Joe Patrice

O’Connor’s handling of this case has been disgraceful from jump

DOJ Proposes Rule Blocking State Bars From Investigating Ethical Violations By Government Lawyers - Above the Law Pam Bondi wants to halt state bars from investigation ethical breaches on her watch... forever.

In January, I told you all that the only accountability for the DOJ's ethical violations would be state disciplinary agencies. So today the DOJ moved to take away their legal authority.

Justice Gorsuch: Originalism Means Remembering That The Founders Knew How To F-ing Party - Above the Law A literal episode of Drunk History.

What was the original public meaning of hammered?

Also not unprecedented--I was at DOJ under George W. Bush when they did a moderate version of this criminal shit, which even a crappy Inspector General recognized to be wrong. oig.justice.gov/sites/defaul... (it was even worse than this)

Frodo: So my uncle left me this ring.

Antiques Roadshow: Well, you can tell from the craftsmanship here that it's a very special piece. It would be worth more if you had the whole set, of course...

"Treason" gets misapplied and overused a lot, but if this bonehead comment happened to be true, everyone involved in Iran-Contra from Reagan on down would be guilty of treason.

Law School Tells Students, 'You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,' For Summer Job - Above the Law 'GPA is not a strong factor.' No kidding.

The administration is not seeking the best and brightest.

Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security. Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

So those missing Epstein files must be REALLY bad for Trump, huh?

Like this example. Microsoft plans to book 3x more revenue from Anthropic than the government.

Like… some of these companies are in deeper with each other than the amount of revenue they make off their admittedly massive government contracts

It’s actually possible that the AI circular financing bubble has gotten so big that tech companies are going to tell the government, “yeah, ok, then I guess we’ll have to cancel our deals with you too because we can’t stop working with Anthropic”

Fifth Circuit Judges Begin Erasing Dissenting Opinions They Don't Like - Above the Law November dissent from Democratic appointee deleted after he retired this week.

Republicans giving dissents they don’t like the Nikolai Yezhov treatment.

The Woodlands Pride, Incorporated; Abilene Pride Alliance; Extragrams, L.L.C.; 360 Queen Entertainment, L.L.C.; Brigitte Bandit, Plaintiffs—Appellees, versus Warren Kenneth Paxton, In an official capacity as Attorney General of Texas; Brett Ligon, In an official capacity as District Attorney of Montgomery County; Montgomery County, Texas; James Hicks, In an official capacity as District Attorney of Taylor County; Taylor County, Texas; City of Abilene, Texas, Defendants—Appellants. ______________________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas USDC No. 4:23-CV-2847 ______________________________ Before Southwick and Engelhardt, Circuit Judges.* _____________________ * Judge James Dennis was a member of the original panel, concurring in part and dissenting in part from the panel opinion. See Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton, 157 F.4th 775, 789–803 (5th Cir. 2025) (Dennis, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). Judge Dennis took inactive status from the Court on February 23, 2026, and therefore did not

participate in this decision to withdraw and substitute the panel opinion. This case is decided by a quorum under 28 U.S.C. § 46(d).

Judges Southwick and Englehardt (5th Cir.) took the occasion of Judge Dennis taking inactive status on February 23 as an opportunity to vacate his partial dissent in the Texas drag ban case and reissue their maj. op. virtually unchanged. Real nice, guys.

www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

I assumed he got confused and thought we were talking about Epstein's island.

Space Force…. Lololololol

Mamdani cleaned up the snow

If only I’d had the below close up for this story.

Did… did he just ask her to stand up after all that?

“We have an old grid, it could never support that energy”… but instead of say, fixing the grid, they’re going to let companies build their own power.

Misuse of the cadavers?

I get to work faster when I drive in the carpool lane!

After the Supreme Court slapped down his tariffs, Donald Trump promised another global regime of 15 percent import taxes. In an interview, one of the lawyers who helped beat Trump's tariffs the first… Trump DOOMED at SCOTUS as He Comes Back for MORE LOSING

“Congressional action will not be necessary,” Trump lies about his attempt to resuscitate his SCOTUS-stricken tariffs.

A video explainer about why these will fail too. youtu.be/KRN_Wm61sfw?...

Why has no one adjusted the gain on his mic?

That’s what the Coast Guard is supposed to do instead of looking for Kristi Noem’s jacket.

Shakes Kavanaughs had but not the other justices

Justice Kagan has that look like a professor who actually enjoys watching a train wreck of a cold call and is excited to see it at the highest level right now.

Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigrat...

NEW: If Attorney General Pam Bondi’s team wins this case, thousands of immigrant moms and dads could be exposed to deportation for minor involvement in the juvenile court system, a new realm for President Trump’s deportation regime.

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