Law professor @TempleLaw, suburban gardener, avid reader. Happy to nerd out about legal writing anytime.
Ellie Margolis
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BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelley (Biden/MA) blocks Interior Secy. Doug Burgum's "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order at nat parks nationwide. Feds must restore race, climate & LGBT mentions www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Ugh. . . editing an article I thought was basically finished and discovered I wrote almost the identical paragraph in the intro and then later in the body.
Writing is hard.
One annoying thing about Aaron's clips is how he transcribes what they said and you think "that can't really be what they said, Aaron must've made a mistake" so you feel obliged as a good citizen to listen to it yourself and inevitably Aaron was right, that's really what they said.
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
(Published April 2023)
Another example today of why you file lawsuits.
Over and over and over.
Drag the DOJ into court again and again to defend their unconstitutional actions and reverse things.
Even if a higher court ultimately allows it, you keep doing it.
Make them spend time & $ defend long breaking the law!
AS WE WERE SAYING.
You want to create a robust counter-public: support the Libby App!
can we talk about how this admin spends so much time saying 'whoa whoa whoa a policy is NOT illegal just bc it has a disparate impact on Black people' and at the same time is like
'whoa whoa whoa a school has Black students? must be an illegal admissions policy!'
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
The family should have been bereft,
for the Swedish assassin was deft.
But the plot came apart,
before it could start.
Because the idiot forgot to stay left.
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
www.propublica.org
This person is an advisor on how to grow companies, with a verified Xitter account to prove it.
I'm not sure I'd trust her DCFs.
Burgum: "Now with the threat of having a terrorist group having a nuclear weapon and their will to use it, their desire to use it, is gonna be a game-changer for America and exciting times ahead"
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
Lawyers Behaving Badly
Professa Murray
Andrew Rothstein
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Finally, this administration has identified a form of “disparate impact” it finds objectionable.
I just discovered that Libby (the library app) carries free magazines as well as books, so I'm feeling a little more connected to the monthly world. That seems to be in as much of an uproar as the daily world, which takes some doing.
The Judge Ross apology letter that has been unearthed by the NYTimes is pretty offensive in its vagueness and lack of responsibility.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
