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NOLAnotes
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Mom to @rougarou and wife of @surlybuddhist, poor souls. Practicing law in Louisiana, where we pride ourselves on our superior Civil Law system over the rest of the country’s “common” law. Screaming into the void. #nolasky
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Apparently based on a true story involving a truck not a helicopter. Which just makes it funnier. Sitcom genius.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Justice Jackson says the supermajority once again does not "understand the assignment" in emergency applications. The crux: the government has not shown it will suffer irreparable harm in the time in would take for the issue to be fully resolved by the courts in due order.
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
nolanotes.bsky.social
Cucumber basil smash. Too much cuke flavor, tho
October 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact.
www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...
The Supreme Court devalues democracy. Thirty-seven state constitutions block public funds from supporting religious entities. Richard Schragger, Micah Schwartzman & Nelson Tebbe, Reestablishing Religion, 92 U. Chi. L. Rev. 199, 211 (2025) . The Court aims to federally-repeal these state constitutional provisions. The Court's beliefs meddle with local and state governments. Forcing states to send public funds to religious entities federalizes public policy. By unprincipled fiat. See also New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022) (zero to superpower). Taxpayer funds now flow to religious institutions. So, the government collects money from nonbelievers (under the threat of jail), and uses some of it to support religion. And since not all religions will receive public funds, the government forces minority faiths to support other faiths, or else. The Court twists text, history, purpose, precedent, and public meaning to offend the First Amendment's character-of- government structure and the Constitution's separate sovereignty structure. As it steamrolls both, the Court says nothing about church- state separation and federalism principles. The Court's nevermind stance to the structural features of the Constitution "has unfolded with little engagement with, and occasional
September 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM