Joe Dudek
@joedudekjd.bsky.social
Maryland attorney specializing in appeals and insurance coverage.
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Joe Dudek
@joedudekjd.bsky.social
· Oct 4
Among other things, his capacity for needless cruelty appears to know no bottom.
Why bother to go to law school when the people who make the laws are sociopaths?
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Why bother to go to law school when the people who make the laws are sociopaths?
That's good, because it is famously only two weeks away.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is the Republican healthcare solution going to go into effect at midnight on Dec. 31? Because people are gonna get sticker shock
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
That's good, because it is famously only two weeks away.
*Ron Howard voice* There were also no private dissents.
#BREAKING: Over no public dissents, #SCOTUS denies Kim Davis's petition asking the justices to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges (which recognized federal constitutional protections for same-sex marriage):
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
*Ron Howard voice* There were also no private dissents.
“There is no one in the Senate who wants to see these tax credits extended more than me,” she says. I can name 40 senators who want them more than you do.
I voted tonight to reopen the government and take action to protect health care for tens of millions of Americans. Here’s why:
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
“There is no one in the Senate who wants to see these tax credits extended more than me,” she says. I can name 40 senators who want them more than you do.
This is just to say:
I have teargassed
the protestors
who were in
the street
and who
you were probably
thinking
had rights
Forgive me
they were terrorists
so violent
and so cold
I have teargassed
the protestors
who were in
the street
and who
you were probably
thinking
had rights
Forgive me
they were terrorists
so violent
and so cold
JUST IN: The Justice Department formally appeals U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis' preliminary injunction, which restricts the use of force against protesters and journalists.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
This is just to say:
I have teargassed
the protestors
who were in
the street
and who
you were probably
thinking
had rights
Forgive me
they were terrorists
so violent
and so cold
I have teargassed
the protestors
who were in
the street
and who
you were probably
thinking
had rights
Forgive me
they were terrorists
so violent
and so cold
I just met a law named Maria!
Mamdani is going to implement Maria law. And, honestly, I'm not sure how to solve a problem like that.
Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
November 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I just met a law named Maria!
See now this is what Lindsey should have texted Anna about.
ICYMI: I reviewed hundreds of internal FBI emails and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
The records appear to undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey.
My latest for @lawfaremedia.org:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...
The records appear to undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey.
My latest for @lawfaremedia.org:
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/more...
More Trouble for the Comey Indictment?
Public documents may undermine a core premise underlying the charges against James Comey.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
See now this is what Lindsey should have texted Anna about.
Mamdani is going to implement Scalia law — lots of clearly written bigotry and the occasional useful insight.
Mandami is going to implement Shareef law. There will be no more rocking of the casbah for the next 4 years.
Mamdani is going to implement Shipshewana law. Everyone will only buy their handcrafted Amish furniture from just off the Indiana Toll Road.
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Mamdani is going to implement Scalia law — lots of clearly written bigotry and the occasional useful insight.
I'm around if folks need help.
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I'm around if folks need help.
This reminds me of the time I showed a professor a paper I made on a postmodernism generator. He saw the author and immediately complimented the piece.
My baby brother truly has one of the great troll minds of our time
![[redacted name] I hated the kids who did the literary
publication at my high school so I wrote a deliberately bad and stupid poem to see if they'd vote it into their little pamphlet and I succeeded
Voting was done without knowing the author](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssxnmhdtz6le6nxu7jfhglz6/bafkreic5dy4sggqyur6jukste6losp4fbmwkw4txcfbmekaar7znpvw2fa@jpeg)
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
This reminds me of the time I showed a professor a paper I made on a postmodernism generator. He saw the author and immediately complimented the piece.
Smarter Josh Blackman: “If the individual mandate is a ‘tax penalty,’ then surely the Trump tariffs are ‘licenses.’”
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Smarter Josh Blackman: “If the individual mandate is a ‘tax penalty,’ then surely the Trump tariffs are ‘licenses.’”
Whoever briefed Trump forgot to mention that “license” is a noun in the statute, not a verb. He cannot “LICENSE a Foreign Country.”
The president seems to have been briefed on how the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS went:
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Whoever briefed Trump forgot to mention that “license” is a noun in the statute, not a verb. He cannot “LICENSE a Foreign Country.”
Electrolytes!
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Electrolytes!
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To “marginally increase taxes on [those] who have benefitted most from the massive value generated by the human system that is New York..to use those revenues to fund programs that will benefit the humans in New York that generated the value” makes him “a dangerous radical” to some. Hero to most.
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
To “marginally increase taxes on [those] who have benefitted most from the massive value generated by the human system that is New York..to use those revenues to fund programs that will benefit the humans in New York that generated the value” makes him “a dangerous radical” to some. Hero to most.
As a general rule, a 44-word sentence does not take an exclamation mark.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
As a general rule, a 44-word sentence does not take an exclamation mark.
Former military lawyer is correct.
Former military lawyer calls U.S. boat strikes "murder"
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Former military lawyer calls U.S. boat strikes ‘murder’ | CNN
Retired Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham joins The Lead.
tinyurl.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Former military lawyer is correct.
I just saw a canoe so deep that Bluesky didn't load the OP. Merit badge unlocked.
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I just saw a canoe so deep that Bluesky didn't load the OP. Merit badge unlocked.
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Just a reminder on why font choice matters. 😅
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Just a reminder on why font choice matters. 😅
What do you file when there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and you’re entitled to judgment as a matter of law?
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
What do you file when there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and you’re entitled to judgment as a matter of law?
Rude.
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Rude.
This is exactly what the Democrats have been asking for since September. People go on the exchanges and buy their own healthcare, and the government subsidizes those purchases. That is, we "sen[d] money ... to people so that they can purchase their own ... healthcare."
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is exactly what the Democrats have been asking for since September. People go on the exchanges and buy their own healthcare, and the government subsidizes those purchases. That is, we "sen[d] money ... to people so that they can purchase their own ... healthcare."
I immediately assumed that Justice Jackson ruled after having communicated with the other justices about what they wanted to do, even if she didn't officially refer the application to the full Court for resolution by per curiam order.
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I immediately assumed that Justice Jackson ruled after having communicated with the other justices about what they wanted to do, even if she didn't officially refer the application to the full Court for resolution by per curiam order.
I think I am fully up to speed on both appeals, and I have no idea if USDA has actually cleared the procedural hurdles that were showing partial SNAP payments. If not, all of this is going on while the government is not complying with the unchallenged district court order.
The wording of this is highly unusual, and suggests that Justice Jackson is expecting the First Circuit to rule on a stay pending appeal (a longer pause of the district court's order) in the next few days.
I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.
I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I think I am fully up to speed on both appeals, and I have no idea if USDA has actually cleared the procedural hurdles that were showing partial SNAP payments. If not, all of this is going on while the government is not complying with the unchallenged district court order.
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BREAKING: Justice Jackson puts order forcing Trump to fully fund SNAP benefits on hold to give the appeals court time to rule on the stay pending appeal @courthousenews.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
BREAKING: Justice Jackson puts order forcing Trump to fully fund SNAP benefits on hold to give the appeals court time to rule on the stay pending appeal @courthousenews.bsky.social