Alexander Winn
@alexanderwinn.bsky.social
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SCOTUS deserves better haters. To be clear, Steve is on the better end, but still, a peruse of common law rules around competitions (105m dash hypo) and common law rules around companies - directors don't sue for violations of company rights, companies do - would answer all of these objections.
January 20, 2026 at 9:30 AM
SCOTUS deserves better haters. To be clear, Steve is on the better end, but still, a peruse of common law rules around competitions (105m dash hypo) and common law rules around companies - directors don't sue for violations of company rights, companies do - would answer all of these objections.
@williambaude.bsky.social TransUnion can be squared with Bost because TransUnion says for Art III standing there must be some interest traditionally protected at common law. The common law itself has dealt with competitive injury in a closed competitive system, i.e. elections.
January 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
@williambaude.bsky.social TransUnion can be squared with Bost because TransUnion says for Art III standing there must be some interest traditionally protected at common law. The common law itself has dealt with competitive injury in a closed competitive system, i.e. elections.
Another day, another badly reasoned KBJ opinion in a standing case case which I am sure will get plaudits on this site. Not quite as bad as Diamond Alternative, but that really isn't a high bar.
January 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Another day, another badly reasoned KBJ opinion in a standing case case which I am sure will get plaudits on this site. Not quite as bad as Diamond Alternative, but that really isn't a high bar.
The US actions in Venezuela are unconstitutional. In my view, they are also bad policy and a likely path to instability within Venezuela. They aren't bad because of some appeal to muh international law which nobody really actually cares about. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
The US actions in Venezuela are unconstitutional. In my view, they are also bad policy and a likely path to instability within Venezuela. They aren't bad because of some appeal to muh international law which nobody really actually cares about. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
You are conflating Plato with Socrates.
Didn’t they put Plato to death for knowing shit.
He wasn’t sorry tho
He wasn’t sorry tho
January 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM
You are conflating Plato with Socrates.
Particularly bad day to be Samuel Moyn and Ryan Doerfler.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Particularly bad day to be Samuel Moyn and Ryan Doerfler.
This is at the heart of a lot of this. Progressives have the view that when they are in power they should be free to rework the Constitutional order like clay, and then the conservative response should always be to reinforce that new settlement. No, actually, that's quite ludicrous thinking on it!
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is at the heart of a lot of this. Progressives have the view that when they are in power they should be free to rework the Constitutional order like clay, and then the conservative response should always be to reinforce that new settlement. No, actually, that's quite ludicrous thinking on it!
Don't look now, but there's a scrumptious Chevron case that's going to be argued tomorrow and the anti Chevron side benefits the asylum seeker.
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Don't look now, but there's a scrumptious Chevron case that's going to be argued tomorrow and the anti Chevron side benefits the asylum seeker.
Not sure if the restore the rule of law bros realise that overtly politicised prosecutions of people settling cases isn't a good sign for the rule of law. I mean the pitch right now seems to be criminalising normal legal process.
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Not sure if the restore the rule of law bros realise that overtly politicised prosecutions of people settling cases isn't a good sign for the rule of law. I mean the pitch right now seems to be criminalising normal legal process.
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.