Of course it was Alex Thompson.

In what amounts to Mark Wolf’s resignation letter from the federal bench in Massachusetts forget more than 40 years—he was already a senior judge, so it creates no vacancy—he says he “intend[s] to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

What are we doing here

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

You gotta actually listen to this tho

I’d like the next Democratic candidate for President to run on making the Nuremberg trials look like a fucking birthday party.

UPDATE: Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule. DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m. Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...

A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬 DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.

#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits. The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.

This is so embarrassing.

I think this bag is fake. Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides. This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.

106 pages holy shit

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

“Can we stop the habit of telling who funded the politician’s campaign? They should be representing voters.”

Note: The First Circuit has issued no order thus far, so the TRO remains in effect.

A jury's power to acquit (not necessarily to convict) is the most unchecked power that exists in our whole system of government. No judge can overturn it. No prosecutor or president can challenge it. Nobody can punish them for it. They don't have to explain why. End of story, case over.

This is it. It’s on that dotted line where it could be either, and that’s that. That’s the way it works. The jury reached its decision.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Being a feckless government thug isn't a protected class. Every business owner in the Chicago area should be refusing to serve or sell things to federal agents, and residents should boycott any establishment that doesn't. Let them go to Indiana if they want food.

"Beyond being the 24th consecutive grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration, the cryptic ruling in Orr is a reminder of just how bankrupt the Court’s proffered justifications are in these cases—both legally and in other ways, too." Me on today's ugly #SCOTUS ruling in Trump v. Orr:

I repeat:

probably not good that we allowed a legal movement based on a lingering host of grotesque resentments to fester for several decades

My heart is so heavy tonight.

The Supreme Court's decision to let the Trump White House implement its anti-trans passport policy is vile, and I appreciate Jackson going out of her way to include in her dissent, for the record, the administration's language justifying the policy. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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One more time for the Justices in the back.

Job market so rough I’m considering quitting the practice of law and starting a cult

What this order makes clear is that plaintiffs can collect a mountain of animus, the district court can write extensively about the record, and the Supreme Court will just go “nuh uh.”

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.

BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit vacates the injunction against Texas's anti-drag law, but remands for further consideration of one part of the challenge — a facial challenge to AG Paxton's enforcement of Part One of the law. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/texass-ant...

I missed the first 20ish minutes of yesterday’s argument so I’m catching up, and LOL.

Ellis notes people being tear gassed, staring down the barrel of a gun and being "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street." "All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."

Ellis: "It doesn't matter that someone continues to go protest, or continues to be courageous. That is irrelevant as to whether there was a chilling effect."

After going through several incidents since the start of Operation Midway Blitz — like the ones above — Judge Ellis says, "those are the factual findings that I'm making to support this preliminary injunction."

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.

Good morning. Back in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is expected to rule in 20 minutes on the use of force by federal agents against protesters and journalists in Chicago.

BREAKING: Men who can’t even keep the government open write letter to a third man, whose high court regularly publishes anonymous orders, to complain about anonymous criticism from lower court judges.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

Tired: mustard gas Wired: mustard

They keep this up, and there will be Mamdanis running — and winning — everywhere.

Just finished a banger of a complaint. I shall now eat.

A man who has argued many cases before SCOTUS is probably very good at arguing cases. It does not follow that the positions he argues are necessarily correct, and it certainly does not place him beyond criticism when he makes arguments that could do real harm.

supreme court poised to side with "No We Shouldn't" in landmark case "We Should Shoot The Economy In The Head For No Reason v. No We Shouldn't"

100%. I teach this theory in Labor Law during a class when we focus on arguable constitutional protections for strikes, and I think it's absolutely correct.

It’s good that Gorsuch has coherent, predictable principles. Bad that they’re the principles of a libertarian ski resort owner in Colarado but you win some and you lose some.

sdklfj Gorsuch asked a question like, so if the pres unliterally declared a 50% tariff on all gas-powered vehicles to respond to the unusual & extraordinary threat of global warming? DOJ says well we'd say that's a hoax & not a threat Gorsuch dripping w condescension goes I'm sure you would lmao