Brad Jarka
@inbradtaste.bsky.social
Appellate Public Defender. Adjunct Legal Writing Prof. Chicago.
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Ok I now like one (1) thing about New York City! Y’all still put your trash on the sidewalk, though…grow up.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Ok I now like one (1) thing about New York City! Y’all still put your trash on the sidewalk, though…grow up.
I’ve reached a point where I don’ t actually want a job that brings me fulfillment; I want a job that brings me money and that I can completely and utterly ignore when not physically present at said job.
November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I’ve reached a point where I don’ t actually want a job that brings me fulfillment; I want a job that brings me money and that I can completely and utterly ignore when not physically present at said job.
Y’all care way too much about (boring) sports
November 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Y’all care way too much about (boring) sports
Learning how to file something in a court where you never file anything is NOT IT
October 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Learning how to file something in a court where you never file anything is NOT IT
The problem for the Justice Kagans of the world, who see a case like Chiles as presenting interesting and nuanced speech issues, is that you cannot have a reasonable argument about those issues with people who are as disdainful of sexual and gender minorities as Sam Alito and Amy Barrett.
October 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The problem for the Justice Kagans of the world, who see a case like Chiles as presenting interesting and nuanced speech issues, is that you cannot have a reasonable argument about those issues with people who are as disdainful of sexual and gender minorities as Sam Alito and Amy Barrett.
I think it’s finally time for me to delete social media because I’m all out of non-actionable things to say about this administration and its supporters.
October 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I think it’s finally time for me to delete social media because I’m all out of non-actionable things to say about this administration and its supporters.
Reposted by Brad Jarka
Maybe allowing law professors to engage with each other on social media was a bad thing
October 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Maybe allowing law professors to engage with each other on social media was a bad thing
This might be a dumb question, and it might backfire anyway, but why don’t the liberal justices stop referring applications to the full court when they have the choice?
BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A326
KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR A STAY
[October 3, 2025]
In March of this year, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary order postponing the effective date of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to remove "temporary protected status" (TPS) from Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. See 8 U.S. C. §1254a; 5 U.S. C. §705.
In May, this Court stayed that order while the Government appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately affirmed the District Court's preliminary order. Last month, the District Court entered final judgment in respondents' favor, holding unlawful and setting aside the Secretary's actions effectuating her decision— namely, her vacatur of a pending extension of TPS for Venezuelan nationals, and her termination of that status itself.
See 5 U. S. C. §706(2). (The District Court also concluded that the Secretary unlawfully vacated a TPS extension for Haitian nationals. The Government now seeks to stay the portions of the District Court's judgment pertaining to Ven-ezuela, but not Haiti. See Application 7, n. 6.)
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifwdli7xxfny6ivyfuusq7lptvsyntu7ypokqdyrgpoxlyw4dmokq@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This might be a dumb question, and it might backfire anyway, but why don’t the liberal justices stop referring applications to the full court when they have the choice?
Charli didn’t bully her hard enough
October 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Charli didn’t bully her hard enough
It’s almost like…wait for it…ACAB
Cops and feds have successfully split up the demonstration now.
ISP standing side by side with Border Patrol.
ISP standing side by side with Border Patrol.
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It’s almost like…wait for it…ACAB
Got to argue in the historic Fifth District of the Illinois Appellate Court today. Abraham Lincoln once argued here when it was one of the Illinois Supreme Court’s courthouses! #AppellatePlaces
September 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Got to argue in the historic Fifth District of the Illinois Appellate Court today. Abraham Lincoln once argued here when it was one of the Illinois Supreme Court’s courthouses! #AppellatePlaces
A digital Andy Sachs
September 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A digital Andy Sachs
My parents know I don’t answer my phone what on earth makes them think I’m picking up a FaceTime call be so for real
September 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My parents know I don’t answer my phone what on earth makes them think I’m picking up a FaceTime call be so for real
Lol yeah, as if I’m actually going to be able to focus on oral argument prep while the Temu Gestapo runs around Chicago
September 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Lol yeah, as if I’m actually going to be able to focus on oral argument prep while the Temu Gestapo runs around Chicago
Bruen is a monstrosity, but accepting it as the law, Clarence Thomas is the only judge in the country to faithfully and correctly apply it.
8th Cir. holds that it does not violate the Second Amendment for state to offer no mechanism for restoration of rights of a forcible felon because the colonial-era penalty for these crimes was death.
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September 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Bruen is a monstrosity, but accepting it as the law, Clarence Thomas is the only judge in the country to faithfully and correctly apply it.
Every state employee travel form should have a box to check that’s just “willing to accept absolute bare minimum reimbursements just please for the love of god let me travel how I want and stay where I want.”
August 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Every state employee travel form should have a box to check that’s just “willing to accept absolute bare minimum reimbursements just please for the love of god let me travel how I want and stay where I want.”
Yeah James Dobson may have poisoned an entire generation of evangelical theology so, like, bye diva! But real ones know this slapped:
August 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Yeah James Dobson may have poisoned an entire generation of evangelical theology so, like, bye diva! But real ones know this slapped:
The Cracker Barrel is woke thing is hilarious to me personally because when I worked at one in college…in Waco, Texas…my coworkers there were the only ones who made me feel safe to be an out queer kid. And I was in the marching band fraternity.
August 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The Cracker Barrel is woke thing is hilarious to me personally because when I worked at one in college…in Waco, Texas…my coworkers there were the only ones who made me feel safe to be an out queer kid. And I was in the marching band fraternity.
Has anyone else noticed a pervasive drop in the use of the infinitive “to be”? I just heard someone say their deck “needs repaired” instead of “needs to be repaired.” I’ve heard this so often lately and it fills me with incandescent rage.
August 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Has anyone else noticed a pervasive drop in the use of the infinitive “to be”? I just heard someone say their deck “needs repaired” instead of “needs to be repaired.” I’ve heard this so often lately and it fills me with incandescent rage.
I’m 35, so yes I ~am~ testing out therapeutic shoe inserts before I go to the board game convention this weekend.
July 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I’m 35, so yes I ~am~ testing out therapeutic shoe inserts before I go to the board game convention this weekend.
Wait you people are out here actually answering your phones? Couldn't be me.
I have learned that Gen Z expects the person calling to say "hello" first, instead of the person answering; upending a century of phone norms. You know what? fine, I say. Phone calls aren't what they used to be anyway www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-phone-...
Gen Z doesn't say 'hello' when answering the phone. I'm concerned.
Gen Z is making up its own etiquette rules when it comes to answering the phone. Some of them aren't saying "hello." They want you to first.
www.businessinsider.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Wait you people are out here actually answering your phones? Couldn't be me.
Gotta love filing early. Just had a filing bounced for technical reasons which means I got to resubmit after correcting the post-filing typo that I had noticed!
July 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Gotta love filing early. Just had a filing bounced for technical reasons which means I got to resubmit after correcting the post-filing typo that I had noticed!
School districts that weren’t parties in Mahmoud have the opportunity to do the funniest thing
June 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
School districts that weren’t parties in Mahmoud have the opportunity to do the funniest thing
Assigning Mahmoud to Alito is a double slap in the face.
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Assigning Mahmoud to Alito is a double slap in the face.
I know that a certain SCOTUS is busy dismantling democracy today, but the Illinois Supreme Court also took its first substantive swing at Bruen and whiffed by treating footnote 9 as a holding that all purportedly shall-issue licensing schemes satisfy the Second Amendment, no analysis required.
June 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I know that a certain SCOTUS is busy dismantling democracy today, but the Illinois Supreme Court also took its first substantive swing at Bruen and whiffed by treating footnote 9 as a holding that all purportedly shall-issue licensing schemes satisfy the Second Amendment, no analysis required.