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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie

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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 7h
"If the Court will not treat capital cases with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so."
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Congress Should Strip the Supreme Court of Its Power to Greenlight Blocked Executions
If the Court will not treat cases like Christa Pike’s with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 1h
NEW: Montana Supreme Court unanimously strikes down several provisions of a 2023 state law that significantly impaired the citizen initiative process—most significantly by imposing a $3,700 filing fee and prohibiting the resubmission of any failed measure. Link here: courts.mt.gov/external/ord...
Justice Beth Baker delivered the Opinion of the Court. ¶1 Mae Nan Ellingson, Jerome Leondorf, Arlyne Reichert, Hal Harper, Bob Brown, Evan Barrett, C.B. Pearson, Carole Mackin, Mark Mackin, and Jonathan Motl (collectively, “Ellingson” or “the Ellingson Plaintiffs”) sued the State of Montana, Governor Greg Gianforte, Attorney General Austin Knudsen, and Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen (collectively, “State”) in the First Judicial District Court to invalidate new laws governing the statewide initiative process. Ellingson alleged that several provisions of Senate Bill 93, 2023 Mont. Laws ch. 647 (“SB 93”), unconstitutionally diminished the people’s reserved power of direct democracy by imposing qualifications and procedural steps not contemplated by the Montana Constitution. In two rulings on separate motions, the District Court granted the Ellingson Plaintiffs summary judgment on four of their claims and denied relief on seven others. The parties stipulated to dismiss without prejudice all claims not resolved in Ellingson’s favor. Following entry of judgment, the District Court denied Ellingson’s motion for attorney fees. ¶2 The State appeals three of the District Court’s summary judgment rulings. The Ellingson Plaintiffs cross-appeal the denial of their request for fees. Restated, we consider the following issues on appeal: 1. What standard governs a Montana court’s review of a constitutional challenge to laws regulating the initiative and referendum process? 2. Does § 13-27-221, MCA, prohibiting resubmission of a statewide ballot measure for four years after defeat of a substantially similar measure, violate the Montana Constitution?3. Does § 13-27-228, MCA, authorizing legislative interim committees to vote on proposed ballot measures and place the result of the vote on the face of the petition, violate the Montana Constitution? 4. Does § 13-27-215, MCA, imposing a $3,700 filing fee on all proposed ballot measures, violate the Montana Constitution even though it authorizes the Secretary of State to waive the fee for hardship? 5. Did the District Court abuse its discretion when it denied Ellingson’s motion for attorney fees under the private attorney general doctrine? We affirm on all issues.
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thekindlyman.bsky.social @thekindlyman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Marshall was one of the keenest American minds of the 20th Century, right to the end. His last opinion in 1991: "Power, not reason, is the new currency of this Court’s decision making. ... " If you are enraged by the article and want more, read @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app The Originalism Trap.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Congress may still have room to respond with a new law, but it can’t just say the court got the Constitution wrong." The hell it can't. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/m...
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Congress Is Supposed to Be More Powerful Than the Supreme Court. Why Isn’t It?
Trump and his allies in the Capitol have revealed a problem that has been developing for decades.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2h
I think they’re going to like the personal statement I wrote
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 1h
Thank you!
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 16h
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 20h
Good analysis of today's oral arguments in the critical SCOTUS case involving oil company liability for climate harms caused by their deception. With Alito recusing himself, only one Republican Justice needs to side with the plaintiffs. @slate.com @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app 1/
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Just One GOP Justice Needs to Flip for Big Oil to Face Climate Accountability. Welp.
The Supreme Court officially began its new term on Monday morning with oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2h
ah more of those harmless "brief investigative stops" Kavanaugh told us about ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 6h
I've been reacting a rocket emoji every time the engineering team posts an update in slack, but I am also terribly nearsighted, so for weeks I've been reacting with 🦑.
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Octopus @octopusmask.bsky.social · 5h
Oh, so now it's illegal to run a Brooklyn Democratic Committee Fantasy League !?!?
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h
Bro you should read about laws there’s all sorts of them
He also allegedly told law enforcement during the drive, "I will get you paid if you let me go,"
the arrest report said.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h
At my @texastribune.org festival panel last week, I spoke about my miscarriage and how I considered not attending the festival when I thought I still pregnant bc of the state’s dangerous abortion laws. For journalists working under fascism, the things we cover are also personal. Audio clip here:
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 3h
was reminded that Alito's originalism book, "So Ordered," comes out today and--
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12h
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 4h
Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.”

A DHS representative did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 20h
Great write-up, I'll only add that (1) the whole thing is particularly galling given the Court granted cert here prematurely to get this decision in before they allow the Trump admin to reverse the endangerment finding and the basis for Clean Air Act preemption evaporates and...
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Onedimental Limited Pumpkin Spice Edition @onedimental.bsky.social · 12h
We can now refer to 'SCOTUS season' in the same way we refer to 'hurricane season' or 'fire season'.
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On We @onwe.bsky.social · 23h
“the idea that polluters have caused too much harm to have to pay for all of it is more of a personal problem than a legal one.” 💯🔥
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athenamaggie.bsky.social @athenamaggie.bsky.social · 23h
“Kavanaugh’s open worry for the economic prospects of oil and gas companies is connected to a broader fear of too much justice, expressed by both the companies and by some of his Republican colleagues on the bench.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
lmao
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Befitting an institution with vast power over the public despite historically low public support, the court’s opening case this term is about elite impunity...." 🔥🔥🔥 slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Just One GOP Justice Needs to Flip for Big Oil to Face Climate Accountability. Welp.
The Supreme Court officially began its new term on Monday morning with oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oil companies : justice would ruin us 🥺 People: ah well nevertheless
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Misty at Boulder @matboulder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Proud to be a resident of Boulder County. ❤️ Perhaps not making national policy, but hopefully lighting the way forward.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
truly it's absurd how much time the oil companies' lawyer and DOJ spent being like 'this one municipality wants to regulate GLOBAL greenhouse gas emissions' when Boulder was repeatedly and explicitly like, we just want you to help pay for what you did to us tbh ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/sunco...
screenshotted excerpt from the linked article reading as follows:

Back in 2018, Boulder County filed a lawsuit in a Colorado state court against fossil fuel industry giants Suncor Energy and Exxon, alleging that the companies caused extensive—and expensive—alterations to Boulder’s climate. Boulder alleged that the companies knew that their unchecked production and promotion of fossil fuels would “result in dangerous changes in the climate,” but continued such activities anyway, and engaged in a decades-long campaign of “concealing” those dangers and “misrepresenting” them to the public.

As a result, the complaint says, instead of snow in the winter, Boulder gets more “high-intensity, short-duration rainfall events” that overwhelm its drainage systems and cause flooding. Instead of rain in the spring, Boulder gets more droughts that “have substantial implications for agriculture, wildfires and water availability.” And instead of warm days in the summer, Boulder gets more heat waves that lead to “premature deaths” and “adverse economic impacts,” particularly on outdoor labor sectors like agriculture and construction.

Boulder has already spent over $100 million repairing damage related to climate change, and expects to spend over $100 million more in order to adapt its infrastructure over the next 25 years, as it attempts to mitigate the effects of flooding, droughts, wildfires, and other harms. “Taxpayers cannot pay the full costs,” says the state’s complaint, “nor should they.”
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
the Supreme Court heard oral argument today about a topic near and dear to the justices' hearts: elite impunity ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/sunco...
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Oil Companies Are Begging the Supreme Court to Let Them Off the Hook For Climate Change
State courts might be the last, best hope for holding polluters accountable.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
granted, Kavanaugh's not that bright, so he may not be pretending ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/sunco...
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Oil Companies Are Begging the Supreme Court to Let Them Off the Hook For Climate Change
State courts might be the last, best hope for holding polluters accountable.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
wrote about today's oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, a case in which accountability for climate change turns on Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett pretending not to understand the difference between a lawsuit and a state law slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Just One GOP Justice Needs to Flip for Big Oil to Face Climate Accountability. Welp.
The Supreme Court officially began its new term on Monday morning with oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
aight I had more to say about this ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/sunco...
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Oil Companies Are Begging the Supreme Court to Let Them Off the Hook For Climate Change
State courts might be the last, best hope for holding polluters accountable.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
🥹 oh that makes me very happy
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
you and me both
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
🙏🏾 thank you! and also, same 😅
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John Doyle @jdoyleoss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Originalism Trap by @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app really opened my eyes on this topic.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
🥰 you heard her folks, share with your coworkers! share with your friends! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives ...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
oh wow, thank you so much, and good on you for retaining your integrity--I hope you and all the legal folks land on your feet!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
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The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I guess I slightly prefer the way Kav just white knighted for fossile fuels than how Alito would have done it. Just because Alito would have thrown in a Fox News barb about how climate change "hasn't even been proven yet" or something
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
What the Laquan McDonald cover-up guy advocating against holding people accountable for doing things like wantonly killing people under the auspices of public safety?!
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kav also saying the Court's precedents are backed up by the "equal sovereignty principle." You know, the thing they made up in Shelby County to gut the Voting Rights Act. So it's a weapon to be used against Acts of Congress that states don't like...and state law suits that industry doesn't like.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alito's prob sitting in his chambers pounding his desk screaming softball questions to save Suncor's lawyers.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Boulder isn't trying to dictate national climate policy Boulder is saying 'your actions caused so much damage in our county and we need you to chip in to cover those costs'
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Kavanaugh fully endorsed the argument that Boulder's lawsuit can't move forward bc interstate air and water pollution is clearly a federal law matter what I am hoping someone says is: that argument totally misunderstands what Boulder's lawsuit is doing
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
fist-pumped at this, this is one of the things I was hoping to hear like, the oil companies are the ones asking for something unprecedented and ridiculous, not the state and local governments who have been harmed by their conduct and want them to pay for it
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 05/10/2026
The Supreme Court's first case of the new term is an oil company's effort to avoid accountability for climate change harms
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How the Supreme Court Could Slam the Courthouse Door On Climate Accountability
The justices’ decision in Suncor Energy could leave cities and states ravaged by climate change with no meaningful recourse.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/10/2026
I can’t believe it’s already the
Poster for the 1981 film adaptation of the 1978 play "First Monday in October"—named for the first day of the US Supreme Court's fall term. This poster includes photos of the movie's stars, Walter Matthau and Jill Clayburgh, with a caricature of the Supreme Court justices and Clayburgh's character dangling from two ends of Lady Justice's scale. Tagline: "In the Supreme Court, there are only eight of them against all of her."
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
I'll be tuning in to the Supreme Court's oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County this morning--the case that Alito just belatedly recused from--which will determine whether communities can sue polluters to make em pay for the harms they caused to the climate www.lcv.org/blog/suncor-...
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Suncor v. Boulder: the Supreme Court climate lawsuit against Big Polluters, and what it means for you
Polluter-caused climate change costs all of us money. This case will decide whether the American people can sue Big Polluters to make them pay their share.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I should NOT read news before food and coffee. Now I have gone and said things.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let’s do this. I’m headed back to SCOTUS. First arguments of term — in a key climate change case — are at 10a. Subscribe now to support another term of my independent legal journalism: www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...
Chris with a cold brew, ready to go, in a blue and white check shirt, maroon tie, and gray jacket.
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