Lee Kovarsky
@kovarsky.bsky.social
Professor of Law, University of Texas. Habeas corpus, death penalty, some other law stuff, sentient space robots, kids who don't listen to me, and hot sauce.
BIO: https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/lee-kovarsky/
BIO: https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/lee-kovarsky/
Big Moderate is like "OMG bluesky is such an echo chamber and breeding ground for naive leftist agenda"
MEANWHILE the reality is that bluesky is like 98% people being like "maybe wannabe soldiers gassing people walking their dogs in pajamas is fucked up"
MEANWHILE the reality is that bluesky is like 98% people being like "maybe wannabe soldiers gassing people walking their dogs in pajamas is fucked up"
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Big Moderate is like "OMG bluesky is such an echo chamber and breeding ground for naive leftist agenda"
MEANWHILE the reality is that bluesky is like 98% people being like "maybe wannabe soldiers gassing people walking their dogs in pajamas is fucked up"
MEANWHILE the reality is that bluesky is like 98% people being like "maybe wannabe soldiers gassing people walking their dogs in pajamas is fucked up"
Not surprising. My general understanding is that this won’t be time-barred upon an expeditious re-filing. But that is based on my read of people I trust and not on my own knowledge of relation-back rules here.
BREAKING
A federal judge just DISMISSED James Comey’s case without prejudice because of Lindsey Halligan’s unlawful appointment.
More soon on All Rise News.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
A federal judge just DISMISSED James Comey’s case without prejudice because of Lindsey Halligan’s unlawful appointment.
More soon on All Rise News.
Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Background www.allrisenews.com/p/halligan-c...
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Not surprising. My general understanding is that this won’t be time-barred upon an expeditious re-filing. But that is based on my read of people I trust and not on my own knowledge of relation-back rules here.
Reed Sheppard ladies and gentlemen
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Reed Sheppard ladies and gentlemen
OMG THEY ARE GOING TO BRAID EACHOTHER'S HAIR
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
OMG THEY ARE GOING TO BRAID EACHOTHER'S HAIR
The radio said "this Radiohead song, from the Album The Bends, released 30 years ago" and I almost crashed the car.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The radio said "this Radiohead song, from the Album The Bends, released 30 years ago" and I almost crashed the car.
I don’t think you can plot weakness and strength on one dimension. He is weakened in terms of traditional power over other officials, but IMHO retains unprecedented power to induce violent loyalism from regular civilians improvising on his behalf.
If he weren’t much weaker than many people act he would be giving orders instead of whining on truth social. bsky.app/profile/pale...
Trump posts again about Democrats, saying their behavior is “punishable by DEATH!”
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I don’t think you can plot weakness and strength on one dimension. He is weakened in terms of traditional power over other officials, but IMHO retains unprecedented power to induce violent loyalism from regular civilians improvising on his behalf.
Next up: files not released bc there is active investigation, ordered by Trump of course
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump signs bill to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure after months of resistance.
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Next up: files not released bc there is active investigation, ordered by Trump of course
I hear people just publicly and proudly being this fucking stupid and not caring and honestly the first thing I wonder is how or where you get socialized to not caring that everyone who knows anything about anything thinks you are a buffoon.
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I hear people just publicly and proudly being this fucking stupid and not caring and honestly the first thing I wonder is how or where you get socialized to not caring that everyone who knows anything about anything thinks you are a buffoon.
FWIW I think this is more than just people treating Trump as a magic wizard. If Trump goes down here, and if this blows up, it takes down all of them. So I actually think people are discounting the possibility of real outlier scenarios that ARE actually in the collective's interest.
What choice did he have? Not being snarky here to any of you, but you all seem unable to believe that Trump lost a major political battle, and now he's going to just do what he always does: Ad hoc it all, and hope he can bully his way through it.
So, what rationale would Trump have for "supporting" release of the files if he could be implicated?
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
FWIW I think this is more than just people treating Trump as a magic wizard. If Trump goes down here, and if this blows up, it takes down all of them. So I actually think people are discounting the possibility of real outlier scenarios that ARE actually in the collective's interest.
i know people are taken aback by the content, but for me the shocker is his ability to use the word "insubordinate" properly in a sentence, which seems like a five sigma outlier for him.
Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now?
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
i know people are taken aback by the content, but for me the shocker is his ability to use the word "insubordinate" properly in a sentence, which seems like a five sigma outlier for him.
Well my kids will never eat McDonalds again as long as I’m buying.
Trump: "You should've suffered a little while through Kamala. The good news is she had no clue. I want to give an IQ test to Kamala and Biden. Who do you think wins?"
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Well my kids will never eat McDonalds again as long as I’m buying.
Remember there is ALWAYS a parent worse than you.
I hate when my kids "prank" me by handing me stuff that they should throw away. Yesterday my kid did that with gum and I fired it back at them in between soccer games.
Just got the call from school that kid "seems to have gum stuck in their hair."
I hate when my kids "prank" me by handing me stuff that they should throw away. Yesterday my kid did that with gum and I fired it back at them in between soccer games.
Just got the call from school that kid "seems to have gum stuck in their hair."
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Remember there is ALWAYS a parent worse than you.
I hate when my kids "prank" me by handing me stuff that they should throw away. Yesterday my kid did that with gum and I fired it back at them in between soccer games.
Just got the call from school that kid "seems to have gum stuck in their hair."
I hate when my kids "prank" me by handing me stuff that they should throw away. Yesterday my kid did that with gum and I fired it back at them in between soccer games.
Just got the call from school that kid "seems to have gum stuck in their hair."
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the worm began to take hold.
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the worm began to take hold.
Watched the first two episodes of Pluribus.
It’s terrific!
It’s terrific!
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Watched the first two episodes of Pluribus.
It’s terrific!
It’s terrific!
Ooooooh I bet the writing is turgid and the ideas are tedious
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ooooooh I bet the writing is turgid and the ideas are tedious
I'm proud of this piece - about about victimhood (and victims' "rights") when the primary bearer of harm is dead. & I'm really grateful to MLR for terrific work!
Issue 2 of Volume 124 is now live on our website! Make sure to check out these insightful articles by Daniel Fryer, @dorfmandoron.bsky.social, and @kovarsky.bsky.social at michiganlawreview.org/archive/. Throughout the week, we will highlight each article in the thread below. Stay tuned for more!
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'm proud of this piece - about about victimhood (and victims' "rights") when the primary bearer of harm is dead. & I'm really grateful to MLR for terrific work!
larry summers really is as ugly and piggish and small as every single person who has ever met him reports
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
larry summers really is as ugly and piggish and small as every single person who has ever met him reports
guys i've been tied up with other things most of the day and DID I MISS ANYTHING
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
guys i've been tied up with other things most of the day and DID I MISS ANYTHING
I've had a very tough time figuring out which bureaucratic unit is the best fit for the Slough House moniker.
Slow Horses is a documentary about Kash Patel and his gang of nincompoops
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I've had a very tough time figuring out which bureaucratic unit is the best fit for the Slough House moniker.
sometimes bluesky reminds you of twitter
Fuck off pervert
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
sometimes bluesky reminds you of twitter
Folks can get mad at me but his article is deeply misleading. It makes it sound like Trump pardoned him for attempting to solicit sex from who he thought was a 15-year old girl. He basically got time served for an ABSURD 1,306 days in pretrial detention, and still has to register as a sex offender.
A man pardoned by Donald Trump for his role in January 6th - he assaulted Capitol Police officers with bear spray & a metal whip - has avoided prison for child sex crimes because of the president’s sweeping pardon, despite pleading guilty to soliciting what he believed was a 15-year-old girl for sex
Trump Pardon Lets Convicted Child Sex Predator Walk Free
Andrew Taake walked free because of Trump’s pardons, despite being convicted of a child sex crime.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Folks can get mad at me but his article is deeply misleading. It makes it sound like Trump pardoned him for attempting to solicit sex from who he thought was a 15-year old girl. He basically got time served for an ABSURD 1,306 days in pretrial detention, and still has to register as a sex offender.
Every day stupider than the one before it is the iron law of the trump era
Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider
November 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Every day stupider than the one before it is the iron law of the trump era
Honestly the whole of charging misconduct law is messed up because the Court built it up to deal with indirect, more subtle types of discrimination and vindictiveness, not the head of the executive branch accidentally tweeting the entire country with direct evidence.
Onto Comey's vindictive and selective prosecution argument. This ¶ is super important, bc it gets to how inapt exist precedents on whether related investigators can be source of animus. A president is different.
November 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Honestly the whole of charging misconduct law is messed up because the Court built it up to deal with indirect, more subtle types of discrimination and vindictiveness, not the head of the executive branch accidentally tweeting the entire country with direct evidence.
Uh I hate to break it to Slow House but you can't pardon state crimes, and all of the fake elector prosecutions involve state offenses.
The language of this pardon is extremely broad.
It includes “all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential
electors…”
It includes “all United States citizens for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential
electors…”
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Uh I hate to break it to Slow House but you can't pardon state crimes, and all of the fake elector prosecutions involve state offenses.
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE JOY DIVISION SONG
A) Love Will Tear Us Apart
B) Transmission
C) Disorder
D) Atmosphere
E) Pick a deeper cut Lee
A) Love Will Tear Us Apart
B) Transmission
C) Disorder
D) Atmosphere
E) Pick a deeper cut Lee
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE JOY DIVISION SONG
A) Love Will Tear Us Apart
B) Transmission
C) Disorder
D) Atmosphere
E) Pick a deeper cut Lee
A) Love Will Tear Us Apart
B) Transmission
C) Disorder
D) Atmosphere
E) Pick a deeper cut Lee