"A skillet of bacon grease is a little munitions factory" youtu.be/x1rKvuDsQhQ?...

Some of y'all who are mad that SCOTUS didn't rule by 5 p.m. have never waited in vain for a state criminal judge to rule on your writ of habeas corpus or your motion for new trial and it shows

You think they have a rivalry?

This reminds me of the most disappointing CD I've ever gotten. Behold this disaster. It's even worse than it looks. (Pictures from an eBay listing; I threw mine out years ago)

Abolishing the death penalty has always been about the policy (fairness, cost, equity, racial justice, morality), not whether individual crimes deserve the penalty. You can be utterly certain that this man is deserving yet still advocate for abolishing the penalty.

Supreme Court of Georgia suspends prosecutor’s privilege to practice law before the court for six months after filing a brief with the court that contained non-existent cases and cases that do not stand for the proposition asserted in the brief due to AI usage. www.gasupreme.us/wp-content/u...

If only James Comey had written 74770609^1/2 with seashells no one in the Trump administration would have figured it out.

Well done, Trader Joe's. Well done.

The two main themes in Star Wars—including the Force theme—begin with a perfect fourth.

The vikings were notorious for their many combat techniques, but none more agonizing than stabbing a man in the umbilicus. Many people do not know that the Vikings created navel warfare as we know it.

Who goes to war in a mantle on a one-way street

She sells seashells by the sea shore. She was indicted as an accomplice.

A guy once posted that then-President Obama "will have a 50 cal in the head soon," and "shoot the nig." 9th Cir.: " It is difficult to see how a rational trier of fact could reasonably have found that either statement, on its face or taken in context, expresses a threat." 652 F. 3d 1113 (2011)

Justice Alito's framing here will be familiar to anyone who has represented plaintiffs or criminal defendants. When the govt targets innocent people for intrusions that don't cause physical harm, the law makes it hard for them to sue. Then they're accused of not complaining.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

How he ended up there is pretty unique, but what the real Mr. Woods went through is fairly par-for-the-course for people who have been falsely accused of a crime. When the system is wired to treat the defendant as guilty, protestations of innocence can seem insane.

Hot take: In a perfect world with unlimited time, law school classes on stop and frisk would start with the Ohio Court of Appeals ruling in Terry from 1966, and only then read the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion from 1968 reviewing that. scholar.google.com/scholar_case...

Oof, another AI bench slap (TX 1st COA, Houston). This one ending with “necessary corrective action including, but not limited to, striking the offending brief and reporting counsel to the State Bar.”

Update: In a rare case of the state being held accountable, the court denied the state's motion

This is right and will always be right

Back then, low end nobleman would hear about Versailles, and tell their builders to make them Temu Versailles. This is temu those places.

OVERHEARD: Two astronauts grumbling as they exited the capsule that they had paid a hefty premium for extra legroom and were disappointed by the space allotted.

IN N OUT IS BETTER THAN WHATABURGER THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

This is what we call "chutzpah" in the appellate world #appellatesky

Answering the age-old legal-writing koan: Can a brief be a single paragraph and still be unnecessarily long?

This is the entirety of the "argument" in a reply brief filed by two licensed attorneys in Texas. Dear reader, the appellant did not prevail. #appellatesky

But this is right

America is now Billy Bob Thornton

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Not just him but every person executing his orders at this point must be charged with war crimes if and when the Dems ever take power again. Or better yet we should finally sign up to join the International Criminal Court and just hand them all over to the Hague.

Evergreen

"Unrestricted birthright citizenship contradicts the practice of the overwhelming majority of modern nations." Chat, I am old enough to remember when citation of other Nation's laws to interpret ours was a high crime or misdemeanor among Republicans.

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Autocorrect is the most underused tool for lawyers in Office. Some of my favorites:

Ctrl+Shift+V

A statewide Texas criminal appeals firm, staffed with only my hand-picked group of attorneys, paid on the Cravath scale, that represents only indigent clients.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid

Happy Gideon Day! Thank you to all of the public defenders in the trenches who fight every day to bend the arc of the law a little more toward justice.

Two rules, one conventional, the other rather not: 1. No more than three levels of headings. There are other ways to break up text. 2. Scientific numbering. “1”, “1.2”, “1.2.3”, etc. No one knows what “(v)” floating three inches in from the left margin means.

March 6th! 🤠

Pop quiz: What year is being described?

This is bananas

A Republican candidate for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is explicitly running to "punish the guilty"—which he claims the CCA currently fails to do. I don't know what's worse, the dishonesty, or the naked partiality. Either way, the practice of criminal law in Texas is about to get worse.

There are a LOT of good reasons to hate Kristi Noem. Letting us keep our shoes on is not one of them.

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

Really fascinating post.