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.

A couple further thoughts about the interchange between this opinion and yesterday’s argument.

I was SO CONFUSED when BMK at argument yesterday kept talking/asking about injunctive relief to a “putative class” because that is not a thing under Rule 23. But looking at the order issued today, I now know why he was thinking/asking about it. This order had to have been written already.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Why is everyone so terrified of ERISA?

So I mostly hung up my grips when adult gymnastics was canceled during the pandemic. But late last year I started a brand new hobby with a group of awesome women who either used to do this as a kid or started brand new like me as an adult. Here’s the new hobby!

I’ll always associate Justice Souter with one of my favorite SCOTUS oral-argument moments, in Chicago v. Morales (anti-gang loitering law), when he asked plaintively why it isn't enough of a "purpose" for being in a public place if you just want to sit outside and watch the cars go by ❤️

I haven’t been following this case enough but continue to be so grateful to journalists for their live coverage. Reading this thread, I can’t help but be horrified by what this scholar has gone through while being so incredibly impressed with her strength & work, and the case the ACLU has advanced

The fierceness bravery being displayed here is incredible. So glad the incomparable Jessie Rossman is on this case.

Agree with @williambaude.bsky.social that ERISA is underrated, and delighted to hear it discussed on Divided Argument. ERISA’s got statutory interpretation, trust law, adlaw, preemption, and lots more!

The article you didn’t know you needed. A delightful read.

She also speculated that he’s a White Sox pope, not a Cubs pope, because he’s from the South Side.

Chicago Pope's here

If the new Pope ever wears a Chicago Bull’s hat, he better be REAL careful when coming to the United States.

Looking forward to the inevitable replacement of host wafers with deep dish pizza and ceviche.

Snuffleupagus

A translation for gymnastics followers: “If you strip out the 4 counting falls on balance beam and uneven bars, UCLA’s team score actually INCREASED over the last meet. So we like where we are at right now.”