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JP Collins
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Law prof at GW Law. New Yorker turned Virginian. Former SDNY clerk and litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell. Studying and writing about court admin and the judiciary. #LFGM #COYS Papers here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=22389
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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · Dec 19
Trump's 2025 judicial appointments year in review: it was bad, but could have been worse.
How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican
Trump’s first year of second-term judicial nominations could have been worse. It is still very bad.
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This is the least surprising placement of all time.
evanbernick.bsky.social Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 25m
In which Ilan fails to explain why his very long article does not take a firm position on whether the children of unlawful entrants and temporary visitors are birthright citizens whereas his brief defends the constitutionality of Trump’s EO, and evidently hopes that no one will notice.
Ilan Wurman & @ilan_wurman The final version of my birthright citizenship article is now out @HarvardJLPP, along with articles from Keith Whittington and Gerard Magliocca. The most interesting development is the introductory essay by Judge Steven Menashi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
February 11, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Things aren’t great at Tottenham at the moment but they could always be worse…
February 11, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Unless I missed an earlier one, it looks like we got Emil Bove's first published majority opinion last week. Judge for yourself. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/251...
BOVE, Circuit Judge. The Small Business Administration (SBA) appeals a finding that the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act by declining to fully forgive a Paycheck Protection Program loan. The appeal turns on whether the borrower’s payments to independent contractors were “payroll costs” under the Program’s statutory definition of that term. The interpretive question is not a routine ground ball. The District Court said yes, ruling that payments to independent contractors were covered. As did another district judge in the Western District of Louisiana. A district judge in the Eastern District of Michigan sided with the SBA and said no. So too did two Circuits. The Third will be the third. So we will reverse.
February 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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BOVE, Circuit Judge. The Small Business Administration declined to fully forgive Essintial Enterprise Solutions, LLC’s Paycheck Protection Program loan on the grounds that Essintial’s payments to independent contractors were not forgivable “payroll costs” under the Program’s statutory definition of the term. The district court concluded otherwise, and the SBA appeals. We disagree. Consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Circuits, we hold that payments to independent contractors are not “payroll costs” under the Program and therefore not forgivable. Reversed and remanded.
February 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Putting aside deserved criticisms of Bove the person (as well as some of the grammatical errors), here's what's wrong with this intro:

1. There's a disconnect between the first and second sentence. Who is the borrower? What part of the loan was forgiven and what part wasn't? ...
profjpc.bsky.social JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 3h
Unless I missed an earlier one, it looks like we got Emil Bove's first published majority opinion last week. Judge for yourself. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/251...
BOVE, Circuit Judge. The Small Business Administration (SBA) appeals a finding that the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act by declining to fully forgive a Paycheck Protection Program loan. The appeal turns on whether the borrower’s payments to independent contractors were “payroll costs” under the Program’s statutory definition of that term. The interpretive question is not a routine ground ball. The District Court said yes, ruling that payments to independent contractors were covered. As did another district judge in the Western District of Louisiana. A district judge in the Eastern District of Michigan sided with the SBA and said no. So too did two Circuits. The Third will be the third. So we will reverse.
February 11, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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A non-broken hamate bone? In this economy?
February 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Unless I missed an earlier one, it looks like we got Emil Bove's first published majority opinion last week. Judge for yourself. www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/251...
BOVE, Circuit Judge. The Small Business Administration (SBA) appeals a finding that the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act by declining to fully forgive a Paycheck Protection Program loan. The appeal turns on whether the borrower’s payments to independent contractors were “payroll costs” under the Program’s statutory definition of that term. The interpretive question is not a routine ground ball. The District Court said yes, ruling that payments to independent contractors were covered. As did another district judge in the Western District of Louisiana. A district judge in the Eastern District of Michigan sided with the SBA and said no. So too did two Circuits. The Third will be the third. So we will reverse.
February 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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So long, academia! There’s gold in them there hills!
February 11, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Relegate me
a man with long hair is behind a glass with the words release me below him
ALT: a man with long hair is behind a glass with the words release me below him
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February 10, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Jo Adell hit 37 home runs last year!
February 11, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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NEW: Western District of Wisconsin Chief Judge James Peterson, 68, will assume senior status when a successor is confirmed. Peterson was appointed by President Obama in 2014. Wisconsin has a Democratic senator who would have to sign off on any nominee.
February 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's gone , it 's done ''
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` it 's gone , it 's done ''
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February 11, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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None of this behavior is acceptable. (Although, in the SDNY, there was only one in-chambers bathroom and it was the exclusive province of the judge and I would have never dared use it.)
February 11, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Federal judge Lydia Kay Griggsby is alleged to have "subjected clerks to harassment, verbal abuse and erratic behavior. ... [She] would unleash 'a verbal browbeating' if the clerks could not provide exact details 'at a moment's notice.'"

Thanks to @alizashatzman.bsky.social of @thelap.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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A two-panel Little Bubbie Child comic. Top panel is the little bubbie child asking, "Dad, hwat was it like a livin' in the 90s?" Bottom panel is dad responding, "Sometimes you'd open a can a peanuts and they'd come snakes outta there."
February 10, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Imagine, IMAGINE, sacking a loved by the players and fans manager who finally won you a trophy for this utter dog shit. IMAGINE a club bring that stupid. FUCKING IMAGINE THAT.
February 1, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Relegate me
a man with long hair is behind a glass with the words release me below him
ALT: a man with long hair is behind a glass with the words release me below him
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February 10, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Balls
February 10, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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Scalia would have been right next to Emil Bove at every Trump rally
jaywillis.net Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 22h
One of Antonin Scalia's kids allegedly said that she was relieved that her father died when he did, because he would be so "upset" at how "coarse" and "polarized" politics has become, which makes me wonder if Scalia's children have any idea who their dad was www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The justice nodded in agreement. I hadn’t expected this observation to lead directly to discussion of Scalia and his legacy, but Alito’s reply began: “Even since Nino died, things are so different. I so often wish he were still here. He started so much and it would have been good to have him around to see it to completion.” Conservatives now boast a 6-3 majority on the court and are reshaping the law for a generation, but Scalia almost certainly wouldn’t have been happy to see how American politics have grown coarser and more polarized than ever before. One of Scalia’s children, I related, had told me she felt grateful to God for taking her father at that moment because it spared the principled originalist, a celebrant of Latin Mass and the American Founding, from witnessing so much that would have upset him. “He would have been appalled at so much,” Alito agreed.
February 10, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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And so it begins
February 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Today in normal, relatable things that Trump administration people say:

"We left with all of my children."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?

LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
February 10, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Schumer: ball’s in your court

Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain

Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls

Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families

Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Your drafts sucked so bad they broke the website
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM