Joe Fore
@joefore.bsky.social
Teacher, lawyer, writer, angler, unapologetic Blue Devil | Co-Director, @UVALaw #LegalWriting Program | Founder, Punctuated Law Designs (http://punctuatedlaw.com) | Writing Coach
Told my wife yesterday that “Cleanin’ Up Christmas” is a great, sad, Country holiday song just waiting to be written.
Taking down Christmas decorations and I’m already overstimulated and exhausted so now feels like the perfect time to clean out the pantry and all the cabinets in the living room
January 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Told my wife yesterday that “Cleanin’ Up Christmas” is a great, sad, Country holiday song just waiting to be written.
December 31, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Run the Jewel.
Ruin two bands by combining them?
R.E.M.G.M.T.
R.E.M.G.M.T.
ruin two bands by combining them:
Fugazi Osbourne
Fugazi Osbourne
December 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Run the Jewel.
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This really is the culmination of the unitary executive theory — the entire cabinet must profess servile fealty to the personality of one man & forswear any notion that their office entails responsibilities to the American people or concern for the public good beyond servicing his whims
Ladies and gentlemen, the head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
December 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This really is the culmination of the unitary executive theory — the entire cabinet must profess servile fealty to the personality of one man & forswear any notion that their office entails responsibilities to the American people or concern for the public good beyond servicing his whims
Yeah, the article makes Gorsuch’s comment about a “wise move” sound like he’s complimenting Tom’s tactical brilliance. But attorneys know that the real meaning is more like “Your first argument was so weak that we’ve already eviscerated it; you’d be smart to move on and not look back.”
Wow a Supreme Court advocate listened to the Court’s questions & adjusted his argument to address them Wow www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...
December 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Yeah, the article makes Gorsuch’s comment about a “wise move” sound like he’s complimenting Tom’s tactical brilliance. But attorneys know that the real meaning is more like “Your first argument was so weak that we’ve already eviscerated it; you’d be smart to move on and not look back.”
When people ask what I teach students in my #legalwriting classes, I should just show them this screenshot and say, “The exact opposite of this.”
This sort of thing is what tenure is really for. I am sitting on a plane chortling so loudly that I’m at risk of being removed for apparent drunkenness before we take off
December 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
When people ask what I teach students in my #legalwriting classes, I should just show them this screenshot and say, “The exact opposite of this.”
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I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have seen DOJ do some strange redactions before, but this is up there:
Happy New Hardcore History Episode Day to all who celebrate.
December 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Happy New Hardcore History Episode Day to all who celebrate.
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Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”
I'm going to be fascinated to see what kind of half-baked metrics and proxies firms start using to "draft" talent, like the NFL's obsession with QB hand size or NBA wingspans.
Talent is absolutely the lifeblood of a law firm, but competing for talent presupposes you're doing something that picks good talent. This is like drafting an NFL quarterback based on their tape of playing pee wee football.
December 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I'm going to be fascinated to see what kind of half-baked metrics and proxies firms start using to "draft" talent, like the NFL's obsession with QB hand size or NBA wingspans.
Law firms: “Law schools need to do a better job of teaching our students how to be lawyers.”
Also law firms: “Hey 1Ls, blow off your class reading and #legalwriting assignments from October to February so that you can come to our recruitment dinners and do interviews and complete applications!”
Also law firms: “Hey 1Ls, blow off your class reading and #legalwriting assignments from October to February so that you can come to our recruitment dinners and do interviews and complete applications!”
In a first, many top law firms this year are recruiting summer associates during students' first semester. Some are dangling ‘jumbo offers’ and ‘loyalty’ bonuses for students who do two summer stints back-to-back, keeping them out of other firms' reach reut.rs/44U44cD
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Law firms: “Law schools need to do a better job of teaching our students how to be lawyers.”
Also law firms: “Hey 1Ls, blow off your class reading and #legalwriting assignments from October to February so that you can come to our recruitment dinners and do interviews and complete applications!”
Also law firms: “Hey 1Ls, blow off your class reading and #legalwriting assignments from October to February so that you can come to our recruitment dinners and do interviews and complete applications!”
I mean, we really don’t have to wait until 2028 for this kind of accountability.
These are lawyers with bar cards.
State-bar disciplinary boards have a role in deterring this nonsense. The fact that they haven’t done so (except for Eastman and Rudy) is a massive failure of the legal profession.
These are lawyers with bar cards.
State-bar disciplinary boards have a role in deterring this nonsense. The fact that they haven’t done so (except for Eastman and Rudy) is a massive failure of the legal profession.
I am deadly serious when I say that any liberal Project 2028 people should be taking names of the civil servants who go way past their authority to do stuff like this.
That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.
That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.
That should be a career ending act of corruption
December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I mean, we really don’t have to wait until 2028 for this kind of accountability.
These are lawyers with bar cards.
State-bar disciplinary boards have a role in deterring this nonsense. The fact that they haven’t done so (except for Eastman and Rudy) is a massive failure of the legal profession.
These are lawyers with bar cards.
State-bar disciplinary boards have a role in deterring this nonsense. The fact that they haven’t done so (except for Eastman and Rudy) is a massive failure of the legal profession.
BREAKING: 38 state legislatures have just submitted a revised Constitution” “nunc pro tunc” correcting a “scrivener’s error” to remove the words “against the United States”.
NEW ABSTRACT: "During the Founding era, 'the United States' was often plural, referring to all of the States. As a result, when the Pardon Clause refers to 'Offences against the United States,' that extends to state offenses as well."
Not to worry, articles will soon issue explaining how this is more complicated than it seems.
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
BREAKING: 38 state legislatures have just submitted a revised Constitution” “nunc pro tunc” correcting a “scrivener’s error” to remove the words “against the United States”.
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When judges find police/prosecutorial misconduct, it's fascinating when they name the LEO/prosecutor in their opinion; often it's just "the arresting officer" or "the ADA." (Free Student Note idea!). Xinis makes clear it was "Immigration Judge Phillip Taylor" who signed this unusual order.
MORE: Xinis has *granted* the emergency order storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
When judges find police/prosecutorial misconduct, it's fascinating when they name the LEO/prosecutor in their opinion; often it's just "the arresting officer" or "the ADA." (Free Student Note idea!). Xinis makes clear it was "Immigration Judge Phillip Taylor" who signed this unusual order.
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WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.
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How many times is our government going to break the law and lie in public to railroad this one guy? Nobody who had any part of this should know a moment’s peace.
Judge Xinis ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release in part bc ICE could not produce a final “order of removal” to deport him. So last night, they went out and got an immigration judge to issue one.
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now, Abrego is urging Xinis to block his redetention. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
How many times is our government going to break the law and lie in public to railroad this one guy? Nobody who had any part of this should know a moment’s peace.
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You can fix an order that says you’re deported to “El Salsador” nunc pro tunc. Not, “hey here’s a backdated deportation order.”
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
You can fix an order that says you’re deported to “El Salsador” nunc pro tunc. Not, “hey here’s a backdated deportation order.”
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That is … not what nunc pro tunc is
A federal judge ruled Thu morning that no order of removal for Abrego Garcia had ever existed. By Thu evening, an immigration judge had conjured a “Immigration Court’s Sua Sponte Order Correcting Scrivener’s Error," Abrego Garcia's lawyers tell the judge in the emergency overnight filing:
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
That is … not what nunc pro tunc is
This is an egregious, bad-faith example of a crucial practice tip for #legalwriting students:
Lawyers often operate based on assumptions, vague memories, or things they heard second or third-hand. Don’t just blindly trust what someone says happened—even if the source is well-intentioned. 1/
Lawyers often operate based on assumptions, vague memories, or things they heard second or third-hand. Don’t just blindly trust what someone says happened—even if the source is well-intentioned. 1/
🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is an egregious, bad-faith example of a crucial practice tip for #legalwriting students:
Lawyers often operate based on assumptions, vague memories, or things they heard second or third-hand. Don’t just blindly trust what someone says happened—even if the source is well-intentioned. 1/
Lawyers often operate based on assumptions, vague memories, or things they heard second or third-hand. Don’t just blindly trust what someone says happened—even if the source is well-intentioned. 1/
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DOJ: "Oh, whatever. We'll just get a new indictment with different, indisputably appropriately appointed prosecutors."
FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN NORFOLK:
FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN NORFOLK:
NBC News: DOJ fails to get a new indictment of Letitia James.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
December 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
DOJ: "Oh, whatever. We'll just get a new indictment with different, indisputably appropriately appointed prosecutors."
FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN NORFOLK:
FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN NORFOLK:
He, of course, meant to say “Capital”—not “Capitol”
Patel on J6 arrest: "When you attack American citizens, when you attack our institutions of legislation, when you attack our nation's Capitol, you attack the very being of our way of life."
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
He, of course, meant to say “Capital”—not “Capitol”
As someone who teaches a law school seminar course on Stoicism, I’m heartbroken to see Marcus Aurelius getting so little love.
Cleopatra is the single most popular ancient figure* among Americans. Big potential support base for the "attractive maniac" candidate
* they didn't poll for Jesus, but to be fair I suspect he'd take the crown.
* they didn't poll for Jesus, but to be fair I suspect he'd take the crown.
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As someone who teaches a law school seminar course on Stoicism, I’m heartbroken to see Marcus Aurelius getting so little love.