RodeoNew
@rodeonew.bsky.social
Commercial litigator in the Southwest; very unenthusiastic member of the SCOTUS bar. Nullius in verba.
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Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You’re Fucked
September 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You’re Fucked
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This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.
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"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.
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Federal appeals normally take over 2 YEARS, start to finish.
Here, the circuit court moved heaven and earth and produced its unanimous 61-page order, affirming the district court, less than 3 WEEKS after the district court's.
The Supreme Court just nuked it without a syllable of explanation.
Here, the circuit court moved heaven and earth and produced its unanimous 61-page order, affirming the district court, less than 3 WEEKS after the district court's.
The Supreme Court just nuked it without a syllable of explanation.
The Supreme Court's ruling brushed aside, with no reasoning from the court, the district court's 52-page order and the circuit court's 61-page order affirming it.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.
September 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Federal appeals normally take over 2 YEARS, start to finish.
Here, the circuit court moved heaven and earth and produced its unanimous 61-page order, affirming the district court, less than 3 WEEKS after the district court's.
The Supreme Court just nuked it without a syllable of explanation.
Here, the circuit court moved heaven and earth and produced its unanimous 61-page order, affirming the district court, less than 3 WEEKS after the district court's.
The Supreme Court just nuked it without a syllable of explanation.
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At this point abolishing ICE and reforming the Supreme Court have to be non-negotiables for every 2028 Dem.
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
At this point abolishing ICE and reforming the Supreme Court have to be non-negotiables for every 2028 Dem.
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Imagine Earth 2, where SCOTUS not only determines that political gerrymandering is unconstitutional, but also determines that the all or nothing allocation of state electoral college votes is unconstitutional.
You say its been correct for over 200 years? Then give me back the 2dA jurisprudence
You say its been correct for over 200 years? Then give me back the 2dA jurisprudence
December 30, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Imagine Earth 2, where SCOTUS not only determines that political gerrymandering is unconstitutional, but also determines that the all or nothing allocation of state electoral college votes is unconstitutional.
You say its been correct for over 200 years? Then give me back the 2dA jurisprudence
You say its been correct for over 200 years? Then give me back the 2dA jurisprudence
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So there’s “good government,” like the kind referred to in the Declaration of Independence and that was explicitly identified as a goal in the Constitution’s Preamble
And there’s no government, where you’re on your own
What do you call a government that aims to harm and even kill its citizens?
And there’s no government, where you’re on your own
What do you call a government that aims to harm and even kill its citizens?
February 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
So there’s “good government,” like the kind referred to in the Declaration of Independence and that was explicitly identified as a goal in the Constitution’s Preamble
And there’s no government, where you’re on your own
What do you call a government that aims to harm and even kill its citizens?
And there’s no government, where you’re on your own
What do you call a government that aims to harm and even kill its citizens?
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brown's, room 533, fallsburg, new york, 1977
August 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
brown's, room 533, fallsburg, new york, 1977
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Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
August 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
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Why is the stock market high, and the overall economy mixed, in the face of all these trade wars and government-generated uncertainty?
A big part of the answer is a massive boom in AI datacenter construction, so much it outweighs consumer spending. If that turns out to be an AI bubble… watch out.
A big part of the answer is a massive boom in AI datacenter construction, so much it outweighs consumer spending. If that turns out to be an AI bubble… watch out.
The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
August 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Why is the stock market high, and the overall economy mixed, in the face of all these trade wars and government-generated uncertainty?
A big part of the answer is a massive boom in AI datacenter construction, so much it outweighs consumer spending. If that turns out to be an AI bubble… watch out.
A big part of the answer is a massive boom in AI datacenter construction, so much it outweighs consumer spending. If that turns out to be an AI bubble… watch out.
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"Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book is one of the most cursed documents ever compiled in this miserable, dying country." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book.
What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book is one of the most cursed documents ever compiled in this miserable, dying country." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How about we declare war on Greenland and then immediately tender our unconditional surrender?
July 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
How about we declare war on Greenland and then immediately tender our unconditional surrender?
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This strikes me as a pretty serious mistake.
July 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This strikes me as a pretty serious mistake.
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Don’t trust this woke propaganda. Do your own research.
Do not launch fireworks off your body this #July4th
July 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Don’t trust this woke propaganda. Do your own research.
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One of our most serious constitutional historians plausibly argues "the phrase constitutional crisis no longer describes our situation. The Constitution has failed, and we no longer know which institution will rescue it." Read this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
washingtonmonthly.com
June 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
One of our most serious constitutional historians plausibly argues "the phrase constitutional crisis no longer describes our situation. The Constitution has failed, and we no longer know which institution will rescue it." Read this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
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This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly
While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.
washingtonmonthly.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...
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I have never seen an emptier statement than the highlighted sentence from Justice Barrett's majority opinion today. Whatever abstract "duty" the President has to follow the law, it's absolutely meaningless if he does not share that sense of duty and the courts cannot compel him to comply with it.
June 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I have never seen an emptier statement than the highlighted sentence from Justice Barrett's majority opinion today. Whatever abstract "duty" the President has to follow the law, it's absolutely meaningless if he does not share that sense of duty and the courts cannot compel him to comply with it.
Fuck this “court”
Yes, I am a member of the SCOTUS Bar.
Yes, I am a member of the SCOTUS Bar.
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Fuck this “court”
Yes, I am a member of the SCOTUS Bar.
Yes, I am a member of the SCOTUS Bar.
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It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.
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More people should be talking about the utter freak that is Stephen Miller and his white nationalist worldview. He's the architect behind most of this chaos as Trump is golfing, falling asleep during meetings, making money of memecoins and tripping while climbing stairs.
June 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
More people should be talking about the utter freak that is Stephen Miller and his white nationalist worldview. He's the architect behind most of this chaos as Trump is golfing, falling asleep during meetings, making money of memecoins and tripping while climbing stairs.
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This lava plume is incredible www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5z...
[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
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May 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This lava plume is incredible www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5z...
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This was created in 1945 and when you watch it you can’t believe this is where we are today 😓🤬
National Archives Identifier: 24376
Local Identifier: 111-EF-6
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
This item was produced or created: 1945
National Archives Identifier: 24376
Local Identifier: 111-EF-6
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
This item was produced or created: 1945
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
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May 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This was created in 1945 and when you watch it you can’t believe this is where we are today 😓🤬
National Archives Identifier: 24376
Local Identifier: 111-EF-6
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
This item was produced or created: 1945
National Archives Identifier: 24376
Local Identifier: 111-EF-6
Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
This item was produced or created: 1945
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An Abu Dhabi-backed company will use a digital coin affiliated with President Trump in a $2 billion deal, a founder of his family crypto firm said on Thursday. The transaction is a public and vivid illustration of the ethical conflicts swirling around Trump’s crypto firm.
At a Dubai Conference, Trump’s Conflicts Take Center Stage
A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president’s son and his business partner, who promised, “This is only the begin...
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
An Abu Dhabi-backed company will use a digital coin affiliated with President Trump in a $2 billion deal, a founder of his family crypto firm said on Thursday. The transaction is a public and vivid illustration of the ethical conflicts swirling around Trump’s crypto firm.