Jaime Santos
@jaimesantos.bsky.social
Appellate nerd and gymnastics enthusiast
It’s a real shame that Judge Fitzpatrick’s first name isn’t Gerald. Then we’d have Gerald Fitzpatrick presiding over discovery in a case defended by Patrick Fitzgerald.
COMING UP: At 4 p.m. ET, magistrate judge William Fitzpatrick will hold a remote hearing on whether grand jury materials should be disclosed to James Comey's defense team.
Catch up on what happened at the last hearing w/ this piece from @rparloff.bsky.social:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tria...
Catch up on what happened at the last hearing w/ this piece from @rparloff.bsky.social:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tria...
Trial Dispatch: The Comey Hearing of Nov. 5, 2025
A judge ordered grand jury minutes turned over to James Comey, as well as information from five-year-old searches of Professor Dan Richman.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It’s a real shame that Judge Fitzpatrick’s first name isn’t Gerald. Then we’d have Gerald Fitzpatrick presiding over discovery in a case defended by Patrick Fitzgerald.
Sarah Harrington is a great example of the better approach.
General advice for oral advocates (not only Sauer): The goal is not to win debaters' points or to stuff in as many answers as you can before an interjection--it's to have the sort of conversation you would have with a trusted, wise friend or colleague if you were actually trying to convince them.[7]
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Sarah Harrington is a great example of the better approach.
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Parents do not want their children taught to hate LGBTQ people.
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Parents do not want their children taught to hate LGBTQ people.
It’s Sarah Harrington Day in the Supreme Court! Also need catnip day.
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It’s Sarah Harrington Day in the Supreme Court! Also need catnip day.
Ahh so he’s got a sandwich stand.
(Very, very niche joke.)
(Very, very niche joke.)
This furloughed IRS lawyer is living out his dream of being a hot dog vendor www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...
This furloughed IRS lawyer is living out his dream of being a hot dog vendor
While on furlough, Isaac Stein is fulfilling a childhood dream and passion project as a hot dog vendor.
www.npr.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Ahh so he’s got a sandwich stand.
(Very, very niche joke.)
(Very, very niche joke.)
This is going to be controversial, but I think the action was warranted here. There simply must be consequences for misusing the word “comprising.”
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) this week placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they wrote in a court filing that on Jan. 6, 2021, “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol,” a source familiar with the personnel moves told Democracy Docket.
DOJ Puts Prosecutors On Leave For Accurately Describing Jan. 6 Attack
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is going to be controversial, but I think the action was warranted here. There simply must be consequences for misusing the word “comprising.”
There’s no evidence I *wasn’t* at the Louvre last night…
October 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
There’s no evidence I *wasn’t* at the Louvre last night…
Wait do people really have a standing “bagel order”?
(I have lost.)
(I have lost.)
Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.
One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.
October 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Wait do people really have a standing “bagel order”?
(I have lost.)
(I have lost.)
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one of my favorites. it pairs well with:
The Vast Bay Leaf Conspiracy
The Vast Bay Leaf Conspiracy by Kelly Conaboy Maybe you’ve had this experience: You throw a bay leaf into a broth, and it doesn’t do anything. Then you throw the rest of the bay leaves you bought …
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September 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
one of my favorites. it pairs well with:
I was delighted to attend the William & Mary Supreme Court Preview this past weekend, where there were several panels about the Supreme Court's emergency docket. I've also heard several interviews with/public remarks by Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh on the topic. /1
September 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I was delighted to attend the William & Mary Supreme Court Preview this past weekend, where there were several panels about the Supreme Court's emergency docket. I've also heard several interviews with/public remarks by Justices Barrett and Kavanaugh on the topic. /1
The failure to take the immunity case before judgment was pretty outrageous. Taking the FTC removal case before judgment is, in my view, appropriate, though. Humphrey’s Executor is the law of the land and while that is so, contrary views can’t really percolate in lower courts.
In December 2023, Special Counsel Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to grant cert before judgement to hear Trump’s immunity appeal.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
The court rejected that request and didn’t issue its immunity decision until July 2024.
Trump’s federal cases never made it to trial before the November 2024 election.
Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019.
This is the *23rd* such grant since then.
September 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The failure to take the immunity case before judgment was pretty outrageous. Taking the FTC removal case before judgment is, in my view, appropriate, though. Humphrey’s Executor is the law of the land and while that is so, contrary views can’t really percolate in lower courts.
These cuties on their first day of school.
September 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
These cuties on their first day of school.
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It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it.
She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody.
Status report due at 12 noon today.
She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody.
Status report due at 12 noon today.
September 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It makes me emotional to see Judge Sooknanan showing that she values each individual child’s life at a moment when this administration is doing exactly the opposite
I really wish Outlook had a function that would alert you if a draft email has been open on your desktop for over an hour, and ask if you want to send it? Maybe the little paperclip guy we used to have could pop up and say, "Hey, did you forget about this?"
August 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I really wish Outlook had a function that would alert you if a draft email has been open on your desktop for over an hour, and ask if you want to send it? Maybe the little paperclip guy we used to have could pop up and say, "Hey, did you forget about this?"
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Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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U.S. elite nationals kind of feels like an advertisement for the University of Florida gymnastics program
August 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
U.S. elite nationals kind of feels like an advertisement for the University of Florida gymnastics program
Any chance Emiliano’s is owned by someone with the last name of Bivens?
August 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Any chance Emiliano’s is owned by someone with the last name of Bivens?
Shout-out to my kid, who just left the room to go make peach cobbler, and shouted, "Peach out!" when she left.
leonardo dicaprio is wearing a tuxedo and bow tie and smiling with the words yasssss written below him
ALT: leonardo dicaprio is wearing a tuxedo and bow tie and smiling with the words yasssss written below him
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August 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Shout-out to my kid, who just left the room to go make peach cobbler, and shouted, "Peach out!" when she left.
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Bob v Jones, 123 F. 4th 17, 23 (13th Cir. 2025) (enhanced)
July 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Bob v Jones, 123 F. 4th 17, 23 (13th Cir. 2025) (enhanced)
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If you can’t set out your argument clearly, it’s probably because you don’t actually know what it is
July 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you can’t set out your argument clearly, it’s probably because you don’t actually know what it is
Kids, after going to get eggs: We may have a snake going after the chickens?
Me: ...
Kids: We found snakeskin in the coop.
Me: Unless you want me to sue the snake, this sounds like a Dad problem, not a mom problem.
Me: ...
Kids: We found snakeskin in the coop.
Me: Unless you want me to sue the snake, this sounds like a Dad problem, not a mom problem.
July 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Kids, after going to get eggs: We may have a snake going after the chickens?
Me: ...
Kids: We found snakeskin in the coop.
Me: Unless you want me to sue the snake, this sounds like a Dad problem, not a mom problem.
Me: ...
Kids: We found snakeskin in the coop.
Me: Unless you want me to sue the snake, this sounds like a Dad problem, not a mom problem.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to hear a bid by Montana to revive a law that requires parental consent for minors to obtain an abortion, a measure challenged by reproductive health and abortion provider Planned Parenthood as a violation of the Republican-led state's constitution.
US Supreme Court won't consider reviving Montana abortion parental consent law
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to hear a bid by Montana to revive a law that requires parental consent for minors to obtain an abortion, a measure challenged by reproductive health and abortion provider Planned Parenthood as a violation of the Republican-led state's constitution.
reut.rs
July 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to hear a bid by Montana to revive a law that requires parental consent for minors to obtain an abortion, a measure challenged by reproductive health and abortion provider Planned Parenthood as a violation of the Republican-led state's constitution.
My colleague @andrewkim.bsky.social and I were proud to partner with Planned Parenthood in opposing certiorari in this case!
The Supreme Court will NOT decide whether states must allow parents to prevent their children from getting an abortion, on the grounds that parents have a constitutional right to force their kids to give birth. Alito and Thomas say it is a "poor vehicle." www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
July 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My colleague @andrewkim.bsky.social and I were proud to partner with Planned Parenthood in opposing certiorari in this case!