ICYMI: My article in The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process—“Democratizing the Judiciary: Why Judges Should Engage ‘We the People’ Through Social-Media Platforms”—is now available online. journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/appellate/ar...

I am truly fortunate to have such a wonderful and supportive @orangetheory community.

I hope all of you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend. And as always, please be good to each other.

We held a brief burial ceremony for my mother this afternoon. The marker is on her parents’ plot, as she wanted. Requiescat in pace, mama.

Today, I completed my 900th class at @orangetheory and also set a personal record in the 200 meter row. It was a good day.

ICYMI: My article in The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process—“Democratizing the Judiciary: Why Judges Should Engage ‘We the People’ Through Social-Media Platforms”—is now available online. journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/appellate/ar...

I had to represent my high school alma mater for Saint Patrick’s Day. Go Toppers!

My article in the Winter 2026 Issue of The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process—“Democratizing the Judiciary: Why Judges Should Engage ‘We the People’ Through Social-Media Platforms”—is now available at this link. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Thank you to all of the Georgia High School Mock Trial Competition volunteers!

I hope all of you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend. And as always, please be good to each other.

Appellate Practice and Procedure Class No. 8 (Mercer Law School, 2026), featuring Michael B Terry, Alyssa Baskam, Anna Cross, Andrew Fleischman, Elissa Blache Haynes, and Maxwell Thelen.

Happy birthday @carlcecere.bsky.social! I hope you have a wonderful day, my friend.

I hope all of you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend. And as always, please be good to each other.

Back in my favorite reading spot.

Really all writing….

“Show, don’t tell” is, in my view, a foundational principle of persuasive legal and judicial writing.

Appellate Practice and Procedure Class No. 7 (Mercer Law School, 2026), featuring Justice Verda Colvin and Judge Elizabeth Dallas Gobeil.

Saturdays with Sirius.

During my recent visit to @NDLaw, one of the officers on our security detail gave me this beautiful challenge coin. It’s a wonderful keepsake from a memorable weekend.

I hope all of you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend. And as always, please be good to each other.

Appellate Practice and Procedure Class (@MercerLAWSchool) No. 6 (Spring 2026), featuring Judge Patrick J. Bumatay (Ninth Circuit) and Judge Kevin C. Newsom (Eleventh Circuit).

Attention Georgia lawyers! The Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia’s website is now gaappeals.gov and the address to access our e-filing system has changed from efast.gaappeals.us to efast.gaappeals.gov So, please update your bookmarks accordingly!

It was truly a pleasure to judge the semi-final rounds of the @NDLaw Religious Freedom Tournament.

I found a nice reading spot here at @NDLaw.

Back in my favorite reading spot.

Appellate Practice and Procedure Class (Mercer Law School) No. 5 (Spring 2026), featuring Judge Tripp Self (U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia).

Roses are red, This Book is Blue, I’ve cited my love, See supra n.2. #AppellateValentines

roses are red I would rather you died than to see you use (citation modified)

Roses are red, Appellants’ briefs they are blue. I sure liked my co-clerks, but Not like I like you. #AppellateValentines

Roses are red. Violets are blue. My concurrences are often doubtful unlike my love for you. #AppellateValentines

It seems like a good time to post this again.

It’s fun how saying “Word Perfect” is like the Bat Signal for Judge Dillard.

My beautiful valentine of 34 years.

I hope all of you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend. And as always, please be good to each other.

Roses are red The darned book is blue @judgedillard.bsky.social loves WordPerfect And so should you too (What I used to post in the other place)

We now have a clock in the @AppealsCourtGA courtroom!

Happy Georgia Day!

The Nathan Deal Judicial Center. #AppellatePlaces

Back in my favorite reading spot.

Appellate Practice and Procedure Class (Mercer Law School) No. 4 (Spring 2026), featuring Judge Andrew Brasher (Eleventh Circuit) and Judge Don Willett (Fifth Circuit).

Maybe a tech company would be so kind, but I doubt it. Absolutely critical, however.

It would be wonderful if the @NFL and its network partners would consider donating a modest amount of time—say a 30 second ad—during the @SuperBowl for a nonprofit to promote the importance of civics education.

I hope all of you have a wonderful and relaxing weekend. And as always, please be good to each other.

Ok, this is pretty funny.

Schulzke & Capodilupo on the Written Constitutionalism in the Founding Era Lorianne Updike Schulzke (Northern Illinois University College of Law; Yale University - Law School) & Robert Capodilupo (Yale Law School) have posted Becoming Written Constitutionalism on SSRN. Here is the abstract:…

My DukeLaw @dukelaw.bsky.social @bolchjudicial.bsky.social LL.M. thesis is in the final stages of the editing process & should be available later this year in the Journal of Appellate Practice and Process. I am excited to share it with the public and I hope many of you will be find it useful.

More State of the (Georgia) Judiciary photos.

The State of the Judiciary.

Appellate Practice and Procedure Class (Mercer Law School) No. 3 (Spring 2026), featuring Judge Amanda Mercier of the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia.

1. The Federalist Papers 2. The Battle of Britain (in London) 3. The Renaissance and Reformation 4. Napoleon and the French Revolution 5, The History of Alabama