Friday night billing and chilling

People forgot this is the city that decapitated a hitchhiking robot

When ICE comes to Philly it’s going to be brutal

Annoying how you have to give your body a certain amount of calories everyday for it to function correctly

Democracy Forward has filed a lawsuit in Tennessee state court, challenging the National Guard’s presence in Memphis as a flagrant violation of the Tennessee Constitution democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Wait that’s my emotional support parenthetical

You’ll just be minding your own business when suddenly Martha-Ann

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

When President AOC federalizes the National Guard in 2029 to protect abortion clinics, Ilan is going to magically discover an English treatise written in 1610 that proves Matthew Kacsmaryk can issue a nationwide injunction against her.

I assure you … no one texting you from a number in the Philippines is actually going to give you a job to work from home at a rate of $500 a day

Everybody wanna be Scalia until it’s time to uphold Employment Division v. Smith

How we feeling my swiftie lawyers friends?

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

Normalize nerf gun fights over negotiations

“Chocolate Chip cookie week”: (colloquial) when you are a lawyer and you have the kind of week that required at least one chocolate chip cookie to survive

And now for a nice quiet evening with the Federal Register…

Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach

I assure you - as someone who rides public transit often- some of you DO need it

I don’t think I totally realized I was signing up for IRL spy vs. spy

I’m sorry for the person I became when the spotted lantern fly landed on me

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

Despite today’s outrageous ruling, we all have the right to go about our daily lives free from racial profiling by the federal government. We will never stop fighting for our civil liberties and our immigrant communities.

If it is not safe for Latinos to just exist in Los Angeles, it is not safe for them anywhere

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Crazy how you can just have no idea your hair is wavy until you get into your 40s

LGBTQ students deserve to be themselves at school.

I know there are no silver bullets here, but I think constantly about how our culture of insanely aggressive and thoughtless policing would be upended if federal and state officials were subject to individual liability for their torts instead of being protected by a vast web of immunity doctrines.

It’s so over(broad yet under inclusive)

Encountering novel legal fact patterns: Law school: omg I hate this worst day of my life Practice: omg this is amazing I haven’t felt this good in months

We are so back (in settlement negotiations)

When I catch the person that put all these tab stops in this document…

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

Some friends want to hold a powerpoint party where anyone can present a PowerPoint about whatever subject is of interest to them. Would I be wrong if I show up to talk about 14th amendment jurisprudence or should I stick to Yellowjackets

Now’s your moment Swifties

Accidentally got a job that matters and now people keep asking me to do things that are hard

Deciding not to make fun of a man on social media complaining alimony is “punitive”

If there isn’t an Outlook invite…

Running into Strict Scrutiny fans while on vacation but you wore your shirt yesterday

Remember to put in your time for the month (threat)

Wow - 6 years since the first episode of Strict Scrutiny… what’s the traditional anniversary gift for 6 years?

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant. I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester. Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

Love that my phone reminded me it’s been 5 yrs since one of social media’s epic and most brutal take downs that *actually* made someone delete their account. I needed this laugh.

On Obergefell’s 10 yr anniversary, let’s not lose sight of the fact that the fight for civil rights and equality for all are inextricably intertwined. But most importantly that we not give in to despair.

Okay so to recap, the following things were apparently repealed in conference by the court: 1. The establishment clause 2. The due process clause 3. The equal protection clause Am I missing anything

Let’s have the discussion actually about why there aren’t www.nationalbook.org/books/the-su...

Amy Sherald’s presentation of American realism is arresting in its execution. Don’t miss this exhibit at The Whitney

Today is a day to uplift the remarkable perseverance of Black people— not just a day of remembrance, but a day of fellowship, community-building & intentional celebration. Happy Juneteenth! Onward! LDF Commemorates 160th Anniversary of Juneteenth www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...