Raffi Melkonian
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Raffi Melkonian
@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social
Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter. Host of The Appellate Wanderer podcast
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Fool me the 17th time, well I won’t be fooled again
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I’m not sure what the right answer is as a regulatory matter, but man is it societally damaging.
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is the actual thing. And we need way more people, and thus even more homes.
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Well, I mean I assume they couldn’t have prepayment penalties, so you could just pay it off over 30 years if you wanted
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Like it seems obvious if you add
easier credit people will just use it to bid up the purchase price.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It’s designed as if a 6 year old where playing a sim city game where instead of power plants in cities, you put gold accents in offices.
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I saw someone say that homeownership is a losing battle against dripping water, and that seems basically right, after 10 years.
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Every fall it was either “let’s go to Luray Caverns” or “it’s a nice day for Colonial Williamsburg” lol
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The basic point counsel makes is that SBF wasn’t allowed to say that his customers were going to get their money back, and the government was able to say that all the money was gone
November 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There’s just a sort of straightforward cadence that usually we don’t do in CA5 (NOOO, counsel says at one point)
November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM