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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Extremely confused how a court can enter a permanent injunction before the defendants have even responded to the complaint

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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks for teaching me hockey, Barry. Legend.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There is a good chance that this is what Justice Alito has in mind. If Democrats win the Senate, he announces his retirement effective some future date, and Republicans can still confirm his replacement during the lame duck period.

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American Outlaws @americanoutlaws.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The American Outlaws implore @ussoccer.com to reject the FIFA Forward proposal. Stand up to this gross overreach of greed. Protect our sport from those who think they can own it. #USMNT #USWNT #FIFA #WorldCup #fansfirst

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Never in a million years thought I would hear this from someone at U.S. Soccer, even though it’s obviously correct. Fitting it came from @ngc.bsky.social, who is a principled leader that the federation is very lucky to have

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13/06/2026

Folarin Balogun, born in New York to Nigerian parents. People like JD Vance would say he's not *really* American when, in fact, he's the epitome of American. 🇺🇸

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AsAmNews @asamnews.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The America I love is the one that welcomes Arthur Liu - a refugee from communist oppression - and his daughter becomes an Olympic gold medalist! I don't love the America that excludes people like him, or deports them back to their oppressors, as right now with many Cubans, Venezuelans, and others.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This is an important point. I know many lawyers who have no idea how to use CM/ECF because they have staff that can handle filings for them. Staff are great, but you should still know how to file—if only to avoid being hapless when something needs to be filed ASAP and your staff can’t do it

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

My father and grandparents came here lawfully as refugees. Under this memo, they—and every other refugee in America—would have been subject to mandatory arrest and detention after one year in the country, even if they did nothing wrong. Truly evil stuff

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had: 1. Uber driver 2. Tennis umpire 3. Sports information director 4. Newspaper evening clerk 5. Press officer

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Imagine watching this horrifying report and thinking it was missing Stephen Miller’s perspective

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Update: this opinion has now been called en banc cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Put this one in the public defense annals

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Ninth Circuit oddity from today: the court granted a request to publish an opinion in a case that was decided by a “screening panel.” I cannot remember the last time this happened cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I may be old school, but I thought it was appropriate for a judge to be an “inquisitor” when the question was whether her orders were being complied with

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

They are charging a congressional candidate for protesting. Wake up, everyone

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The people I work with do great things, x a million

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Appreciate that @charliesavage.bsky.social is willing to tell it how it is, without lazy both-sideism

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Trying to arrest someone through a window without a warrant, over the objections of the homeowner, is an obvious Fourth Amendment violation

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This is quite an opinion the Ninth Circuit issued last night accusing its own clerk’s office of engaging in a “manifestly unlawful” practice. I have never seen a judge, much less a panel of 3 of them, write so harshly toward the Court’s own staff. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This order seems somewhat unusual in that it did not come until 4 days after the en banc call, and 2 days after the briefs were filed, during which there were almost certainly memos exchanged internally about whether to go en banc. Maybe a weak signal the en banc call has legs?

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

So it's now 5 days past the Saturday "No Kings" rallies. Did the NYT still not do an extensive, front-page story on one of the largest single-day protests in U.S. history?

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

They arrested this guy?? Ludicrous

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/10/2025

do people still not know what comes after "a few bad apples" in the aphorism

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Every other federal judge has a larger docket, generates greater output, doesn't take summers off, and manages to properly issue preliminary decisions without creating this confusion.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The en banc Ninth Circuit took the first big chunk out of its anti-SLAPP precedent, overruling precedent that had allowed interlocutory appeals of denials of anti-SLAPP motions cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It's fascinating to watch originalists insist that the intention of the Founders was to create an all-powerful executive with near-plenary authority over the entire government only a few years after fighting the American Revolution

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Stacking layers of unreasoned decisions on top of each other would be so obviously unjudicial if done by any other court

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

If you won’t become a cop because you’d have to identify yourself and be subject to prosecution for any crimes you commit, I don’t want you becoming a cop.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If a court ever issued an order like this in one of my cases I might quit the law

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

If this is not fascism, then what is?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

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Eugenia @eugeniast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The Nazis did not tolerate ridicule

Article clipped from The Montreal Star
* Herr Goebbels
Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit
Comedians Banned For Humorous
Remarks on Leaders:
*
BERLIN, Feb. 4 - (U.P.)
When Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes.
Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after announcing that live German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly rediculing Nazi party and state functionaries. He
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party and state functionaries. He denied that there was any lack

of humor in Nazi Germany, but

said that it must be kept "good-

natured, decent and clean."

"There is plenty of humor in

Germany, more than enough," he
said in

three and one-half

column editorial in the Nazi

party's newspape
Voelkischer

Beobachter. "But
we do not per-

mit ourselves to be ridiculed.”

The five actors were W
Or-

ner Finck, actor-author: Pete

Sachse, vaudeville comedian, and

Helmut Buth, Wilhelm Meissner

and Manfred Dlugi, the latter

three members of a vaudeville

combination known
as. "The

Three Rulands." The five were

said to have been warned re-

peatedly to stop making
jokes

about the Nazis.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

If you’re going to write an order that begins this way—which to be clear, appears fully justified—the next step has to be to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the lawyer who lied to the court to try to stave off a TRO so the govt could proceed with these unlawful removals

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Eric Brignac (He/Him) @ericbrignac.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Pour one out for all of the mainstream journalists who have had their “The invocation of the Senate’s nuclear option is the end of democracy as we know it” pieces pre-written for years and who now cannot publish them because it is the Republicans who used the nuclear option.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job” pretty much sums it up

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