Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 13/03/2026@profjpc.bsky.social @mjsdc.bsky.social VanDyke disaster class prompts these two opinions (joined by Judges Miller and Forrest) reason.com/wp-content/u... 052
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Will pretending he's the smartest guy in the room but unironically demonstrates with this post that he's unable to connect contextual clues that yes you can be more partisan despite not filing briefs. 050
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Why do people post stuff like this where: 1. They say Platner will be Fetterman 2.0 without any shred of persuasive evidence 2. Disable replies/quoting 101
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 06/02/2026This reminds me at around the RNC 2024 where the media were unloading puff pieces of how Trump was a changed man after Butler, which was obviously not the case to anyone who has followed politics for more than 5 minutes. 041
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Dan believes the Kagan school of thought of being an institutionalist and trying to convince the 'other side' with supposed FACTS and LOGIC will win them over. We have mountains of evidence they don't care but that won't stop Dan trying to kick the football that Alito, Thomas, et al are holding. 010
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 08/12/2025The infamous John Roberts 2-step 020
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025All the hallmarks of the John Roberts special: "EO doesn't violate the citizenship clause but doesn't comply with the statutory scheme under (Major questions, non-delegation, etc doctrines)" 020
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025One of the things that drives me nuts are when Republicans do the move of “I oppose [depraved/offensive thing here] because it personally affects me”. Former OH Senator Rob Portman did it when he favored SSM after finding out their kid was gay, after spending years of opposing the right. 162
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 19/11/2025He’s writing an all timer of a justification of the Smith dissent, I can feel it 020
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Why did they take two weeks to end up just to simply grant the case? 020
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Countless right leaning "academics" (using term loosely) have gotten turbocharged towards being Trump sycophants over the past decade, Blackman included 020
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Wallet inspector line and they keep using it. 010
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 23/09/2025He believes this stuff despite all the evidence to the contrary. Liberal academics are one of the few groups of people giving unnecessary legitimacy to the conservative legal movement. 001
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Ninth Circuit conservatives upset that Arizona’s ”show proof of citizenship in order to vote“ law remains blocked cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... 100
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Davis has always been a rabid partisan. He doesn’t care because bottom line is who has the majority. 000
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 19/08/2025CA5 (2 Trump appointees in majority) cripples NLRB enforcement powers from prosecuting unfair labor practice cases against SpaceX, citing removal protections that federal labor law gives board members and agency judges likely violate the U.S. Constitution. app.box.com/s/8i6jrb1kcq...app.box.comNLRB-CA5.pdf | Powered by Box 000
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Garnett posting as if he’s not projecting. The whole conservative legal movement has been built on deciding issues beyond the text, see e.g. the whole project against the administrative state turning on ‘I know it when I see it’ major questions doctrine that happens to mostly go against progressives 021
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Rao submitting another SCOTUS audition 010
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Man, the most slick thing Roberts did in CASA was assigning Barrett the opinion because her writing so effectively hoodwinks liberal law professors it's unreal. No other conservative can pull off this kind of heist where people like Bagley are out here DEFENDING this horrendous opinion. 010
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 26/06/2025@profjpc.bsky.social re: Bove nomination. Am I missing something or is he not the prototypical fedsoc nominee with a paper trial (e.g. Matey, Porter, Bibas)? Like he seems to be a “conservative” judge from the Burger era. 100
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 22/06/2025lol one of his ideas includes legalized assassinations of politicians who are against his racist policies 🤡 000
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Just a horrendous NYT article where Kantor simplifies Barrett's disastrous votes to statistics of how often she voted with the conservatives, makes sense given she quotes the very misinformed Sarah Isgur. Kantor even tries to downplay her role vote in Dobbs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...nytimes.comHow Amy Coney Barrett Is Confounding the Right and the Left 052
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 02/06/2025CA11 upholds the felon-in-possession statute (Pryor-Rosenbaum, Abudu) on remand and judge Abudu concurs to join the list of judges critical of Bruen's sloppy results and favors means end/strict scrutiny. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...media.ca11.uscourts.gov 131
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Cannot state how much I hate the New York Times. 010
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Dave is like peak centrist voter (low key moron). 000
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Nothing from this bill prevents Trump from simply levying identical tariffs after 60 days/Congressional disapproval lol 020
Reposted by Josh Blackman's Unemployed BarberRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 27/02/2025This recession that's coming is the most highly telegraphed recession in history, in that it became nearly certain the day Trump was elected. 415913
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Significant chance she’s Trump’s seventh circuit nominee. 020
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 01/04/2025How soon before we get someone introducing a bill to repeal First Step Act? 020
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Walker dissents with a "Well technically" argument that is clearly written as an audition to succeed the next conservative on the Supreme Court. 000
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 24/03/2025This isn't a surprise. Compare Alito's views on disparate impact on housing discrimination (TX Dept of Housing -2015), voting rights (Brnovich - 2021) versus when there's a whiff of disparate impact that would help a group he views favorably (Coalition for TJ - 2024) 010
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Would be deeply ironic if Thomas’ self vanity is too great to resign and dems end up taking control of senate after the midterms 110
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 09/03/2025I mean, they're going to face the wrath from their base by not putting up a fight against Trump, regardless of the CR vote. 000
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Same dems that are selling trans people down the river would have absolutely sold out gay rights 20 years ago. 000
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Fewer academics in the legal academy have demonstrated just how rotten to the core they are in the Trump era than Josh Blackman and it brings me great pleasure knowing he was fuming when he wrote this reason.com/volokh/2025/...reason.comSee, I Told You SoOne of my many thankless tasks is to criticize conservatives. In many regards, this work is more unpleasant than criticizing liberals. When I talk about 021
Josh Blackman's Unemployed Barber @andriskowalski.bsky.social · 04/03/2025@nytpitchbot.bsky.social 131
