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Ah, I’d thought it was the Temple University Bees-ley School of Law.
That's the New York Court of A Bee’s Building.
This is actually the United Bee State District Court for the District of Buzz and Federal Building.
So, there is always a cost to commenting on an opinion like this, where the author is going for shock value . . .
But I do think there’s an important point about judicial nominees in here . . .
We tend to (rightly, I think) focus on a nominee’s commitment to the rule of law and ideology . . .
In December 2025, the Supreme Court of Maryland decided Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. Sanjeev Varghese. I did not believe an AI model when it told me, as I'm predisposed to distrust "Varghese" citations from AI models ...
Pretty sure this is a seizure.
Life in DC: 78 degrees and snow, 13 hours apart
He's a no-holds-barred UFC fighter.
She's a by-the-book FBI agent.
Together, they solve crime.
"Mixed Investigative Arts," CBS Tuesdays 10/9 Central.
A lot of attorneys at my Firm got their first stand-up-in-court experiences seeking SIJS findings in state court. And I've done two appeals getting judges reversed who refused to grant SIJS findings. How awful.
The only way to make it funnier is if it were tacked up on a notice board outside the vice dean's office and distributed nowhere else.
our vice dean just started a monthly essential updates newsletter and it's called "constructive notice" and if you are not a legal academic i can assure you that this is one of the funniest things you can possibly imagine
That's not fair. Bsky's TOS requires you to certify you have never made, or even been exposed to, a joke before.
"He probably posted from the organizational account rather than a personal one, so only the individual is super-racist, it's not an organizational position" is the optimistic reading of this.
On the other hand, this might be an argument for not overthinking it. If the rule says "a period measured in X weeks" means "the same day of the week X weeks from now," don't conclude a period that begins on a Thursday ends on a Friday except for a very obvious reason.
The rule that excludes the day on which the action occurs, when the period is stated in days, just means that adding days works the way you think it does. Don't think too hard about the exclusion.
Also, this wasn't a period stated in days.
Minds were applied, Raffi. Minds were applied.
Never, ever, ever, ever file on the last day of a jurisdictional deadline.
One of the polestars in the Administration's view of the Constitution, to the extent it has a cohesive view, is that the commander-in-chief power is so paramount that it trumps even other, specific textual restrictions.
I had to listen to the audio, because I thought there was no way the captioning could be right that she served up "Congress has no constitutional role in the declaration of war."
And second to none!
Gaya was a Twi'lek superstar who took every opportunity her musical career presented to help the Twi'lek people. She was contracted to perform aboard the Halcyon star cruiser and was accompanied by the Rodian keyboardist Ouanni. Her music was also featured by DJ R-3X on Batuu.
I'm sorry, friend. Our brains trick us and not all thinks they think are true.
One of three people exercising powers of the U.S. Attorney of DNJ.
Thank you for your service.
. . . What?
