Jon Choate
@jonchoate.bsky.social
Dad, trial lawyer, owner of too many cameras.
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Maybe he's sad Mamdani's not his mayor? It almost makes more sense if you imagine it that way.
January 20, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Maybe he's sad Mamdani's not his mayor? It almost makes more sense if you imagine it that way.
I give it even odds that someone cites to this based on the abstract alone.
December 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I give it even odds that someone cites to this based on the abstract alone.
I think that's an A1000. Also a superb timepiece.
December 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I think that's an A1000. Also a superb timepiece.
Federal criminal procedure is not my wheelhouse so I could be entirely off base, but there may be a distinction between a "judicial" tolling (what Judge Currie is discussing in the footnote ) and a statutory extension after dismissal that will turn on interpretation of the language in 18 USC § 3288.
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Federal criminal procedure is not my wheelhouse so I could be entirely off base, but there may be a distinction between a "judicial" tolling (what Judge Currie is discussing in the footnote ) and a statutory extension after dismissal that will turn on interpretation of the language in 18 USC § 3288.
all over that footage passed out groggily coming to at 1:30 am with no idea of where I am or what day it is
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
all over that footage passed out groggily coming to at 1:30 am with no idea of where I am or what day it is
Hands up in a boxer stance can look close enough to hands up don’t shoot me in the face that it gets really easy to use your own threat of force to justify more force. “Ah, I pointed a gun at you and you put your hands in front of your face … I am subjectively interpreting that as a boxing stance.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hands up in a boxer stance can look close enough to hands up don’t shoot me in the face that it gets really easy to use your own threat of force to justify more force. “Ah, I pointed a gun at you and you put your hands in front of your face … I am subjectively interpreting that as a boxing stance.”
Still waiting on a taco truck on every corner.
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Still waiting on a taco truck on every corner.
Park Slope went +56 for Zohran!
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Park Slope went +56 for Zohran!
if anything this makes him an even more compelling candidate
June 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
if anything this makes him an even more compelling candidate
Watches, golf, classic cars would also like to have a word.
June 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Watches, golf, classic cars would also like to have a word.
Up is down, cats living with dogs, etc.
May 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Up is down, cats living with dogs, etc.
For lawyers who are capable of experiencing shame, this is the lead up to a Very Bad Time.
May 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
For lawyers who are capable of experiencing shame, this is the lead up to a Very Bad Time.
Feels appropriately Korean that education would be that high up in the succession order.
May 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Feels appropriately Korean that education would be that high up in the succession order.
The semester I suffered through “Sets, Groups, and Knots” (great professor, suffering was self-inflicted) was worth it just to get this joke.
April 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The semester I suffered through “Sets, Groups, and Knots” (great professor, suffering was self-inflicted) was worth it just to get this joke.
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Something I also found really interesting was the heavy emphasis on conformity in protest, something that is anathema in all walks of american political life. eg: swathes of the crowd would be directed to sit down on the ground at the same time; this locked the crowd in space and prevented crushing
April 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Something I also found really interesting was the heavy emphasis on conformity in protest, something that is anathema in all walks of american political life. eg: swathes of the crowd would be directed to sit down on the ground at the same time; this locked the crowd in space and prevented crushing
This is basically the Red Wedding for lawyers. Letting someone eat your bread and salt and then murdering them at the table.
March 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is basically the Red Wedding for lawyers. Letting someone eat your bread and salt and then murdering them at the table.
You didn't realize when they warned you about makgeolli hangovers that this is what they meant.
December 3, 2024 at 5:56 PM
You didn't realize when they warned you about makgeolli hangovers that this is what they meant.