Nick Smith
@nicksmith.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Legal Practice and Assistant Director of Academic Achievement and Bar Success at AJMLS. Skeets are not legal advice.
Feel free to ask bar exam related questions if you stumble across my profile while studying.
Feel free to ask bar exam related questions if you stumble across my profile while studying.
The handball rules are incomprehensible
July 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The handball rules are incomprehensible
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There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.
The US has hust dropped bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, according to Trump, bringing American military forces into Israel’s war with Iran.
June 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.
It’s a never ending source of pain to be a supporter of the USMNT.
June 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It’s a never ending source of pain to be a supporter of the USMNT.
Good morning Knoxville
May 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Good morning Knoxville
Look I know buccees doesn’t seem like a great place for vegetarians to find food. But the one one I75 north of Atlanta has a veggie burrito with chipotle pimento cheese. It’s delicious.
May 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Look I know buccees doesn’t seem like a great place for vegetarians to find food. But the one one I75 north of Atlanta has a veggie burrito with chipotle pimento cheese. It’s delicious.
What the fuck was Miranchuk thinking
May 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What the fuck was Miranchuk thinking
About six months ago I, tragically, broke a bottle of garam masala. The vacuum that I used to clean up my mess to this day smells like masala every time I use it. Follow me for more housekeeping hacks.
May 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
About six months ago I, tragically, broke a bottle of garam masala. The vacuum that I used to clean up my mess to this day smells like masala every time I use it. Follow me for more housekeeping hacks.
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This is straight authoritarianism!
April 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This is straight authoritarianism!
I do it to myself every spring semester, but the absolute pile of things to grade before the semester is over might just be the death of me.
April 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I do it to myself every spring semester, but the absolute pile of things to grade before the semester is over might just be the death of me.
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Nearly a 1,000 student visas invoked by Sec. of State Rubio and counting.
April 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Nearly a 1,000 student visas invoked by Sec. of State Rubio and counting.
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The American President pardons guilty insurrectionists but allows innocent men to rot in foreign prisons.
April 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The American President pardons guilty insurrectionists but allows innocent men to rot in foreign prisons.
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Has the Supreme Court really become so woke that it's demanding an innocent man be returned from an El Salvador torture prison?
April 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Has the Supreme Court really become so woke that it's demanding an innocent man be returned from an El Salvador torture prison?
If you happen to see a headline soon that says “five idiots struck by lighting and then completely frozen to death” it’s because me and my friends are the world’s worst at picking weekends to go camping.
April 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
If you happen to see a headline soon that says “five idiots struck by lighting and then completely frozen to death” it’s because me and my friends are the world’s worst at picking weekends to go camping.
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Wow. This is the full document submitted by Rubio against Mr. Khalil invoking INA 237(a)(4)(C).
The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
April 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Wow. This is the full document submitted by Rubio against Mr. Khalil invoking INA 237(a)(4)(C).
The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.
An estimated 30,000 people marched to the Georgia capitol today.
April 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
An estimated 30,000 people marched to the Georgia capitol today.
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They have been building this snitch culture - report on women getting an abortion, professors engaged in wrongthink, federal employees working on DEI - for years.
I’m sure the Stasi wish they’d thought of the phrase “crowdsourced patriotism.”
April 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
They have been building this snitch culture - report on women getting an abortion, professors engaged in wrongthink, federal employees working on DEI - for years.
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Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
Agendum sounds ozian
March 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Agendum sounds ozian
It’s a little embarrassing how empty SoFi is tonight.
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It’s a little embarrassing how empty SoFi is tonight.
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The death penalty in any form is a crime against humanity and I don’t care how far we get down the this brutality is normal road I will never stop saying it
March 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The death penalty in any form is a crime against humanity and I don’t care how far we get down the this brutality is normal road I will never stop saying it
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This is not an impressive defense. Literally every “consequence” of a government shutdown is a description of things Trump and Musk are already doing
Opinion | Chuck Schumer: Trump and Musk Would Love a Shutdown. We Must Not Give Them One.
A government shutdown would lead to real pain for the American people.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This is not an impressive defense. Literally every “consequence” of a government shutdown is a description of things Trump and Musk are already doing
The republicans control the majority in every part of the federal government. If they need dem votes to pass a budget they should earn them.
Schumer and any other dem who bends the knee and votes for this CR should be primaried.
Schumer and any other dem who bends the knee and votes for this CR should be primaried.
March 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The republicans control the majority in every part of the federal government. If they need dem votes to pass a budget they should earn them.
Schumer and any other dem who bends the knee and votes for this CR should be primaried.
Schumer and any other dem who bends the knee and votes for this CR should be primaried.
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If a Democratic president said this we would be buried in an *avalanche* of takes about how out of touch they are. People got mad at Pelosi for having too much ice cream!!!!
"They have one for $35,000, which is pretty low" -- Trump during his Tesla promotional event with Elon Musk at the White House says he bought a cybertruck for his granddaughter Kai
March 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If a Democratic president said this we would be buried in an *avalanche* of takes about how out of touch they are. People got mad at Pelosi for having too much ice cream!!!!
My iPhone’s AI does a pretty bad job transcribing my Appalachian grandmother.
March 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My iPhone’s AI does a pretty bad job transcribing my Appalachian grandmother.