You’re the perfect partner You mean the world me Our love’s more unbelievable Than a brief from chatGPT. #lawyervalentines

This partner kept telling me to “boil the ocean” and I didn’t know what he meant but this is what I should have said

I’d missed this footnote in the recent CA5 case upholding the Texas “voter harvesting” law www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

That the UK is basically all seaside is one of its huge features.

Horsefeathers! Indeed.

Breaking: Judge grants Mark Kelly a preliminary injunction against Hegseth, who is reconsidering his rank: "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Sen. Kelly's First Amendment freedoms & threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

THE COURT: Do you have a case that supports that argument, Mr. Marotta? ME: The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about.

So, most of you know that my wife, @elleb.bsky.social is mounting an Olympic sailing campaign for the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. We're about 1 week out from the 2026 season starting on 2/19 & this year is all about qualifying for the 2027 Olympic Trials. A 🧵

Like it or not, the justices are about to see AI versions of themselves, speaking words that they spoke in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except those in the courtroom. n.pr/3O3sWJn

Just did the thing from a few weeks ago again: filed a notice of appearance and immediately said “what now?” When the bounce from the notice of appearance arrived.

"We have found this exercise unhelpful" is not great to hear. There but for the grace of god go I, etc.

I just will not get over how funny it is that the administration is being bedeviled by something they just can't absorb, which is a zealot who actually believes what he's saying.

New law firm name dropped: "Raffi, The Litigation Friend"

OK, so I listened to the oral arguments in this case some months ago in the UK Supreme Court, and I thought it was an easy case *for* the oat people. I guess not!

The Central District of Illinois Federal Public Defender's Office is hiring an appellate attorney! I've never been to Urbana, but I hear it's urbane. They have an annual sweetcorn festival, and the U of Illinois, of course. www.fd.org/sites/defaul...

The Northern District of Oklahoma Federal Public Defender's Office is hiring a research & writing attorney that sounds like it will be heavily appellate-focused. Good folks in that office - they helped us out a lot when we handled some McGirt cases. www.fd.org/sites/defaul...

My paper on the original meaning of birthright citizenship is now published

A reminder of the iron rule of the Trump era.

It will surprise y’all to hear that there are no “Muslims taking over the state” and there is no “sharia law” in Texas that threatens anyone. This is genuinely disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

This proposed act is so evil.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

Very interesting: Washington Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis thanked her law clerk—by name, in a footnote on the first page of the decision—"for her contributions to this opinion." It's very unusual for a judge to openly credit their clerk like this. www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate!

Man, Walker's just an awesome back. Patience, vision, burst--the total package, with such a unique style. Dude has earned every bit of the paycheck coming his way this summer.

The thing is the NFL kickoff rule has been a huge success.

Am going to guzzle a cocktail of every seed oil after that MAHA ad.

I have one question: what is AI?

This feels a lot like the year all the ads were about NFTs.

I agree, we should deny asylum, and the solve the problem by just giving them a green card after an appropriate application process.

I’m sorry there a CHEESE BOARD GAME!!!!

One of my partners saw a motorcycle fly off an elevated highway and land directly in front of him, on the lower highway. All that to say I think Houston might finally be getting a subway if this goes ahead.

Picked this book on Lebanese baking today. It contains both traditional recipes and little twists on tradition (zaatar garlic knots?) I’ll bake from it for the superbowl tomorrow.

“Did you object to that ruling?”

I don’t know why but I also enjoy this.

I do not totally follow what part of this story is a Greek tragedy. He liked Epstein. When people found out, they became angry. What is the Greek aspect of this?

That's pretty cool.

The part I want to add is that oral argument on this case was on Wednesday. So, I’d guess this was all written up already.

BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings It's a 2-1 ruling Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump) Minority: Douglas (Obama) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Font nerds rejoice

If they're paying the fare I don't see why we're being so persnickety about it.

It’s king cake time!

Random cooking tip: I love making NYC grandma pies at home. You take about 14oz of pizza dough - grocery store is fine. Let it come to room temperature. Press it into a square. Add 1 tb of olive oil to a full cookie sheet. Put square in sheet. Relax for 20 minutes, then press to full size /1

"It was never about adjudicating [Judge James] Boasberg’s behavior; it was about making splashy headlines and fueling right-wing attacks on the judiciary without regard to whether DOJ’s specious charges would withstand meaningful scrutiny."

Pro tip for the #legalwriting students out there who are starting to think about their 1L oral arguments: when the judge asks a question, try to immediately and directly respond to that question. But see:

One of my great wishes in life was that topics like the Plantagenets became relevant and important - since obviously this would mean a utopia of history nerds - but obviously the god of jokes got the last laugh here.

Heh indeed.

Man, that name's a blast from the past in my own personal hall of horrors.

"Prosecutor Fired After Voicing Frustration With Immigration Caseload," @NYTimes reports. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...