Alexander Winn
@alexanderwinn.bsky.social
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Someone please tell law professors that lawyers owe fiduciary duties to their paying clients including to act in their best interests, and not the bluesky peanut gallery. The gent from Georgia hasn't obviously even done a legal ethics course at his own University.
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Someone please tell law professors that lawyers owe fiduciary duties to their paying clients including to act in their best interests, and not the bluesky peanut gallery. The gent from Georgia hasn't obviously even done a legal ethics course at his own University.
Someone please inform him that it is legal to block people without having to find a pretext.
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Someone please inform him that it is legal to block people without having to find a pretext.
The docket for 2025-26 should be called the freedom docket with the number of cases which will probably result in expanded or reinforced freedoms.
October 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The docket for 2025-26 should be called the freedom docket with the number of cases which will probably result in expanded or reinforced freedoms.
The Progressive case for the Enabling Act.
Yeah, FDR did a lot of shit. But only because those congresses passed a fuck ton of laws. You dipshits always leave that part out.
Is the problem that you don't want Congress passing laws at all? If so, then say so. Instead of hiding behind this sanctimonious constitutional shit.
Is the problem that you don't want Congress passing laws at all? If so, then say so. Instead of hiding behind this sanctimonious constitutional shit.
October 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Progressive case for the Enabling Act.
Reposted by Alexander Winn
Bluesky commentariat when SCOTUS allows govt to close churches during COVID (ok, religious people are conservative and icky and don't really deserve 1A rights) vs when SCOTUS allows the Pres to control the branch of govt he represents via sacking pointy heads (Constitutional crisis, end of days).
May 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Bluesky commentariat when SCOTUS allows govt to close churches during COVID (ok, religious people are conservative and icky and don't really deserve 1A rights) vs when SCOTUS allows the Pres to control the branch of govt he represents via sacking pointy heads (Constitutional crisis, end of days).
Two quick and interrelated thoughts. 1.) I know* the Court isn't relying on this rationale, but it seems to me there's a strong argument that violations of individual rights should mean the balance of equities generally favours the P. i.e. a shutdown of a church or protest, there's irreparable harm.
July 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Two quick and interrelated thoughts. 1.) I know* the Court isn't relying on this rationale, but it seems to me there's a strong argument that violations of individual rights should mean the balance of equities generally favours the P. i.e. a shutdown of a church or protest, there's irreparable harm.
SCOTUS has just cleared the way for Trump to fire members of the CPSC, hot on the heels of the Colbert Report being cancelled. America has fallen. This is what FULL FASCISM looks like. I'm so upset by the above two things I'm moving to Canada.
July 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
SCOTUS has just cleared the way for Trump to fire members of the CPSC, hot on the heels of the Colbert Report being cancelled. America has fallen. This is what FULL FASCISM looks like. I'm so upset by the above two things I'm moving to Canada.
Considering @williambaude.bsky.social 's take on Diamond Alternative. Surely the intuitive point @epps.bsky.social was trying to reach to distinguish Allen v Wright was attenuation in causation. It's not clear if tax status actually would have any net impact on school segregation. Further, I think
July 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Considering @williambaude.bsky.social 's take on Diamond Alternative. Surely the intuitive point @epps.bsky.social was trying to reach to distinguish Allen v Wright was attenuation in causation. It's not clear if tax status actually would have any net impact on school segregation. Further, I think
What's struck me about the end of term wrap ups is how little attention has been paid to Vanderstok v Bondi. Gorsuch wrote a stinker imo, but regardless, buried there is a case that may have huge consequences for challenging regulation validity, and it's been buried because it was months ago.
July 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
What's struck me about the end of term wrap ups is how little attention has been paid to Vanderstok v Bondi. Gorsuch wrote a stinker imo, but regardless, buried there is a case that may have huge consequences for challenging regulation validity, and it's been buried because it was months ago.
It would be a little bit fun if the Paramount Executives got prosecuted by a revanchist Democratic administration only for their convictions to be reversed by the Roberts Court.
July 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It would be a little bit fun if the Paramount Executives got prosecuted by a revanchist Democratic administration only for their convictions to be reversed by the Roberts Court.
Worst opinion of the day, KBJ's dissent in CASA, said absolutely nothing useful and all interesting points were made by Sotomayor. Second worst, Kavanaugh in FCC. My goodness, this opinion almost convinced me these anti juristocracy people are right based on the level of cringe.
June 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Worst opinion of the day, KBJ's dissent in CASA, said absolutely nothing useful and all interesting points were made by Sotomayor. Second worst, Kavanaugh in FCC. My goodness, this opinion almost convinced me these anti juristocracy people are right based on the level of cringe.
Today is where I get a bit edgy and tell Americans that a Constitutional monarch is preferable to a "normal" Presidency. Now, I agree in principle against monarchy if you could create a non-monarch head mimicking an ideal Constitutional monarch, but since that's not the Presidency,no Kings is silly.
June 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Today is where I get a bit edgy and tell Americans that a Constitutional monarch is preferable to a "normal" Presidency. Now, I agree in principle against monarchy if you could create a non-monarch head mimicking an ideal Constitutional monarch, but since that's not the Presidency,no Kings is silly.
Anti anti juristocracy porn bots step forward.
June 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Anti anti juristocracy porn bots step forward.
Bluesky commentariat when SCOTUS allows govt to close churches during COVID (ok, religious people are conservative and icky and don't really deserve 1A rights) vs when SCOTUS allows the Pres to control the branch of govt he represents via sacking pointy heads (Constitutional crisis, end of days).
May 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Bluesky commentariat when SCOTUS allows govt to close churches during COVID (ok, religious people are conservative and icky and don't really deserve 1A rights) vs when SCOTUS allows the Pres to control the branch of govt he represents via sacking pointy heads (Constitutional crisis, end of days).
Incredible overreactions on bluesky today and loving it.
May 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Incredible overreactions on bluesky today and loving it.
>Fleeing felon with a gun in hand
>Unless he presented a threat to someone’s safety.
Yeah maybe think a bit harder how those two thoughts operate together.
>Unless he presented a threat to someone’s safety.
Yeah maybe think a bit harder how those two thoughts operate together.
May 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
>Fleeing felon with a gun in hand
>Unless he presented a threat to someone’s safety.
Yeah maybe think a bit harder how those two thoughts operate together.
>Unless he presented a threat to someone’s safety.
Yeah maybe think a bit harder how those two thoughts operate together.
Has anyone in the "Roberts Court is Presidentialist" camp reconciled this view with the robust appointments clause jurisprudence that is evident in cases such as Lucia, Arthrex and the conservative position in Noel Canning?
April 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Has anyone in the "Roberts Court is Presidentialist" camp reconciled this view with the robust appointments clause jurisprudence that is evident in cases such as Lucia, Arthrex and the conservative position in Noel Canning?
Listening to an excellent Fedsoc presentation on remedies in Pres removal cases. What is striking to me is that if these people who are sacked by Trump refuse to leave, they are fixing the remedial problem in Collins v Yellen for the private parties.
February 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Listening to an excellent Fedsoc presentation on remedies in Pres removal cases. What is striking to me is that if these people who are sacked by Trump refuse to leave, they are fixing the remedial problem in Collins v Yellen for the private parties.
Everyone seems to be frothing Jonathan Gienapp's new book and yet listening to strict scrutiny episode with him it seems Originalism is still very safe.
February 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Everyone seems to be frothing Jonathan Gienapp's new book and yet listening to strict scrutiny episode with him it seems Originalism is still very safe.
Blocked by 94 people thus far, the vast majority of whom I have not interacted with. Incredible.
February 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Blocked by 94 people thus far, the vast majority of whom I have not interacted with. Incredible.
Because of recent events I have thoroughly changed my mind on Ho. He should not get a nomination for SCOTUS.
February 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Because of recent events I have thoroughly changed my mind on Ho. He should not get a nomination for SCOTUS.
For once leftie blue sky isn’t exaggerating. The attack on birthright citizenship when the US Constitution is very explicit on this, and the January 6 pardons which are far too overbroad are very very bad and disturbing.
January 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
For once leftie blue sky isn’t exaggerating. The attack on birthright citizenship when the US Constitution is very explicit on this, and the January 6 pardons which are far too overbroad are very very bad and disturbing.
Now we've decided that just because the Pres runs on a platform pre-election doesn't mean they just get to implement it if it isn't lawful regardless (looking at Biden student loans here), aren't we also awfully glad SCOTUS hasn't been totally delegitimised so it can protect birthright citizenship.
January 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Now we've decided that just because the Pres runs on a platform pre-election doesn't mean they just get to implement it if it isn't lawful regardless (looking at Biden student loans here), aren't we also awfully glad SCOTUS hasn't been totally delegitimised so it can protect birthright citizenship.
Cannot precisely put my finger on it, but I think the commentary I've seen on here and Twitter straight after Tom Goldstein was indicted that was along the lines of his op-ed must have been motivated by a personal desire to obtain a pardon from Trump seems quite gross to me.
January 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Cannot precisely put my finger on it, but I think the commentary I've seen on here and Twitter straight after Tom Goldstein was indicted that was along the lines of his op-ed must have been motivated by a personal desire to obtain a pardon from Trump seems quite gross to me.
RIP Jimmy Carter, one of the greatest men to ever be US President.
December 29, 2024 at 9:48 PM
RIP Jimmy Carter, one of the greatest men to ever be US President.