Cal
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Cal
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pretty, gay, pretty gay. she/her.
literally how the fuck is anyone supposed to trust Justice Alito to interpret THE CONSTITUTION when the man has now proved he does not understand the basic plot of “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding”
April 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Reading Judge Wilkinson and then reading Judge Ho tells you everything you need to know about what has happened to the conservative legal movement over the past 10 years.
CA5 Judge Ho uses a concurrence in death penalty case - not related to Trump in any way I can see on the face- to sketch out his position on the district courts straining to control Trump’s unlawful actions.

www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
April 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Damn, this conclusion:

“We yet cling to the hope that it is not naïve to believe our good brethren in the Executive Branch perceive the rule of law as vital... This case presents their unique chance to vindicate that value and to summon the best that is within us while there is still time.”
April 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
the temptation to respond to spam messages on Signal now, just in case I’m about to get the inside scoop on what the Trump admin is planning next …

Mike Waltz, this you? 😂
April 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
this is the SINGLE BEST law review article i have ever read. now presenting: originalism as rpf tinhatting.

no notes, just screaming. stacey lantange is a genius.

link: digitalcommons.law.wne.edu/cgi/viewcont...
April 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
More and more this year, I've found myself dwelling on Thoreau's comment after witnessing the machinery of unjust federal law crush purely legalistic state resistance, from *Slavery in Massachusetts*: "The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free."
In 1835 David Ruggles founded the NYC Vigilance Committee. Black & white New Yorkers collaborated to use legal system, media, & self-defense to obstruct kidnappers attempting to sell ppl into enslavement. Ruggles was a publisher & bookstore owner & assisted Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery.
April 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
watching lawyers continue to fumble the world's easiest prisoner's dilemma has left me truly wondering how everyone here passed the logic games section of the LSAT
March 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM