Clarence Thomas has spent so much of his SC career arguing that the constitution doesn’t apply to black people in every way except apparently birthright citizenship, which ONLY applies to black people

If the Supreme Court can reverse a 95 year-old ruling for a country that is only 250 years old, I need you to UNDERSTAND this country still has no idea what it is or what it stands for other than it’s constant push-and-pull to oppress Black people and eliminate Native people.

It’s a weird week to be studying constitutional law for the bar

So deep in the Bar prep psychosis that I forgot today was my birthday until my dad texted me like twenty minutes ago. I barely know what day of the week it is let alone what day of the month

Sometimes I have a client where a cop so blatantly violated their constitutional rights that I have to go back and reread basic crim pro cases to make sure I’m not going crazy and misunderstanding the law

Cops will get so mad at suspects for lying and then turn around and lie to everyone to coerce them into giving them what they want

Boy, having to live in a perpetual state of existential dread over the demolition of our democracy while also studying for the Bar is…not fun

Facebook is a cesspool of the most negative, vile opinions but somehow, under any post complaining about road cyclists, is an army of people vehemently defending the cyclists

Im against humans being in cages absent extraordinary circumstances so its not Peters’ sentence reduction itself that bothers me, its the fact that Polis has continuously stopped bills that promoted criminal justice reform in his tenure as governor

Juris Doctor

@equalityalec.bsky.social book Usual Cruelty was one of the reasons I went to law school to become a public defender. Having him as my law school commencement speaker today was the most incredible full circle moments

I love that every torts negligence hypothetical is like a Rube Goldberg scenario of chaos. Like because Johnny shook a can of soda, someone died 10 blocks away - is he liable for negligence?

Getting a loving, lap cat seems like a good idea until you try to use a standing desk and then the cat is climbing on you to get attention because your lap is not available

this is like a caricature of the small ball, no conviction, triangulating nonsense that many people associate with democrats

I love getting discovery that is just a Russian nesting doll of zip files with nondescript names

I typically watch criminal trials as background noise to my work days and it is so obvious that prosecutors do not cross defendants very often because it is always painful to watch

Can I bill for all the time I spend thinking about a case/motion issue? Because I do not consent to these thoughts living rent free in my head

Watching a prosecutor continuously try to trip up a defendant on cross examination and failing every time. It’s a beautiful sight to see

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.

As much as I hate and disagree with the state of the criminal justice system in Colorado, every time I have to do a criminal case in Wyoming I realize it could be much, much worse

The bar exam is such a pointless, classist test because my competency to practice as a criminal defense attorney shouldn’t be predicated on my ability to pay $1000 and answer questions about the priority of mortgages

Ran 31 miles this weekend on one of the most stunning trails in Colorado, in a state of constant disbelief that anyone could put personal profit over the beauty, sustainability, and accessibility of public lands. Capitalism is a disease that is killing what makes life worth living

Pretty soon the only industries that will be left in the USA are going to be for profit prisons, detainment warehouses, and data centers.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián