Daniel A. Horwitz
@danielahorwitz.bsky.social
Constitutional litigator. Public interest/First Amendment/civil rights/innocence/election litigation. Nashville politics. Anti-SLAPP evangelist. Email daniel at horwitz.law. My views are my employer’s.
For those of you who aren't programmers, 429 is the code for my children
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
For those of you who aren't programmers, 429 is the code for my children
I repeat myself, but there is no funding bill—none—that makes sense until this problem is fixed. Otherwise, you are just funding the regime’s whims.
2. We need to move big appropriations bills that restore spending with strong guardrails to curtail Trump/Vought mischief. Boring but very real.
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I repeat myself, but there is no funding bill—none—that makes sense until this problem is fixed. Otherwise, you are just funding the regime’s whims.
This is a great piece about governmental malfeasance that is possible to write only because the information underlying it is publicly accessible. www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...
Kash Patel’s Private Jet Problem Is Even Worse Than It Looks
This dude can’t stop flying to Nashville.
www.thebulwark.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is a great piece about governmental malfeasance that is possible to write only because the information underlying it is publicly accessible. www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...
No one—not one person—is this stupid.
Reporter: What do you say to your colleagues who say this isn't a fight, this is a capitulation?
Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…
Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.
Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…
Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.
Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
No one—not one person—is this stupid.
I get this sentiment, but how can there ever be a deal on *any* terms while the President asserts the right to disregard congressional spending directives and spend (or not spend) appropriated money on whatever he pleases? Until that is fixed, it doesn’t seem like it even matters what the terms are.
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I get this sentiment, but how can there ever be a deal on *any* terms while the President asserts the right to disregard congressional spending directives and spend (or not spend) appropriated money on whatever he pleases? Until that is fixed, it doesn’t seem like it even matters what the terms are.
Democratic leadership saw election results that were too encouraging and decided they needed to shake things up.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Democratic leadership saw election results that were too encouraging and decided they needed to shake things up.
This is my backyard. One component of this that I haven’t seen anyone mention is that the two people who went to trial and were convicted of public corruption are being pardoned, while the third person—who was also in on the scheme but turned snitch—will go to prison. The message there seems clear.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is my backyard. One component of this that I haven’t seen anyone mention is that the two people who went to trial and were convicted of public corruption are being pardoned, while the third person—who was also in on the scheme but turned snitch—will go to prison. The message there seems clear.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Intermediate Scrutiny for November 1–7, 2025: horwitzlawpllc.cmail19.com/t/y-e-qulhuo...
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Absolute queen shit
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Absolute queen shit
I have just discovered that I missed “love your lawyer day” this year, which I am astonished to learn was not celebrated more widely.
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I have just discovered that I missed “love your lawyer day” this year, which I am astonished to learn was not celebrated more widely.
Any person, any study, any simp.
Cornell agrees to pay $30 million dollars to the government and invest the same amount in agricultural research. Curious timing for a settlement. @mbkplus.bsky.social and I will surely have thoughts on livefromwatthall.transistor.fm
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Any person, any study, any simp.
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Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
I almost can’t believe this. I spend an absurd amount of time litigating pre-enforcement standing in the 6th Circuit, which makes establishing pre-enforcement standing near impossible. *En banc,* the 6th Circuit just blessed pre-enforcement standing in a culture war case with wafer-thin analysis.
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I almost can’t believe this. I spend an absurd amount of time litigating pre-enforcement standing in the 6th Circuit, which makes establishing pre-enforcement standing near impossible. *En banc,* the 6th Circuit just blessed pre-enforcement standing in a culture war case with wafer-thin analysis.
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A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A damn daycare. This is sick. What are we doing?
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Man woman camera tv
Trump: "For generations Miami has been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny in South Africa. I mean, if you take a look at what's going on in parts of South Africa. Look at South Africa, what's going on. Look at South America, what's going on. You know, we have a G20 meeting in South Africa."
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Man woman camera tv
🙄 What a fucking joke this guy is.
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🙄 What a fucking joke this guy is.
Reminder for doomers: Trump gets weaker every single day we get closer to the midterms, and vulnerable congressional Republicans are either going to start running away from him post-primary or lose their jobs, weakening him even further. There is no inevitable autocracy.
Real-world election results showcasing what countless polls have told us:
Trump is incredibly unpopular and GOP is cooked, deep fried, flambéed.
Trump is incredibly unpopular and GOP is cooked, deep fried, flambéed.
November 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Reminder for doomers: Trump gets weaker every single day we get closer to the midterms, and vulnerable congressional Republicans are either going to start running away from him post-primary or lose their jobs, weakening him even further. There is no inevitable autocracy.
As a practical matter, criminal “law” is fake. At bottom, it is a bunch of people deciding to make (or not make) discretionary decisions. Sometimes they make them. Sometimes they don’t. And whether they do or not is not a function of the “law.”
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‘If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,' Justice Department aide said of Trump
A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Department official didn’t have authorization to see them.
www.msnbc.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
As a practical matter, criminal “law” is fake. At bottom, it is a bunch of people deciding to make (or not make) discretionary decisions. Sometimes they make them. Sometimes they don’t. And whether they do or not is not a function of the “law.”
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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Anyone who is ok trading one extra hour of sleep for six months of seasonal depression is wrong and should not be trusted.
November 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Anyone who is ok trading one extra hour of sleep for six months of seasonal depression is wrong and should not be trusted.
I have this experience monthly when I explain qualified immunity to someone.
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I have this experience monthly when I explain qualified immunity to someone.
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This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.
Recently my brother in law explained what gerrymandering was to a coworker and they didn’t believe him because if that were really happening there would be riots in the street
This week I had someone tell me they're not worried about SNAP being cut off because "that's illegal, so it's impossible Trump could do that, so obviously it's just media sensationalism." Another person told me they weren't worried about ICE because "they can't detain you if you're legally here."
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is my point again that the electorate has no idea of what's actually going on. Not in some ideological way, so you can argue whether it's good or not, just in a fact way.
Is…he advocating for segregation here?
Andrew Cuomo's closing message to New York voters: "Diversity can be a weakness"
November 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Is…he advocating for segregation here?
I can’t tell you how many times I have said this: Tennessee is saturated with incompetent government officials who wield vast authority while being constitutionally illiterate. It’s a miracle that shit like this doesn’t happen even more often.
From @wonkettemedia.bsky.social: “🇺🇸’s Stupidest Overreaction To Kirk’s Murder came to an end as the Perry County DA dropped a felony charge against a retired cop who never threatened mass violence anywhere, but whose politics the local fuckhead sheriff didn’t like.” www.wonkette.com/p/tn-man-fin...
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I can’t tell you how many times I have said this: Tennessee is saturated with incompetent government officials who wield vast authority while being constitutionally illiterate. It’s a miracle that shit like this doesn’t happen even more often.
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The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
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October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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