Not sure you keep your integrity when you, as a doctor, vote to confirm RFK Jr. because it’s briefly politically expedient, but the point is otherwise good.

3 was “do lots of philanthropy,” but he obviously didn’t pick that one, either.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

General Sessions, Circuit, Chancery, Court of Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals, Supreme Court

God this is embarrassing. Five years of losing every major piece of litigation he touched, so he’s reduced to citing litigation that got mooted out and some amicus briefs Metro filed through partnership organizations as his signature achievement. nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/14/w...

Over 50 people have died at the hands of ICE during the second Trump administration Whether it’s been the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, or those who were abused and neglected in an ICE concentration camp, the cruelty of this agency has been horrific ICE must be dismantled

Whoever wrote this is thoroughly trained in legal writing: 1. “We understand the Commission is more accustomed to receiving comment letters from people who use words like ‘stakeholder ecosystem,’ and we will try to keep up.” 2. “exactly backwards” 3. “not being held back from greatness”

An extremely courageous person who meant a lot to so many people.

“Friends in Low Courts”: How Tennessee Dismantled Its Own #1 Federalism Ranking ij.org/cje-post/fri...

A fun thing about the Purcell principle, any election lawyer will tell you, is that it is total Calvinball bullshit. There is no clearer example outside of standing doctrine of courts just doing whatever they want.

#hourly #tig https://api.tinyfox.dev/hourly/tigs/Fgwh3_iXEAELKmk.jpg

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Me texting my wife trying to figure out whether my toddler is still mad about the piece of cake I finished that I figured she’d forget she was saving for tomorrow

I don’t know what the solution is to the increasingly frequent problem of unrealistic client expectations being guaranteed by chatbots that tell them what they want to hear, but I am open to suggestions. Right now I have “cancel the internet” and “fake my own death.”

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

The only positive development in all of this is that no one can possibly be under the illusion anymore that “law” isn’t a twisted game with malleable rules that the referees generally follow but sometimes decide to change or ignore when it’s strategically beneficial to the team that put them there.

I choose to believe, based on the photo, that this is a statute of that picture of him staring at the solar eclipse

So I know what they were going for, but I think I’d have made a different choice.

Wow. Former Public Defender Dawn Deaner upsets Jim Todd with a huge Election Day rally to become the new criminal court judge

Link to the Taibbi SLAPP-suit dismissal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The whole concept is nuts. You shouldn’t even need the VRA for this to be illegal. In any context other than (for some reason) drawing electoral maps, the government treating someone differently based on their race OR their politics would trigger heightened scrutiny and be presumptively illegal.

I am increasingly impressed by some of the things that AI can do to save litigators time, but I am confident that this is ridiculous.

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

Vermont joins a handful of states that have passed “converse 1983” laws allowing suits against federal officers. I applaud them stepping up to create some manner of federal officer accountability—while Congress and the Supremes have retreated or stood idly by. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

Is it possible for an indictment to be dismissed sua sponte for being too silly? Genuinely asking. I assume federal courts presiding over criminal cases have some supervisory authority that’s infrequently exercised, and this is almost unfathomably stupid.

Wat. This is not even in the stratosphere of a true threat. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

this is outrageous. when I was in school, Randy was a crank, but mostly fine, or at least he knew better than to talk like this. his radicalization has been wild to watch. this is so far beyond any respectable discourse. just pure racism and hate.

TFW the McFlurry machine is broken

Randy Barnett, fresh from wallowing in white nationalist pseudo-legal gibberish, is wallowing in campy self-pity.

As Tennessee’s Premier Political Sign Litigator®—no.

Samuel Alito is genetically gargoyle

A new strain of the Streisand Effect has been discovered...

God these people are shameless

“Thank you, Client, for trusting us with this important matter. Please find a completed draft attached here for your review. We look forward to receiving your feedback.” The feedback:

If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you will know I am an AI skeptic. But for the lawyers, much to my surprise, I have discovered some genuinely helpful use cases that I will share here: 1. Upload your brief and ask it to find typos. It’s incredibly good at that.

Also, no, journalists do not generally have to give up their sources if they get sued.

Why is it always the Harvard grads who have no fucking idea what they are talking about?

It actually works well if you read it in the voice of Saruman

There is an entire category of property law surrounding “spite fences.” This helps explain why it exists.

We are like a month removed from him being absent from duty *on video,* while he was supposed to be on duty, because he was chugging beer in a locker room as part of a team celebration for a team that he wasn’t on? What are we doing here?

It’s not entirely clear from the article whether these sources were cited by the litigants (the strong implication is no), but if not, seeking out facts about a pending case through independent investigation and then relying on them would be judicial misconduct under many state ethics rules.

Good thing we can avoid the conflict of interest thanks to the moral probity and apolitical independence of the acting attorney general, the president's personal criminal defense lawyer.

This seems like a very serious company that is detail-oriented and won’t get me into trouble at all, can’t wait to work with them

It is good for society that people finally see these complete hacks for who they really are. Randy Barnett is not a serious person, or scholar, or advocate for liberty, and it took until now for people to realize it.

She gets $300,000 while I get “asked to depart at this port” and “arraigned.” Life is not fair

Judges adjudicating unargued issues that only they want to reach and that the losing parties haven’t been permitted to address, what could go wrong

As further support for this theory, if free will exists, why did I have to learn about a thing called “Clavicular”?

Justice Thomas has fully lost it. A Conservative executive has spent the last year in full King George mode — abducting and transporting people, imposing tariffs, obstructing justice, wielding a peacetime standing army, &c. Those who fight back inherit the Declaration of Independence.

Sensible people agree: Lower court rulings against my clients are obviously crazy and absurd on their face.