This part seems….bad?

It’s not great here. Most of city on shelter in place. Drove home through black cloud. 280,000 lbs of jet fuel to burn off.

Three! Insane. Two back-to-back is my record and I did it twice. Once they were related, once they were totally separate but happened to involve the same underlying tort (which I was awkwardly on both sides of).

What if she has roommates?

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Fun exercise: if you have a golf handicap you can go into the GHIN app and calculate your handicap for that course from the tees they’re playing. It thinks I’d struggle to break 100. So do I. And that doesn’t even count the 5” rough.

Ehhh…not sure I read Gorsuch that way. Could easily see him joining an opinion that says you gotta try rule 23 instead.

20 years ago, when I was a trial lawyer at DOJ, Mark was our opposing counsel in a few cases and he already had a security clearance at that time. I guess no one in the government noticed this supposed national security threat for 2+ decades?

Have you discovered www.chasingscratchgolf.com? If you want to combine that addiction with a fun podcast filled with music/movie references, you can go way overboard. You're only 7.5 seasons behind!

Congratulations! Now you're really gonna be addicted, though.

But what if it’s really good? Would you file that in some case just for fun?

No, no. Gotta tie it to “sources and methods.” It’s about the sources of our hatred and the methods of our cruelty. Can’t reveal those or someone might, you know, stop us.

That’s a state secret!

In our annual Supreme Court review last year, I phrased it as SCOTUS ruling that the Free Exercise clause now renders the Establishment Clause unconstitutional.

What about a tshirt or golf shirt under a sweatshirt? Is that allowed? Only one is visible at a time.

deep squats too.

So I worked on states secrets cases under multiple administrations when I was at DOJ. I will just say this: we always gave the court LOTS of information to explain why a thing couldn’t be disclosed to the parties or publicly litigated—especially if some info seemed to be public. This is….a choice.

What’s interesting to me, a former government appellate lawyer, is that the process would usually involve a memo from the us attorney, one from civil appellate, one from an assistant to the SG, and a recommendation from the deputy SG, plus SG approval. Many of these ppl know appellate jurisdiction.

In short, the water’s great out here if you want interesting work, more autonomy, and a nice quality of life. But it won’t be the brassiest of rings.