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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 10h

You’ll just be minding your own business when suddenly Martha-Ann

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 21h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 6d

When President AOC federalizes the National Guard in 2029 to protect abortion clinics, Ilan is going to magically discover an English treatise written in 1610 that proves Matthew Kacsmaryk can issue a nationwide injunction against her.

Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 7d

We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 7d

He’s just a baby 😭

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 7d

I assure you … no one texting you from a number in the Philippines is actually going to give you a job to work from home at a rate of $500 a day

ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 7d

Everybody wanna be Scalia until it’s time to uphold Employment Division v. Smith

ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 8d

I am not one of you - but I do care about you 🫶

ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 8d

How we feeling my swiftie lawyers friends?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15d

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15d

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship | CNN Politics

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue back bef...

www.cnn.com

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 15d

Normalize nerf gun fights over negotiations

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 23d

“Chocolate Chip cookie week”: (colloquial) when you are a lawyer and you have the kind of week that required at least one chocolate chip cookie to survive

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 24d

And now for a nice quiet evening with the Federal Register…

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 24d

Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach

Vox @vox.com · 25d

In a trio of cases, two currently pending before the Supreme Court and one that is likely to land on the justices’ doorstep as soon as Tuesday, President Donald Trump claims new powers that, if he prevails, would give him near-total control over all US fiscal and monetary policy.

Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy

The next few months could be the most consequential period for US constitutional law since the Roosevelt administration.

www.vox.com

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 24d

I assure you - as someone who rides public transit often- some of you DO need it

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25d

Whole-body-deodorant ads often imply that you stink from head to toe. But we may be losing something when we clear the smellscape, Franklin Schneider writes:

Why Are So Many People Convinced They Stink?

Whole-body deodorant is thriving. And nobody really needs it.

bit.ly

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 25d

(h/t Janae aka the Nomadic attorney on tik tok)

ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 25d

I don’t think I totally realized I was signing up for IRL spy vs. spy

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · 25d

I’m sorry for the person I became when the spotted lantern fly landed on me

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29d

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

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ACLU @aclu.org · Sep 8

Despite today’s outrageous ruling, we all have the right to go about our daily lives free from racial profiling by the federal government.

We will never stop fighting for our civil liberties and our immigrant communities.

Maroon graphic reading "Today's Supreme Court order puts people at grave risk, allowing federal agents in Southern California to target individuals because of their race, how they speak, the jobs they work, or just being at a bus stop or the car wash when ICE agents decide to raid a place. For anyone perceived as Latino by an ICE agent, this means living in a fearful ‘papers please’ regime, with risks of violent ICE arrests and detention." This quote is attributed to Cecillia Wang, the National Legal Director of the ACLU.

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · Sep 8

If it is not safe for Latinos to just exist in Los Angeles, it is not safe for them anywhere

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

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ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · Sep 6

Crazy how you can just have no idea your hair is wavy until you get into your 40s

ttaboada.bsky.social @ttaboada.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oh see I was expecting you to be the one trying to stop seis leches cake

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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 30

LGBTQ students deserve to be themselves at school.

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · Aug 30

I know there are no silver bullets here, but I think constantly about how our culture of insanely aggressive and thoughtless policing would be upended if federal and state officials were subject to individual liability for their torts instead of being protected by a vast web of immunity doctrines.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Aug 30

"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”."

WTF

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim

Trump officials accused of false imprisonment and ‘unconstitutional racial profiling’ over incident in LA

www.theguardian.com

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