You’ll just be minding your own business when suddenly Martha-Ann

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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

When President AOC federalizes the National Guard in 2029 to protect abortion clinics, Ilan is going to magically discover an English treatise written in 1610 that proves Matthew Kacsmaryk can issue a nationwide injunction against her.

He’s just a baby 😭

I assure you … no one texting you from a number in the Philippines is actually going to give you a job to work from home at a rate of $500 a day

Everybody wanna be Scalia until it’s time to uphold Employment Division v. Smith

I am not one of you - but I do care about you 🫶

How we feeling my swiftie lawyers friends?

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

Normalize nerf gun fights over negotiations

“Chocolate Chip cookie week”: (colloquial) when you are a lawyer and you have the kind of week that required at least one chocolate chip cookie to survive

And now for a nice quiet evening with the Federal Register…

Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach

I assure you - as someone who rides public transit often- some of you DO need it

(h/t Janae aka the Nomadic attorney on tik tok)

I don’t think I totally realized I was signing up for IRL spy vs. spy

I’m sorry for the person I became when the spotted lantern fly landed on me

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

Maroon graphic reading "Today's Supreme Court order puts people at grave risk, allowing federal agents in Southern California to target individuals because of their race, how they speak, the jobs they work, or just being at a bus stop or the car wash when ICE agents decide to raid a place. For anyone perceived as Latino by an ICE agent, this means living in a fearful ‘papers please’ regime, with risks of violent ICE arrests and detention." This quote is attributed to Cecillia Wang, the National Legal Director of the ACLU.

Despite today’s outrageous ruling, we all have the right to go about our daily lives free from racial profiling by the federal government.

We will never stop fighting for our civil liberties and our immigrant communities.

If it is not safe for Latinos to just exist in Los Angeles, it is not safe for them anywhere

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Crazy how you can just have no idea your hair is wavy until you get into your 40s

Oh see I was expecting you to be the one trying to stop seis leches cake

LGBTQ students deserve to be themselves at school.

I know there are no silver bullets here, but I think constantly about how our culture of insanely aggressive and thoughtless policing would be upended if federal and state officials were subject to individual liability for their torts instead of being protected by a vast web of immunity doctrines.

It’s so over(broad yet under inclusive)

Encountering novel legal fact patterns:
Law school: omg I hate this worst day of my life
Practice: omg this is amazing I haven’t felt this good in months

We are so back (in settlement negotiations)

When I catch the person that put all these tab stops in this document…

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.