Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber
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Frequent Volokh Conspiracy shitposter
The infamous John Roberts 2-step
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The infamous John Roberts 2-step
All the hallmarks of the John Roberts special:
"EO doesn't violate the citizenship clause but doesn't comply with the statutory scheme under (Major questions, non-delegation, etc doctrines)"
"EO doesn't violate the citizenship clause but doesn't comply with the statutory scheme under (Major questions, non-delegation, etc doctrines)"
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
All the hallmarks of the John Roberts special:
"EO doesn't violate the citizenship clause but doesn't comply with the statutory scheme under (Major questions, non-delegation, etc doctrines)"
"EO doesn't violate the citizenship clause but doesn't comply with the statutory scheme under (Major questions, non-delegation, etc doctrines)"
One of the things that drives me nuts are when Republicans do the move of “I oppose [depraved/offensive thing here] because it personally affects me”.
Former OH Senator Rob Portman did it when he favored SSM after finding out their kid was gay, after spending years of opposing the right.
Former OH Senator Rob Portman did it when he favored SSM after finding out their kid was gay, after spending years of opposing the right.
Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
One of the things that drives me nuts are when Republicans do the move of “I oppose [depraved/offensive thing here] because it personally affects me”.
Former OH Senator Rob Portman did it when he favored SSM after finding out their kid was gay, after spending years of opposing the right.
Former OH Senator Rob Portman did it when he favored SSM after finding out their kid was gay, after spending years of opposing the right.
He’s writing an all timer of a justification of the Smith dissent, I can feel it
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
He’s writing an all timer of a justification of the Smith dissent, I can feel it
He has CTE
November 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
He has CTE
Why did they take two weeks to
end up just to simply grant the case?
end up just to simply grant the case?
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Why did they take two weeks to
end up just to simply grant the case?
end up just to simply grant the case?
Countless right leaning "academics" (using term loosely) have gotten turbocharged towards being Trump sycophants over the past decade, Blackman included
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Countless right leaning "academics" (using term loosely) have gotten turbocharged towards being Trump sycophants over the past decade, Blackman included
Wallet inspector line and they keep using it.
September 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Wallet inspector line and they keep using it.
He believes this stuff despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Liberal academics are one of the few groups of people giving unnecessary legitimacy to the conservative legal movement.
Liberal academics are one of the few groups of people giving unnecessary legitimacy to the conservative legal movement.
September 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
He believes this stuff despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Liberal academics are one of the few groups of people giving unnecessary legitimacy to the conservative legal movement.
Liberal academics are one of the few groups of people giving unnecessary legitimacy to the conservative legal movement.
Ninth Circuit conservatives upset that Arizona’s ”show proof of citizenship in order to vote“ law remains blocked
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September 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ninth Circuit conservatives upset that Arizona’s ”show proof of citizenship in order to vote“ law remains blocked
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Davis has always been a rabid partisan. He doesn’t care because bottom line is who has the majority.
September 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Davis has always been a rabid partisan. He doesn’t care because bottom line is who has the majority.
CA5 (2 Trump appointees in majority) cripples NLRB enforcement powers from prosecuting unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX, citing removal protections that federal labor law gives board members and agency judges likely violate the U.S. Constitution.
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August 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
CA5 (2 Trump appointees in majority) cripples NLRB enforcement powers from prosecuting unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX, citing removal protections that federal labor law gives board members and agency judges likely violate the U.S. Constitution.
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Garnett posting as if he’s not projecting. The whole conservative legal movement has been built on deciding issues beyond the text, see e.g. the whole project against the administrative state turning on ‘I know it when I see it’ major questions doctrine that happens to mostly go against progressives
I imagine “conservatives” are just as confident that the “text” is on their side. And it is tough to deny that much of what legal progressives care about depends on going beyond (or not taking completely at face value) the text.
August 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Garnett posting as if he’s not projecting. The whole conservative legal movement has been built on deciding issues beyond the text, see e.g. the whole project against the administrative state turning on ‘I know it when I see it’ major questions doctrine that happens to mostly go against progressives
Rao submitting another SCOTUS audition
Rao, unsurprisingly, is more extreme here, calling Boasberg's actions — not the Trump administration's moves — "egregious."
![Punishment through criminal contempt might still be available in these circumstances, but the district court
cannot use the threat of such punishment as a backdoor to
obtain compliance with a vacated and therefore unenforceable
TRO.
The district court’s abuse of the contempt power is
especially egregious because contempt proceedings against
senior Executive Branch officials carry profound “separation
of power[s] overtones” that demand the most “sensitive judicial
scrutiny.” In re Att’y Gen. of U.S., 596 F.2d 58, 64 (2d Cir.
1979). Lacking the authority to compel obedience, the district
court nonetheless pressured the government to take custody of
alleged alien enemies held in El Salvador. This intrusion on the
President’s foreign affairs authority “constitute[s] an
unwarranted impairment of another branch in the performance
of its constitutional duties.” Cheney, 542 U.S. at 390. Because
the order exceeds the court’s authority and amounts to a clear
abuse of discretion, mandamus is appropriate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifo6mys7o6mjglhqkcqsqocyhbp2n2la7slwjrqfrsjq4quskx4gq@jpeg)
August 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Rao submitting another SCOTUS audition
Man, the most slick thing Roberts did in CASA was assigning Barrett the opinion because her writing so effectively hoodwinks liberal law professors it's unreal.
No other conservative can pull off this kind of heist where people like Bagley are out here DEFENDING this horrendous opinion.
No other conservative can pull off this kind of heist where people like Bagley are out here DEFENDING this horrendous opinion.
The fight here is not (or shouldn't be!) about left versus right.
The fight is about the proper role of judges in our democratic system.
The fight is about the proper role of judges in our democratic system.
June 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Man, the most slick thing Roberts did in CASA was assigning Barrett the opinion because her writing so effectively hoodwinks liberal law professors it's unreal.
No other conservative can pull off this kind of heist where people like Bagley are out here DEFENDING this horrendous opinion.
No other conservative can pull off this kind of heist where people like Bagley are out here DEFENDING this horrendous opinion.
@profjpc.bsky.social re: Bove nomination. Am I missing something or is he not the prototypical fedsoc nominee with a paper trial (e.g. Matey, Porter, Bibas)? Like he seems to be a “conservative” judge from the Burger era.
June 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
@profjpc.bsky.social re: Bove nomination. Am I missing something or is he not the prototypical fedsoc nominee with a paper trial (e.g. Matey, Porter, Bibas)? Like he seems to be a “conservative” judge from the Burger era.
lol one of his ideas includes legalized assassinations of politicians who are against his racist policies
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For whose who were curious what a book award-winning paper from a white supremacist University of Florida law student looked like, he's posted it online. It's as horrible (as scholarship, as political theory) as you imagined.
But there's more. 1/2
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But there's more. 1/2
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June 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
lol one of his ideas includes legalized assassinations of politicians who are against his racist policies
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Just a horrendous NYT article where Kantor simplifies Barrett's disastrous votes to statistics of how often she voted with the conservatives, makes sense given she quotes the very misinformed Sarah Isgur.
Kantor even tries to downplay her role vote in Dobbs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
Kantor even tries to downplay her role vote in Dobbs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
How Amy Coney Barrett Is Confounding the Right and the Left
www.nytimes.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Just a horrendous NYT article where Kantor simplifies Barrett's disastrous votes to statistics of how often she voted with the conservatives, makes sense given she quotes the very misinformed Sarah Isgur.
Kantor even tries to downplay her role vote in Dobbs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
Kantor even tries to downplay her role vote in Dobbs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...
CA11 upholds the felon-in-possession statute (Pryor-Rosenbaum, Abudu) on remand and judge Abudu concurs to join the list of judges critical of Bruen's sloppy results and favors means end/strict scrutiny.
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media.ca11.uscourts.gov
June 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
CA11 upholds the felon-in-possession statute (Pryor-Rosenbaum, Abudu) on remand and judge Abudu concurs to join the list of judges critical of Bruen's sloppy results and favors means end/strict scrutiny.
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
"Muscular use".
The Supreme Court could give a major boost to the Trump administration's muscular use of executive power when it hears arguments Thursday over his plan to end birthright citizenship.
Birthright citizenship dispute at the Supreme Court has broad implications for Trump's agenda
A long-simmering issue — individual federal judges blocking policies nationwide — is taking center stage Thursday in oral arguments.
nbcnews.to
May 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Muscular use".
Cannot state how much I hate the New York Times.
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Cannot state how much I hate the New York Times.