Rachel H. Stinson

Correction: Raffi won’t *knowingly* eat live bugs.

AAAHHHHHHHHHHH

We sometimes got the really good Yankees tickets from my friend’s job and the way the girls around us all screamed for “Jeee-taah” it sounded like a rock concert.

What’s your favorite weeknight dinner?

If a child, their parents, and their medical doctor are all in favor of pursuing a generally accepted medical treatment, why would lawmakers intervene to prohibit it?

Several parts of Houston come pretty close. Come visit Longpoint Road between Old Hempstead Road and Gessner. Bring cash and wear stretchy pants.

I had to throw an entire muffin pan away for exactly this reason last week.

If your most important issue is the rule of law and liberty for all you've gone from squishy moderate to rabid partisan over a generation.

Ooh yes. I would love to be a customer please. I assume there are regular snack breaks on these walkabouts?

A miniature goat farm in the mountains of New Mexico where sometimes I make artisanal cheeses and soaps and sometimes I just hang out with my goats, but I always wear long flowy skirts and read books all day and let my hair get all long and witchy-woman crazy.

Yeah, but I can’t say most of them in court….

Some background: Houston’s toll roads are wildly profitable, tolls can soar to $20 or more, and no cash is accepted at most tollbooths. So “toll violations” are pretty commonplace here.

Adding that one to my list!

Are you gonna fish or cut bait, honey?

Flouting safety rules and thereby courting personal risk was apparently a core value for my Texas ancestors. They probably would have that you meant “off piste” as a GOOD thing.

My two current favorites for my law practice are “that gun kicks as hard as it shoots” and “you gotta hang the meat low enough that the dog will jump.”

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I wish we’d done it when we first learned about it. I’m pretty sure we are still good but it’s not straightforward.

Oh, there definitely was. SBISD is stuck in a metaphorical ditch at the moment. Hopefully we can turn it around, but it might be a while. Also might be never.

Reminder: Even in Texas, it’s not too late to plant some bush beans and okra.

The notion that “God has a side on every issue”—and the implication that a certain group of humans is empowered to say what side that is—is toxic to a free democracy in a diverse society.

Surround yourself with professional colleagues who make you better at what you do.

Screenshot from the SCOTUS opinion in Department of Education v California linked above with text as follows: 14 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION v. CALIFORNIA JACKSON, J., dissenting Courts that are properly mulling interim injunctive relief (to prevent imminent harms and thereby facilitate fair adjudication of potentially meritorious claims) should be waryof allowing defendants with weak underlying arguments to divert all attention to ancillary threshold and remedial questions. Children, pets, and magicians might find pleasure in the clever use of such shiny-object tactics. But a court of law should not be so easily distracted. Yet, here we are. Instead of leaving the lower courtjudges alone to do the important work of efficiently adjudicating all of the parties’ legal claims, the Supreme Courthas decided to enter the fray

Brutal 👍

This is something many people don't understand about being a lawyer.

I will put your interests before my own. In court, I will defend the positions you tell me to defend, even if I disagree. But I cannot and will not lie for you.

Sadly, some of the people who don't understand this are lawyers.

Protester holding sign that says “so bad even introverts are here”.

Truly dire.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Proposal:

Bro = masculine

Brah = feminine

Bruh = gender neutral

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

For the love of Pete, stop writing your briefs in staccato. It reads like kids arguing via SnapChat. “Bruh.” —“Couldn’t be me.” — “Cap.” —“Not so.”— “Higgley-piggley.”—“Applesauce.”—“Be so for real right now.”

Time to throw in a “Not so.” Just to keep things fresh. So new! So cheeky!