Parenting hack: I told my 10yo she could watch a movie or age-appropriate tv show if she wraps presents for me while she watches. So she watched a Youtube video about wrapping Christmas presents beautifully, and now she's doing all of my gift wrapping.

Before basically every email I send, I truly do go back through it for a punctuation check to make sure I'm not seeming either too cold/rude or too eager/informal. I usually delete exclamation points (and em dashes/parentheticals, tbh). I'm really curious how many of my male colleagues do that.

In honor of Rob Reiner, tonight’s movie selection:

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

I hope instead the BBC is planning to argue lack of personal jurisdiction…

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Just a reminder that you should not take a red eye on a weeknight after the age of 40. (Me. I’m reminding me. For next time. While shaking my fist at Past Jaime who booked a red eye.)

Do you need more Trump v. Slaughter insights injected into your veins? Join me and my colleagues Jordan Bock and Cassie Snyder today at 1pm EST as we unpack the arguments in a webinar. Cassie and I were present in the courtroom and will bring plenty of fun insights! Register here: bit.ly/3LYiDVQ

I see it’s time to reprise this note.

I have a hilariously similar photo from early morning horseback riding. (Yes, I’m using a saddle stand as a stand up desk.)

@anneralph.bsky.social it was literally my first post.

This is a delightful profile of my friend Lindsay See, former SG of West Virginia who is now a FERC Commissioner: www.eba-net.org/ferc-commiss...

All right, everyone. I have thought this for the last 2 years but am finally ready to call it: Advent calendars have gone too far. As a society, we have to stop. I now see how quickly St. Valentine's Day must have devolved into commercialized slop.

I'm incredibly excited about the new associates who have joined our appellate team recently! www.goodwinlaw.com/en/news-and-...

My main question about these emails is whether there was any after-the-fact follow-up email that said, “By the way—everything I ever sent you is off record.” Because I hear that erases prior statements. Right @annabower.bsky.social?

It’s a real shame that Judge Fitzpatrick’s first name isn’t Gerald. Then we’d have Gerald Fitzpatrick presiding over discovery in a case defended by Patrick Fitzgerald.

Sarah Harrington is a great example of the better approach.

Parents do not want their children taught to hate LGBTQ people.

It’s Sarah Harrington Day in the Supreme Court! Also need catnip day.

Ahh so he’s got a sandwich stand. (Very, very niche joke.)

This is going to be controversial, but I think the action was warranted here. There simply must be consequences for misusing the word “comprising.”

There’s no evidence I *wasn’t* at the Louvre last night…

Wait do people really have a standing “bagel order”? (I have lost.)

Quite a sunset

ICYMI

one of my favorites. it pairs well with:

I was delighted to attend the William & Mary Supreme Court Preview this past weekend, where there were several panels about the Supreme Court's emergency docket. I've also heard several interviews with/public remarks by Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh on the topic. /1

The failure to take the immunity case before judgment was pretty outrageous. Taking the FTC removal case before judgment is, in my view, appropriate, though. Humphrey’s Executor is the law of the land and while that is so, contrary views can’t really percolate in lower courts.

These cuties on their first day of school.

It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite

I really wish Outlook had a function that would alert you if a draft email has been open on your desktop for over an hour, and ask if you want to send it? Maybe the little paperclip guy we used to have could pop up and say, "Hey, did you forget about this?"

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

U.S. elite nationals kind of feels like an advertisement for the University of Florida gymnastics program

Any chance Emiliano’s is owned by someone with the last name of Bivens?

Shout-out to my kid, who just left the room to go make peach cobbler, and shouted, "Peach out!" when she left.

Bob v Jones, 123 F. 4th 17, 23 (13th Cir. 2025) (enhanced)

If you can’t set out your argument clearly, it’s probably because you don’t actually know what it is

Kids, after going to get eggs: We may have a snake going after the chickens? Me: ... Kids: We found snakeskin in the coop. Me: Unless you want me to sue the snake, this sounds like a Dad problem, not a mom problem.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to hear a bid by Montana to revive a law that requires parental consent for minors to obtain an abortion, a measure challenged by reproductive health and abortion provider Planned Parenthood as a violation of the Republican-led state's constitution.

My colleague @andrewkim.bsky.social and I were proud to partner with Planned Parenthood in opposing certiorari in this case!

@badlawyerpod.bsky.social pod has gotten several shout outs at the FCBA Bench & Bar panels!

Federal Circuit Bench & Bar starts today! Which means that I just packed right now, at 3am, a couple of hours before I leave for the airport. (I will never learn.) Who will be there?

Mocha says hi

I know this isn’t really the point, but Exhibit 4,294,203 showing that short sentences are better than long sentences in legal writing.

When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

Graduating from “very bad at riding” to just regular “bad at riding”!

Also: Congratulations to Judge Amir Ali, whose investiture was this afternoon. Ali was one of the final Biden judicial nominees to be confirmed last year. He has been serving on the bench, but his formal investiture ceremony was today.

Hear me out: rather than subject immigration officers and deportees to this, the government could … I don’t know … fly them back here and handle the interviews in the United States?

This is an AMAZING resource. Can't encourage you enough to look up your state's supreme court. You'll discover that *every* state supreme court is designed with more checks than the federal judiciary

If they should be able to do this but can’t ask for Abrego-Garcia back, I have many many questions.