Joe Dudek
@joedudekjd.bsky.social
Maryland attorney specializing in appeals and insurance coverage. Increasing fan of watches.
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MR. SAUER: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court. Football does not restrict all roughness, because football is rough. Instead, it restricts only unnecessary roughness. When the referee here applied that rule, he usurped the coach’s primary role in determining which roughness is necessary.
Do you think Trump is angrier that Carney was right or that Carney was eloquent?
January 23, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Do you think Trump is angrier that Carney was right or that Carney was eloquent?
I do enjoy that this watch for the blind comes in four colors.
January 23, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I do enjoy that this watch for the blind comes in four colors.
Republicans are presumed to act in good faith; Democrats are not.
![Willem Dafoe in a suit in the Columbia quad says, "you know, I'm something of a [Solicitor General] myself"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqbrsb2cdeaz5ybuo3kk7vs7/bafkreigkihcwu4vqozeaytmiqt363tyuakfb6jvyu33n63mbggjksudmxu@jpeg)
January 23, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Republicans are presumed to act in good faith; Democrats are not.
to be fair, you're not allowed to tell the jerry about jerry nullification.
who called it deleting my account and not jerry nullification
January 23, 2026 at 2:48 AM
to be fair, you're not allowed to tell the jerry about jerry nullification.
I hate when he Lashes out like this.
Next week in the annals of legal academia: Can the federal government break into your home to force you to show you’re a birthright citizen with a general administrative warrant? The answer is more complicated than you may think. And Donald Trump is king.
January 23, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I hate when he Lashes out like this.
IDK if #AppellateSky has the same large Texas contingent as #AppellateTwitter did, but here is a recruitment posting for an appellate specialist there if folks are interested in #AppellateJobs: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
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January 22, 2026 at 6:09 PM
IDK if #AppellateSky has the same large Texas contingent as #AppellateTwitter did, but here is a recruitment posting for an appellate specialist there if folks are interested in #AppellateJobs: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
I have an idiosyncratic view of this issue, under which it is actually kind of a hard case. But under the law this Court is oath-bound to apply, it should be incredibly easy.
New #EstablishmentClause case from the Fifth Circuit
May a State require its public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms? www.audioarguendo.com/listen.php?c...
May a State require its public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms? www.audioarguendo.com/listen.php?c...
Roake v. Brumley
www.audioarguendo.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I have an idiosyncratic view of this issue, under which it is actually kind of a hard case. But under the law this Court is oath-bound to apply, it should be incredibly easy.
Words have a well-known liberal bias.
Trump: "We're doing great on affordability. That's a word that the Democrats made up."
January 22, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Words have a well-known liberal bias.
Sorry, Justice ALITO asked about the scope of the record? “Fetish of adversary procedure” Justice Alito? Sam? Samuel Alito. Sam Alito asked about record evidence? The Phillies fan with the flags, that Sam Alito?
January 22, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Sorry, Justice ALITO asked about the scope of the record? “Fetish of adversary procedure” Justice Alito? Sam? Samuel Alito. Sam Alito asked about record evidence? The Phillies fan with the flags, that Sam Alito?
This can't be what we wanted. It just can't.
January 22, 2026 at 12:10 AM
This can't be what we wanted. It just can't.
It's one retirement, Michael. What could it cost, 10 homes?
Those people are tripping. The disconnect from reality is so huge that one can wonder if they are not psychotic.
Scott Bessent: “Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes.”
Scott Bessent: “Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes.”
January 21, 2026 at 9:11 PM
It's one retirement, Michael. What could it cost, 10 homes?
We need 50 people to just persistently file state amicus briefs being like "THEY'RE DIFFERENT WORDS EVEN!" I volunteer to cover Maryland if I can find funding.
Very interesting forthcoming article on state constitutional equivalents to the 4th Amendment, and how state courts do and don't interpret them, from Quinn Yeargain.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #N
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #N
January 21, 2026 at 6:01 PM
We need 50 people to just persistently file state amicus briefs being like "THEY'RE DIFFERENT WORDS EVEN!" I volunteer to cover Maryland if I can find funding.
What an awful time to have eyes and ears.
Trump repeatedly said "Iceland" when he meant Greenland in his Davos rant. But his press secretary is just blatantly lying about it.
January 21, 2026 at 5:58 PM
What an awful time to have eyes and ears.
Yikes.
DOJ: This isn't me. Don't blame me if it's wrong. I am just the person conveying the information to the Court that my client tells me. I know this is bad, but, again, if this is also wrong, it's not my fault.
January 21, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Yikes.
“Hamilton” means you finish your beer.
New drinking game for the Cook argument: take a shot every time someone makes an incredibly labored analogy to the First and Second Banks of the United States.
January 21, 2026 at 1:35 PM
“Hamilton” means you finish your beer.
Is there a False Claims Act claim for Lindsey Halligan’s salary?
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Is there a False Claims Act claim for Lindsey Halligan’s salary?
It's a bloody good speech.
Mark Carney earned a rare standing ovation in Davos. Read the full text of his speech here
Mark Carney earned a rare standing ovation in Davos. Read the full text of his speech here
Carney addressed World Economic Forum Tuesday, expressing his vision for middle powers
www.thestar.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
It's a bloody good speech.
I too am stepping down from a job I don't have today. I got no news coverage.
January 21, 2026 at 3:21 AM
I too am stepping down from a job I don't have today. I got no news coverage.
Reminder that ACLU is in CA5 on Thursday protecting us from being whisked away to foreign prisons.
You can listen to Lee argue before the en banc Fifth Circuit on January 22. A link to the right webpage and a calendar entry are below.
Jan 22, 2026 • 10 – 11 AM • www.ca5.uscourts.gov/oral-argumen... • Calendar Entry: calendar.app.google/6eoC5uX3a57t...
Jan 22, 2026 • 10 – 11 AM • www.ca5.uscourts.gov/oral-argumen... • Calendar Entry: calendar.app.google/6eoC5uX3a57t...
January 21, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Reminder that ACLU is in CA5 on Thursday protecting us from being whisked away to foreign prisons.
Many of the tests are also breaches, but nobody with the power to say so has said so yet.
NEW: Trump spent his first year amassing and deploying presidential power in ways that have tested — and sometimes breached — constitutional limits.
The federal crackdown on Minnesota is the culmination of those efforts.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
The federal crackdown on Minnesota is the culmination of those efforts.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Minnesota is the eye of the Trump storm
The state is a microcosm for the civic and legal battles defining Trump’s second term.
www.politico.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Many of the tests are also breaches, but nobody with the power to say so has said so yet.
Eighty minutes before taking questions. Eight zero minutes. There is no topic that deserves that treatment.
Trump: "Whoo. I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could've dome some damage but you know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain. I would've gone back. Boy did you hear that? That was nasty. But I would not have shown the pain. I would've acted like nothing happens as my finger fell off."
January 20, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Eighty minutes before taking questions. Eight zero minutes. There is no topic that deserves that treatment.
Reposted by Joe Dudek
As he says that "Emmanuel won't be there long," French press reports the opening of a criminal inquiry provoked by Trump's dispatch of agents to pressure and intimidate the French magistrate overseeing the embezzlement case against Marine Le Pen, the Pétainist leader Trump has picked to succeed
Q: Will you go to Paris for the G7 emergency meeting as offered by President Macron?
TRUMP: No, I wouldn't do that. Because Emmanuel is not going to be there very long and there's no longevity there.
TRUMP: No, I wouldn't do that. Because Emmanuel is not going to be there very long and there's no longevity there.
January 20, 2026 at 10:44 PM
As he says that "Emmanuel won't be there long," French press reports the opening of a criminal inquiry provoked by Trump's dispatch of agents to pressure and intimidate the French magistrate overseeing the embezzlement case against Marine Le Pen, the Pétainist leader Trump has picked to succeed
Without looking, I'll wager JBS hasn't posted about states’ rights lately.
January 20, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Without looking, I'll wager JBS hasn't posted about states’ rights lately.
This is the way.
The ideal number of likes is still 2–34
Couldn't care less if Thread has a billion users and Blue Sky has 1000. I just need a steam vent where I can release whatever dumb jokes and observations enter my brain without contributing to the financial success of Musk or Zuck. Give me 2-34 likes on every one of these and I'm good.
January 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM
This is the way.