A friend of mine has a case where the NM Supreme Court granted cert more than a year ago, set argument for late November, and just quashed cert as improvidently granted. Brutal.

Just left Comey/James hearing on Halligan’s appointment. Judge Currie skeptical. Said AG Bondi could not have ratified what H did after reviewing grand jury minutes because Bondi didn’t even possess complete record at time. Ruling by Thanksgiving.

Someone needs to check Megyn's emails

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

I just remembered this from Glenn Kessler 3 months ago

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

One thing is clear, the campaign to threaten and sue networks over their coverage definitely worked

Yeesh

Pro tip: If you have a hearing that goes much shorter than expected, you can just leave the "Hearing, Do Not Disturb" sign on the door and do other work without interruption

Les Miserables "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I buy from you."

the mystical spirits of the great beyond mixed up easements by estoppel and easements implied by prior use

Loving the idea of going to psychics to assure you that you don't really need to study instead of just studying more

Getting caught cheating on my fiancée: "Honey, you need to understand, I've trained my whole life on the battlefield of crisis."

They hired a writer who genuinely believes that James Bond has had seven face transplants, has grown and shrunk three inches, and has aged backwards and forwards without ever really growing older

Had a great drive to work today, no traffic, parking spot up close, and then I realized, Ah yes, I'm working on a holiday

I think we can all agree that we'll be better off if we just forget that thing I did last weekend

Do I have a moral obligation to make pointless videos on Sora if it will speed up the collapse of OpenAI?

I'm a little surprised that Gorsuch was the primary justice arguing against a recovery in this case

This makes it very clear that Trump believed the possibility of a shutdown continuing into the holidays would kill his approval numbers

One big drawback to the era of remote hearings is that you start getting real nervous if it's a few minutes past the hearing time and you're still not let into the meeting

This case has one of my favorite non-dispositive facts of all time - that the prisoner showed up to jail with a Fifth Circuit decision saying dreadlocks could not he cut, and the guards threw it out and shaved him anyway

One of the fun things about doing business litigation is you get to see surprising ways that people make money. Apparently in New Mexico you can make an absolute killing by crushing rock into aggregate or developing mobile home parks.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

See, my vote actually makes sense when you realize it's promised on the belief that democracy doesn't work

Giving up after concrete results show your strategy is working may be the most on brand Democrat thing ever, really gotta hand it to them

"People are still boycotting us because of the anti-diversity thing. What should we do?" "Make everyone act like they've been replaced by an alien."

Judge rules Education Department messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown unconstitutional www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

‘At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”’

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

I comfort myself in knowing that anyone who drinks Trump-branded wine will be slumped on the toilet nursing a terrific hangover the next morning

I honestly didn't know so many universities had like $30-40 million just lying around to just hand over to the federal government. Seems like something you'd put up a big fight not to do. But I'm not a university president getting paid $1.5 million to make these kinds of decisions.

Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants. Appeasers.

Reading snippets about Europa Universalis 5 and some of the things I'm seeing don't make sense. What the hell do you mean there are more than 28,000 provinces?

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Watching an interview with Christoph Waltz where he was asked who his least favorite director he's worked with is. He responds, "You know, the human mind has a self-regulating, hygienic mechanism: I forget." What a nice way to think about forgetting.

Ellis: [Bovino] admitted that he lied about whether a rock hit him before he deployed tear gas in Little Village."

Litigation paranoia is debilitating. Even when a party acts reasonably you're like, How are they planning to screw me this way?

I'm calling my new podcast 'Interesting Times' because we'll talk about interesting new challenges in the modern era Like what? Oh, like how progressive policies dont work and that women are ruining the workplace

“Why, then, would Congress have thought it necessary to specifically add a provision making those noncitizens subject to mandatory detention if they are charged with certain crimes?” wrote Liman, a Trump appointee in the Southern District of New York. “The government has no answer.”

In that case, boy, have I got a great strategy for Republicans

Still mad at this for sticking the world with names like William and Henry instead of Æthelwulf

Your faith says you can't eat dinner with Jewish people?

Met a lawyer recently who was literally blood doping like Lance Armstrong before a big trial

Got an email this morning with an article about AI potentially hallucinating metadata. Now here's a thread about a lawyer who used AI that hallucinated statements in an affidavit. Everyone should be aware, it's not just about fake authorities.

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

We've tried lying about it and we're all out of ideas!

Republicans' big mistake was letting Dick Cheney turn off his mechanical heart and remind Democrats that good things are still possible

Congratulations to Florida, where Cuomo said he'd move if he lost. You may want to wear those sci-fi metal bras for a while.