Happy 26-1 day to all!

Florida Gators about to get a new mascot.

Can we give Sophia Diaz a single bar release for 2027? I feel like that’s what missing to bring her bars scores to the next level. She is so clean and consistent.

Who is the monster that owns this horse? Because my ponies definitely get cake and donuts and the like.

It's always kind of bothered me that the Apostles' Creed doesn't follow FRCP 6/FRAP 26 in calculating time ("On the third day, he rose again ...").

“Mother you’re amazing, but so hard-headed sometimes!” Best sentence ever to hear from a kid, especially after a fight about dictionaries.

In addition to being proud of my friends arguing in the Supreme Court today, I could not be more proud of my colleague Jordan Bock, who fiercely advocated for trans kids and their parent before the Ohio Supreme Court: ohiochannel.org/programs/sup...

It is a beautiful day to watch two friends argue in the Supreme Court. Excited to cheer on my colleague Willy Jay and ICAP’s amazing Kelsi Corkran this morning.

The Amari Drayton second step was 100% the vault coaches fault. He started celebrating too early and stopped holding the mat!

Just off the top of my head, here's how I think a "pro-trans everything except sports" politician could answer a question about trans rights (or trans people in sports, specifically): "I obviously think it's important to find a way forward on this issue, to find a balance between fairness and ...

This is probably a dumb question but here it is anyway: when a skater misses a necessary element (like popping a triple into a double), why can’t/don’t they improvise and toss in another triple right before the end?

Curling is super cool. But it should probably not be an Olympic sport any more than cornhole should be an Olympic sport.

Spencer continues to be a national treasure.

I have some exciting news to share! We are hiring an aspiring Supreme Court nerd to work our Supreme Court practice as a legal analyst on our marketing and client development initiatives. goodwinprocter.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Car...

Outdone only by Montgomery County, Maryland, which has had no school for this entire week due to snow last Sunday.

I get to write another "new appellate person joining our team" post! I'm incredibly excited that John Englander, who just retired as a Justice on the Massachusetts Appeals Court, will be rejoining Goodwin as Of Counsel in our Appellate and Supreme Court practice. www.goodwinlaw.com/en/news-and-...

@andrewkim.bsky.social and I were absolutely delighted to represent the National Security Archive in a FOIA lawsuit that successfully obtained the release of transcripts of meetings and phone calls between George W. Bush and Vladamir Putin! nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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