Now known as the National Gardeners
Constitutional and civil rights lawyer; author most recently of Supreme Anecdotes: Tales from the Supreme Court
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Now known as the National Gardeners
He limited to burning a flag to incite violence, which regardless of whether a flag is part of it, is already a crime. His EO adds nothing but is more performative nonsense.
DC restaurants are complaining business is down because people are afraid to go out while the National Guard is stopping everyone. He has made business worse.
In August 2024, the NWS completed a $150 million upgrade to a next generation system. www.weather.gov/news/241908-... This is just the administration's number one excuse for its failures: its the problem of the guy before them.
Mourning our democracy, I dissent.
Outgoing head of broadband deployment sent a blistering email calling Musk's Starlink an inferior technology, but is being selected to make Musk richer yet. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Claiming it is a victory to ban humanitarian aid, to stop new rules that would have protected our air, water, and environment, to halt electric vehicle creation that will improve efficiency shows how out of touch he is with protecting real people's lives.
My latest post for the Appellate Advocacy Blog and the need to educate the public about the courts' authority to decide challenges to the administration's actions. lawprofessors.typepad.com/appellate_ad...
Judicial Branch Instructs Employees To Ignore Mass DOGE Email www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Could someone place an order for 100 more Jasmine Crocketts for overnight delivery to the Democratic Party thx in advance
From The NY Times: HUD Sec Scott Turner announced he was halting enforcement actions that further a “far-left gender ideology” in housing programs. He said the 2016 rule was inconsistent with “what the Lord established from the beginning when he created man in His own image.” How is this policy now?
Salon quotes me about the strong likelihood that the States' lawsuit over birthright citizenship results in a nationwide injunction against the blatantly unconstitutional Executive Order.
Big win today in the Maryland Supreme Court, which upheld the state's Child Victims Act, which did away with the statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases. I was honored to argue the case for the victims in September. www.courts.state.md.us/data/opinion...
In this article, I described the Trump administration's legal argument "grasping." www.salon.com/2025/01/25/b...
In this picture from the NY Times, only one person fails to place his hand over his heart--possibly because he lacks one. Still, perhaps he just believes the old adage that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
Ever have that terrible, sinking feeling?
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Consider this gift for the lawyer, law student, or Supreme Court aficionado. It contains funny anecdotes on every justice to serve on the Supreme Court in bit-sized stories and reveals the historically political nature of the Court: Supreme Anecdotes: Tales from the Supreme Court.
I too served as a jury foreman in DC — and there was no void dire before we were empaneled.
Apparently, we need to re-learn those lessons.
We’re reinventing the wheel! In 1967 (Keyishian v Bd. of Regents), the Supreme Court called academic freedom a transcendent value. The First Amendment does not tolerate government actions that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom, it added.
I missed this when it appeared ten days ago, but I think it is the right response to the misuse of the Justice Department that we've been promised: preemptive pardons for the likely targets. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I was surprised and pleased by this overly generous article about my participation in a constitutional challenge: www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news...
Lauren Boebert wants Trump to appoint Dan Bongino as the Secretary of Secret Service. There isn’t a “Secretary of Secret Service.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...
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