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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek

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Maryland attorney specializing in appeals and insurance coverage.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 7d

Judge Immergut was more eloquent, but to be fair, I had a character limit.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 39m

The undertone to all of this is that the Supreme Court is duty-bound to reach a stay decision in every (important?) case. They're not. The standards they purport to be applying are supposed to make intervention exceptionally rare. If you don't want to make law, don't make law.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 2h

Maybe they're barred in North Carola.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 3h

scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcont...

We think that if these constitutional duties are taken seriously, there is a
list of candidates and officials who must face judgment under Section Three.
Former president Donald Trump is at the top of that list, but he is not the
end of it. As we have said, it is not for us to say who all is disqualified by
virtue of Section Three’s constitutional rule. That is the duty and
responsibility of many officials, administrators, legislators, and judges
throughout the country. Where they are called on to decide eligibility to
office, they are called on to enforce Section Three, applying the Constitution’s
legal standard to the facts before them in a given instance. Our point is to
emphasize Section Three’s continuing force, and broad sweep

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 4h

What if, instead of putting oath-breakers in jail, we just bar them from holding federal office? I've sketched out what that might look like:

An image of the original Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, via https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/downloads

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, this is about a horrific abuse of executive discretion, not about deviation from the immigration statutes.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 4h

Notice to agent is

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 6h

If you underline tab characters (ctrl-tab) or fixed-width spaces (ctrl-shift-space), you can avoid these ugly underscore signature blocks that break for text.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things about Lindsey Halligan's First Filing

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/12/s...

"Sensitivities and Exposure:" Six Stupid Things abt Lindsey Halligan's First Filing - emptywheel

Lindsey the Insurance lawyer and her two loaner AUSAs didn't do so well on their first filing.

www.emptywheel.net

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 6h

Now which one of you is Colleen’s burner?

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 6h

That like from @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social is worth 5x the other likes.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, that one’s jurisdictional.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 12h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 6h

More fundamentally, a sample might be skewed, but a sample SIZE cannot be “skewed.”

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 7h

And another guilty plea for possession with intent to sell LSD 45 years ago.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 16h

He was nine months old when he arrived. He has known no other home. And we stole 2/3 of his life from him. But ICE has quotas of suffering to dole out, so they'll steal yet more.

memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 16h

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him (Antonio María Delgado/Miami Herald)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 16h

@kenwhite.bsky.social is this a rico

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 20h

Hard to believe we didn't get a budget done on time.

Brian Schatz on Twitter: The Republican House has worked 12 out of the last 79 calendar days.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 22h

Especially when those terms are interpreted against the drafter's interests.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

This arrest is fully insane.

Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old former police officer, posted the offending meme last month. In response to a Facebook post about an upcoming vigil for Kirk, Bushart shared an image of President Donald Trump with the quote, "We have to get over it," which Trump said in January 2024 after a shooting at Iowa's Perry High School. Text added to the image said, "This seems relevant today."

"Received a visit from Lexington PD regarding my posted memes," Bushart wrote in a September 21 Facebook status. According to Sheriff Nick Weems of nearby Perry County, "numerous…teachers, parents and students" somehow interpreted Bushart's meme—with its citation in fine print about a previous school shooting at Perry High School in Perry, Iowa—as a threat to carry out a similar shooting at nearby Perry County High School.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Panned as unrealistically law-abiding.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

6-3: All these judges are wrong; we're the best.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

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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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Cross-ideological agreement that Justice Kagan is the GOAT.

The judges were also asked to respond to the following:
Lower-court judges have sufficient guidance from the Supreme Court about
how to apply emergency docket orders.
48 disagreed
5 were neutral
12 agreed
What effect, if any, has the Supreme Court's use of the emergency docket,
since President Trump returned to office, had on the public's perception of the
judiciary?
42 said caused harm
10 said no effect
2 said an improvement
Note: Eleven judges who either declined to respond to this question or said they did not know are not
included. By Joey Sendaydiego

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Get ready for lots of shutdown. Even if we get to some resolution of this one, presumably on the healthcare issues Democrats staked out, expect a new one right after. Democrats cannot negotiate the actual budget if Republicans are going to set fire to Congress's funding choices.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

He had a case — a real case from a good judge — which is all he thinks he needs.

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

He for sure is incompetent. Having listened to three appellate arguments, he has no idea what is going on.

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, none of this applies to Bove.