#  @mike_frags Mike Fragoso Mike Fragoso posts on X about in the, this is, democrats, history the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1877474874941165568/interactions)  - [--] Week [-------] +36% - [--] Month [-------] -11% - [--] Months [---------] +38% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1877474874941165568/posts_active)  - [--] Months [---] +65% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1877474874941165568/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +1.30% - [--] Month [-----] +3.60% - [--] Months [-----] +70% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1877474874941165568/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football) [stocks](/list/stocks) [ufc](/list/ufc) [musicians](/list/musicians) **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the), [this is](/topic/this-is) #5137, [democrats](/topic/democrats) #238, [history](/topic/history), [money](/topic/money), [schumer](/topic/schumer), [dems](/topic/dems), [jay jones](/topic/jay-jones), [white house](/topic/white-house), [slip](/topic/slip) **Top assets mentioned** [Ferguson plc (FERG)](/topic/$ferg) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "She got a Qualified from the ABA. Larry Silberman Frank Easterbrook and Jerry Smith got worse ratings" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1896758423439433769) 2025-03-04T03:03Z [---] followers, 31.1K engagements "Weirdly George Conway was nowhere to be found during the month we spent horsewhipping law enforcement into defending the Justices homes" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1897496816825909375) 2025-03-06T03:57Z [---] followers, 52.9K engagements "If Democrats are serious about a shutdown over DOGE good. As long as Republicans stick together on their funding plan Democrats will be inflicting pain on the populace at large to benefit their professional-class constituents. https://washingtonreporter.news/p/op-ed-michael-fragoso-winning-a-shutdown https://washingtonreporter.news/p/op-ed-michael-fragoso-winning-a-shutdown" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1897769308635513278) 2025-03-06T22:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements "Georgetown Law when criticized by the right. Via @joshchafetz GULC Dean Treanors good response: https://t.co/f6GYvw3baW Via @joshchafetz GULC Dean Treanors good response: https://t.co/f6GYvw3baW" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1898011169836720140) 2025-03-07T14:01Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Theres a lot going on here. This situation only makes sense in the broader context of the left-wing capture of BigLaw. 1/7 Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic ties https://t.co/lEtnYTS9e0 Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic ties https://t.co/lEtnYTS9e0" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1898829637486063879) 2025-03-09T20:13Z [---] followers, 64.1K engagements "Im not sure if any trade has done more to damage the interests of its membership than the medical professional associations like the AMA and the AAP. By prioritizing left-wing politics over bread-and-butter doc interests theyve alienated natural R allies. Funding bill skips measure to avert physician pay cuts a blow to GOP Doctors Caucus https://t.co/Pqe90wowjl Funding bill skips measure to avert physician pay cuts a blow to GOP Doctors Caucus https://t.co/Pqe90wowjl" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1898931309285687720) 2025-03-10T02:57Z [---] followers, [----] engagements "Experts have warned that the presidents efforts threaten the ability of lawyers to do their jobs and private citizens to obtain legal counsel. Guantanamo Bay terrorists hardest hit. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-law-firm.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-law-firm.html" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1900729795001930014) 2025-03-15T02:04Z [---] followers, 12.7K engagements "CJ Boasberg is probably the most well respected mainstream D on DDC. Hes old pals with Brett Kavanaugh. And yet hes issuing orders to planes in the air to bring their gang-members back. The most right-wing Texas judge wouldnt dream of this. Food for thought. An activist Obama DC judge thinks he has the power to order the President to turn around planes deporting vicious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members When will the Chief Justice and Justice Barrett end this extremely dangerous judicial sabotage of the presidency An activist Obama DC judge thinks he has the power to order the President" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1901057066120196417) 2025-03-15T23:44Z [---] followers, 164.1K engagements "At some point Trump is just going to order the plane to Honduras and then pardon everyone involved. Id tag the Chief Justice if I knew his alt. Because thats whats coming his way if he doesnt put a stop to the TRO madness. CJ Boasberg is probably the most well respected mainstream D on DDC. Hes old pals with Brett Kavanaugh. And yet hes issuing orders to planes in the air to bring their gang-members back. The most right-wing Texas judge wouldnt dream of this. Food for thought. CJ Boasberg is probably the most well respected mainstream D on DDC. Hes old pals with Brett Kavanaugh. And yet hes" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1901061843902202108) 2025-03-16T00:03Z [---] followers, 111.2K engagements "Lets say the underlying legal issue is difficult and justiciable (I doubt it) Davis is correct that *ordering a plane back* is not that. Judge Boasberg ordered two planes full of designated foreign terrorists to turn around mid-air and return to American soil. That's clearly illegal Bill. This isn't difficult at all. Judge Boasberg ordered two planes full of designated foreign terrorists to turn around mid-air and return to American soil. That's clearly illegal Bill. This isn't difficult at all" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1901113760711897556) 2025-03-16T03:30Z [---] followers, 20.6K engagements "During the first Bush administration they were dealing with an influx of Haitian boat people. Something like [-----] of them (seems quaint now). Well a judge in Brooklyn (I think) kept enjoining the Coast Guard as it picked up Haitians and sent them home. AG Barr went straight to the Supreme Court three times to stop him. When asked by General Scowcroft what the plan was if SCOTUS didnt bail them out Barr explained that it was essentially to invade the territorial waters of Haiti and blockade the island. You cant get enjoined for violating international law The Court did step in though and went" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1901122232794939545) 2025-03-16T04:03Z [---] followers, 165K engagements "Surely you cant be serious.FN FN I am serious. And dont call me Shirley. AIRPLANE (Paramount Pictures 1980)" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1902204680630841493) 2025-03-19T03:45Z [---] followers, 42.2K engagements "@Legal_Fil This reboot of Cornel West is lame" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1907245658655891752) 2025-04-02T01:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements ""Judge Xinisshould be forcing the Trump administration to disclose in full the parameters of the agreement it made with President Nayib Bukeles regime For years McConnell blocked a Menendez bill that would have required expansive disclosure of foreign negotiations and nonbinding agreements to Congress. Why Because it was an unconstitutional encroachment on executive power. If Congress cant properly do it I dont see how the courts can either. But Im sure this is *actually* like New York prison contracts. https://t.co/3eMxPKA4F8 worth your time by @AndrewCMcCarthy https://t.co/3eMxPKA4F8 worth" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1911981557222375770) 2025-04-15T03:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "ACLU asks J. Hendrix for an ex parte TRO. He makes them inform the acting US Atty. He then promptly denies the TRO after briefing. ACLU then leaves J. Hendrix a late night VM urging different relief; he tells them to file a motion. They doon Good Fridaysetting a deadline for the judge and threatening interlocutory review. J. Hendrix doesnt comply with the ACLU deadline so they appeal. Apparently CA5 wasnt quick enough either so now *they have petitioned SCOTUS*. All in one day. When we say government by TRO is irregular this is what we mean. In the rare instance that the ACLU doesnt get to" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1913387105213890619) 2025-04-19T00:20Z [----] followers, 264.3K engagements "French is not unintelligent so you have to assume hes being dishonest. I literally have no idea what this is referring to. In the last four years America averaged [------] deportations per year over the last four years. The conventional deportation process is quite simple and SCOTUS hasn't touched it at all. I literally have no idea what this is referring to. In the last four years America averaged [------] deportations per year over the last four years. The conventional deportation process is quite simple and SCOTUS hasn't touched it at all" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1913704206134915350) 2025-04-19T21:20Z [----] followers, 20.3K engagements "I think there is going to be significant buyers remorse from three Justices that the Chief talked them into this nonsense. Get ready for lower courts to announce that they may now directly enjoin the President himself at the drop of a hat citing the unreasoned SCOTUS majority order a few days ago--despite [---] years of contrary SCOTUS caselaw https://t.co/2udF53g7FS Get ready for lower courts to announce that they may now directly enjoin the President himself at the drop of a hat citing the unreasoned SCOTUS majority order a few days ago--despite [---] years of contrary SCOTUS caselaw" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1913943998227505163) 2025-04-20T13:13Z [----] followers, 18.4K engagements "Ive been very critical of the Court lately but a timely word of prudence from @JamesWilsonInsts Garret Snedecker. https://tomklingenstein.com/republicans-should-take-the-long-view-on-the-supreme-court/ https://tomklingenstein.com/republicans-should-take-the-long-view-on-the-supreme-court/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1915058175386222635) 2025-04-23T15:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Will Republicans vote to overturn the destructive electric-vehicle mandates in California and other states https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gop-congress-congressional-review-act-california-ev-mandate-63455414st=bk2uqw https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gop-congress-congressional-review-act-california-ev-mandate-63455414st=bk2uqw" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1917600212534845721) 2025-04-30T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Edith Jones criticizes a law professor who popularized delegitimizing conservative judges and the sky fell. Ketanji Jackson trashes the president at a judges conference and its heroic. What a joke. BREAKING: The Supreme Court's most junior justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just became its loudest voice pushing back against Trump & his allies' attacks on federal judges who've blocked many of his policy moves https://t.co/DMhbdvuuMs #SCOTUS https://t.co/R6kCi4h8xc BREAKING: The Supreme Court's most junior justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just became its loudest voice pushing back against Trump & his" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1918139163951386870) 2025-05-02T03:03Z [----] followers, 35.4K engagements ""President Trumps first judicial pick Whitney Hermandorfer . is a great choice. If this is a sign of what is to come it should put to rest the hand-wringing on the right ." https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/great-first-judge-from-trump/ https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/great-first-judge-from-trump/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1918342551884710150) 2025-05-02T16:31Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements "So whats the legal justification for the [--] hour constructive-denial standard Another treatise But unlike with Newberg here they also quote an (inapposite) opinion which actually provides wise counsel for the current Court: It is the responsibility of all courts to see that no unauthorized extension or reduction of jurisdiction direct or indirect occurs in the federal system. Any such ad hoc decisions disorganize practice by encouraging attempts to secure or oppose appeals with a consequent waste of time and money. DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay of a wildly overbroad injunction issued by a San" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1923871686656459024) 2025-05-17T22:42Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements "Or the CRAor the CAAor the APA. But mostly the filibuster. ChatGPT write me an op ed based on this Alex Padilla press release. Tell me you dont understand the filibuster without telling me you dont understand the filibuster: Opinion Republicans push to skirt the parliamentarian and the filibuster - The Washington Post https://t.co/0nsssqCz5k Tell me you dont understand the filibuster without telling me you dont understand the filibuster: Opinion Republicans push to skirt the parliamentarian and the filibuster - The Washington Post https://t.co/0nsssqCz5k" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1924090986323448048) 2025-05-18T13:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It seems that by legal Cato means illegally but with the support and blessing of the Biden administration. Which is sort of the whole policy dispute at this point. If this is true this is outrageous. If this is true this is outrageous" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1924820093667602844) 2025-05-20T13:30Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements "And thats a wrap. No more ABA involvement" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1928150793519063393) 2025-05-29T18:05Z [----] followers, 522.7K engagements "If you want to understand the frustration on the right with the courts this is a good example. Bosts suit on an issue very important to Rs was dismissed by two of the most rock-ribbed judges in the circuitKness and Brennanon standing grounds. What are the odds Biden judges would let technicalities get in the way of doing some justice Now SCOTUS is reviewing it which means maybe Bost will get standing in June [----] at which point his casebrought in 2022will go through the process on the merits. Perhaps it will be resolved in time for the [----] midterms Maybe this is the way to do things Ive" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1929580618565742834) 2025-06-02T16:47Z [----] followers, 29.6K engagements "- Hermandorfer: Princeton top-of-class at GW Leon Kavanaugh Alito Barrett W&C senior state litigator - Divine: Yale Pryor Thomas Chief Counsel on SJC SG of MO - Bluestone: Georgetown Oxford Harvard Gruender Deputy SG of MO appellate chief EDMo - Lanahan: Chicago Law Review Zahra Gruender Thompson Coburn Charter Communications PDSG of MO - Stevens: Bowman AUSA MO AG crim chief state judge Blumenthal on Trump judicial nominees: If I had to compile a list of truly unqualified nominees for the federal bench I couldn't do better. They are simply unable to provide the kind of justice Americans" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1930277493115703339) 2025-06-04T14:56Z [----] followers, 34.2K engagements "I know that the ABA does have a threshold for litigation experience for any nominee to receive a qualified rating. -Padilla Given who all got qualified ratings last administration Im not sure Id want one if I were in Josh Divines shoes" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1930312983256719381) 2025-06-04T17:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "There also wont be paying off the national debt if Republicans do a party-line slash-and-burn of popular entitlements (the only way to get at the debt) thereby strengthening the political hand of Democrats who want Medicare for All and UBI. There won't be any paying off the national debt if our country becomes a third-world hellhole There won't be any paying off the national debt if our country becomes a third-world hellhole" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1930360518872563976) 2025-06-04T20:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Ejmiller25 Idk have you seen Nikki Haleys posts" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1931019062475210962) 2025-06-06T16:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Fitting tribute to Brian Wilson: Bomb bomb bomb Bomb bomb Iran https://t.co/aqh7QXYtiy https://t.co/aqh7QXYtiy" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1933328650176184743) 2025-06-13T01:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The unnamed president acting on the recommendation from the unnamed senator ran them all by the ABA before nomination unless it was George W. Bush. But Im glad that these unnamed judges picked by an unnamed senator to be appointed by an unnamed president were deemed qualified by the ABA. Thats highly probative of non-bias on the part of the ABA. Bondi should probably change course" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1933897076598886759) 2025-06-14T14:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Emil Bove will make an excellent addition to the Third Circuit. We know this because the three of us shepherded [---] Article III judges to confirmation under President Trump aschief counsels on the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairmen Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1935301679500415206) 2025-06-18T11:40Z [----] followers, 29.6K engagements "When the case is four-square on a clear constitutional issue Barrett is willing to lay down clear rulesconsistent with her (at times frustrating) anti-shadow-docket approach. BK and NMGs willingness seems to vary by issue as much as by posture. 3/6" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1935365247772090431) 2025-06-18T15:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "So its sort of a good news/bad news situation. It seems the best thing the Court could do would be to adopt a preference for ex ante clarity across the board. ACB should more carefully consider its importance on the emergency docket as a simple matter of litigation reality. 4/6" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1935365261319618819) 2025-06-18T15:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A guilt by association that makes the junior senator from Baileys Beach Club look like Aristotle in his reasoning" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1936073262401831407) 2025-06-20T14:46Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements "Lets not get carried away here buddy. -Leo Strauss https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/20/the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-justice-barretts-skrmetti-concurrence/ https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/20/the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-justice-barretts-skrmetti-concurrence/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1936099228389986560) 2025-06-20T16:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Yawn. Rick Scott is not the president. Also when Dems complain that our noms are too young white inexperienced and MAGA remember they put out this lame hit on a middle-aged Hispanic sitting judge whos a FedSoc regular. SCOOP: Florida judge was actively seeking Trump nomination for federal judgeship before he ruled for Trump in a defamation case and called to overturn longstanding libel standard. Via @hailey_fuchs https://t.co/JM89jwnZz1 SCOOP: Florida judge was actively seeking Trump nomination for federal judgeship before he ruled for Trump in a defamation case and called to overturn" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1936601301057421359) 2025-06-22T01:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Queue the district judges saying that terror cells arent an invasion force because they dont wear uniforms or something. NBC- Iran sent messages to President Trump last week threatening to activate sleeper terror cells inside the United States if it were attacked sources said. NBC- Iran sent messages to President Trump last week threatening to activate sleeper terror cells inside the United States if it were attacked sources said" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1936927210880823565) 2025-06-22T23:20Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements "Weird how they had no such concerns when criminal-defense lawyers sounded the alarm on Ritz. Indeed they all voted for him. Inbox: Sen. Schiff Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats Demand SDNY Misconduct Records Ahead of Emil Boves Nomination Hearing https://t.co/AtQPGmgQtL Inbox: Sen. Schiff Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats Demand SDNY Misconduct Records Ahead of Emil Boves Nomination Hearing https://t.co/AtQPGmgQtL" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1937247552581046751) 2025-06-23T20:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "When Democrats ask Emil Bove about the president ignoring the courts Republicans should ask him about district courts ignoring SCOTUS. 🚨UNPRECEDENTED OBSTINANCE Now Judge Murphy says his injunction "remains in full force and effect nothwithstanding todays stay of the Preliminary Injunction." He cites Justice Sotomayor in saying that his illegal order was "not properly before the Supreme Court." Unreal. https://t.co/xYSCT11gSe 🚨UNPRECEDENTED OBSTINANCE Now Judge Murphy says his injunction "remains in full force and effect nothwithstanding todays stay of the Preliminary Injunction." He cites" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1937312060171239661) 2025-06-24T00:49Z [----] followers, 98.8K engagements "I can see why one might think this but Kagan countenanced the Montana Supreme Courts [----] efforts to ignore Citizens United. Maybe shes seen the error of her ways Today is Justice Kagan's ultimate test. She more than any other Justice has invoked the rhetoric of respecting the rule of law. She more than any other Justice should now recognize that the greatest threat to the rule of law comes from district courts openly defying Supreme Today is Justice Kagan's ultimate test. She more than any other Justice has invoked the rhetoric of respecting the rule of law. She more than any other Justice" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1937606840562667866) 2025-06-24T20:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "All these guys except RonJon are going to have to vote for a reconciliation bill. If not by July [--] by January [--]. The more they trash it to curry favor at home the less popular *the thing they will vote for* becomes" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1937853139643724156) 2025-06-25T12:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements ""Did Professor sic Barrett really cut off the power of federal courts to issue nationwide relief when President Ocasio-Cortez opens the borders to let an invasion of aliens enter If I were Justice Alito I would hide my head in a bag."" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1938621198025572698) 2025-06-27T15:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Somewhat more seriously when Jackson was picked I argued she was dangerous because shed set fire to the Court from the inside. Thats what were seeing and it seems ACB has had enough of it" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1938778439944663172) 2025-06-28T01:56Z [----] followers, 48.5K engagements "So Thom Tillis is retiring. What does this mean for the Judiciary Committee I dont expect Tillis unchained to start taking judges hostage like Flake unchained. Their motivations and priorities are very different. Tillis cares about the judiciary in and of itselfeven if its probably not his top priority. I also dont expect him to be a reliable target for Democrats to stop especially conservative or Trump-aligned judges. Two Congresses ago he was willing to vote present to get some pretty left-wing judges out of committee (Beth Robinson comes to mind). I can see him doing that with nominees he" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1939386288785723726) 2025-06-29T18:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The temptations for an unleashed senator to transform from legislator to pundit from deal-maker to hostage-taker are immense. For Senators integrity means doing the right thing when you no longer have a reelection to force it. Advice for Sen. Tillis in the first comment" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1940834931665670615) 2025-07-03T18:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Tax cuts. Welfare reform. The wall. Record ICE funding. Endowment tax. Student-loan reform. School choice. Defunding PP. This is easily the best piece of legislation in the last decade" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1940843908805939227) 2025-07-03T18:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "And sure W never held Jeffs conservative-purist no votes on Ws bipartisan agenda against him but howd that work out for Chuck Hagel after he opposed things W actually cared about 11/21" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1941886693310710189) 2025-07-06T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "While a return to decency would be nice its the Democrats currently accusing Republicans of mass murder (a charge that eight years ago got JF shot at during baseball practice). 12/21" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1941886695328088197) 2025-07-06T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trump has NEVER purported to care about debt and deficits Debts and deficits arent mentioned once. Elon et al flipped out about a policy issue that wasnt even in the platform. Debts and deficits arent mentioned once. Elon et al flipped out about a policy issue that wasnt even in the platform" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1941960494845247525) 2025-07-06T20:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Disastrous and deeply devastatingis it poor usage or a vile pun Regardless the IG is being urged to immediately to open an investigation. Sic. 2/8" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942325391252939093) 2025-07-07T20:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Into what The scope breadth and ramifications of whether staffing shortages at key local National Weather Service (NWS) stations contributed to the tragedy in Texas. Scope AND breadth Ramifications of whether something contributed to something else Did KBJ write this 3/8" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942325394180649082) 2025-07-07T20:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A reasoning-free TRO against a duly-enacted statute is a choice I suppose" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942361105378029736) 2025-07-07T23:12Z [----] followers, 16K engagements "The Planned Parenthood TRO is probably the most insane judicial action this administration. A TRO directing an appropriation in the face of enacted statute is like Michelangelo-level resistance. Some have argued SCOTUS should reassign the case and theres a lot to that. 1/x" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448710396285326) 2025-07-08T05:00Z [----] followers, 309.5K engagements "Interestingly D. Mass. has a local rule that presumes reassignment for further proceedings This means that reassigning from Talwani would not even cause undue administrative headaches. 6/x" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448756160397496) 2025-07-08T05:00Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements "The fact is that concerns about a district judges ability to carry out orders is a valid reason for reassignment as seen in the many cases of Judge Manny Real. This TRO is so indefensible that its Real-level. 7/x" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448770085498934) 2025-07-08T05:00Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements "Of course it has some costs in terms of comity. (Although the D. Mass. local rule may attenuate this.) 12/x" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448822149374227) 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements "While the article focuses on circuits reassigning district judges it notes that this is a power held by SCOTUS. 13/x" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448836682617166) 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It speculates that maybe SCOTUS doesnt reassign circuit judges because the nature of the appellate review makes individual judges less relevant. Perhaps that counsels in favor of policing these district judges 14/x" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448847759757374) 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "But at the end of the day reassignment is a tool the Court has at its disposal. Its a forward-looking means of appellate control. 16/x" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448861785513998) 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Who made this case for reassignment as a tool of appellate control None other than Prof. Toby Heytens now a Biden appointee to the Fourth Circuit. 17/x" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448868697780382) 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Listen to Toby; reassign Talwani. 18/fin" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942448871776342183) 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "With Hermandorfer moving to a vote soon it's worth taking stock of where things stand. The remaining circuit vacancies are CA3 (Delaware) which is its own briar patch and CA7 (Wisconsin). The CA7 vacancy goes live on October [--] so I assume the admin will want to nominate CJ Sykes's replacement by August [--]. That would allow confirmation by October [--] or [--]. The importance of filling this vacancy quickly can be seen in CA7 having recently taken a trans bathroom case en banc. That often hears en bancs in its September sitting and regardless CJ Sykes was on the panel so she'll still participate even" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1942708284357763206) 2025-07-08T22:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Public-service announcement: if Pam Bondi goes her replacement goes through the Judiciary Committee. This means that Thom Tilliswho no longer is susceptible to political pressurecan veto her replacement" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1944178423284310157) 2025-07-12T23:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "This should be DOJs stay petition to CA9 on the Home Depot TRO. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pDmGhethEoQ https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pDmGhethEoQ" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1944202404171235815) 2025-07-13T01:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I can think of few better indicators of Boves qualifications for the bench than being opposed by Nancy Gertner and Mike Luttig" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1945133217226387710) 2025-07-15T14:47Z [----] followers, 63K engagements "Do Never Trumpers really believe that Epstein worked with Mossad and the Lizard People Of course not. They want the files released because whenever investigative files are released outside a judicial process it makes associated figures look bad. The Special Counsel regs show this clearly. No Russia collusion but Weissmann still tried to write a report making Trump look bad. No charges for Biden but the Hur report basically ruined his political career. Investigative materials absent the protections of the judicial process can tell any story; there are no rules. Never Trumpers are assuming that" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1945184450888822844) 2025-07-15T18:11Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements "I dont like to use the term gaslighting but this is pure gaslighting. The last-ditch effort to stop BK was all about his temperament" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1945885565313794072) 2025-07-17T16:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Ive made it clear to White House counsel that nominating someone whos not a Delawarean and didnt take the Delaware baris not part of the Delaware legal communitywhen we had identified several compelling candidates who they had interviewed is very disappointing said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.). Maybe he should have thought about this when Tillis and Blackburn were asking for his help on Park Ritz and Campbell" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1946192607375433846) 2025-07-18T12:57Z [----] followers, 13K engagements "Im not sure what happened to Habba but if ever there was a d. ct. not to monkey w US Atty hiring its DNJ. Recall that DOJ didnt retry Menendez bc he pulled one of his judges. Next time they brought the case in SDNY NJ judges should be Caesars wifenot fire the top cop" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1947709302010966375) 2025-07-22T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Was Bove ever on a boat in Rhode Island NEW: As the Senate prepares to vote on Emil Boves nomination to the Third Circuit two more whistleblowers have emerged according to Whistleblower Aid and the Justice Connection. /1 NEW: As the Senate prepares to vote on Emil Boves nomination to the Third Circuit two more whistleblowers have emerged according to Whistleblower Aid and the Justice Connection. /1" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1948925810020094023) 2025-07-26T01:58Z [----] followers, 22K engagements "@teafortillerman So where is the 4th year going to come from in two years" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1949198992685842451) 2025-07-26T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Probably a billing partner on a management committee. Yang should ask that guys service partner how he enjoys correcting hallucinations in the hours before filing. A partner at a prominent law firm told me AI is now doing work that used to be done by 1st to 3rd year associates. AI can generate a motion in an hour that might take an associate a week. And the work is better. Someone should tell the folks applying to law school right now. A partner at a prominent law firm told me AI is now doing work that used to be done by 1st to 3rd year associates. AI can generate a motion in an hour that" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1949200583103324672) 2025-07-26T20:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Every day in every way I am going to derail Emil Bove affirmed each morning by congressional reporters" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1950026346039517482) 2025-07-29T02:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Much credit to Sens. Thune and Grassley for getting Bove though. Two lessons: (1) Trusting talented Senate leadership to do the hard but possible is better than scolding for not doing the impossible. (2) Senior-eligibles who want good replacements should note what [--] can do" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1950368963546009865) 2025-07-30T01:32Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements "Fantastic result. The advertising censorship world was layered and complex. Im not at all surprised that @AFergusonFTC was able to use this mega merger to help root it out. Advertisers colluded to target conservatives as a pernicious form of censorship. The landmark settlement that bans this censorship will soon be live. I'm grateful to @POTUS and @AFergusonFTC for delivering this great win for free speech. https://t.co/WTEUzy6h93 Advertisers colluded to target conservatives as a pernicious form of censorship. The landmark settlement that bans this censorship will soon be live. I'm grateful" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1951093879551434821) 2025-08-01T01:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "ATTENTION my Wonderful Senate Republicans: I have instructed Laura Loomer and Mike Davis to go to RONALD REAGAN Airport so they can Report which of you are Lazy and go Home. Dont make MAGA and more importantly me your Favorite President Upset. Stay FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT No don't go to recess he should tell Rs to change the rules and confirm his nominee's. No don't go to recess he should tell Rs to change the rules and confirm his nominee's" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1951779902694281391) 2025-08-02T22:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/10/trump-has-no-reason-to-compromise-with-democrats-on-immigration/ https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/10/trump-has-no-reason-to-compromise-with-democrats-on-immigration/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1952725435546063093) 2025-08-05T13:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Becca Taibleson is a tremendous choice for the Seventh Circuit. It has seen a lot of changes over the last five years and Becca has a proven record *already* of outfoxing its liberals. Shell anchor it on the right ensuring majority votes for the Constitution and rule of law" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1956134266737512554) 2025-08-14T23:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Aficionados of the judicial-confirmation process may recall Sparkle Sooknanan on DDC. After much R opposition she was confirmed and it turns out she just issued a radical precedent-shattering opinion against the FTC in favor of her fellow travelers at Media Matters. 1/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302915481194572) 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, 26.5K engagements "First some background on Sparkle Sooknanan. Sparkle Sooknanan was a partner at Jones Day at the time of the [----] election. According to the New York Times she took the opportunity to trash the firms clients on a conference call of the partnership. 2/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302922359779702) 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Sen. John Kennedy said about it This is a violation of about [---] provisions of the Code of Ethics. Sparkle Sooknanan repeated a very lawyerly those were not my words defense but Kennedy wasnt having it. 3/25 https://m.youtube.com/watchv=qLX_QtJ1vzw https://m.youtube.com/watchv=qLX_QtJ1vzw" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302925031612421) 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Sparkle Sooknanan was also a prominent lawyer for Puerto Rican hedge-fund creditors a fact for which Sen. Hawleyand NY Congresswoman Nydia Velazquezroasted her. 4/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302927325868293) 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Indeed the economically progressive press found her answers on the subject very unavailing. 5/25 https://prospect.org/justice/2024-04-05-biden-nominee-sooknanan-testimony/ https://prospect.org/justice/2024-04-05-biden-nominee-sooknanan-testimony/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302928831582537) 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "But Sparkle Sooknanans support didnt come from progressives. It came from the dark-money elite of the Democrats. 6/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302931302097208) 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "As Sen. McConnell pointed out on the Senate Floor Sparkle Sooknanan was coordinating with Democrat dark-money guru Robert Raben during her confirmation process. 7/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302938365243637) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The answer he suspected was Democrat dark money: It just doesnt add up. Unless the real ledger being used is the one with liberal dark money from Robert Raben and Arabella Advisors. 9/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302943004143862) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Thats what makes this ridiculous opinion so outrageous. In it Sparkle Sooknanan invents law and uses guilt by association to enjoin an FTC investigation into Media Matters over alleged illegal boycotts. 10/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302945143304618) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Of course what is Media Matters but one of the most notorious players in the Democrat dark-money ecosystem Indeed its funded by Arabella. 11/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302950499352958) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Who else has Arabella-network clients As McConnell noted Sparkle Sooknanans pal Robert Raben. 12/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302956765647019) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Normally this would just be the stuff of the fever dreams of the Junior Senator from Baileys Beach Club but in the context of this case and its remarkable opinion it matters. 13/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302959529726184) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Yes Sparkle Sooknanan is clearly biased in favor of Media Matters. Compare how she treats their assertions presenting as fact their film flam about being media watchdogs. 14/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302964948726217) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "(Although an aside: spot the lie in this quote.) 18/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957302996804489533) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "More interesting than the lazy guilt by association though (to which Sparkle Sooknanan can easily fall victim herself) is the assertion that somehow Chairman Fergusons actions are colored by *how he got the job*. 19/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957303006786924881) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Because Ferguson was on the same wavelength as Musk and Andreesen as he was under consideration he must be biased in their favor and against Media Matters. 20/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957303011153256452) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Doesnt that same reasoning apply to Sparkle Sooknanan As McConnell pointed out she was working with and supported by the same Arabella network that supports Media Matters when she was under consideration for the district court. 21/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957303015011942807) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Is it any wonder then that she decided to spend [--] pages inventing law to evade a long-established statutory enforcement framework in order to protect a fellow client of the Arabella patron 22/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957303017922806271) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Again recall that the actual left didnt want Sparkle Sooknanan. It was the dark-money establishmentthe same one that has funded Media Matters. 23/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957303022389715395) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If Chairman Ferguson is judged by the company he keeps Sparkle Sooknanan should be too. 24/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1957303026328240268) 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Regardless of election outcome in [----] the odds of Thune being able to post a reliable majority in the lame duckespecially one that isnt reliant on Murkowski and Collinsare small. 6/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1958346340846502368) 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "So the first question a retirement-eligible judge needs to ask is Do I like the [--] percent historical chance of having to wait until [----] to perhaps be replaced by a Republican if I serve out the Trump term 7/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1958346342498996695) 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If that gamble isnt worth it against the sure thing of Trump replacement the question then becomes Do I want Mitch McConnell to be the deciding vote on my successor or do I want it to be Lisa Murkowski 8/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1958346344772641004) 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Depending on the answer there McConnell will be the deciding vote for fifteen more months. Thats the countdown for a retirement-eligible judge who wants to be replaced by a conservative. 9/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1958346346898870541) 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98700/ https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98700/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1958346349201527247) 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Tillis has said he wont vote for any U.S. Attorneys without a blue slip. Thats it. Thats the ballgame. This isnt a Grassley problem. This is a century-old Senate problem called the blue slip. All of these U.S. attorney marshal and district nominees will fail on the Senate floor if they dont have support from both home-state senators. Go round up [--] votes. Then lets talk. This isnt a Grassley problem. This is a century-old Senate problem called the blue slip. All of these U.S. attorney marshal and district nominees will fail on the Senate floor if they dont have support from both home-state" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1958743565028167871) 2025-08-22T04:10Z [----] followers, 20.4K engagements "These are all fantastic picks. Thank goodness Senators Tillis and Budd were able to wield their blue slips to stop Biden and keep the seats open for President Trump North Carolina will soon have four new absolutely outstanding federal judges thanks to @realDonaldTrump @SenThomTillis and @SenTedBuddNC Freeman was part of our judicial operation during [--] Orso and Rodriguez are friends and solid conservatives and Bragdon clerked for Justice North Carolina will soon have four new absolutely outstanding federal judges thanks to @realDonaldTrump @SenThomTillis and @SenTedBuddNC Freeman was part of" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1959076127282024788) 2025-08-23T02:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It's bad but the solutions are vulnerable to collective-action problems. When I was in college the admin deflated grades and the sense was that it made my classmates less competitive in the coveted banking/consulting market bc Harvard/Yale didn't. Pretty sure deflation stopped. They were cracking up not simply because grades had gotten so high but because they knew just how little students were doing to earn them. Harvard faculty recognize that grade inflation has become absurd: https://t.co/ZHywJQN3io They were cracking up not simply because grades had gotten so high but because they knew" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1961071327537733682) 2025-08-28T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The story of Trumps second term is a lack of judgeships to fill Fragoso wrote There has never been a Senate thats better positioned to confirm conservative judges but not since the first Bush administration have there been so few https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/30/trump-second-term-judicial-nominees-so-far/ https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/30/trump-second-term-judicial-nominees-so-far/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1962152269442318626) 2025-08-31T13:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Objections to en bloc consideration of nominations from the right all fail. Its the best way for senators to support President Trump. https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/objections-to-en-bloc-consideration/ https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/objections-to-en-bloc-consideration/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1963757351959150730) 2025-09-05T00:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Klobo or Schumer can no more stop them than we could stop Paul or Vance or Tuberville. Thune will be effectively negotiating with Booker not D leadership. That wont work. 2/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1964933676871086414) 2025-09-08T06:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As to Dem escalationwhat are they going to do Nuke the filibuster Rs have already considered the shoe on the other foot and clearly dont worry about it. 3/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1964933678662078837) 2025-09-08T06:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Im grateful to the Journal for giving me an opportunity to respond to their editorial. It was Mr. Schumer after all who first popularized the partisan filibuster of nominees . Todays gridlock is the fruit of that poisonous tree. Mr. Thune is right to uproot it. 👇 This is strange and unusually off as to Senate practice for the Ed Board. The blockade isnt bc Klobo isnt a statesman. This is a UC exercise which means the Senate is at the mercy of Booker or Warren or Murphy or Hirono. 1/ https://t.co/kFWGTTjXlr This is strange and unusually off as to Senate practice for the Ed Board. The blockade" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1965489671234093310) 2025-09-09T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Grateful to the WSJ for giving me a chance to respond to their editorial. It was Mr. Schumer after all who first popularized the partisan filibuster of nominees . Todays gridlock is the fruit of that poisonous tree. Mr. Thune is right to uproot it. Letter below. This is strange and unusually off as to Senate practice for the Ed Board. The blockade isnt bc Klobo isnt a statesman. This is a UC exercise which means the Senate is at the mercy of Booker or Warren or Murphy or Hirono. 1/ https://t.co/kFWGTTjXlr This is strange and unusually off as to Senate practice for the Ed Board. The blockade" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1965490709991190854) 2025-09-09T19:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "https://www.wsj.com/opinion/time-to-break-the-senate-logjam-sen-thune-confirmations-rule-changes-2ac8770bst=emRD1E&reflink=article_copyURL_share https://www.wsj.com/opinion/time-to-break-the-senate-logjam-sen-thune-confirmations-rule-changes-2ac8770bst=emRD1E&reflink=article_copyURL_share" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1965490712654610733) 2025-09-09T19:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I hadnt realized that Schumer did a Pearl Harbor strike. Memo to journos: this move is extremely rare because every minority leader expects to be majority leader and therefore is unwilling to undermine the majority leaders power. This means Schumer is NOT CONFIDENT abt [----]. This is an extremely rare move by minority and big breach of protocol for Senate minority leader to file cloture and essentially seize floor controlled by majority But in so doing Schumer takes steps to set a procedural vote to release Epstein files https://t.co/T2CqhMAyLz This is an extremely rare move by minority and" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1965837321758281948) 2025-09-10T17:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It starts by noting that In [----] Taibleson donated to ActBlue designated for Joe Manchin during a time when people were pushing him to run as an alternative to Trump. The attempt to turn this into an attack on President Trump is clever but misleading: Draft Manchin was in [----]. What was Manchin actually doing in [----] He was sitting with Republicansat the State of the Union. He was voting to preserve the filibuster (an act about which President Trump said Well its a very important thing. Hes doing the right thing and its a very important thing.). He was taking a victory lap for having killed" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968369290794733985) 2025-09-17T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Interesting exchange in @WSJopinion between Bill Barr and the heads of Becket and NDLS. I think Bill has the better of the argument Gorsuch dissents arent law but Ill leave that to the religious-liberty lawyers. I was interested in the legislative history. 1/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968426756076916954) 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "To begin with the Carl Levin and Buck McKeown National Defense Authorization Act wasnt unrelated appropriations legislation. It was the FY15 NDAA an annual bill that is the main way Congress maintains policy control of the national defense. 2/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968426758564143447) 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This may seem like nitpicking but it isnt. Ash and trash additions to appropriations (or extraneous matters) are a well-known Christmas tree by which critics contend regular order is bypassed and votes are bought. 3/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968426760728367315) 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The letter implies thats what the Oak Flatts transfer was but it wasnt. It was in Division B of the NDAAmilitary construction. Check the roughly contemporaneous FY13 [--] and [--] NDAAs and you will see in Division B land conveyances. 4/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968426762930385174) 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Even the current FY26 NDAA includes a land conveyance (sec. 2831). In other words rather than sneaking the transfer into a scary-sounding appropriations vehicle Sens. McCain and Flake put it in the division of the legislative vehicle that always carries these changes. 5/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968426765472383315) 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "To compromise otherwiseas implied by the letterwould require the agreement of literally every U.S. Senator. This is because no land conveyance would get floor time spent on it to break a filibuster which means it would need unanimous consent. 7/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968426769460916330) 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This means that any interest group only needs to convince one senator to block it for no or any reason at all. (Bernie Sanders is particularly animated on the issue.) Thats not a recipe for compromise but rather one for obstruction. 8/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968426771495162019) 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Now adding something to the NDAA is all about negotiation. To clear that provision it needed four-corners blessing from Leadership the armed services committees and very likely ENR House Natural Resources and SCIA. As I explain in my article that takes compromise. 9/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968426773835624560) 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Shutting down the government for NPR eh 🚨NEW EPIC Analysis: The DeLauro-Murray CR includes several policy provisions unrelated to government funding and adds $1.5 T in spending. https://t.co/HRAVwtwQwA 🚨NEW EPIC Analysis: The DeLauro-Murray CR includes several policy provisions unrelated to government funding and adds $1.5 T in spending. https://t.co/HRAVwtwQwA" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968774028048351443) 2025-09-18T20:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Re-upping in light of recent developments. https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/01/by-ruling-on-tiktok-the-supreme-court-inadvertently-kept-it-alive/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/01/by-ruling-on-tiktok-the-supreme-court-inadvertently-kept-it-alive/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1968833181895012643) 2025-09-19T00:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The problem is that to many conservatives *now* the shoe is on the other foot. They know too well that power will be abused because it was for decades and the left intends to return to that. So now what General appeals to principle dont provide a satisfactory answer. The source of the dilemma that the right face is that the first point is true but the second clearly is not. So it must choose between principle and reality. And while it is easy to say that principle should always win out politics divorced from reality isn't really politics. The source of the dilemma that the right face is that" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1969869124974350617) 2025-09-21T20:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Schumer isnt interested in an issue that splits his caucus. (McConnell liked to play in the tariff space under Obama in part because it divided the Democrats) Trump would never sign a bill doing that and second some traditionally dem interest groups are fond of tariffs so you'd risk splitting the party in a way healthcare doesn't. Trump would never sign a bill doing that and second some traditionally dem interest groups are fond of tariffs so you'd risk splitting the party in a way healthcare doesn't" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1970203568457294279) 2025-09-22T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "If memory serves after Ajit Pai killed us all with Net Neutrality he approved a Sinclair merger. Looks like this isn't going away. And Sinclair as far as I know doesn't have any mergers that need government approval pending unlike Nexstar. Looks like this isn't going away. And Sinclair as far as I know doesn't have any mergers that need government approval pending unlike Nexstar" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1970294636435439640) 2025-09-23T01:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Thick of It - Malcolm Tucker is cashiered after berating a West Indian civil servant. He joins Reform" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1972436874485755976) 2025-09-28T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Cadfael - Brother Cadfael investigates the murder of a local Saxon and is excommunicated when he accuses a Norman knight of the crime" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1972436876712964511) 2025-09-28T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Is there some contest these judges are participating in When I was at FRC we tried to revive the Court Jester award. Someone really should try again" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1973089061859631392) 2025-09-30T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Im generally not a fan of the impeach lib judges movement. It may however be appropriate with Boardman. (1) Her irrelevant and outrageous musing on Roskes purported transgender status make it clear this isnt just about disagreeing with her application of the Sentencing Guidelines or something. (2) The bigger picture here is that she is normalizing and incentivizing political terrorism of the worst kind by literally removing its deterrent effect. (She denied the terrorism enhancement.) (3) Its good that the AG is appealing the sentence but its ridiculous that SCOTUS may have to rule on this" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1974267862215754131) 2025-10-04T00:18Z [----] followers, 246.6K engagements "Its fitting that in the same day a Democrat judge gives a slap on the wrist for trying to kill Brett Kavanaugh and his children we learn that the Democrat candidate for VA AG mused openly about how good it would be if his R colleague and his children were killed. Jay Jones literally fantasized about killing a man and two children and Abigail Spanberger still doesnt have the guts to tell him to drop out. https://t.co/8CAjNqqWBI Jay Jones literally fantasized about killing a man and two children and Abigail Spanberger still doesnt have the guts to tell him to drop out. https://t.co/8CAjNqqWBI" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1974270006272692644) 2025-10-04T00:27Z [----] followers, 81.9K engagements "Has anyone prominent in the rule-of-law-norms-were-better-than-that set said anything yet about Jay Jones" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1974616694682529832) 2025-10-04T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "She interviewed Monica Lewisnski in front of the grand jury for Starr. She was played in the miniseries by the girl who tried to sleep with Jim Halpert and whom Dwight attacked with bed-bug spray. Im a little surprised she did thisbut only a little. She's a Trump appointee. She's a Trump appointee" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1974652092410384526) 2025-10-05T01:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I'm struggling to see the integrity and accountability. I'm also reasonably confident than none of Jones's critics have made a passionate argument that their political opponents deserve to have their kids killed. These VA Dems are telling on themselves by asking "who hasn't" I didn't think it was possible. They got SEVEN MORE @VADemocrats committees to sign on to the "let those without sin cast the first stone" statement embracing @JonesJay. https://t.co/dxSLCoyBNt I didn't think it was possible. They got SEVEN MORE @VADemocrats committees to sign on to the "let those without sin cast the" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1974916902725279823) 2025-10-05T19:17Z [----] followers, 49.6K engagements "Jay Joness texts are from around when Roske tried to assassinate Kavanaugh. The texts didnt just resurface. Resurface suggests theyve surfaced before. They werent previously known to the world prior to this week. And Jay Joness violent threats against a Republican arent ancient. Theyre relatively recent. The texts didnt just resurface. Resurface suggests theyve surfaced before. They werent previously known to the world prior to this week. And Jay Joness violent threats against a Republican arent ancient. Theyre relatively recent" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1974962039123812478) 2025-10-05T22:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "New sign coming in front of Arlington mansions" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1974964763592655188) 2025-10-05T22:27Z [----] followers, 246.9K engagements "This is disappointing. Her order was very clear that it applied to calling up the Oregon Guard. Is this a technicality Maybe. But the law is technicalities. (Of course one of the lead prosecutors who went after the meaning of the word is likely has little patience for them.) @joshgerstein @jonesblakej NEWS: Judge Immergut said the Trump administration's renewed effort to put National Guard troops on the ground in Portland appeared to flout her original order which found Trump had no legal basis to send federalized troops there. w/ @joshgerstein https://t.co/aiOd7DAuzG https://t.co/30SRUyAtUB" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1975045381865283931) 2025-10-06T03:48Z [----] followers, 70.8K engagements "Also to be clear this is a defense: Ive known Jay Jones for [--] years and those comments are very much out of character for him. So the comments are by definition not indefensible to Sen. Kaine" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1975336502239633723) 2025-10-06T23:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Compare to his brazen defense of Jay Jones. Why not do a real investigation Why limit Senate access to the report Why limit public access to it There can only be one of two answers: the Republican majority doesnt care about allegations of sexual assault or theyre worried of what a true investigation would uncover. Why not do a real investigation Why limit Senate access to the report Why limit public access to it There can only be one of two answers: the Republican majority doesnt care about allegations of sexual assault or theyre worried of what a true investigation would uncover" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1975385316191301856) 2025-10-07T02:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "In a year of bad court decisions this one takes the cake: Boardman gave a slap on the wrist to someone who attempted the worst sort of political terrorism The decision is so potentially corrosive to our civic peace that Congress would be right to consider impeachment" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1975693636965908929) 2025-10-07T22:44Z [----] followers, 72.8K engagements "@DavidFWeiss DOJ did a good job. The prosecutor who did the sentencing is very talented. Daniel Webster couldnt have persuaded Boardman" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1975717472134189183) 2025-10-08T00:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Whenever people tag Jay Jones here my first blush is to think something like how could a law firm get in trouble for reckless driving" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1975756497477922900) 2025-10-08T02:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Surely this person offered to represent Jeff Clark right" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1975761298697666582) 2025-10-08T03:12Z [----] followers, 32.7K engagements "And now weve seen horrific text messages promoting the murder of Republicans their children and police from the Democratic candidate for Virginia AG. This is obscene. Every elected official should be willing to stand up and say that its unacceptable. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-opens-executive-business-meeting-on-judicial-and-executive-nominees-discusses-next-steps-in-arctic-frost-oversight" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1976321430238220387) 2025-10-09T16:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "'This both lets Republicans argue for a clean CR and makes Democrats confront their voters hurt by the shutdown. In order for this to work though Republicans will need to be disciplined on the damage done by Obamacare when George Soross astroturf protesters show up.'" 3/4" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1976396063809663153) 2025-10-09T21:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "https://washingtonreporter.news/p/editorial-to-end-the-schumer-shutdownutm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://washingtonreporter.news/p/editorial-to-end-the-schumer-shutdownutm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1976396065403539727) 2025-10-09T21:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@BlazeLuck https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/06/02/man-accused-of-brandishing-machete-style-knife-at-federal-judge-outside-dirksen-courthouse-ordered-held-without-bond/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/06/02/man-accused-of-brandishing-machete-style-knife-at-federal-judge-outside-dirksen-courthouse-ordered-held-without-bond/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1976443096075468963) 2025-10-10T00:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "It is very impressive the lengths to which they went to obscure any mention of Jay Jones. @oconnor_reports @timkaine @amyklobuchar @tommy_stinson @guzman4virginia Irony of ironies. A s N Roses musician campaigning for Jay " " Jones credits to the photog trying to keep the sign hidden even signalling Timmy to move over to block it more https://t.co/yo6ipgaa1y @oconnor_reports @timkaine @amyklobuchar @tommy_stinson @guzman4virginia Irony of ironies. A s N Roses musician campaigning for Jay " " Jones credits to the photog trying to keep the sign hidden even signalling Timmy to move over to" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1976804351164498163) 2025-10-11T00:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The blue slip: what is it 7/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1977032976744734883) 2025-10-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Judge Luttig is a critic of the Trump administrations interpretation of the Constitution who is in frequent contact with sitting judges from across the political spectrum. Wait what @JudiciaryGOP should look into this. Hes a leader in overtly anti-Trump law groups 24/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1977033025763655683) 2025-10-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@timkaine @staceycarrollva @guzman4virginia @amyklobuchar And Jay Jones Him too" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1977127084158763130) 2025-10-11T21:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A number of years ago Justice Kavanaugh gratuitously (and incorrectly) asserted that noncitizen and alien were legally synonymous. As a result lower courts have mostly taken to politically correct doublespeak on immigration cases. This is bad. 1/4" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1977410874915910131) 2025-10-12T16:27Z [----] followers, 20.1K engagements "What to do about it If I were the WH Id put the word out on the street that lower-courts judges who continue to give in to this newspeak will not be eligible for promotion. I bet that would put a stop to this and fast. 4/4" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1977410882272625127) 2025-10-12T16:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Introduce the partisan full-year bill. Put a ban on no-excuse mail and early voting in Ash and Trash as well as five new judges for the D.C. Circuit. Then Rule [--] it because "Republicans control the Senate the House and the White House." Republicans control the Senate the House and the White House. Republicans control the Senate the House and the White House" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1977787226202210519) 2025-10-13T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Good luck with that. On behalf of Arizona I am demanding Speaker Johnson seat Congresswoman Grijlva without delay. We are keeping every option open to us including litigation to make sure that Adelita is able to begin her work as Arizona's newest member of Congress. https://t.co/UredD2db9C On behalf of Arizona I am demanding Speaker Johnson seat Congresswoman Grijlva without delay. We are keeping every option open to us including litigation to make sure that Adelita is able to begin her work as Arizona's newest member of Congress. https://t.co/UredD2db9C" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1978200582239170709) 2025-10-14T20:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@jonesjay As the father of two young boys you probably shouldnt earnestly wish the death of two other young boys to advance your politics. _()_/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1978205505169260605) 2025-10-14T21:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Honestly at this point its trolling right As the father of two young boys I know what its like to feel the squeeze of grocery prices every week. Im running for Attorney General to protect families pocketbooks from rising costs whether its utility rate hikes or the price of berries. As the father of two young boys I know what its like to feel the squeeze of grocery prices every week. Im running for Attorney General to protect families pocketbooks from rising costs whether its utility rate hikes or the price of berries" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1978205600795312520) 2025-10-14T21:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Did Jeffries give us even any phony outrage over Jay Jones Or is this outrage phony Its hard to keep up. Disgraceful New York Republicans Mike Lawler and Elise Stefanik have been palling around with these racist antisemitic and bigoted Young Republicans for years. Their silence exposes whats always been true the phony outrage was nothing more than performance. https://t.co/ekdrDrlmTT Disgraceful New York Republicans Mike Lawler and Elise Stefanik have been palling around with these racist antisemitic and bigoted Young Republicans for years. Their silence exposes whats always been true the" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1978270195757027758) 2025-10-15T01:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Did Schumer condemn Jay Jones Hes not running for Dungeon Master like these nerds; hes running for VA AG. This doesnt mean we need to excuse what these twerps said. It means I dont want to hear it from Democrats who stand by breeding little fascists. Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw up. This is the kind of garbage that the worst kind of people say when they think nobody is watching. And where are Republican leaders from Trump on down condemning these comments swiftly and unequivocally Im https://t.co/SpEz1TqAMW Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1978303827779457158) 2025-10-15T03:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "For context Jay Jones is out there sending campaign tweets about being the father of two young boys. This is like the Young Republicans going out dressed like Rommel. No remorse; only contempt for the public at largesupporters included" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1978436269156757644) 2025-10-15T12:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Important article by the indispensable O.H. Skinner on the red-state () lawfare against fossil fuels and how the Court can finally start putting a stop to the insanity. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3850391/woke-lawfare-reaches-supreme-court/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3850391/woke-lawfare-reaches-supreme-court/" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1978898136354496748) 2025-10-16T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The promise of progress opportunity and safety that you can build a better future for yourself and your children. The trolling is sociopathic. Not Todd Gilbert and his children You have my word that I will always take accountability for my mistakes. I will never stop fighting for you. Jason Miyares wants to make this election about me and my mistakes. This election has always been about you and protecting Virginia from Trump. The stakes are too high. https://t.co/QnLh5EOefn You have my word that I will always take accountability for my mistakes. I will never stop fighting for you. Jason" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1979016895555596627) 2025-10-17T02:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "AmY BaRrEtT iS tOo LiBeRaL. ShEs UnWiLlInG tO tAkE a StAnD. sHe DoEsNt HaVe A jUrIsPrUdEnCe" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1935344085675417806) 2025-06-18T14:29Z [----] followers, 145.6K engagements "That shooting was during another healthcare-reform cycle when Dems went on and on about how Rs were going to kill people with their votes. At some point with that rhetoric someone will think hes saving lives by killing congressmen. Remember when that Sanders supporter tried to kill Republicans at baseball practice Hes signaling for another follower to do something similar. Remember when that Sanders supporter tried to kill Republicans at baseball practice Hes signaling for another follower to do something similar" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1974943095298088966) 2025-10-05T21:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Hard to think of a bigger downgrade from Sinema to this. Maybe Moynihan to Clinton US Senator Ruben Gallego (who has a reputation as a hothead) said he wanted to physically assault @SpeakerJohnson: He should be happy I had my arms folded theres a reason why Marines fold their armsits a way we make sure we restrain ourselves. https://t.co/FkZueOmdyW US Senator Ruben Gallego (who has a reputation as a hothead) said he wanted to physically assault @SpeakerJohnson: He should be happy I had my arms folded theres a reason why Marines fold their armsits a way we make sure we restrain ourselves." [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1976502539425120726) 2025-10-10T04:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In interviews federal judges called the Supreme Courts emergency orders mystical overly blunt incredibly demoralizing and troubling and a slap in the face to the district courts. 8/25" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1977032978762285143) 2025-10-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "For those conservatives tweeting out McConnells fall today and mocking him - Ive got some thoughts: if you just started paying attention to politics in the last [--] years Ill give you grace because you dont know what the rest of us do. For those conservatives tweeting out McConnells fall today and mocking him - Ive got some thoughts: if you just started paying attention to politics in the last [--] years Ill give you grace because you dont know what the rest of us do" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1979041188758925812) 2025-10-17T04:26Z [----] followers, 76.3K engagements "@Ejmiller25 Its about costs and benefits. The benefits are well known. The prior costs were essentially nonexistent because the worst that would happen was youd get put into removal proceedings that would take a decade to resolve if ever. Now the cost is Tom Homan and CECOT. Not worth it" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1979217888872390730) 2025-10-17T16:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@jimmy_esq Was he the guy with the monkey puppet avatar" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1979552851388157984) 2025-10-18T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Unpopular with good reason My unpopular opinion is that if the state is going to kill someone (to demonstrate that killing people is wrong) there is no reason to rush to that date and every reason to move carefully. My unpopular opinion is that if the state is going to kill someone (to demonstrate that killing people is wrong) there is no reason to rush to that date and every reason to move carefully" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1979559908036256153) 2025-10-18T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Two Bullets demonstrating the common touch campaigning in his Barbour. Maybe he bought it when Hogan was paying him for his pro-bono community service for the NAACP Of course hes wearing the modern Ashby not the traditional Beaufortstill a lib. Started the day kicking off a canvass launch with Norfolk Federation of Teachers members. [--] days out lets get this done https://t.co/dIHDzdeNmv Started the day kicking off a canvass launch with Norfolk Federation of Teachers members. [--] days out lets get this done https://t.co/dIHDzdeNmv" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1979562718064718150) 2025-10-18T14:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "As a friend noted given that these 1990s conservative figures are apparently deranged emotional weirdos maybe its time to critically reassess the Clintons. Remember if you voted for Trump you've totally surrendered your values -- says the guy who spend most of his career as a GOP lawyer and now walks around wearing an "I am antifa" shirt. Remember if you voted for Trump you've totally surrendered your values -- says the guy who spend most of his career as a GOP lawyer and now walks around wearing an "I am antifa" shirt" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1979743843869478983) 2025-10-19T02:58Z [----] followers, 30.2K engagements "@redfang58 Mitch McConnell was not the Kentucky senator who refused to endorse Trump in 2024" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1979934665197719774) 2025-10-19T15:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements ""WHAT FINALLY BROKE ME out of my comfortable cocoon . was the rightward lurch of SCOTUS and the lengths to which the right was willing to go to undermine established legal precedents and access to reproductive rights." Very sympathetic principled Republican Random Republican operative no one has ever heard of is quitting Trump is doomed now. Random Republican operative no one has ever heard of is quitting Trump is doomed now" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1980301277386158197) 2025-10-20T15:53Z [----] followers, 28.4K engagements "If anything he should like the MAGA turn given that its far less explicitly pro-life than the pre-MAGA GOP. Actually I'll absolutely "judge" someone who left the GOP because it successfully overturned Roe v. Wade and is subsequently trying to present that departure as evidence that he was betrayed. It'd be like leaving the Democrats because they raised taxes. https://t.co/rVbZHn5yj2 Actually I'll absolutely "judge" someone who left the GOP because it successfully overturned Roe v. Wade and is subsequently trying to present that departure as evidence that he was betrayed. It'd be like leaving" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1980631800692044092) 2025-10-21T13:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Again if Republicans nuked the filibuster to reopen the government it wouldnt be for a clean CR. It would be for the biggest most beautiful bill of all time. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says he supports Senate Republicans nuking the filibuster to reopen government noting that Democrats have run in getting rid of the filibuster. https://t.co/kadGZD1e3m Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says he supports Senate Republicans nuking the filibuster to reopen government noting that Democrats have run in getting rid of the filibuster. https://t.co/kadGZD1e3m" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1980655891243553024) 2025-10-21T15:22Z [----] followers, 45.4K engagements "We have a constitution to prevent one state from engaging in economic warfare against the citizens of other states. Its not DCC or DP or CAA amendments. Its the whole structure of government as the SG explained in his brief. Conservatives should not swallow a complete end-run around the Constitutionwith absurd-to-catastrophic consequencesbecause of square-peg-in-round-hole doctrines and a misapplied commitment to restraint" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1980687548608319622) 2025-10-21T17:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Great. Tell him to step down and you want have to talk about it anymore. Exit question: how much money has she spent tying Sears to various statements of Trump with which she had nothing to do Abigail Spanberger complains about being forced to say that Jay Jones' texts were bad: The fact that I have to spend even a moment's time talking about somebody elses text messages from years ago is something that I am deeply unhappy about. https://t.co/vWh3i2AS0R Abigail Spanberger complains about being forced to say that Jay Jones' texts were bad: The fact that I have to spend even a moment's time" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1980811616003453135) 2025-10-22T01:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It seems to me that Joness bigger problem in his reckless driving case is the [---] hours for the NAACP that seem to have come from his pro bono work at Hogan. As (I believe) a senior associate that is very fishy. Scoop: Special prosecutor appointed in a "matter currently pending" in New Kent County GD Court that names Jones & cites his reckless driving case according to a circuit court order obtained by @NRO New Kent County CA requested recusal citing unspecified "potential conflict" https://t.co/tnSlo7J7KA Scoop: Special prosecutor appointed in a "matter currently pending" in New Kent County" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1981112636646588575) 2025-10-22T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@Legal_Fil Liberal cosmopolitans like Chuck Schumer. What" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1981190778363007405) 2025-10-23T02:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "When I was a baby lawyer the partner in charge of my trial team always wanted redundancies in place in case he "got hit by a bus." You know something deadly and unpredictable. Now it would be "vaporized by a drunk illegal alien with a CDL and a semi." NEW: 21-year-old semi-truck driver arrested on suspicion of DUI in a horrific crash on the [--] Freeway in Ontario California. California Highway Patrol investigators say the man from Yuba City was believed to have been on drugs. Eight vehicles were involved in the crash and https://t.co/h2e84BM1ov NEW: 21-year-old semi-truck driver arrested on" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1981361713535504560) 2025-10-23T14:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I think the lesson of Europe is that majority-rule active legislatures are a one-way ratchet. Were still stuck fighting about the Obamacare bill we were saddled with by a D supermajority [--] years ago A federal system that stops Ds is prob better than one that empowers Rs. 9/11" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1981401038897963247) 2025-10-23T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Which means significant policy becomes largely a dance between the executive and the courts. The current choice is that or the inevitable liberal steamroller of simple majorities. Its not executive/judicial policy or an alternative of bipartisan consensus legislation. 10/11" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1981401041192063056) 2025-10-23T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The only way it makes sense to nuke it now would be to lock in structural advantages after. Thats why Dems wanted to nuke for HR1 and then recoiled when Kamala said shed do it for Roe. (Theres electoral no advantage in taking abortion off the ballot) Who knows if that would be possible for Rs. Regardless there arent the votes for it and probably wont be for the rest of the administration even if anyone wanted to. So I think the path forward is to fight the Democrats until their fever breaks" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1981743102340534430) 2025-10-24T15:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Well for one thing unless hes actually referring to Havana Im pretty sure its impossible to be a [--] yo 6th-generation Miami Floridian. Literally what was wrong about his text Literally what was wrong about his text" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1981881176882074032) 2025-10-25T00:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "And yet she voted for KBJ who did the same Baldwin cited Taiblesons confirmation hearing in which the federal prosecutor declined to say whether Obergefell .Taibleson had said that other landmark cases such as Brown and Loving were correctly decided Sen. Tammy Baldwin opposed Rebecca Taiblesons bid for an appellate seat as the Wisconsin Democrat faced angering progressives or rejecting the bipartisan process that yielded the nomination. https://t.co/tq3DDCzhW1 Sen. Tammy Baldwin opposed Rebecca Taiblesons bid for an appellate seat as the Wisconsin Democrat faced angering progressives or" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1981908983234379802) 2025-10-25T02:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "What did he do to that boys hand So were posting AI photos now https://t.co/nowcu5dAaT So were posting AI photos now https://t.co/nowcu5dAaT" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982079489304571943) 2025-10-25T13:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The most amusing thing perhaps about Democrats is how a raging mediocrity can hang out with entertainment royalty because the actors/musicians are so desperate to matter politically. Its symbiotic neediness. Robert De Niro someone I admire and an overall good fella has an important message for Virginia voters this year. https://t.co/f8OvecQ6yo Robert De Niro someone I admire and an overall good fella has an important message for Virginia voters this year. https://t.co/f8OvecQ6yo" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982183684808515895) 2025-10-25T20:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "At the outset of the current Trump administration I had an op-ed in the WSJ on how law firms who terrorized the Trump [--] were signaling their Trump savvy to clients. I explained why that was a joke. Well in todays WaPo it seems some firms got the message. 1/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982533233121120279) 2025-10-26T19:42Z [----] followers, 82.2K engagements "Much of my piece involved how Biglaw gave Trump [--] alumni the cold shoulder but I also discussed how Biglaws pro-bono industrial complex had fielded an army against Trump [--] and might do the same this time. 2/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982533240578810288) 2025-10-26T19:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Perhaps they should ask for advice from the LDS Church after Prop [--] or from @JeffClarkUS This has been par for the course for conservatives for decades. Maybe the ABA should have said something about it then 11/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982533301354086634) 2025-10-26T19:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Its good to see the legal profession inch toward political neutrality and pluralism. Well see if it continues as the beneficiaries of the old regime realize that they may have killed the golden goose. 12/12" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982533305431155093) 2025-10-26T19:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Cheer up Brian Kelly: you dont need to keep the fake southern accent anymore" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982646764051345887) 2025-10-27T03:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Per Nichols the reason Baldwin is opposing Taibleson supposedly is a cavalier approach to judicial precedents. We know this because according to Baldwin In Ms. Taiblesons confirmation hearing she refused to say that Obergefell v. Hodges was decided correctly. 3/7" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982799481155232215) 2025-10-27T13:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "After Chairman Grassley blew the whistle on judges using AI in orders (or letting clerks and interns use AI in draft orders that mysteriously get posted) Judge Cronan in SDNY put out a model AI certification for his litigants. Unsurprising to see Cronan on the cutting edge. 1/2" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1982829443887571129) 2025-10-27T15:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Trumps pick will be behind enemy lines with no support. His only hope will be occasional air strikes from a Supreme Court thats painfully unwilling to police liberal excess. Trump needs an experienced guerrilla whos happy living in the jungle. Leader Thune filed cloture on Executive Calendar #370 Joshua D. Dunlap to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit. Leader Thune filed cloture on Executive Calendar #370 Joshua D. Dunlap to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit" [X Link](https://x.com/mike_frags/status/1983348183058325841) 2025-10-29T01:40Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"She got a Qualified from the ABA. Larry Silberman Frank Easterbrook and Jerry Smith got worse ratings"
X Link 2025-03-04T03:03Z [---] followers, 31.1K engagements
"Weirdly George Conway was nowhere to be found during the month we spent horsewhipping law enforcement into defending the Justices homes"
X Link 2025-03-06T03:57Z [---] followers, 52.9K engagements
"If Democrats are serious about a shutdown over DOGE good. As long as Republicans stick together on their funding plan Democrats will be inflicting pain on the populace at large to benefit their professional-class constituents. https://washingtonreporter.news/p/op-ed-michael-fragoso-winning-a-shutdown https://washingtonreporter.news/p/op-ed-michael-fragoso-winning-a-shutdown"
X Link 2025-03-06T22:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Georgetown Law when criticized by the right. Via @joshchafetz GULC Dean Treanors good response: https://t.co/f6GYvw3baW Via @joshchafetz GULC Dean Treanors good response: https://t.co/f6GYvw3baW"
X Link 2025-03-07T14:01Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Theres a lot going on here. This situation only makes sense in the broader context of the left-wing capture of BigLaw. 1/7 Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic ties https://t.co/lEtnYTS9e0 Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic ties https://t.co/lEtnYTS9e0"
X Link 2025-03-09T20:13Z [---] followers, 64.1K engagements
"Im not sure if any trade has done more to damage the interests of its membership than the medical professional associations like the AMA and the AAP. By prioritizing left-wing politics over bread-and-butter doc interests theyve alienated natural R allies. Funding bill skips measure to avert physician pay cuts a blow to GOP Doctors Caucus https://t.co/Pqe90wowjl Funding bill skips measure to avert physician pay cuts a blow to GOP Doctors Caucus https://t.co/Pqe90wowjl"
X Link 2025-03-10T02:57Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"Experts have warned that the presidents efforts threaten the ability of lawyers to do their jobs and private citizens to obtain legal counsel. Guantanamo Bay terrorists hardest hit. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-law-firm.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-law-firm.html"
X Link 2025-03-15T02:04Z [---] followers, 12.7K engagements
"CJ Boasberg is probably the most well respected mainstream D on DDC. Hes old pals with Brett Kavanaugh. And yet hes issuing orders to planes in the air to bring their gang-members back. The most right-wing Texas judge wouldnt dream of this. Food for thought. An activist Obama DC judge thinks he has the power to order the President to turn around planes deporting vicious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members When will the Chief Justice and Justice Barrett end this extremely dangerous judicial sabotage of the presidency An activist Obama DC judge thinks he has the power to order the President"
X Link 2025-03-15T23:44Z [---] followers, 164.1K engagements
"At some point Trump is just going to order the plane to Honduras and then pardon everyone involved. Id tag the Chief Justice if I knew his alt. Because thats whats coming his way if he doesnt put a stop to the TRO madness. CJ Boasberg is probably the most well respected mainstream D on DDC. Hes old pals with Brett Kavanaugh. And yet hes issuing orders to planes in the air to bring their gang-members back. The most right-wing Texas judge wouldnt dream of this. Food for thought. CJ Boasberg is probably the most well respected mainstream D on DDC. Hes old pals with Brett Kavanaugh. And yet hes"
X Link 2025-03-16T00:03Z [---] followers, 111.2K engagements
"Lets say the underlying legal issue is difficult and justiciable (I doubt it) Davis is correct that ordering a plane back is not that. Judge Boasberg ordered two planes full of designated foreign terrorists to turn around mid-air and return to American soil. That's clearly illegal Bill. This isn't difficult at all. Judge Boasberg ordered two planes full of designated foreign terrorists to turn around mid-air and return to American soil. That's clearly illegal Bill. This isn't difficult at all"
X Link 2025-03-16T03:30Z [---] followers, 20.6K engagements
"During the first Bush administration they were dealing with an influx of Haitian boat people. Something like [-----] of them (seems quaint now). Well a judge in Brooklyn (I think) kept enjoining the Coast Guard as it picked up Haitians and sent them home. AG Barr went straight to the Supreme Court three times to stop him. When asked by General Scowcroft what the plan was if SCOTUS didnt bail them out Barr explained that it was essentially to invade the territorial waters of Haiti and blockade the island. You cant get enjoined for violating international law The Court did step in though and went"
X Link 2025-03-16T04:03Z [---] followers, 165K engagements
"Surely you cant be serious.FN FN I am serious. And dont call me Shirley. AIRPLANE (Paramount Pictures 1980)"
X Link 2025-03-19T03:45Z [---] followers, 42.2K engagements
"@Legal_Fil This reboot of Cornel West is lame"
X Link 2025-04-02T01:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
""Judge Xinisshould be forcing the Trump administration to disclose in full the parameters of the agreement it made with President Nayib Bukeles regime For years McConnell blocked a Menendez bill that would have required expansive disclosure of foreign negotiations and nonbinding agreements to Congress. Why Because it was an unconstitutional encroachment on executive power. If Congress cant properly do it I dont see how the courts can either. But Im sure this is actually like New York prison contracts. https://t.co/3eMxPKA4F8 worth your time by @AndrewCMcCarthy https://t.co/3eMxPKA4F8 worth"
X Link 2025-04-15T03:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"ACLU asks J. Hendrix for an ex parte TRO. He makes them inform the acting US Atty. He then promptly denies the TRO after briefing. ACLU then leaves J. Hendrix a late night VM urging different relief; he tells them to file a motion. They doon Good Fridaysetting a deadline for the judge and threatening interlocutory review. J. Hendrix doesnt comply with the ACLU deadline so they appeal. Apparently CA5 wasnt quick enough either so now they have petitioned SCOTUS. All in one day. When we say government by TRO is irregular this is what we mean. In the rare instance that the ACLU doesnt get to"
X Link 2025-04-19T00:20Z [----] followers, 264.3K engagements
"French is not unintelligent so you have to assume hes being dishonest. I literally have no idea what this is referring to. In the last four years America averaged [------] deportations per year over the last four years. The conventional deportation process is quite simple and SCOTUS hasn't touched it at all. I literally have no idea what this is referring to. In the last four years America averaged [------] deportations per year over the last four years. The conventional deportation process is quite simple and SCOTUS hasn't touched it at all"
X Link 2025-04-19T21:20Z [----] followers, 20.3K engagements
"I think there is going to be significant buyers remorse from three Justices that the Chief talked them into this nonsense. Get ready for lower courts to announce that they may now directly enjoin the President himself at the drop of a hat citing the unreasoned SCOTUS majority order a few days ago--despite [---] years of contrary SCOTUS caselaw https://t.co/2udF53g7FS Get ready for lower courts to announce that they may now directly enjoin the President himself at the drop of a hat citing the unreasoned SCOTUS majority order a few days ago--despite [---] years of contrary SCOTUS caselaw"
X Link 2025-04-20T13:13Z [----] followers, 18.4K engagements
"Ive been very critical of the Court lately but a timely word of prudence from @JamesWilsonInsts Garret Snedecker. https://tomklingenstein.com/republicans-should-take-the-long-view-on-the-supreme-court/ https://tomklingenstein.com/republicans-should-take-the-long-view-on-the-supreme-court/"
X Link 2025-04-23T15:00Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Will Republicans vote to overturn the destructive electric-vehicle mandates in California and other states https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gop-congress-congressional-review-act-california-ev-mandate-63455414st=bk2uqw https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gop-congress-congressional-review-act-california-ev-mandate-63455414st=bk2uqw"
X Link 2025-04-30T15:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Edith Jones criticizes a law professor who popularized delegitimizing conservative judges and the sky fell. Ketanji Jackson trashes the president at a judges conference and its heroic. What a joke. BREAKING: The Supreme Court's most junior justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just became its loudest voice pushing back against Trump & his allies' attacks on federal judges who've blocked many of his policy moves https://t.co/DMhbdvuuMs #SCOTUS https://t.co/R6kCi4h8xc BREAKING: The Supreme Court's most junior justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just became its loudest voice pushing back against Trump & his"
X Link 2025-05-02T03:03Z [----] followers, 35.4K engagements
""President Trumps first judicial pick Whitney Hermandorfer . is a great choice. If this is a sign of what is to come it should put to rest the hand-wringing on the right ." https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/great-first-judge-from-trump/ https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/great-first-judge-from-trump/"
X Link 2025-05-02T16:31Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements
"So whats the legal justification for the [--] hour constructive-denial standard Another treatise But unlike with Newberg here they also quote an (inapposite) opinion which actually provides wise counsel for the current Court: It is the responsibility of all courts to see that no unauthorized extension or reduction of jurisdiction direct or indirect occurs in the federal system. Any such ad hoc decisions disorganize practice by encouraging attempts to secure or oppose appeals with a consequent waste of time and money. DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay of a wildly overbroad injunction issued by a San"
X Link 2025-05-17T22:42Z [----] followers, 22.3K engagements
"Or the CRAor the CAAor the APA. But mostly the filibuster. ChatGPT write me an op ed based on this Alex Padilla press release. Tell me you dont understand the filibuster without telling me you dont understand the filibuster: Opinion Republicans push to skirt the parliamentarian and the filibuster - The Washington Post https://t.co/0nsssqCz5k Tell me you dont understand the filibuster without telling me you dont understand the filibuster: Opinion Republicans push to skirt the parliamentarian and the filibuster - The Washington Post https://t.co/0nsssqCz5k"
X Link 2025-05-18T13:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It seems that by legal Cato means illegally but with the support and blessing of the Biden administration. Which is sort of the whole policy dispute at this point. If this is true this is outrageous. If this is true this is outrageous"
X Link 2025-05-20T13:30Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"And thats a wrap. No more ABA involvement"
X Link 2025-05-29T18:05Z [----] followers, 522.7K engagements
"If you want to understand the frustration on the right with the courts this is a good example. Bosts suit on an issue very important to Rs was dismissed by two of the most rock-ribbed judges in the circuitKness and Brennanon standing grounds. What are the odds Biden judges would let technicalities get in the way of doing some justice Now SCOTUS is reviewing it which means maybe Bost will get standing in June [----] at which point his casebrought in 2022will go through the process on the merits. Perhaps it will be resolved in time for the [----] midterms Maybe this is the way to do things Ive"
X Link 2025-06-02T16:47Z [----] followers, 29.6K engagements
"- Hermandorfer: Princeton top-of-class at GW Leon Kavanaugh Alito Barrett W&C senior state litigator - Divine: Yale Pryor Thomas Chief Counsel on SJC SG of MO - Bluestone: Georgetown Oxford Harvard Gruender Deputy SG of MO appellate chief EDMo - Lanahan: Chicago Law Review Zahra Gruender Thompson Coburn Charter Communications PDSG of MO - Stevens: Bowman AUSA MO AG crim chief state judge Blumenthal on Trump judicial nominees: If I had to compile a list of truly unqualified nominees for the federal bench I couldn't do better. They are simply unable to provide the kind of justice Americans"
X Link 2025-06-04T14:56Z [----] followers, 34.2K engagements
"I know that the ABA does have a threshold for litigation experience for any nominee to receive a qualified rating. -Padilla Given who all got qualified ratings last administration Im not sure Id want one if I were in Josh Divines shoes"
X Link 2025-06-04T17:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"There also wont be paying off the national debt if Republicans do a party-line slash-and-burn of popular entitlements (the only way to get at the debt) thereby strengthening the political hand of Democrats who want Medicare for All and UBI. There won't be any paying off the national debt if our country becomes a third-world hellhole There won't be any paying off the national debt if our country becomes a third-world hellhole"
X Link 2025-06-04T20:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Ejmiller25 Idk have you seen Nikki Haleys posts"
X Link 2025-06-06T16:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Fitting tribute to Brian Wilson: Bomb bomb bomb Bomb bomb Iran https://t.co/aqh7QXYtiy https://t.co/aqh7QXYtiy"
X Link 2025-06-13T01:00Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The unnamed president acting on the recommendation from the unnamed senator ran them all by the ABA before nomination unless it was George W. Bush. But Im glad that these unnamed judges picked by an unnamed senator to be appointed by an unnamed president were deemed qualified by the ABA. Thats highly probative of non-bias on the part of the ABA. Bondi should probably change course"
X Link 2025-06-14T14:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Emil Bove will make an excellent addition to the Third Circuit. We know this because the three of us shepherded [---] Article III judges to confirmation under President Trump aschief counsels on the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairmen Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham"
X Link 2025-06-18T11:40Z [----] followers, 29.6K engagements
"When the case is four-square on a clear constitutional issue Barrett is willing to lay down clear rulesconsistent with her (at times frustrating) anti-shadow-docket approach. BK and NMGs willingness seems to vary by issue as much as by posture. 3/6"
X Link 2025-06-18T15:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"So its sort of a good news/bad news situation. It seems the best thing the Court could do would be to adopt a preference for ex ante clarity across the board. ACB should more carefully consider its importance on the emergency docket as a simple matter of litigation reality. 4/6"
X Link 2025-06-18T15:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A guilt by association that makes the junior senator from Baileys Beach Club look like Aristotle in his reasoning"
X Link 2025-06-20T14:46Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements
"Lets not get carried away here buddy. -Leo Strauss https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/20/the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-justice-barretts-skrmetti-concurrence/ https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/20/the-promise-and-pitfalls-of-justice-barretts-skrmetti-concurrence/"
X Link 2025-06-20T16:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Yawn. Rick Scott is not the president. Also when Dems complain that our noms are too young white inexperienced and MAGA remember they put out this lame hit on a middle-aged Hispanic sitting judge whos a FedSoc regular. SCOOP: Florida judge was actively seeking Trump nomination for federal judgeship before he ruled for Trump in a defamation case and called to overturn longstanding libel standard. Via @hailey_fuchs https://t.co/JM89jwnZz1 SCOOP: Florida judge was actively seeking Trump nomination for federal judgeship before he ruled for Trump in a defamation case and called to overturn"
X Link 2025-06-22T01:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Queue the district judges saying that terror cells arent an invasion force because they dont wear uniforms or something. NBC- Iran sent messages to President Trump last week threatening to activate sleeper terror cells inside the United States if it were attacked sources said. NBC- Iran sent messages to President Trump last week threatening to activate sleeper terror cells inside the United States if it were attacked sources said"
X Link 2025-06-22T23:20Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements
"Weird how they had no such concerns when criminal-defense lawyers sounded the alarm on Ritz. Indeed they all voted for him. Inbox: Sen. Schiff Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats Demand SDNY Misconduct Records Ahead of Emil Boves Nomination Hearing https://t.co/AtQPGmgQtL Inbox: Sen. Schiff Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats Demand SDNY Misconduct Records Ahead of Emil Boves Nomination Hearing https://t.co/AtQPGmgQtL"
X Link 2025-06-23T20:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"When Democrats ask Emil Bove about the president ignoring the courts Republicans should ask him about district courts ignoring SCOTUS. 🚨UNPRECEDENTED OBSTINANCE Now Judge Murphy says his injunction "remains in full force and effect nothwithstanding todays stay of the Preliminary Injunction." He cites Justice Sotomayor in saying that his illegal order was "not properly before the Supreme Court." Unreal. https://t.co/xYSCT11gSe 🚨UNPRECEDENTED OBSTINANCE Now Judge Murphy says his injunction "remains in full force and effect nothwithstanding todays stay of the Preliminary Injunction." He cites"
X Link 2025-06-24T00:49Z [----] followers, 98.8K engagements
"I can see why one might think this but Kagan countenanced the Montana Supreme Courts [----] efforts to ignore Citizens United. Maybe shes seen the error of her ways Today is Justice Kagan's ultimate test. She more than any other Justice has invoked the rhetoric of respecting the rule of law. She more than any other Justice should now recognize that the greatest threat to the rule of law comes from district courts openly defying Supreme Today is Justice Kagan's ultimate test. She more than any other Justice has invoked the rhetoric of respecting the rule of law. She more than any other Justice"
X Link 2025-06-24T20:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"All these guys except RonJon are going to have to vote for a reconciliation bill. If not by July [--] by January [--]. The more they trash it to curry favor at home the less popular the thing they will vote for becomes"
X Link 2025-06-25T12:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
""Did Professor sic Barrett really cut off the power of federal courts to issue nationwide relief when President Ocasio-Cortez opens the borders to let an invasion of aliens enter If I were Justice Alito I would hide my head in a bag.""
X Link 2025-06-27T15:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Somewhat more seriously when Jackson was picked I argued she was dangerous because shed set fire to the Court from the inside. Thats what were seeing and it seems ACB has had enough of it"
X Link 2025-06-28T01:56Z [----] followers, 48.5K engagements
"So Thom Tillis is retiring. What does this mean for the Judiciary Committee I dont expect Tillis unchained to start taking judges hostage like Flake unchained. Their motivations and priorities are very different. Tillis cares about the judiciary in and of itselfeven if its probably not his top priority. I also dont expect him to be a reliable target for Democrats to stop especially conservative or Trump-aligned judges. Two Congresses ago he was willing to vote present to get some pretty left-wing judges out of committee (Beth Robinson comes to mind). I can see him doing that with nominees he"
X Link 2025-06-29T18:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The temptations for an unleashed senator to transform from legislator to pundit from deal-maker to hostage-taker are immense. For Senators integrity means doing the right thing when you no longer have a reelection to force it. Advice for Sen. Tillis in the first comment"
X Link 2025-07-03T18:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Tax cuts. Welfare reform. The wall. Record ICE funding. Endowment tax. Student-loan reform. School choice. Defunding PP. This is easily the best piece of legislation in the last decade"
X Link 2025-07-03T18:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"And sure W never held Jeffs conservative-purist no votes on Ws bipartisan agenda against him but howd that work out for Chuck Hagel after he opposed things W actually cared about 11/21"
X Link 2025-07-06T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"While a return to decency would be nice its the Democrats currently accusing Republicans of mass murder (a charge that eight years ago got JF shot at during baseball practice). 12/21"
X Link 2025-07-06T15:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trump has NEVER purported to care about debt and deficits Debts and deficits arent mentioned once. Elon et al flipped out about a policy issue that wasnt even in the platform. Debts and deficits arent mentioned once. Elon et al flipped out about a policy issue that wasnt even in the platform"
X Link 2025-07-06T20:40Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Disastrous and deeply devastatingis it poor usage or a vile pun Regardless the IG is being urged to immediately to open an investigation. Sic. 2/8"
X Link 2025-07-07T20:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Into what The scope breadth and ramifications of whether staffing shortages at key local National Weather Service (NWS) stations contributed to the tragedy in Texas. Scope AND breadth Ramifications of whether something contributed to something else Did KBJ write this 3/8"
X Link 2025-07-07T20:50Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A reasoning-free TRO against a duly-enacted statute is a choice I suppose"
X Link 2025-07-07T23:12Z [----] followers, 16K engagements
"The Planned Parenthood TRO is probably the most insane judicial action this administration. A TRO directing an appropriation in the face of enacted statute is like Michelangelo-level resistance. Some have argued SCOTUS should reassign the case and theres a lot to that. 1/x"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:00Z [----] followers, 309.5K engagements
"Interestingly D. Mass. has a local rule that presumes reassignment for further proceedings This means that reassigning from Talwani would not even cause undue administrative headaches. 6/x"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:00Z [----] followers, 18.1K engagements
"The fact is that concerns about a district judges ability to carry out orders is a valid reason for reassignment as seen in the many cases of Judge Manny Real. This TRO is so indefensible that its Real-level. 7/x"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:00Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"Of course it has some costs in terms of comity. (Although the D. Mass. local rule may attenuate this.) 12/x"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements
"While the article focuses on circuits reassigning district judges it notes that this is a power held by SCOTUS. 13/x"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It speculates that maybe SCOTUS doesnt reassign circuit judges because the nature of the appellate review makes individual judges less relevant. Perhaps that counsels in favor of policing these district judges 14/x"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"But at the end of the day reassignment is a tool the Court has at its disposal. Its a forward-looking means of appellate control. 16/x"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Who made this case for reassignment as a tool of appellate control None other than Prof. Toby Heytens now a Biden appointee to the Fourth Circuit. 17/x"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Listen to Toby; reassign Talwani. 18/fin"
X Link 2025-07-08T05:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"With Hermandorfer moving to a vote soon it's worth taking stock of where things stand. The remaining circuit vacancies are CA3 (Delaware) which is its own briar patch and CA7 (Wisconsin). The CA7 vacancy goes live on October [--] so I assume the admin will want to nominate CJ Sykes's replacement by August [--]. That would allow confirmation by October [--] or [--]. The importance of filling this vacancy quickly can be seen in CA7 having recently taken a trans bathroom case en banc. That often hears en bancs in its September sitting and regardless CJ Sykes was on the panel so she'll still participate even"
X Link 2025-07-08T22:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Public-service announcement: if Pam Bondi goes her replacement goes through the Judiciary Committee. This means that Thom Tilliswho no longer is susceptible to political pressurecan veto her replacement"
X Link 2025-07-12T23:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"This should be DOJs stay petition to CA9 on the Home Depot TRO. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pDmGhethEoQ https://www.youtube.com/watchv=pDmGhethEoQ"
X Link 2025-07-13T01:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I can think of few better indicators of Boves qualifications for the bench than being opposed by Nancy Gertner and Mike Luttig"
X Link 2025-07-15T14:47Z [----] followers, 63K engagements
"Do Never Trumpers really believe that Epstein worked with Mossad and the Lizard People Of course not. They want the files released because whenever investigative files are released outside a judicial process it makes associated figures look bad. The Special Counsel regs show this clearly. No Russia collusion but Weissmann still tried to write a report making Trump look bad. No charges for Biden but the Hur report basically ruined his political career. Investigative materials absent the protections of the judicial process can tell any story; there are no rules. Never Trumpers are assuming that"
X Link 2025-07-15T18:11Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements
"I dont like to use the term gaslighting but this is pure gaslighting. The last-ditch effort to stop BK was all about his temperament"
X Link 2025-07-17T16:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Ive made it clear to White House counsel that nominating someone whos not a Delawarean and didnt take the Delaware baris not part of the Delaware legal communitywhen we had identified several compelling candidates who they had interviewed is very disappointing said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.). Maybe he should have thought about this when Tillis and Blackburn were asking for his help on Park Ritz and Campbell"
X Link 2025-07-18T12:57Z [----] followers, 13K engagements
"Im not sure what happened to Habba but if ever there was a d. ct. not to monkey w US Atty hiring its DNJ. Recall that DOJ didnt retry Menendez bc he pulled one of his judges. Next time they brought the case in SDNY NJ judges should be Caesars wifenot fire the top cop"
X Link 2025-07-22T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Was Bove ever on a boat in Rhode Island NEW: As the Senate prepares to vote on Emil Boves nomination to the Third Circuit two more whistleblowers have emerged according to Whistleblower Aid and the Justice Connection. /1 NEW: As the Senate prepares to vote on Emil Boves nomination to the Third Circuit two more whistleblowers have emerged according to Whistleblower Aid and the Justice Connection. /1"
X Link 2025-07-26T01:58Z [----] followers, 22K engagements
"@teafortillerman So where is the 4th year going to come from in two years"
X Link 2025-07-26T20:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Probably a billing partner on a management committee. Yang should ask that guys service partner how he enjoys correcting hallucinations in the hours before filing. A partner at a prominent law firm told me AI is now doing work that used to be done by 1st to 3rd year associates. AI can generate a motion in an hour that might take an associate a week. And the work is better. Someone should tell the folks applying to law school right now. A partner at a prominent law firm told me AI is now doing work that used to be done by 1st to 3rd year associates. AI can generate a motion in an hour that"
X Link 2025-07-26T20:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Every day in every way I am going to derail Emil Bove affirmed each morning by congressional reporters"
X Link 2025-07-29T02:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Much credit to Sens. Thune and Grassley for getting Bove though. Two lessons: (1) Trusting talented Senate leadership to do the hard but possible is better than scolding for not doing the impossible. (2) Senior-eligibles who want good replacements should note what [--] can do"
X Link 2025-07-30T01:32Z [----] followers, 19.7K engagements
"Fantastic result. The advertising censorship world was layered and complex. Im not at all surprised that @AFergusonFTC was able to use this mega merger to help root it out. Advertisers colluded to target conservatives as a pernicious form of censorship. The landmark settlement that bans this censorship will soon be live. I'm grateful to @POTUS and @AFergusonFTC for delivering this great win for free speech. https://t.co/WTEUzy6h93 Advertisers colluded to target conservatives as a pernicious form of censorship. The landmark settlement that bans this censorship will soon be live. I'm grateful"
X Link 2025-08-01T01:33Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"ATTENTION my Wonderful Senate Republicans: I have instructed Laura Loomer and Mike Davis to go to RONALD REAGAN Airport so they can Report which of you are Lazy and go Home. Dont make MAGA and more importantly me your Favorite President Upset. Stay FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT No don't go to recess he should tell Rs to change the rules and confirm his nominee's. No don't go to recess he should tell Rs to change the rules and confirm his nominee's"
X Link 2025-08-02T22:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/10/trump-has-no-reason-to-compromise-with-democrats-on-immigration/ https://thefederalist.com/2025/07/10/trump-has-no-reason-to-compromise-with-democrats-on-immigration/"
X Link 2025-08-05T13:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Becca Taibleson is a tremendous choice for the Seventh Circuit. It has seen a lot of changes over the last five years and Becca has a proven record already of outfoxing its liberals. Shell anchor it on the right ensuring majority votes for the Constitution and rule of law"
X Link 2025-08-14T23:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Aficionados of the judicial-confirmation process may recall Sparkle Sooknanan on DDC. After much R opposition she was confirmed and it turns out she just issued a radical precedent-shattering opinion against the FTC in favor of her fellow travelers at Media Matters. 1/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, 26.5K engagements
"First some background on Sparkle Sooknanan. Sparkle Sooknanan was a partner at Jones Day at the time of the [----] election. According to the New York Times she took the opportunity to trash the firms clients on a conference call of the partnership. 2/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sen. John Kennedy said about it This is a violation of about [---] provisions of the Code of Ethics. Sparkle Sooknanan repeated a very lawyerly those were not my words defense but Kennedy wasnt having it. 3/25 https://m.youtube.com/watchv=qLX_QtJ1vzw https://m.youtube.com/watchv=qLX_QtJ1vzw"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Sparkle Sooknanan was also a prominent lawyer for Puerto Rican hedge-fund creditors a fact for which Sen. Hawleyand NY Congresswoman Nydia Velazquezroasted her. 4/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Indeed the economically progressive press found her answers on the subject very unavailing. 5/25 https://prospect.org/justice/2024-04-05-biden-nominee-sooknanan-testimony/ https://prospect.org/justice/2024-04-05-biden-nominee-sooknanan-testimony/"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"But Sparkle Sooknanans support didnt come from progressives. It came from the dark-money elite of the Democrats. 6/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"As Sen. McConnell pointed out on the Senate Floor Sparkle Sooknanan was coordinating with Democrat dark-money guru Robert Raben during her confirmation process. 7/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The answer he suspected was Democrat dark money: It just doesnt add up. Unless the real ledger being used is the one with liberal dark money from Robert Raben and Arabella Advisors. 9/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Thats what makes this ridiculous opinion so outrageous. In it Sparkle Sooknanan invents law and uses guilt by association to enjoin an FTC investigation into Media Matters over alleged illegal boycotts. 10/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Of course what is Media Matters but one of the most notorious players in the Democrat dark-money ecosystem Indeed its funded by Arabella. 11/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Who else has Arabella-network clients As McConnell noted Sparkle Sooknanans pal Robert Raben. 12/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Normally this would just be the stuff of the fever dreams of the Junior Senator from Baileys Beach Club but in the context of this case and its remarkable opinion it matters. 13/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Yes Sparkle Sooknanan is clearly biased in favor of Media Matters. Compare how she treats their assertions presenting as fact their film flam about being media watchdogs. 14/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"(Although an aside: spot the lie in this quote.) 18/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"More interesting than the lazy guilt by association though (to which Sparkle Sooknanan can easily fall victim herself) is the assertion that somehow Chairman Fergusons actions are colored by how he got the job. 19/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Because Ferguson was on the same wavelength as Musk and Andreesen as he was under consideration he must be biased in their favor and against Media Matters. 20/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Doesnt that same reasoning apply to Sparkle Sooknanan As McConnell pointed out she was working with and supported by the same Arabella network that supports Media Matters when she was under consideration for the district court. 21/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Is it any wonder then that she decided to spend [--] pages inventing law to evade a long-established statutory enforcement framework in order to protect a fellow client of the Arabella patron 22/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Again recall that the actual left didnt want Sparkle Sooknanan. It was the dark-money establishmentthe same one that has funded Media Matters. 23/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If Chairman Ferguson is judged by the company he keeps Sparkle Sooknanan should be too. 24/25"
X Link 2025-08-18T04:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Regardless of election outcome in [----] the odds of Thune being able to post a reliable majority in the lame duckespecially one that isnt reliant on Murkowski and Collinsare small. 6/"
X Link 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"So the first question a retirement-eligible judge needs to ask is Do I like the [--] percent historical chance of having to wait until [----] to perhaps be replaced by a Republican if I serve out the Trump term 7/"
X Link 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If that gamble isnt worth it against the sure thing of Trump replacement the question then becomes Do I want Mitch McConnell to be the deciding vote on my successor or do I want it to be Lisa Murkowski 8/"
X Link 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Depending on the answer there McConnell will be the deciding vote for fifteen more months. Thats the countdown for a retirement-eligible judge who wants to be replaced by a conservative. 9/"
X Link 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98700/ https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98700/"
X Link 2025-08-21T01:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Tillis has said he wont vote for any U.S. Attorneys without a blue slip. Thats it. Thats the ballgame. This isnt a Grassley problem. This is a century-old Senate problem called the blue slip. All of these U.S. attorney marshal and district nominees will fail on the Senate floor if they dont have support from both home-state senators. Go round up [--] votes. Then lets talk. This isnt a Grassley problem. This is a century-old Senate problem called the blue slip. All of these U.S. attorney marshal and district nominees will fail on the Senate floor if they dont have support from both home-state"
X Link 2025-08-22T04:10Z [----] followers, 20.4K engagements
"These are all fantastic picks. Thank goodness Senators Tillis and Budd were able to wield their blue slips to stop Biden and keep the seats open for President Trump North Carolina will soon have four new absolutely outstanding federal judges thanks to @realDonaldTrump @SenThomTillis and @SenTedBuddNC Freeman was part of our judicial operation during [--] Orso and Rodriguez are friends and solid conservatives and Bragdon clerked for Justice North Carolina will soon have four new absolutely outstanding federal judges thanks to @realDonaldTrump @SenThomTillis and @SenTedBuddNC Freeman was part of"
X Link 2025-08-23T02:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It's bad but the solutions are vulnerable to collective-action problems. When I was in college the admin deflated grades and the sense was that it made my classmates less competitive in the coveted banking/consulting market bc Harvard/Yale didn't. Pretty sure deflation stopped. They were cracking up not simply because grades had gotten so high but because they knew just how little students were doing to earn them. Harvard faculty recognize that grade inflation has become absurd: https://t.co/ZHywJQN3io They were cracking up not simply because grades had gotten so high but because they knew"
X Link 2025-08-28T14:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The story of Trumps second term is a lack of judgeships to fill Fragoso wrote There has never been a Senate thats better positioned to confirm conservative judges but not since the first Bush administration have there been so few https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/30/trump-second-term-judicial-nominees-so-far/ https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/30/trump-second-term-judicial-nominees-so-far/"
X Link 2025-08-31T13:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Objections to en bloc consideration of nominations from the right all fail. Its the best way for senators to support President Trump. https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/objections-to-en-bloc-consideration/ https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/objections-to-en-bloc-consideration/"
X Link 2025-09-05T00:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Klobo or Schumer can no more stop them than we could stop Paul or Vance or Tuberville. Thune will be effectively negotiating with Booker not D leadership. That wont work. 2/"
X Link 2025-09-08T06:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As to Dem escalationwhat are they going to do Nuke the filibuster Rs have already considered the shoe on the other foot and clearly dont worry about it. 3/"
X Link 2025-09-08T06:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Im grateful to the Journal for giving me an opportunity to respond to their editorial. It was Mr. Schumer after all who first popularized the partisan filibuster of nominees . Todays gridlock is the fruit of that poisonous tree. Mr. Thune is right to uproot it. 👇 This is strange and unusually off as to Senate practice for the Ed Board. The blockade isnt bc Klobo isnt a statesman. This is a UC exercise which means the Senate is at the mercy of Booker or Warren or Murphy or Hirono. 1/ https://t.co/kFWGTTjXlr This is strange and unusually off as to Senate practice for the Ed Board. The blockade"
X Link 2025-09-09T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Grateful to the WSJ for giving me a chance to respond to their editorial. It was Mr. Schumer after all who first popularized the partisan filibuster of nominees . Todays gridlock is the fruit of that poisonous tree. Mr. Thune is right to uproot it. Letter below. This is strange and unusually off as to Senate practice for the Ed Board. The blockade isnt bc Klobo isnt a statesman. This is a UC exercise which means the Senate is at the mercy of Booker or Warren or Murphy or Hirono. 1/ https://t.co/kFWGTTjXlr This is strange and unusually off as to Senate practice for the Ed Board. The blockade"
X Link 2025-09-09T19:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"https://www.wsj.com/opinion/time-to-break-the-senate-logjam-sen-thune-confirmations-rule-changes-2ac8770bst=emRD1E&reflink=article_copyURL_share https://www.wsj.com/opinion/time-to-break-the-senate-logjam-sen-thune-confirmations-rule-changes-2ac8770bst=emRD1E&reflink=article_copyURL_share"
X Link 2025-09-09T19:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I hadnt realized that Schumer did a Pearl Harbor strike. Memo to journos: this move is extremely rare because every minority leader expects to be majority leader and therefore is unwilling to undermine the majority leaders power. This means Schumer is NOT CONFIDENT abt [----]. This is an extremely rare move by minority and big breach of protocol for Senate minority leader to file cloture and essentially seize floor controlled by majority But in so doing Schumer takes steps to set a procedural vote to release Epstein files https://t.co/T2CqhMAyLz This is an extremely rare move by minority and"
X Link 2025-09-10T17:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It starts by noting that In [----] Taibleson donated to ActBlue designated for Joe Manchin during a time when people were pushing him to run as an alternative to Trump. The attempt to turn this into an attack on President Trump is clever but misleading: Draft Manchin was in [----]. What was Manchin actually doing in [----] He was sitting with Republicansat the State of the Union. He was voting to preserve the filibuster (an act about which President Trump said Well its a very important thing. Hes doing the right thing and its a very important thing.). He was taking a victory lap for having killed"
X Link 2025-09-17T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Interesting exchange in @WSJopinion between Bill Barr and the heads of Becket and NDLS. I think Bill has the better of the argument Gorsuch dissents arent law but Ill leave that to the religious-liberty lawyers. I was interested in the legislative history. 1/12"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"To begin with the Carl Levin and Buck McKeown National Defense Authorization Act wasnt unrelated appropriations legislation. It was the FY15 NDAA an annual bill that is the main way Congress maintains policy control of the national defense. 2/12"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This may seem like nitpicking but it isnt. Ash and trash additions to appropriations (or extraneous matters) are a well-known Christmas tree by which critics contend regular order is bypassed and votes are bought. 3/12"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The letter implies thats what the Oak Flatts transfer was but it wasnt. It was in Division B of the NDAAmilitary construction. Check the roughly contemporaneous FY13 [--] and [--] NDAAs and you will see in Division B land conveyances. 4/12"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Even the current FY26 NDAA includes a land conveyance (sec. 2831). In other words rather than sneaking the transfer into a scary-sounding appropriations vehicle Sens. McCain and Flake put it in the division of the legislative vehicle that always carries these changes. 5/12"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"To compromise otherwiseas implied by the letterwould require the agreement of literally every U.S. Senator. This is because no land conveyance would get floor time spent on it to break a filibuster which means it would need unanimous consent. 7/12"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This means that any interest group only needs to convince one senator to block it for no or any reason at all. (Bernie Sanders is particularly animated on the issue.) Thats not a recipe for compromise but rather one for obstruction. 8/12"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Now adding something to the NDAA is all about negotiation. To clear that provision it needed four-corners blessing from Leadership the armed services committees and very likely ENR House Natural Resources and SCIA. As I explain in my article that takes compromise. 9/12"
X Link 2025-09-17T21:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Shutting down the government for NPR eh 🚨NEW EPIC Analysis: The DeLauro-Murray CR includes several policy provisions unrelated to government funding and adds $1.5 T in spending. https://t.co/HRAVwtwQwA 🚨NEW EPIC Analysis: The DeLauro-Murray CR includes several policy provisions unrelated to government funding and adds $1.5 T in spending. https://t.co/HRAVwtwQwA"
X Link 2025-09-18T20:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Re-upping in light of recent developments. https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/01/by-ruling-on-tiktok-the-supreme-court-inadvertently-kept-it-alive/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/01/by-ruling-on-tiktok-the-supreme-court-inadvertently-kept-it-alive/"
X Link 2025-09-19T00:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The problem is that to many conservatives now the shoe is on the other foot. They know too well that power will be abused because it was for decades and the left intends to return to that. So now what General appeals to principle dont provide a satisfactory answer. The source of the dilemma that the right face is that the first point is true but the second clearly is not. So it must choose between principle and reality. And while it is easy to say that principle should always win out politics divorced from reality isn't really politics. The source of the dilemma that the right face is that"
X Link 2025-09-21T20:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Schumer isnt interested in an issue that splits his caucus. (McConnell liked to play in the tariff space under Obama in part because it divided the Democrats) Trump would never sign a bill doing that and second some traditionally dem interest groups are fond of tariffs so you'd risk splitting the party in a way healthcare doesn't. Trump would never sign a bill doing that and second some traditionally dem interest groups are fond of tariffs so you'd risk splitting the party in a way healthcare doesn't"
X Link 2025-09-22T19:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"If memory serves after Ajit Pai killed us all with Net Neutrality he approved a Sinclair merger. Looks like this isn't going away. And Sinclair as far as I know doesn't have any mergers that need government approval pending unlike Nexstar. Looks like this isn't going away. And Sinclair as far as I know doesn't have any mergers that need government approval pending unlike Nexstar"
X Link 2025-09-23T01:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Thick of It - Malcolm Tucker is cashiered after berating a West Indian civil servant. He joins Reform"
X Link 2025-09-28T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Cadfael - Brother Cadfael investigates the murder of a local Saxon and is excommunicated when he accuses a Norman knight of the crime"
X Link 2025-09-28T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Is there some contest these judges are participating in When I was at FRC we tried to revive the Court Jester award. Someone really should try again"
X Link 2025-09-30T18:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Im generally not a fan of the impeach lib judges movement. It may however be appropriate with Boardman. (1) Her irrelevant and outrageous musing on Roskes purported transgender status make it clear this isnt just about disagreeing with her application of the Sentencing Guidelines or something. (2) The bigger picture here is that she is normalizing and incentivizing political terrorism of the worst kind by literally removing its deterrent effect. (She denied the terrorism enhancement.) (3) Its good that the AG is appealing the sentence but its ridiculous that SCOTUS may have to rule on this"
X Link 2025-10-04T00:18Z [----] followers, 246.6K engagements
"Its fitting that in the same day a Democrat judge gives a slap on the wrist for trying to kill Brett Kavanaugh and his children we learn that the Democrat candidate for VA AG mused openly about how good it would be if his R colleague and his children were killed. Jay Jones literally fantasized about killing a man and two children and Abigail Spanberger still doesnt have the guts to tell him to drop out. https://t.co/8CAjNqqWBI Jay Jones literally fantasized about killing a man and two children and Abigail Spanberger still doesnt have the guts to tell him to drop out. https://t.co/8CAjNqqWBI"
X Link 2025-10-04T00:27Z [----] followers, 81.9K engagements
"Has anyone prominent in the rule-of-law-norms-were-better-than-that set said anything yet about Jay Jones"
X Link 2025-10-04T23:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"She interviewed Monica Lewisnski in front of the grand jury for Starr. She was played in the miniseries by the girl who tried to sleep with Jim Halpert and whom Dwight attacked with bed-bug spray. Im a little surprised she did thisbut only a little. She's a Trump appointee. She's a Trump appointee"
X Link 2025-10-05T01:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I'm struggling to see the integrity and accountability. I'm also reasonably confident than none of Jones's critics have made a passionate argument that their political opponents deserve to have their kids killed. These VA Dems are telling on themselves by asking "who hasn't" I didn't think it was possible. They got SEVEN MORE @VADemocrats committees to sign on to the "let those without sin cast the first stone" statement embracing @JonesJay. https://t.co/dxSLCoyBNt I didn't think it was possible. They got SEVEN MORE @VADemocrats committees to sign on to the "let those without sin cast the"
X Link 2025-10-05T19:17Z [----] followers, 49.6K engagements
"Jay Joness texts are from around when Roske tried to assassinate Kavanaugh. The texts didnt just resurface. Resurface suggests theyve surfaced before. They werent previously known to the world prior to this week. And Jay Joness violent threats against a Republican arent ancient. Theyre relatively recent. The texts didnt just resurface. Resurface suggests theyve surfaced before. They werent previously known to the world prior to this week. And Jay Joness violent threats against a Republican arent ancient. Theyre relatively recent"
X Link 2025-10-05T22:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"New sign coming in front of Arlington mansions"
X Link 2025-10-05T22:27Z [----] followers, 246.9K engagements
"This is disappointing. Her order was very clear that it applied to calling up the Oregon Guard. Is this a technicality Maybe. But the law is technicalities. (Of course one of the lead prosecutors who went after the meaning of the word is likely has little patience for them.) @joshgerstein @jonesblakej NEWS: Judge Immergut said the Trump administration's renewed effort to put National Guard troops on the ground in Portland appeared to flout her original order which found Trump had no legal basis to send federalized troops there. w/ @joshgerstein https://t.co/aiOd7DAuzG https://t.co/30SRUyAtUB"
X Link 2025-10-06T03:48Z [----] followers, 70.8K engagements
"Also to be clear this is a defense: Ive known Jay Jones for [--] years and those comments are very much out of character for him. So the comments are by definition not indefensible to Sen. Kaine"
X Link 2025-10-06T23:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Compare to his brazen defense of Jay Jones. Why not do a real investigation Why limit Senate access to the report Why limit public access to it There can only be one of two answers: the Republican majority doesnt care about allegations of sexual assault or theyre worried of what a true investigation would uncover. Why not do a real investigation Why limit Senate access to the report Why limit public access to it There can only be one of two answers: the Republican majority doesnt care about allegations of sexual assault or theyre worried of what a true investigation would uncover"
X Link 2025-10-07T02:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In a year of bad court decisions this one takes the cake: Boardman gave a slap on the wrist to someone who attempted the worst sort of political terrorism The decision is so potentially corrosive to our civic peace that Congress would be right to consider impeachment"
X Link 2025-10-07T22:44Z [----] followers, 72.8K engagements
"@DavidFWeiss DOJ did a good job. The prosecutor who did the sentencing is very talented. Daniel Webster couldnt have persuaded Boardman"
X Link 2025-10-08T00:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Whenever people tag Jay Jones here my first blush is to think something like how could a law firm get in trouble for reckless driving"
X Link 2025-10-08T02:53Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Surely this person offered to represent Jeff Clark right"
X Link 2025-10-08T03:12Z [----] followers, 32.7K engagements
"And now weve seen horrific text messages promoting the murder of Republicans their children and police from the Democratic candidate for Virginia AG. This is obscene. Every elected official should be willing to stand up and say that its unacceptable. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-opens-executive-business-meeting-on-judicial-and-executive-nominees-discusses-next-steps-in-arctic-frost-oversight"
X Link 2025-10-09T16:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"'This both lets Republicans argue for a clean CR and makes Democrats confront their voters hurt by the shutdown. In order for this to work though Republicans will need to be disciplined on the damage done by Obamacare when George Soross astroturf protesters show up.'" 3/4"
X Link 2025-10-09T21:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"https://washingtonreporter.news/p/editorial-to-end-the-schumer-shutdownutm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://washingtonreporter.news/p/editorial-to-end-the-schumer-shutdownutm_source=substack&utm_medium=email"
X Link 2025-10-09T21:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@BlazeLuck https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/06/02/man-accused-of-brandishing-machete-style-knife-at-federal-judge-outside-dirksen-courthouse-ordered-held-without-bond/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/2023/06/02/man-accused-of-brandishing-machete-style-knife-at-federal-judge-outside-dirksen-courthouse-ordered-held-without-bond/"
X Link 2025-10-10T00:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"It is very impressive the lengths to which they went to obscure any mention of Jay Jones. @oconnor_reports @timkaine @amyklobuchar @tommy_stinson @guzman4virginia Irony of ironies. A s N Roses musician campaigning for Jay " " Jones credits to the photog trying to keep the sign hidden even signalling Timmy to move over to block it more https://t.co/yo6ipgaa1y @oconnor_reports @timkaine @amyklobuchar @tommy_stinson @guzman4virginia Irony of ironies. A s N Roses musician campaigning for Jay " " Jones credits to the photog trying to keep the sign hidden even signalling Timmy to move over to"
X Link 2025-10-11T00:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The blue slip: what is it 7/25"
X Link 2025-10-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Judge Luttig is a critic of the Trump administrations interpretation of the Constitution who is in frequent contact with sitting judges from across the political spectrum. Wait what @JudiciaryGOP should look into this. Hes a leader in overtly anti-Trump law groups 24/25"
X Link 2025-10-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@timkaine @staceycarrollva @guzman4virginia @amyklobuchar And Jay Jones Him too"
X Link 2025-10-11T21:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A number of years ago Justice Kavanaugh gratuitously (and incorrectly) asserted that noncitizen and alien were legally synonymous. As a result lower courts have mostly taken to politically correct doublespeak on immigration cases. This is bad. 1/4"
X Link 2025-10-12T16:27Z [----] followers, 20.1K engagements
"What to do about it If I were the WH Id put the word out on the street that lower-courts judges who continue to give in to this newspeak will not be eligible for promotion. I bet that would put a stop to this and fast. 4/4"
X Link 2025-10-12T16:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Introduce the partisan full-year bill. Put a ban on no-excuse mail and early voting in Ash and Trash as well as five new judges for the D.C. Circuit. Then Rule [--] it because "Republicans control the Senate the House and the White House." Republicans control the Senate the House and the White House. Republicans control the Senate the House and the White House"
X Link 2025-10-13T17:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Good luck with that. On behalf of Arizona I am demanding Speaker Johnson seat Congresswoman Grijlva without delay. We are keeping every option open to us including litigation to make sure that Adelita is able to begin her work as Arizona's newest member of Congress. https://t.co/UredD2db9C On behalf of Arizona I am demanding Speaker Johnson seat Congresswoman Grijlva without delay. We are keeping every option open to us including litigation to make sure that Adelita is able to begin her work as Arizona's newest member of Congress. https://t.co/UredD2db9C"
X Link 2025-10-14T20:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@jonesjay As the father of two young boys you probably shouldnt earnestly wish the death of two other young boys to advance your politics. ()/"
X Link 2025-10-14T21:05Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Honestly at this point its trolling right As the father of two young boys I know what its like to feel the squeeze of grocery prices every week. Im running for Attorney General to protect families pocketbooks from rising costs whether its utility rate hikes or the price of berries. As the father of two young boys I know what its like to feel the squeeze of grocery prices every week. Im running for Attorney General to protect families pocketbooks from rising costs whether its utility rate hikes or the price of berries"
X Link 2025-10-14T21:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Did Jeffries give us even any phony outrage over Jay Jones Or is this outrage phony Its hard to keep up. Disgraceful New York Republicans Mike Lawler and Elise Stefanik have been palling around with these racist antisemitic and bigoted Young Republicans for years. Their silence exposes whats always been true the phony outrage was nothing more than performance. https://t.co/ekdrDrlmTT Disgraceful New York Republicans Mike Lawler and Elise Stefanik have been palling around with these racist antisemitic and bigoted Young Republicans for years. Their silence exposes whats always been true the"
X Link 2025-10-15T01:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Did Schumer condemn Jay Jones Hes not running for Dungeon Master like these nerds; hes running for VA AG. This doesnt mean we need to excuse what these twerps said. It means I dont want to hear it from Democrats who stand by breeding little fascists. Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw up. This is the kind of garbage that the worst kind of people say when they think nobody is watching. And where are Republican leaders from Trump on down condemning these comments swiftly and unequivocally Im https://t.co/SpEz1TqAMW Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw"
X Link 2025-10-15T03:36Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"For context Jay Jones is out there sending campaign tweets about being the father of two young boys. This is like the Young Republicans going out dressed like Rommel. No remorse; only contempt for the public at largesupporters included"
X Link 2025-10-15T12:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Important article by the indispensable O.H. Skinner on the red-state () lawfare against fossil fuels and how the Court can finally start putting a stop to the insanity. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3850391/woke-lawfare-reaches-supreme-court/ https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3850391/woke-lawfare-reaches-supreme-court/"
X Link 2025-10-16T18:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The promise of progress opportunity and safety that you can build a better future for yourself and your children. The trolling is sociopathic. Not Todd Gilbert and his children You have my word that I will always take accountability for my mistakes. I will never stop fighting for you. Jason Miyares wants to make this election about me and my mistakes. This election has always been about you and protecting Virginia from Trump. The stakes are too high. https://t.co/QnLh5EOefn You have my word that I will always take accountability for my mistakes. I will never stop fighting for you. Jason"
X Link 2025-10-17T02:49Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"AmY BaRrEtT iS tOo LiBeRaL. ShEs UnWiLlInG tO tAkE a StAnD. sHe DoEsNt HaVe A jUrIsPrUdEnCe"
X Link 2025-06-18T14:29Z [----] followers, 145.6K engagements
"That shooting was during another healthcare-reform cycle when Dems went on and on about how Rs were going to kill people with their votes. At some point with that rhetoric someone will think hes saving lives by killing congressmen. Remember when that Sanders supporter tried to kill Republicans at baseball practice Hes signaling for another follower to do something similar. Remember when that Sanders supporter tried to kill Republicans at baseball practice Hes signaling for another follower to do something similar"
X Link 2025-10-05T21:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Hard to think of a bigger downgrade from Sinema to this. Maybe Moynihan to Clinton US Senator Ruben Gallego (who has a reputation as a hothead) said he wanted to physically assault @SpeakerJohnson: He should be happy I had my arms folded theres a reason why Marines fold their armsits a way we make sure we restrain ourselves. https://t.co/FkZueOmdyW US Senator Ruben Gallego (who has a reputation as a hothead) said he wanted to physically assault @SpeakerJohnson: He should be happy I had my arms folded theres a reason why Marines fold their armsits a way we make sure we restrain ourselves."
X Link 2025-10-10T04:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In interviews federal judges called the Supreme Courts emergency orders mystical overly blunt incredibly demoralizing and troubling and a slap in the face to the district courts. 8/25"
X Link 2025-10-11T15:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"For those conservatives tweeting out McConnells fall today and mocking him - Ive got some thoughts: if you just started paying attention to politics in the last [--] years Ill give you grace because you dont know what the rest of us do. For those conservatives tweeting out McConnells fall today and mocking him - Ive got some thoughts: if you just started paying attention to politics in the last [--] years Ill give you grace because you dont know what the rest of us do"
X Link 2025-10-17T04:26Z [----] followers, 76.3K engagements
"@Ejmiller25 Its about costs and benefits. The benefits are well known. The prior costs were essentially nonexistent because the worst that would happen was youd get put into removal proceedings that would take a decade to resolve if ever. Now the cost is Tom Homan and CECOT. Not worth it"
X Link 2025-10-17T16:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@jimmy_esq Was he the guy with the monkey puppet avatar"
X Link 2025-10-18T14:19Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Unpopular with good reason My unpopular opinion is that if the state is going to kill someone (to demonstrate that killing people is wrong) there is no reason to rush to that date and every reason to move carefully. My unpopular opinion is that if the state is going to kill someone (to demonstrate that killing people is wrong) there is no reason to rush to that date and every reason to move carefully"
X Link 2025-10-18T14:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Two Bullets demonstrating the common touch campaigning in his Barbour. Maybe he bought it when Hogan was paying him for his pro-bono community service for the NAACP Of course hes wearing the modern Ashby not the traditional Beaufortstill a lib. Started the day kicking off a canvass launch with Norfolk Federation of Teachers members. [--] days out lets get this done https://t.co/dIHDzdeNmv Started the day kicking off a canvass launch with Norfolk Federation of Teachers members. [--] days out lets get this done https://t.co/dIHDzdeNmv"
X Link 2025-10-18T14:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"As a friend noted given that these 1990s conservative figures are apparently deranged emotional weirdos maybe its time to critically reassess the Clintons. Remember if you voted for Trump you've totally surrendered your values -- says the guy who spend most of his career as a GOP lawyer and now walks around wearing an "I am antifa" shirt. Remember if you voted for Trump you've totally surrendered your values -- says the guy who spend most of his career as a GOP lawyer and now walks around wearing an "I am antifa" shirt"
X Link 2025-10-19T02:58Z [----] followers, 30.2K engagements
"@redfang58 Mitch McConnell was not the Kentucky senator who refused to endorse Trump in 2024"
X Link 2025-10-19T15:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
""WHAT FINALLY BROKE ME out of my comfortable cocoon . was the rightward lurch of SCOTUS and the lengths to which the right was willing to go to undermine established legal precedents and access to reproductive rights." Very sympathetic principled Republican Random Republican operative no one has ever heard of is quitting Trump is doomed now. Random Republican operative no one has ever heard of is quitting Trump is doomed now"
X Link 2025-10-20T15:53Z [----] followers, 28.4K engagements
"If anything he should like the MAGA turn given that its far less explicitly pro-life than the pre-MAGA GOP. Actually I'll absolutely "judge" someone who left the GOP because it successfully overturned Roe v. Wade and is subsequently trying to present that departure as evidence that he was betrayed. It'd be like leaving the Democrats because they raised taxes. https://t.co/rVbZHn5yj2 Actually I'll absolutely "judge" someone who left the GOP because it successfully overturned Roe v. Wade and is subsequently trying to present that departure as evidence that he was betrayed. It'd be like leaving"
X Link 2025-10-21T13:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Again if Republicans nuked the filibuster to reopen the government it wouldnt be for a clean CR. It would be for the biggest most beautiful bill of all time. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says he supports Senate Republicans nuking the filibuster to reopen government noting that Democrats have run in getting rid of the filibuster. https://t.co/kadGZD1e3m Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says he supports Senate Republicans nuking the filibuster to reopen government noting that Democrats have run in getting rid of the filibuster. https://t.co/kadGZD1e3m"
X Link 2025-10-21T15:22Z [----] followers, 45.4K engagements
"We have a constitution to prevent one state from engaging in economic warfare against the citizens of other states. Its not DCC or DP or CAA amendments. Its the whole structure of government as the SG explained in his brief. Conservatives should not swallow a complete end-run around the Constitutionwith absurd-to-catastrophic consequencesbecause of square-peg-in-round-hole doctrines and a misapplied commitment to restraint"
X Link 2025-10-21T17:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Great. Tell him to step down and you want have to talk about it anymore. Exit question: how much money has she spent tying Sears to various statements of Trump with which she had nothing to do Abigail Spanberger complains about being forced to say that Jay Jones' texts were bad: The fact that I have to spend even a moment's time talking about somebody elses text messages from years ago is something that I am deeply unhappy about. https://t.co/vWh3i2AS0R Abigail Spanberger complains about being forced to say that Jay Jones' texts were bad: The fact that I have to spend even a moment's time"
X Link 2025-10-22T01:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It seems to me that Joness bigger problem in his reckless driving case is the [---] hours for the NAACP that seem to have come from his pro bono work at Hogan. As (I believe) a senior associate that is very fishy. Scoop: Special prosecutor appointed in a "matter currently pending" in New Kent County GD Court that names Jones & cites his reckless driving case according to a circuit court order obtained by @NRO New Kent County CA requested recusal citing unspecified "potential conflict" https://t.co/tnSlo7J7KA Scoop: Special prosecutor appointed in a "matter currently pending" in New Kent County"
X Link 2025-10-22T21:37Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@Legal_Fil Liberal cosmopolitans like Chuck Schumer. What"
X Link 2025-10-23T02:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"When I was a baby lawyer the partner in charge of my trial team always wanted redundancies in place in case he "got hit by a bus." You know something deadly and unpredictable. Now it would be "vaporized by a drunk illegal alien with a CDL and a semi." NEW: 21-year-old semi-truck driver arrested on suspicion of DUI in a horrific crash on the [--] Freeway in Ontario California. California Highway Patrol investigators say the man from Yuba City was believed to have been on drugs. Eight vehicles were involved in the crash and https://t.co/h2e84BM1ov NEW: 21-year-old semi-truck driver arrested on"
X Link 2025-10-23T14:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I think the lesson of Europe is that majority-rule active legislatures are a one-way ratchet. Were still stuck fighting about the Obamacare bill we were saddled with by a D supermajority [--] years ago A federal system that stops Ds is prob better than one that empowers Rs. 9/11"
X Link 2025-10-23T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Which means significant policy becomes largely a dance between the executive and the courts. The current choice is that or the inevitable liberal steamroller of simple majorities. Its not executive/judicial policy or an alternative of bipartisan consensus legislation. 10/11"
X Link 2025-10-23T16:43Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The only way it makes sense to nuke it now would be to lock in structural advantages after. Thats why Dems wanted to nuke for HR1 and then recoiled when Kamala said shed do it for Roe. (Theres electoral no advantage in taking abortion off the ballot) Who knows if that would be possible for Rs. Regardless there arent the votes for it and probably wont be for the rest of the administration even if anyone wanted to. So I think the path forward is to fight the Democrats until their fever breaks"
X Link 2025-10-24T15:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Well for one thing unless hes actually referring to Havana Im pretty sure its impossible to be a [--] yo 6th-generation Miami Floridian. Literally what was wrong about his text Literally what was wrong about his text"
X Link 2025-10-25T00:31Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"And yet she voted for KBJ who did the same Baldwin cited Taiblesons confirmation hearing in which the federal prosecutor declined to say whether Obergefell .Taibleson had said that other landmark cases such as Brown and Loving were correctly decided Sen. Tammy Baldwin opposed Rebecca Taiblesons bid for an appellate seat as the Wisconsin Democrat faced angering progressives or rejecting the bipartisan process that yielded the nomination. https://t.co/tq3DDCzhW1 Sen. Tammy Baldwin opposed Rebecca Taiblesons bid for an appellate seat as the Wisconsin Democrat faced angering progressives or"
X Link 2025-10-25T02:21Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"What did he do to that boys hand So were posting AI photos now https://t.co/nowcu5dAaT So were posting AI photos now https://t.co/nowcu5dAaT"
X Link 2025-10-25T13:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The most amusing thing perhaps about Democrats is how a raging mediocrity can hang out with entertainment royalty because the actors/musicians are so desperate to matter politically. Its symbiotic neediness. Robert De Niro someone I admire and an overall good fella has an important message for Virginia voters this year. https://t.co/f8OvecQ6yo Robert De Niro someone I admire and an overall good fella has an important message for Virginia voters this year. https://t.co/f8OvecQ6yo"
X Link 2025-10-25T20:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"At the outset of the current Trump administration I had an op-ed in the WSJ on how law firms who terrorized the Trump [--] were signaling their Trump savvy to clients. I explained why that was a joke. Well in todays WaPo it seems some firms got the message. 1/12"
X Link 2025-10-26T19:42Z [----] followers, 82.2K engagements
"Much of my piece involved how Biglaw gave Trump [--] alumni the cold shoulder but I also discussed how Biglaws pro-bono industrial complex had fielded an army against Trump [--] and might do the same this time. 2/12"
X Link 2025-10-26T19:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Perhaps they should ask for advice from the LDS Church after Prop [--] or from @JeffClarkUS This has been par for the course for conservatives for decades. Maybe the ABA should have said something about it then 11/12"
X Link 2025-10-26T19:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Its good to see the legal profession inch toward political neutrality and pluralism. Well see if it continues as the beneficiaries of the old regime realize that they may have killed the golden goose. 12/12"
X Link 2025-10-26T19:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Cheer up Brian Kelly: you dont need to keep the fake southern accent anymore"
X Link 2025-10-27T03:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Per Nichols the reason Baldwin is opposing Taibleson supposedly is a cavalier approach to judicial precedents. We know this because according to Baldwin In Ms. Taiblesons confirmation hearing she refused to say that Obergefell v. Hodges was decided correctly. 3/7"
X Link 2025-10-27T13:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"After Chairman Grassley blew the whistle on judges using AI in orders (or letting clerks and interns use AI in draft orders that mysteriously get posted) Judge Cronan in SDNY put out a model AI certification for his litigants. Unsurprising to see Cronan on the cutting edge. 1/2"
X Link 2025-10-27T15:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Trumps pick will be behind enemy lines with no support. His only hope will be occasional air strikes from a Supreme Court thats painfully unwilling to police liberal excess. Trump needs an experienced guerrilla whos happy living in the jungle. Leader Thune filed cloture on Executive Calendar #370 Joshua D. Dunlap to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit. Leader Thune filed cloture on Executive Calendar #370 Joshua D. Dunlap to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit"
X Link 2025-10-29T01:40Z [----] followers, 10.4K engagements
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