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Law prof at GW Law. New Yorker turned Virginian. Former SDNY clerk and litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell. Studying and writing about court admin and the judiciary. #LFGM #COYS Papers here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=22389

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 17d

If you are a normal person, it's easy to say that Trump could be criminally prosecuted for using the military to kill his political opponents. If you are a Trump judicial nominee, the calculus is apparently more complicated.

For Trump’s Latest Judicial Nominees, Trump Is a Law Unto Himself

Can presidents be criminally prosecuted for using the military to kill their political opponents? Trump's nominees keep having a hard time with this question!

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 7h

Trump’s MAGA makeover of the Third Circuit is complete

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 7h

By a vote of 50-47, the #Senate confirmed Jennifer Lee Mascott to be US Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit.

GOP Sen. Murkowski voted against and Sens. Cortez Masto, Cotton, and Cruz did not vote.

A series of NDAA amendment votes are next

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 11h

The Judiciary Committee advanced five judicial nominees today, including Seventh Circuit nominee Rebecca Taibleson. For some reason, two Mississippi nominees (Chamberlin & Maxwell) have been held over several times, including today.

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 2d

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote out the last of Trump's judicial nominees (except John Guard, whose nomination is stalled because of his potential involvement in some Medicare scam). Realistically, there's probably only time for one more group of nominees to get through.

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 13h

FWIW, Judge Graber sits in Portland, Oregon.

Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 13h

Right from the start Judge Graber says she has questions for both counsels:

(1) What document authorizes the action? Is it the President's memo?

McArthur: cites the June memo, Trump's Truth Social post (!!), and a DHS memo, and "further posts on social media" in October.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 16h

Iowa’s brief is signed, of course, by the state’s 33-year old Solicitor General (who clerked for Judge Jim Ho). The responsibility for a state’s partisan dirty work is increasing falling on state SGs (which is why Trump is putting so many of them on the bench).

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 17h

Iowa and these other 17 states all back Trump's National Guard deployment in Chicago:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully you have more than a “rarebit” of fun

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I asked ChatGPT to do some Trump role playing and I had to keep asking it to be less coherent

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

PCA and Javy Baez both getting big hits in the playoffs, and neither for the Mets, is fine. Just fine. I SAID IT’S FINE!

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

Went down a bit of a ChatGPT hole here but I think it was worth it

Reporter: Mr. President, can you update us on the situation with the infected?
Trump:
"Yeah, well, we're doing very strongly on that. We've got a tremendous handle on the situation - a lot of people didn't think we'd be able to handle the, uh, the fungus people, but we are. We've got great people working on it. Fantastic people. They're saying, 'Sir, this is a fungus, not a virus, and I said,
'Well, a lot of people are saying it's sort of both, isn't it?' You know, it's, it's in the air, it's in the brain — very sad. Very sad! And, by the way, we're sending in the National Guard, they're doing an incredible job, the best job. People are saying they haven't seen anything like it since the, uh, Walking Dead, which was a show, a very good show, actually. A lot of people liked that show. Not as good as The Apprentice, but very popular."

Reporter: Are you saying the situation is under control?
Trump:
"Totally under control. Under tremendous control.
We've got, what, two, maybe three cities — small ones, not big — where people, they've got mushrooms coming out of their heads, which is, you know, it's not ideal. Not ideal! But it's getting better.
A lot of people don't know, fungus doesn't like sunlight. I've always said that — you get a lot of sun, you don't get the fungus. Florida, doing great.
Beautiful place, very low infection. Terrific governor down there, by the way, he's been calling me — he says, 'Sir, we've got people growing mushrooms in Massachusetts, and I said, 'That's what they do, that's Massachusetts for you' So we're watching it closely."

Reporter: Some people are calling for federal evacuation centers—
Trump:
"We're looking at that. We're looking very strongly at that. We've got FEMA, we've got the CDC, we've got... uh... a lot of C's, a lot of very smart people with letters in their names. They're doing fantastic things.
And we're gonna have beautiful centers, if we need them. Not like those old ones — these will be tremendous. Five-star shelters. You'll have food, you'll have water, you'll have air — very clean air. The best air. Maybe even golf, who knows? We're working on that. People need recreation. You can't just sit around worrying about spores all day. You gotta enjoy yourself!"

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re looking at this situation with the infected — very serious, very bad. My people are saying it started in Boston, which, frankly, makes sense. Lot of bad decisions there. But we’re going to take care of it. We took care of COVID, we’ll take care of cordyceps. Easy.”

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

Went down a bit of a ChatGPT hole here but I think it was worth it

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

I think he’s been watching season 2 of The Last of Us

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 1d

By a vote of 50-47, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Jennifer Mascott to be US Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit.

This was a party line vote. Senators Cruz, Mullin, and Tillis did not vote.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

I’m assuming it was more chem trail driven

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 1d

I’m told Florida’s airports are also closed to dinosaurs, Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, etc.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 2d

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 5d

I know Rob Drake is the better known MAGA MLB umpire, what with his “CIVAL WAR” tweet when Trump was impeached, but Dan Bellino, the crew chief in the NYY / TOR series, looks cut from the same cloth, at least based on his X followers

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 2d

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 2d

We deserved it (and continue to deserve it)

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 2d

Full story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/669...

NFL fines Cowboys owner Jerry Jones $250,000 for flashing middle finger at Jets game: Source

Jones said his middle finger gesture was “unfortunate" and not intended during the Cowboys' win against the Jets.

www.nytimes.com

JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 2d

She may very well have voted for it, but it's a decent sign that Judge Haynes joined the panel majority. Haynes, Southwick, and Richman often end up voting together en banc, but every case is different!