That reminds me www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Don't give them any ideas

The answer key says "50," but my kiddo is right.

I wish I had thought of this

Wait until he learns about the font called "Equity"

Obviously, I argued that the answer is "no." The Harris County District Attorney's Office argued that such a comment is perfectly fine, so here we are.

Today it was my honor to present oral argument in the 14th Court of Appeals in Houston, Texas, on behalf of my client. The issue is whether a trial judge in a criminal case can tell the jury that "beyond a reasonable doubt" can be as low as "60 percent."

The only issue I take with this is that when an assistant district attorney from the Collin County District Attorney's Office misstates the holding of a case in a brief, he should not be credited with "metacognitive reasoning" when the fact of the matter is he's just a pathological liar.

Judge: I find you guilty. Do you have anything to say? Defendant: Two sides to every story Two paths to finding glory Start this before the light No day without the night Don't be afraid of what you are Mischief and mayhem can go far

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

Different rules for different parties #appellatesky

What's the correct answer, and why?

Disbar every lawyer involved in this. Seriously. Monsters like that shouldn't be lawyers much less prosecutors.

That's what he wants us to think

This morning there was a starling in my backyard eating all of the invertebrates crawling around in the grass The early bird got the worm

Somehow, every line of this gets progressively worse. And it isn't a short article. "‘He stole a piece of our souls’: Christian music star Michael Tait accused of sexual assault by three men" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

No kings

For your phone back ground

Y'all don't mind me while I have a heart attack

Just for that I'm going to keep using "(cleaned up)"

#appellatesky you get one guess how the intermediate Court of Appeals ruled on this request that they order the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court to appoint a new judge to his case

It is . . . not nice in North Texas tonight

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

Texas made a bunch of state seals for local courthouses and the "S" in "State" is upside down on all of them

There goes ChatGPT, hallucinating again We all know an appellate prosecutor would never be reprimanded for unethical comments in their briefs

The Chambers Texas appellate rankings are out and once again there are no criminal appellate lawyers on the list so 🤷‍♂️

Bite me, Thomson Reuters

My least favorite moment in an oral argument was the opposite of this: Court: {Question} Me: {Answers} Court: Where did you argue that in your brief Me: Page 4 Court: {Flips to page 4 and reads my brief for the first time} I did not win that case.

RIP a regular in-class question to students: "what's the only still-existing company from among the imperial monopoly trading corporations from the era of mercantilism Adam Smith rote about?" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/w...

I don't have billboards on I-35. Sometimes I drive down I-35 in my decade-old Accord. I don't work on contingency or bill 3–4 figures an hour. I work on a salary that would make you question my sanity. I don't go to parties with judges. I eat frozen pizza with my kids.

When asked "Draw a cartoon representing the holding of Gideon v. Wainwright" ChatGPT spit these out

NO ONE ON JEOPARDY KNEW WHAT RIGHT IS GUARANTEED BY GIDEON V WAINWRIGHT I AM 💀

"(cleaned up)" has a more definite meaning than "(citation modified)"

ChatGPT is once again superior to grok

Texas's otter high court

FEDERAL JUDGES were in on the harassment

HERE I FOUND IT www.courtlistener.com/docket/70382...

Here's the complaint www.courtlistener.com/docket/70382...

Just in: Texas' former solicitor general has left the AG's office amid sex misconduct allegations and a lawsuit outlining his apparent, months of detailed disclosures to colleagues about his sexual obsession with watching an asteroid anally rape the agency's No. 2 attorney in front of his kids.

Whoops!

Always true

Seen in the wild: a still functioning wired three-button Microsoft Intellimouse

This is where state court is different from federal court. In state court, if the Great Wheel assigns the defendant's case to one set of judges, he loses. If he is granted another, he still loses.

Identical prompts ChatGPT | Grok

Last week, a lawyer told me about a client who hired another firm to handle his appeal. Said the client: "They've got [associate], who is one of the best appellate lawyers in the state." That associate has never handled an appeal in her life.

Show us your writing process in a gif

When the appellate lawyer is asked to speak, but there's no lectern, you get a seated presentation. I don't make the rules; my left knee does. Anyway, I'm told I "made it look cool."