Bruce Godfrey
@brucegodfrey.bsky.social
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Bruce Godfrey
@brucegodfrey.bsky.social
· Nov 11
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I am delighted to be publishing
"An Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship of Unlawful Immigrants' Children: Anti-Gypsy and Anti-Chinese Restrictions as Categorical Context"
in the UC Law Journal (formerly Hastings L. J.).
@uclawsf.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"An Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship of Unlawful Immigrants' Children: Anti-Gypsy and Anti-Chinese Restrictions as Categorical Context"
in the UC Law Journal (formerly Hastings L. J.).
@uclawsf.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
August 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I am delighted to be publishing
"An Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship of Unlawful Immigrants' Children: Anti-Gypsy and Anti-Chinese Restrictions as Categorical Context"
in the UC Law Journal (formerly Hastings L. J.).
@uclawsf.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"An Originalist Case for Birthright Citizenship of Unlawful Immigrants' Children: Anti-Gypsy and Anti-Chinese Restrictions as Categorical Context"
in the UC Law Journal (formerly Hastings L. J.).
@uclawsf.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Jake Porter found more evidence of Angela McArdle's corruption
It is Steven Nekhaila and the rest of the Libertarian National Committee's responsibility to bring legal action against McArdle for the membership money she took.
They are failing.
It is Steven Nekhaila and the rest of the Libertarian National Committee's responsibility to bring legal action against McArdle for the membership money she took.
They are failing.
July 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Jake Porter found more evidence of Angela McArdle's corruption
It is Steven Nekhaila and the rest of the Libertarian National Committee's responsibility to bring legal action against McArdle for the membership money she took.
They are failing.
It is Steven Nekhaila and the rest of the Libertarian National Committee's responsibility to bring legal action against McArdle for the membership money she took.
They are failing.
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MAGA paid a lot of money to Angela McArdle to sell out the Libertarian National Committee to Donald Trump.
Way more than 30 pieces of silver.
She resigned when the evidence of embezzlement came out, but there is still a derivative lawsuit against her.
Backstory: nsarwark.substack.com/p/libertaria...
Way more than 30 pieces of silver.
She resigned when the evidence of embezzlement came out, but there is still a derivative lawsuit against her.
Backstory: nsarwark.substack.com/p/libertaria...
Libertarian Party Prospects for 2025: It Starts With Discovery
Angela McArdle has resigned, but her replacement doesn't seem to have a plan to get the Libertarian Party back on a track for growth. What must be done?
nsarwark.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
MAGA paid a lot of money to Angela McArdle to sell out the Libertarian National Committee to Donald Trump.
Way more than 30 pieces of silver.
She resigned when the evidence of embezzlement came out, but there is still a derivative lawsuit against her.
Backstory: nsarwark.substack.com/p/libertaria...
Way more than 30 pieces of silver.
She resigned when the evidence of embezzlement came out, but there is still a derivative lawsuit against her.
Backstory: nsarwark.substack.com/p/libertaria...
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If this is substantiated every single justice department attorney who touched the filings denying jurisdiction should be disbarred unless they're individually willing to put in a sworn statement declaring that they were told something different and identifying who lied to them about it
BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.
July 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If this is substantiated every single justice department attorney who touched the filings denying jurisdiction should be disbarred unless they're individually willing to put in a sworn statement declaring that they were told something different and identifying who lied to them about it
Josh Marshall of @tpm.bsky.social made a point of chronicling the wraithing of GOP figures by Trump 8 yrs ago.
I didn’t expect law firms of this size to be wraithed, but here we go.
I didn’t expect law firms of this size to be wraithed, but here we go.
Shame.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...
March 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Josh Marshall of @tpm.bsky.social made a point of chronicling the wraithing of GOP figures by Trump 8 yrs ago.
I didn’t expect law firms of this size to be wraithed, but here we go.
I didn’t expect law firms of this size to be wraithed, but here we go.
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Paul Weiss "is one of the ones that people would have expected to be a liberal lion of the law, to use an old fashioned phrase,” Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute...told TMD. “If he can do this to Paul Weiss, he can probably do this to a lot of other firms, more or less at will.”
"Scholars warn the moves represent an ‘across the board’ attack on the independence of the legal system." thedispatch.com/newsletter/m...
Inside Trump’s Campaign Against Law Firms
Scholars warn the moves represent an ‘across the board’ attack on the independence of the legal system.
thedispatch.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Paul Weiss "is one of the ones that people would have expected to be a liberal lion of the law, to use an old fashioned phrase,” Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute...told TMD. “If he can do this to Paul Weiss, he can probably do this to a lot of other firms, more or less at will.”
As for me and my house, we remember.
First responders: Meet some of the Canadians who rushed to New York after the 9/11 attacks | CBC News
In the hours and days after the Twin Towers fell, a handful of police officers and firefighters from Ottawa and the surrounding area dropped everything and raced to New York City to aid in the recover...
www.cbc.ca
March 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
As for me and my house, we remember.
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The US won the geopolitical lottery having Canada and Mexico as neighbors. This kind of offensive nonsense is doing so much damage, not just to America's standing in the world, but to our security.
Trump: "When you take away that artificial line that looks like it was done by a ruler ... you look at that beautiful formation of Canada and the US, there is no place anywhere in the world that looks like that. And then if you add Greenland, that's pretty good."
March 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The US won the geopolitical lottery having Canada and Mexico as neighbors. This kind of offensive nonsense is doing so much damage, not just to America's standing in the world, but to our security.
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November 17, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Fine to refuse to criticize Trump on principle. If you think he’s right, or that - on the merits - criticism is inappropriate, Yahtzee.
But this institutional cowardice from BigLaw just bewilders and disgusts me.
When the hell did William Kunstler die and get replaced by Zorba the Clerk?
But this institutional cowardice from BigLaw just bewilders and disgusts me.
When the hell did William Kunstler die and get replaced by Zorba the Clerk?
What competitive authoritarianism looks like: "Back-channel efforts to persuade major law firms to sign public statements criticizing Trump’s actions thus far have foundered, in part because of retaliation fears" www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Every day Trump faces less opposition b/c of these threats
Every day Trump faces less opposition b/c of these threats
Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat
Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration, in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic ti...
www.wsj.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Fine to refuse to criticize Trump on principle. If you think he’s right, or that - on the merits - criticism is inappropriate, Yahtzee.
But this institutional cowardice from BigLaw just bewilders and disgusts me.
When the hell did William Kunstler die and get replaced by Zorba the Clerk?
But this institutional cowardice from BigLaw just bewilders and disgusts me.
When the hell did William Kunstler die and get replaced by Zorba the Clerk?
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Do not normalize frickin’ Nazi salutes.
For crying out loud.
For crying out loud.
For those playing along at home we are now at the: "Ok sure they're Nazi salutes - but that doesn't make them expressions of Nazism" stage of denial.
February 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Do not normalize frickin’ Nazi salutes.
For crying out loud.
For crying out loud.
Nixon caught some hell for saying, “if the president does it, then it’s not illegal.” But this is more egregious.
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Nixon caught some hell for saying, “if the president does it, then it’s not illegal.” But this is more egregious.
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Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.
February 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Trumps comment simply drives home his alienness. Standing against his degeneracy is standing with America. We don’t have masters. We don’t bow to tyrants. Americas civic tradition is complex, democratic, libertarian, raucous, conflicted. It abhors tyrants.
from my disabled son, Merry Christmas
December 24, 2024 at 2:38 PM
from my disabled son, Merry Christmas
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My official age is “Too old to understand the Kendrick Lamar/Drake thing.”
November 26, 2024 at 3:02 PM
My official age is “Too old to understand the Kendrick Lamar/Drake thing.”
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When Ted Cruz let Trump talk crazy about his wife and didn't do shit but gargle his balls when he dropped out the primary I knew politics wasn't for me. I'd throw anybody under the bus to defend my family. I'm not the bigger person 😂😂😂
November 14, 2024 at 12:54 AM
When Ted Cruz let Trump talk crazy about his wife and didn't do shit but gargle his balls when he dropped out the primary I knew politics wasn't for me. I'd throw anybody under the bus to defend my family. I'm not the bigger person 😂😂😂
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Police in are investigating an attack on a rabbi as a hate crime after a man attacked with a wooden stake, authorities said.
The incident took place at approximately 9:53 a.m. on the 1400 block of Arcola Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland.
abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-...
The incident took place at approximately 9:53 a.m. on the 1400 block of Arcola Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland.
abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-...
Maryland rabbi attacked with wooden stake as police investigate it as a hate crime
Police in Maryland are investigating an attack on a rabbi as a hate crime after a man attacked with a wooden stake, authorities said.
abcnews.go.com
October 16, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Police in are investigating an attack on a rabbi as a hate crime after a man attacked with a wooden stake, authorities said.
The incident took place at approximately 9:53 a.m. on the 1400 block of Arcola Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland.
abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-...
The incident took place at approximately 9:53 a.m. on the 1400 block of Arcola Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland.
abcnews.go.com/US/maryland-...
I have set up three lists here - one for MD attorneys, one for wage/hour attorneys nationwide in the US, and one for transit/urbanism. if you want on these lists, let me know.
November 13, 2024 at 12:30 AM
I have set up three lists here - one for MD attorneys, one for wage/hour attorneys nationwide in the US, and one for transit/urbanism. if you want on these lists, let me know.
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Most people don’t know that slavery still exists. Amendment 13 abolishes slavery except where imprisoned. There should be no exceptions to abolish slavery.
Anti-slavery measure Prop. 6 fails, allowing forced labor to continue in California prisons
Anti-slavery measure Prop. 6 fails, allowing forced labor to continue in California prisons
California voters rejected the anti-slavery measure Proposition 6, which would have banned forced labor in state prisons.
calmatters.org
November 12, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Most people don’t know that slavery still exists. Amendment 13 abolishes slavery except where imprisoned. There should be no exceptions to abolish slavery.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
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November 12, 2024 at 1:08 AM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Acceptable
Acceptable
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November 11, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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definitely looks like there might be something to the NYT national level polling
Dems doing better in suburbs in red states, and GOP doing better than expected in exurbs
Dems doing better in suburbs in red states, and GOP doing better than expected in exurbs
Trump up by 10.5 with 90% reporting in Boone County, IN. In '20 he took it by 18.5.
November 6, 2024 at 1:06 AM
definitely looks like there might be something to the NYT national level polling
Dems doing better in suburbs in red states, and GOP doing better than expected in exurbs
Dems doing better in suburbs in red states, and GOP doing better than expected in exurbs
Filthy bastard
Stephen Miller is pointing at photos of Hispanics and getting Trump fans in Aurora to boo and yell at them
October 12, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Filthy bastard
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Can someone please explain why the word for people who throw out 80 years of precedent is "conservative"? What is being conserved?
Every few months we get another article where it's reported John Roberts doesn't understand why everyone is mad at him for ruling that it's okay for oil companies to strangle bald eagles, like he has no choice but to follow the law, when in every case they're throwing out 80 years of precedent.
October 9, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Can someone please explain why the word for people who throw out 80 years of precedent is "conservative"? What is being conserved?