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Kendyl Hanks

@kendylhanks.bsky.social

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Full time biglaw appellate lawyer, part time #FlyFishing angler, orchidophile, native Texan & erstwhile New Yorker, mom to furbabies Molly & Lady Bird. Speaking for me not my firm, not your lawyer. #AppellateSky ⚖️ #Orchids @LadyLawyerDiary

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 8h

Too many cookies.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 9h

I like to do hard briefing jags late at night when there are no calls and few emails so an extended Westlaw outage at 11 pm is manifestly unacceptable

a woman is sitting at a table with a sign that says `` that 's not ok ''

Alt: a woman is sitting at a table, shaking her head, pointing her finger, and saying “that's not ok”

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 9h

So I guess we will see some logic-gymnastics to reconcile with rationale for letting states ban gender affirming care. Or maybe they won’t try to reconcile at all.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 10h

Just me or does title track feel like enticing broadway?

a woman with a star on her head is standing in front of a red background

Alt: Taylor Swift with a star on her head is standing in front of a red background (showgirl outfit)

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 12h

[lolsob emoji]

New Yorker cartoon showing people mingling at a party. The quote at the bottom reads: “ I read this article and it said that, apparently, there was a time in our history when we didn’t all stagger around in horrified disbelief.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19h

“Cleansing” is a red flag word.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 1d

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CAC @myconstitution.bsky.social · 1d

CAC is hiring legal interns for Summer 2026! If you're a law student who's passionate about the progressive promise of our Constitution, apply to join our team: www.theusconstitution.org/legal-intern...

Legal Internship Summer 2026 | Constitutional Accountability Center

CAC is accepting applications for the Summer 2026 10-week, sponsored legal internship.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: draft dodger offers complains about losing war overseas

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 2d

and they are already planning 3rd circumvention of the order bsky.app/profile/rgoo...

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2d

This represents a major escalation.

President Trump effort to mobilize TEXAS National Guard for deployment in Portland and Chicago.

Court filing just entered in Oregon v. Trump⬇️

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 2d

Demanding unqualified loyalty to any one person or party is unpatriotic, anti-democracy, and unAmerican.

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 2d

Was it Wag the Dog that had this storyline?

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

A few hundred officers and some videographers can't come close to controlling a city. But they can produce content. Which seems to be the primary goal (along with violating rights and hurting people for the sake of violating rights and hurting people).

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

I am in the delicate orchid category

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

I have discovered jalapeño ranch water

a woman in a polka dot dress says " i mean, yolo, right "

Alt: a woman in a polka dot dress says " i mean, yolo, right "

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

I’m impressed w the pants on a Saturday lol

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Mark Sumner 🇺🇦 @devilstower.bsky.social · 4d

Oh hell, no. These are great works of American art that Trump is condemning to destruction.

Fully equivalent with ISIS destructive of precious artifacts.

There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.

A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put...

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

I got things to do but suddenly this feels more important

Blenheim cavalier King Charles puppy snuggling my socked feet on the couch, with another brown dog napping happily close by

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

Some late summer blooming debdrobium orchids in the greenhouse

Tall spike on a Dendrobium with many white flowers with purple tips and a hint of yellow

Close up of Dendrobium orchid flowers, white with purple tips and a hint of yellow, and a UV screen above it

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

TIL that little ear stopper is called a tragus! What a great name. “Sorry I couldn’t hear you, Tragus was in the way.”

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

I had a moment of amazement tonight in a movie that was too loud for me where I realized that little cartilage flap by the ear canal is just perfect for closing up the ear opening momentarily. Like little ear stoppers on the side of our faces.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 3d

One of the fall babies, growing up and getting bolder! He’s not very afraid of me.

Young squirrel in an oak tree, holding a peon in its mouth, looking at the camera inquisitively

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

Who needs to worry about a private server when you can just broadcast your highly classified texts all over a hotel ballroom

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d

I really appreciate Justice Jackson contrasting the lower courts' meticulous and responsible approach to judging—extensive deliberations, written opinions—with the Supreme Court's slapdash, unreasoned work over the shadow docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

They have done so in reasoned and thoughtful written opinions—opinions that, in the nor- ‘mal course, we would get to parse, assess, and embrace or reject, while fully explaining our reasoning.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

At some point the court’s going to have to write an opinion that says “we don’t have kings, ergo, you SIR are NO KING.” Doesn’t matter the vehicle, doesn’t matter the issue, they’re going to have to do that if this democracy is going to survive. If they don’t, we’re toast.

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

[snortlaugh] standing, he objects

Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 4d

Rewrite the law by rewriting history, or rewriting history by ignoring the law, same thing different words.

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