resource we can definitely rely upon in perpetuity

Aleksander III receiving rural district elders in the yard of Petrovsky Palace in Moscow, by Ilya Repin, 1885-86

The only content-based regulation I would ever agree with is a law requiring journalists to link to court filings

I found this podcast because I wanted someone to make fun of James Bond but for the last day I've been chewing on their discussion that there's a deep class distinction between people who understand violence by people seeking dignity and those who don't

Any university that voluntarily shutters a DEI program, office or personnel “Because of Trumps Executive Order” is making a PR decision. Not a legal one. Trumps EO does not change anti discrimination law. If anything, the EO is unlawful. Universities should treat it that way.

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social Come for writing a subpoena application so badly that you have to apologize, stay for seven (!!) attorneys having to submit declarations explaining exactly what they contributed www.law360.com/legalethics/...

From my starship to yours: Happy Threshold Day 2025. Hope those kids are okay! (lizard/salamander, potayto/potahto)

My hero is the MTA worker whose job is to stand on the Grand Central Station 7 platform directing people to keep moving who, today, decided her job is to try and make midtown rush hour commuters laugh. Not all heroes wear capes.

It is telling that Trump's second term is starting with American History's greatest case of not paying your contractors.

Can we bring back the "Tariff of Abominations" moniker?

Ok but my worry is the response will be to forbid farmers from culling birds that have bird flu

#scotus #barnesvfelix petitioner is doing a great job of assuring the court that they can win without taking deadly force away from cops

Anyone use a #Troomi phone for their kid and know what the heck is going on?

Respondent is not able to navigate that #SCOTUS does not care about their case, SCOTUS cares about a "sloppy" 7th Circuit opinion conflating "false" and "misleading" #ThompsonvUS

Why two?

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social Judge who threatened racial gun violence removed from job she already left. Still gets to practice law for a public office? www.law.com/newyorklawjo...