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Joshua Engel, Esq.

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Civil Rights & Appellate Attorney | Fmr Prosecutor | Father & Husband | Friend of Collies | Long-Suffering Cornhuskers Fan

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Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · Jun 3

"Mr. Engel is one of the more competent attorneys who appears in ths Court..."

-- Judge to my court appointed client who had filed a motion requesting different counsel

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 1d

"We have top men working on it right now."

"Who?"

"Top... men."

A still from a movie shows three men in suits seated around a table, with a fourth man in a suit standing behind them in the background. The man in the center foreground, who is balding and has a mustache, looks intently forward with his hands clasped on the table. The man to his right smiles subtly. The phrase "TOP MEN." is overlaid in white text at the bottom of the image.

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 3d

Amazing turnout to save democracy in ruby-red Clinton County, Ohio

#NoKings

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 4d

Good job, Quakers

My school - founded by polymath, bifocal-wearing, hardened glass-harmonica-playing, "76-and-I'll-Still-Kick-Your-Ass," Poor-Richard's-Almanack-writin', Benjamin Fuckin' Franklin - should never fold to anyone

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

Penn joins MIT and Brown in saying “no” to Trump extortion move.

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 13d

Can we include the contract extension for Charlie “decided schematic advantage" Weiss at ND as part of the argument for Belichick being the worst?

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 14d

Gotta disagree with suggestion he “was and is a good coach”

Context does matter,, and evidence in context suggests Belichick is just a replacement level coach who successfully leveraged a combination of lucking into a generational quarterback and cheating into an undeserved “genius” label

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 16d

The word “flirty” is doing a lot of work in that sentence

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 16d

Do paid ads really represent the preference of progressive donors?

The more likely explanation for what is described is that consultants who run PACs make commission money from paid ads, so steer donations in that direction

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 19d

My hope for every baseball season — since I had weekend season tickets in the Fenway centerfield bleachers in the 90s — is to see meaningful baseball games at the end of September and into October

We get that gift and simply say: Dayenu

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 20d

Also, I don't remember that show, Teen Woll?

I bet it was awesome, though!

A low-angle shot shows three young people in casual attire sitting on a couch, looking up at a TV screen. The person on the left is mostly out of frame, but their arm is visible holding a slice of pizza. In the center, a light-skinned boy with blonde hair and a blue hoodie gazes intently at the screen. To the right, a light-skinned girl with blonde hair styled in a retro manner, wearing a purple top, smiles while also looking up. The television screen displays "TEEN WOLL" prominently with "2012" above it, and below that, a list of other show titles like "PRETTY LITTLE LIARS" and "VAMPIRE DIARIES." The room is dimly lit, with a black border at the top of the image containing white text that reads "WELCOME BACK TO 2012" and "(MEMORIES FOR THE 30 YEAR OLDS)."

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Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 20d

New York Times AGAIN spreading false information

This time: a claim to have the "best" recipes for breaking the Yom Kippur fast

The truth: EVERYONE knows that the only acceptable way for an American Jew to break the fast is with Chinese food.

cooking.nytimes.com/68861692-nyt...

A close-up shot of a sliced challah bread, filled with a rich apple cinnamon mixture. The golden-brown crust of the challah is beautifully braided, and the exposed slices reveal the sweet, tender apples within. It looks incredibly appetizing for a Yom Kippur break-fast.

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 21d

This 1000 times 👇

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21d

I swear to god if Democrats do not get a hold of their text fundraising mayhem…

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 22d

Mistake to focus on Trump when the real problem is SCOTUS

Constitution was deigned for Courts to be an anti-Democratic check on the inevitable over-reach of the executive and legislative branches in order to protect individual liberty

Reestablishment of this historic role needs to be primary focus

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 23d

Eagles missed a real opportunity by not having a message printed on shades being held up on sideline

My brother suggested “Your city isn’t even Jacksonville”

I would go with “Brady cheated”

#FlyEaglesFly

A packed football stadium with a large crowd in the stands. The upper section is filled with spectators, many wearing green and white, while a large red and white banner reading "BUCCANEERS" in block letters stretches across the lower section of the stands. On the field level, a group of team personnel and players, many wearing black or green jerseys, stand along the sideline. The game appears to be taking place on a sunny day.

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 24d

Josh is in to something important here 👇

How the law is understood and experienced by “elite” professors and the Supreme Court Bar is different than how trial lawyers and judges understand the law; power-based jurisprudence has real negative impacts on the people that SCOTUS never sees

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24d

6/ and realize, admit that reform is necessary. But quite a few still persist making excuses for the current corruption as though it were a matter of differing judicial philosophies etc. In a way it's professional self-preservation because if the work of the legal judicial/academic system isn't ...

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 24d

The current Court’s corruption is tied to the abandonment of idea that courts are anti-democratic checks and not another expression of political power

Much of this can be accomplished legislatively through laws creating and clarifying private rights of action and remedies

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Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 24d

Correct observation that this Court has demolished the credibility of scholars who maintain that that current Court is principled

This is in many ways unique to SCOTUS, as lawyers and lower court judges still try to follow “the law” — need to find a way to re-empower that approach

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Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 24d

I can report from personal experience that being your own boss is fantastic and it’s true what they say: Keep doing great work and more work will find you

Wishing you every success in the new year; Hurrah for the Red and the Blue

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 25d

Interesting interim question will be whether defense can get discovery on the issue of selective prosecution, including possible disclosure of transcript of grand jury proceedings

Courts usually don't allow, but here there may be enough specific facts, not mere allegations, to support claim

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Sesame Squirrel @sesamesquirrel.bsky.social · 26d

Just like with PBS pledge drives, I am waiting till the matching period next week to donate to The Otis Fund at @katmaiconservancy.bsky.social

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Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 26d

In honor of #FatBearWeek, please take a moment to read this remembrance of the Fat Bear GOAT, Otis

Otis remains a true American Hero and #1 in our hearts

www.adn.com/alaska-life/...

Remembering 480 Otis, the ‘Buddha of Brooks Falls’ and Fat Bear Week’s greatest champion

With four Fat Bear Week titles and a Zen master approach, the bear had garnered plenty of fans since it was first sighted in 2001.

www.adn.com

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Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 29d

Giving Cruz too much credit

His criticism was not based on principled defense of free speech, but on a practical “they might do it to me” view

I know Cruz was taught otherwise in law school: free expression is an independent value tied to the essential humanity of every individual

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 29d

The worst part of being a foster parent to a lizard is when I have to buy live crickets

The friendly folks at the store ask, "so what are you feeding?"

I have to fight the urge to say, "do I look like the kind of guy who would own a lizard??"

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · 29d

Our daughter has a lizard which she left for me to feed live crickets when she went away to college, which means we have a cage with live crickets on top of the refrigerator

Pretty gross

My mother refuses to sleep in the "lizard room" when she comes to visit

But that's not the worst part...

A high-quality photo of a leopard gecko on a brown and orange rock hide. The gecko is a mix of brown, yellow, and orange with black spots. Its head and body are on the top of the rock, while its tail hangs down the side. The gecko is looking towards the left side of the frame with its tongue slightly out. The background is a blurry gray and transparent tank wall.

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Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · Sep 21

Not 'doomerism' to have less confidence that it's "unlikely" he will "get this sham past many layers of courts and a jury"

Many lawyers still adhere to the law, but not all, as J. Eddins in Hawaii wrote: the Supreme Court is willing to "repackage and whitewash facts to achieve a desired outcome"

Joshua Engel, Esq. @joshuaaengel.com · Sep 20

TBD whether legal system in general, and lawyers in particular, will actually be effective in creating institutional barriers

Seems to be no shortage of attorneys willing to risk their bar licenses to make arguments that previously were seen as unethical or frivolous on behalf of administration

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