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Josh Block

@joshablock.bsky.social
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Attorney @ACLULGBT. He/him. Views expressed here are my own.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026
Have some journalistic jealousy over this look into the crop of new DOJ Civil Rights Division hires from @glennthrush.bsky.social:
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So heterodox!
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cool www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Alito holds up Edmund Burke’s teachings about prudence and tradition as “invaluable” guides for the “many times when originalist jurists must exercise judgment.” But he otherwise defends Burke’s relevance to American judging only by noting that he and many other conservatives esteem him. Unexpectedly, Alito also voices great respect for the work of the Harvard Law professor and fellow Catholic Adrian Vermeule, an arch critic of originalism. Vermeule argues that the theory’s moral skepticism, “defensive crouch,” and allergy to considering outcomes render it “an obstacle to the development of a robust, substantively conservative approach to constitutional law.” He favors interpretation aimed at “the common good,” a concept associated with Catholic social teaching.
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Never surprising, always enraging
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lol incredible
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well deserved! Congratulations.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t understand the impulse to describe Judge Ho as auditioning. There is a much simpler explanation.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Prigg v Pennsylvania just dropped.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’d separate that clause with em-dashes instead of commas. Or else spell out “eleven” for G-d’s sake.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great work by @acluva.bsky.social virginiamercury.com/2026/09/16/v...
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Virginia school board settles with parents, reverses policy that blocked LGBTQ+ student club • Virginia Mercury
King George School Board updates policy to expand non-curricular clubs, enhance parental input
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rao and Katsas in top form here. Radical leftist Judge Henderson dissents. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The irreparable harm is that the student has to attend Brooklyn Tech instead of Stuyvesant.
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Nate Raymond @nateraymond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The order ​of the president of the United States I think fairly read expresses the view that transgender citizens don't exist," Judge Young told a DOJ attorney. "Please tell me I'm wrong." DOJ lawyer: "I can't."
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Re point 1, it looks like there are a few lower court cases that have pulled the same procedural stunt. See, e.g., Amandola v. Town of Babylon, 251 F.3d 339, 344 (2d Cir. 2001). Still think its flatly inconsistent with FRCP/1292/Due Process. But not make up by this particular panel.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1. Under what possible procedural mechanism can a court of appeals affirm a TRO and remand for entry of a *permanent injunction* when there hasn’t even been an answer to the complaint? 2. This just openly defies Kavanaugh’s stay of the order until disposition of a cert petition.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A matter of *pubic* concern
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Same guy involved in the Abrego Garcia malicious prosecution.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Jim Carrey's Devastating Objection in Liar Liar
ALT: Jim Carrey's Devastating Objection in Liar Liar
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CA2 says federal government can conduct suspicionless searches of any international traveler's cellphones - even U.S. citizens! - upon arrival at the border. The 2nd Circuit covers JFK Airport. Biden judge concurs in the judgment to say WTF! storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2026/09/...
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 17/09/2026
Just In — Rep. Beatty's legal team just alerted Judge Cooper about the existence of this photo "that appears to read 'Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.'" Doc buff.ly/aOLFtoG
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thought this said “chipmunking” dominance
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred DHS from threatening to prosecute a man who harshly criticized ICE’s acting director following the fatal shootings in Minnesota. It violates his free speech, Judge Contreras ruled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is getting way out of hand www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
JUST IN: Judge Cooper has broadly blocked the Kennedy Center from inscribing Trump's name on the building. "Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Urinated off” politicalwire.com/2026/09/15/c...
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Same as in Learning Resources…
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Same breakdown as Learning Resources if you count Kavanaugh as siding with the administration on the merits, probably attributable to different views among conservatives on MQD’s application here.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not really into this new season of Widow's Bay...
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Major Questions
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/262...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
i would protect this chair with my life
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Now *that’s* a Purcell problem.
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Daphna Renan @daphnarenan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Grateful for this generous dive into our history from the New Yorker. The review tees up an important Q. Our argument is that the Court has an important role to play enforcing federal statutes, but that it should not defy enacted federal law. What does this mean for the presidency? 🧵 bit.ly/3STkBur
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Has the Supreme Court Sandbagged Democracy?
A new legal history argues that the Justices should be stripped of their power to overrule coequal branches of government. It arrives at an awkward moment.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can they now just file a mandamus petition to force the FCC to rule on the application for review it has been sitting on?
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The press release has a quote from the U.S. Attonrey for the Northern District of Texas because of the egregious forum shopping to Judge O’Connor’s court.
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DG @1dgrn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#lawsky here's a nightmare scenario abovethelaw.com/2026/09/ncaa...
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NCAA Swaps Law Firms After Its Biglaw Lawyers Called Rhode Island Judge 'Dumb' In Email CC Disaster - Above the Law
Calling the plaintiff 'poop man' probably didn't help either.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ok this is amazing
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes. And it’s a feature, not a bug.
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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Becky Pepper-Jackson is a kid who is both brave and wants to fit in. She deserved better. Justice Sotomayor saw her but that must be cold comfort
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Opinion | The Transgender Sports Decision Was About Something Deeper Than Law
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
From the Trump Administration’s cert petition in Talbott. glad-org-wpom.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/u...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I for one am interested in this section
h. [Attorneys] Begin to Leave Federal Service to Avoid Jeopardizing TheirLicenses and Careers [huge swathe of redacted text]
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
They should have pirate-shaped crackers—like animal crackers—and they could be called “pirate chips” because it sounds like “pirate ships.”
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I think monopsony would be a better board game.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Yes, this totally helps reassure me that he won’t abuse his power if the merger goes through.
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Ronald Rhaegan Targaryen
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sort of a mashup of his face with Reagan’s.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Todd Blanche, to senators during his confirmation process, talked up his commitment to defend the law in question:
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This excellent, just-filed amicus brief from @thefireorg.bsky.social defends the plaintiffs' central claims in AAUP v. Rubio--that noncitizens are protected by the First Amendment, and that deportation for political speech is flagrantly unconstitutional. knightcolumbia.org/documents/9j...
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Josh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Having terrible judgment and endless gullibility are generally not desirable traits for an elected official.
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