I've had a lot of people ask me if I'd just rant at Justices of the Supreme Court in oral argument. But my duty is to a client, and shouting at Supreme Court justices wouldn't help the client, me, or anything else even if it would make me famous on social media

Law professor who lacks strong predictive abilities as to political outcomes mocks political commentator for same thing, tonight at 10.

When people show you who they are, believe them

A reminder that if you are seeing a rash of decisions from long-pending motions in federal courts this week and next, it's because of the 9/30 cut-off for reporting deadline under the Civil Justice Reform Act www.uscourts.gov/data-news/re...

Apropos to my recent vitality, I met with law students last week who couldn't believe I try to at least skim every published federal civil appellate decision, and do not listen to a single legal podcast or subscribe to any legal newsletters.

In a concurrence in a Title VII case today, one judge looks to ChatGPT in assessing whether a term is racially hostile. What could go wrong? www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...

if you're a law professor it should be in your labor contract that you're not allowed to become a public intellectual

Have filed two briefs already today, so making sure 5785 goes out with a bang!

Bold: a party ordered to pay attorney's fees argued that years spent as a judicial law clerk do not count as legal work experience. Neither the magistrate or the district judge agreed: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Every email I receive from lawyers crowing about the filing of an amicus brief as a sign of a massive achievement and act of heroism takes a year off my life.

The two American political institutions most dedicated to making me cry are the Supreme Court and the telemarketing firm that random Democratic congressional candidates use to send me epic text tomes.

Yes I read that article in the Atlantic no I wont be commenting because I've been told not to say negative things on the internet

Yeah I just ordered 50 KN95 masks; this fall/winter is gonna be a blast.

The ever-intriguing concurrence joined by the entire panel in the 2nd Circuit's rejection of a challenge to Connecticut's restrictions on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...

Have been out of town the past week and the dread of returning home to work and to DC is far worse than it's been before. Sweden is lovely in summertime though.

Just got an email about a data breach at Columbia.... Guess they were too busy looking for contrived incidents of anti-Semitism to remember cyber security

I've had the honor of representing migrant agricultural workers as industry groups push an agenda to eliminate worker protections from H-2A & similar programs. Biglaw firms have suggested workers dont need access to medical care, so DJTs statement isnt surprising. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...

The great thing about the left is we can pivot from "prosecutors and cops are bad" to "former prosecutors will save us all what heroes they know everything about the law" on a dime.

Interesting breakdown in today's en banc 9th Circuit decision rejecting a challenge to COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Was a "conservative" en banc draw, but both majority and merits dissents written by Trump appointees. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

The reality of FOIA litigation: a Judge decides cross-motions for summary judgment that have been pending since 2021...by denying them and ordering supplemental briefing ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

See, not all heroes wear capes.

WIN: In response to our lawsuit, the court prohibited the Department of Labor from closing Job Corps centers. Jobs Corps has provided low-income students with education & vocational training for decades. Now, young people will continue to have access to this vital program.

Last night, a DC court found DOL's directive to shut 99 Job Corps centers unlawful & granted our motion to stay that directive pursuant to section 705--keeping our clients and Job Corps enrollees around the country from being forced into the streets ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Not that they will care, because I never made enough money for Columbia to care about me since I graduated but, this is the email I sent in response to the jabberwocky sent by Claire Shipman:

Sad day to be a Columbia alum

Proud of my stellar colleagues at Public Citizen who worked hard for this major win!

Has anyone else found that the Democratic spam texts are now novel length? Anyway, I have resolved not to give any money more to political candidates because my $25 to say, Deb Haaland, can't do more good than the annoyance associated with 4 texts a day that comes from selling my phone number

Even though the Trump DOJ abandoned its defense of the statute, the 11th Circuit holds that the APA's for-cause removal protections for ALJs are constitutional, in a case where Walmart was accused of violating ICE recordkeeping regs. Stay tuned for sure. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Because the Supreme Court's stay decisions are unexplained, they allow people on here to paint those decisions with wildly broad characterizations. But while that's good for punditry and rage posting, such broad characterizations are harmful to litigation and litigators. /1

Litigation pressure works! Today we learned that the Department of Education has restored the statutorily mandated National Postsecondary Student Aid Study- one of the programs unlawfully terminated by DOGE in February and which we have been suing over since April.

Sometimes, district judges are wrong.

A small victory, but three months after we sued, the Department of Education has reversed DOGE's termination of researchers' ability to access certain data remotely www.citizen.org/news/big-win...

I do not understand how any of my fellow American Jews can have lived through this week and concluded that the winner of the NYC mayoral primary is the greatest threat to their values.

This particular case may be about constitutional violations, but today's decision on the scope of relief will likely lead to a massive disparity where businesses can always get nationwide relief by bringing claims by the Chamber (bringing a long a Texas affiliate or member as a co-plaintiff) /1

Biglaw had already begun to abandon APA cases on behalf of people (i.e., not universities or lawyers). Seems unlikely they are going to start aggressively pushing for class certification in their non paying work.

In Mallorca and attempting not to work for a few days 🤞

Congress has specified what DOL has to do if it wants to close Job Corps centers. But DOL's closing 99 centers without following those procedures & kicking low income young people to the street. Proud to filed a nationwide class action this AM to stop that. www.citizen.org/news/student...

Without fail, Westlaw breaks only at the most convenient times

Ignoring what the law of good cause to dispense notice and comment says, the CFPB is delaying a rule designed to give transparency into small business lending patterns-claiming the desire to act quickly allows skipping APA requirements public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-11244.pdf

The disdainful discussion of J*** B*******; chef's kiss!

Just read a law review comment that simply regurgitates arguments uniformly rejected by federal courts about the PREP Act without acknowledging as much, and referring to the lawyer who has lost many of those cases (to me) as "a paragon in the art of COVID-19 litigation." 😭

HUGE WIN FOR CONSUMERS: In response to our lawsuit, the court has ordered the Trump admin to allow fired CPSC Commissioners to return to work. These three Commissioners will now be able to return to their vital jobs protecting consumers from dangerous products.

Proud of my colleagues at @publiccitizen.bsky.social for this important victory!

Every email I get from Columbia's Acting President just makes me less and less likely to resume donating to dear alma mater.

I think it's cute that people have somehow convinced the power that be that Tufts is an ideological liberal bubble needing diversification, given that the most prominent alums from my time there are a conservative Congressman (Crenshaw) and the lawyer Trump hired to investigate DEI (Spiro)

There are different views on this, but I have strong negative reactions to LinkedIn requests from people I've never interacted with--particularly without any message or contextual communication. No employer worth working for has ever hired someone because of how many LinkedIn connections they have.

NEW LAWSUIT: Trump's USDA cut funding for the National Hunger Clearinghouse & toll-free hotline. The hotline helps vulnerable Americans put food on the table. We’re suing on behalf of Hunger Free America to challenge the unlawful funding termination for this vital service.

We are hiring a one-year fellow to join our team and litigate administrative law and other public interest cases starting this summer/fall. One year experience and ability to work in DC 2-3 days a week required. www.citizen.org/wp-content/u...

I, for one, am glad we can now abandon the fiction that the DC Bar Association has a meaningful role in ensuring the delivery of justice, or provides me with any services of meaningful value other than clogging my inbox trying to sell me things

It was never cute to quote Hamilton in judicial opinions, but it is 2025, people. Props to the first federal judge that starts an opinion: "That. Was. Rude."