Conner Mitchell
@connermitchell0.bsky.social
Labor and employment lawyer
I’m just so tired.
This is big news: Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group, has helped to seed a test case in Colorado over whether public schools can provide Christian education
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
www.chalkbeat.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I’m just so tired.
If I get one more goddamn "Supreme Court allows Trump to [proceed with unconstitutional thing]" news alert I swear....
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If I get one more goddamn "Supreme Court allows Trump to [proceed with unconstitutional thing]" news alert I swear....
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BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City mayor’s race.
Mamdani will make history as the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.
He will also be the first immigrant in nearly 140 years to serve as mayor of New York City.
Per Decision Desk HQ.
Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City mayor’s race.
Mamdani will make history as the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.
He will also be the first immigrant in nearly 140 years to serve as mayor of New York City.
Per Decision Desk HQ.
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City mayor’s race.
Mamdani will make history as the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.
He will also be the first immigrant in nearly 140 years to serve as mayor of New York City.
Per Decision Desk HQ.
Zohran Mamdani is projected to win the New York City mayor’s race.
Mamdani will make history as the first Muslim and first South Asian to serve as mayor of New York City.
He will also be the first immigrant in nearly 140 years to serve as mayor of New York City.
Per Decision Desk HQ.
Longtime listener, first time caller, but does the reverse of this logic apply as well, Sam? If you bar parents from making medical decisions about their minor trans children, does that also violate the constitution? Or are you just a bigot. I'll wait and listen off the air.
Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent.
Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONATHAN LEE, ET AL. v. POUDRE
SCHOOL DISTRICT R–1
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT
No. 25–89. Decided October 14, 2025
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Statement of JUSTICE ALITO, with whom JUSTICE
THOMAS and JUSTICE GORSUCH join, respecting the denial
of certiorari.
I concur in the denial of certiorari because petitioners do
not challenge the ground for the ruling below. But I remain
concerned that some federal courts are “tempt[ed]” to avoid
confronting a “particularly contentious constitutional questio[n]”: whether a school district violates parents’ fundamental rights “when, without parental knowledge or consent, it encourages a student to transition to a new gender
or assists in that process.” Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School Dist., 604 U. S. ___,
___–___ (2024) (ALITO, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 1–2) (citing Troxel v. Granville, 530 U. S.
57, 70 (2000) (plurality opinion)). Petitioners tell us that
nearly 6,000 public schools have policies—as respondent allegedly does—that purposefully interfere with parents’ access to critical information about their children’s genderidentity choices and school personnel’s involvement in and
influence on those choices. Pet. for Cert. 24. The troubling—and tragic—allegations in this case underscore the
“great and growing national importance” of the question
that these parent petitioners present. Parents Protecting
Our Children, 604 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 1).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreibznytltv7mexkfzlraxhxhcwvilqwad7bmgdmbtd643ln7wd375y@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Longtime listener, first time caller, but does the reverse of this logic apply as well, Sam? If you bar parents from making medical decisions about their minor trans children, does that also violate the constitution? Or are you just a bigot. I'll wait and listen off the air.
This did not age well
Briefly having something to live for amidst the horrors is so nice ❤️
One down.
October 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
This did not age well
Yes because this went so well for them the first time they tried (she won by a bigger margin lol)
Kansas Republican lawmakers are circulating a petition for a special session to redistrict. The goal is to defeat the state's only Democrat in Congress. (via @kcur.org)
Kansas Republicans start redistricting process aimed at unseating Rep. Sharice Davids
Kansas Republican lawmakers are circulating a petition for a special session to redistrict. The goal is to defeat the state's only Democrat in Congress.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Yes because this went so well for them the first time they tried (she won by a bigger margin lol)
Briefly having something to live for amidst the horrors is so nice ❤️
October 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Briefly having something to live for amidst the horrors is so nice ❤️
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Crochet walks off the mound having struck out 11 over 7 2/3 innings -- one of the great Red Sox postseason pitching performances ever.
October 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Crochet walks off the mound having struck out 11 over 7 2/3 innings -- one of the great Red Sox postseason pitching performances ever.
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Red Sox return to playoffs for first time since 2021 with walk-off win: ‘We cannot wait’
www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...
Red Sox return to playoffs for first time since 2021 with walk-off win: ‘We cannot wait’
When teams around them collapsed, the Red Sox did not miss an opportunity to clinch a return to the playoffs.
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Red Sox return to playoffs for first time since 2021 with walk-off win: ‘We cannot wait’
www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/666...
Lol we are orders of magnitude beyond Watergate.
September 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Lol we are orders of magnitude beyond Watergate.
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so for those keeping tally, so far today we had:
SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated
trump saying domestic violence is nbd
trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released
SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing
SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated
trump saying domestic violence is nbd
trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released
SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing
September 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
so for those keeping tally, so far today we had:
SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated
trump saying domestic violence is nbd
trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released
SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing
SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated
trump saying domestic violence is nbd
trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released
SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing
Lol tough look for his bullshit defamation case!
Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.
Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed
Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.
on.wsj.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Lol tough look for his bullshit defamation case!
Since her contentious appointment to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has emerged as the most enigmatic—she used the term “independent thinker” on her book tour—of the three Trump nominees on the high court.
Justice Barrett Declares Her Independence Ahead of Trump-Dominated Term
Justice Amy Coney Barrett is on tour promoting her new book before the Supreme Court reconvenes in October.
on.wsj.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m going to crash out 🥰
The 5th Circuit holding that the NLRB is not likely constitutional?
Wall Street Stock Market Crash GIF
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media.tenor.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’m going to crash out 🥰
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18-year-old Nick Rice was shot and killed on the KU campus by a Lawrence police officer 55 years ago today. This Lawrence Times series shed light on the murky case and the coverup that persisted for decades.
lawrenceks.news/nr
lawrenceks.news/nr
Who killed Nick Rice? The series
In July 1970, 18-year-old Nick Rice was shot and killed on the KU campus. The circumstances of the killing were murky, and the shooter was never publicly identified. Now, The Lawrence Times is sheddin...
lawrenceks.news
July 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
18-year-old Nick Rice was shot and killed on the KU campus by a Lawrence police officer 55 years ago today. This Lawrence Times series shed light on the murky case and the coverup that persisted for decades.
lawrenceks.news/nr
lawrenceks.news/nr
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Supreme Court Reaches Landmark 'It Depends' Ruling
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July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Supreme Court Reaches Landmark 'It Depends' Ruling
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SCOTUS response to this, probably: oh well, it’s political gerrymandering so it’s not a question of law we can rule on!
July 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
SCOTUS response to this, probably: oh well, it’s political gerrymandering so it’s not a question of law we can rule on!
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck. What are we doing here.
"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation-in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so." --SCOTUS
June 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck. What are we doing here.
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Antonin Scalia, no longer clearly the Supreme Court's most bigoted Italian-American justice ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
Sam Alito Is a Homophobe Who Should Be Shunned From Polite Society
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, six conservative Christian justices decided that the First Amendment gives conservative Christian parents veto power over public school curriculum they don’t like.
ballsandstrikes.org
June 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Antonin Scalia, no longer clearly the Supreme Court's most bigoted Italian-American justice ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
Sam Alito citing to TINKER as justification for this LGBTQ bigotry has sent me over the edge.
June 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sam Alito citing to TINKER as justification for this LGBTQ bigotry has sent me over the edge.
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Remember 2 weeks ago when @nytimes.com @jodikantor.bsky.social wrote a ridiculous profile on how ACB is basically the new surprise liberal SCOTUS justice?
Then she wrote an opinion saying trans people aren't a protected class AND authored the majority opinion killing nationwide injunctions.
Then she wrote an opinion saying trans people aren't a protected class AND authored the majority opinion killing nationwide injunctions.
June 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Remember 2 weeks ago when @nytimes.com @jodikantor.bsky.social wrote a ridiculous profile on how ACB is basically the new surprise liberal SCOTUS justice?
Then she wrote an opinion saying trans people aren't a protected class AND authored the majority opinion killing nationwide injunctions.
Then she wrote an opinion saying trans people aren't a protected class AND authored the majority opinion killing nationwide injunctions.
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Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."
June 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."
“Unlikely to change much” ???
Wh..what?
Wh..what?
The Skrmetti decision is unlikely to change very much, but “a Supreme Court decision declaring that there is no equal-protection right in this context is a significant setback for transgender rights more broadly,” Jeannie Suk Gersen writes.
Was a Right to Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Possible?
The Supreme Court was unlikely to strike down a state ban on some pediatric medical treatments, but the Biden Justice Department’s strategy made it even more improbable.
www.newyorker.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“Unlikely to change much” ???
Wh..what?
Wh..what?