some incredible context here on the polite-diplomacy vs everyone-here-is-full-of-shit split among liberal jurists, especially considering Kagan's "we're all originalists now" pander at her confirmation hearings.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

I guess it's kind of cathartic that, despite being so obviously insecure and obsessive about their looks, our rulers cannot help personifying their deeply unsettling and ugly politics. soullessness made flesh

oh to be a fly on the wall in the jury room as it tries to apportion fault between the dispensary for leaving a big unlabeled bottle of THC oil in a kitchen shared with a pizza parlor, or the pizza parlor for using said bottle it found in a kitchen shared with a dispensary

I wonder how Columbia and all the coward big law firms feel after they caved and basically handed their organizations over to 4chan lawyers and then watched those same frens lawyers shit their pants immediately upon harvard calling their bluff

this judge has been on more than one SCOTUS shortlist, and only under Republican presidents. governor of California should probably commit seppuku at getting outflanked by this guy on the left on such a foundational no-brainer

fedsoc doj citing delicate foreign policy matters to get SCOTUS to bless "erroneously" disappearing ppl off the street has me thinking of CA5 waving away those same concerns when it forced Biden to restart MPP. hypocritical, intellectually dishonest yet totally on the same page re moral bankruptcy

tbh not all that surprising for a guy who posted his goon cave on main

lol

lmao Ali just dropped his order with perfect timing. and illustrating an ALAB axiom- DOJ lawyers' hearts sink when the judge opens with a sweeping ode to Separation of Powers
www.courtlistener.com/docket/69627...

little-known secret but the JD Vance meme is generated by carefully blending pictures of Josh Blackman

the last employee left at a regional agency that's the only thing standing between an entire state succumbing to violent diarrhea and getting this email from a guy that spends his days like this

Elon looks up from his phone for the first time in 9 hrs. a gaggle of 19yo DOGE minions all named Brett stand before him. realizing he forgot to send his own list, Elon feels icy sweat bead under his hairplugs. yet not nearly as cold as the first blade