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Gary L. Sanders

@judgesandman27.bsky.social
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Retired FL Circuit Court Judge, 5th Circuit. Civility enthusiast. Double Gator. Micah 6:8- Justice, Mercy, Kindness. United Methodist. Thoughts about adoption.

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Gary L. Sanders @judgesandman27.bsky.social · 9h
This trolling never gets old.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16h
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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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Gary L. Sanders @judgesandman27.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please don’t reach out to me at this time of utter grief. My Florida Gators 🐊 suddenly look like last year’s team. 🤦‍♂️ 🏈 #throughallkindsofweather
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Gary L. Sanders @judgesandman27.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean, what could go wrong? 😝 We all need to text the same thing to the Senator: “You and your Republican comrades are the only ones to blame.”
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If this reads like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails, it’s because it’s exactly like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
cc @akalhan.bsky.social
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LadyBusiness @ladybusiness.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On my way to a job interview, smartly leaving the iced coffee at home
Tom Ford spring 2027 runway look
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Gary L. Sanders @judgesandman27.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is cruel, and so intellectually dishonest. This Supreme Court is writing their own obit here. Four more justices didn’t seem like quite enough.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂😂😂
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Gary L. Sanders @judgesandman27.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The lies are what sustain him. They’re like hits of dopamine for him.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our country is staring into the abyss, and much of our national press corps lacks the fortitude that this moment demands www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/b...
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 27/09/2026
Pathetic.
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
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FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
"Some day people will look at online gambling the way we look at Big Tobacco today: an industry that dishonestly profiteered on addiction and human misery."
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Our Politicians Suck. But Our Voters Do, Too.
And the political system we’ve built brings out the worst in both.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" 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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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.
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Gary L. Sanders @judgesandman27.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All praise to Judge McMahon who put into words what most of us only think in our heads. 👨🏻‍⚖️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
REPUBLICAN Senator from Utah calls for an investigation into Don Jr. for getting a wedding party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch
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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Take the cameras away. Take the microphones away. Crush his ego in darkness and silence and let's keep undoing the evil he has done to us. Let his legacy forever be an anethema. 🙏
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Concerning. Troubling.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s not your imagination, groceries ARE much more expensive 😡👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Make The Planet Great Again... @turquoisemarble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" UN Special Rapporteur Ben Saul on Donald Trump's year of lethal boat strikes
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When you’ve lost white people in Florida.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
WaPo statement: @washingtonpost.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Where else would you put sniper ammunition other than in a triumphal arch. Duh.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🚨 THIS IS KANSAS. Former Republican Gov. Bill Graves backs Democrat Adam Hamilton…and says Republicans can cross party lines. Kansas hasn’t elected a Democratic U.S. senator since 1932. This race is historic. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaig...
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Poll puts Democrat Adam Hamilton ahead in typically red Kansas
Hamilton's lead marks a shift from other surveys of the race following the primary elections, in which Roger Marshall held a steady advantage.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mike Pence: “I looked at Trump as I got up from our meeting and said, ‘Mr. President, I want you to know. I’m praying for you.’ He looked at me and said, ‘Don’t bother.’”
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Trump administration is now selling portions of Georgia's Cumberland Island National Seashore. Over 2/3 of Cumberland Island is federally designated as wilderness. They are currently planning to build 8 mansions alongside a privately owned beach pavilion and exclusive beach access road. 🤬
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed human rights experts find 'reasonable grounds' to believe US committed war crimes in 2 deadly strikes on Iran.
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Gary L. Sanders @judgesandman27.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have a terrible feeling that the Kennedy Center is about to be reduced to literal rubble. I hope I’m wrong.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Impeach Them. All of Them. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-th...
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Impeach Them. All of Them.
Hegseth is only the beginning.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Go Gators. For real.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My brain refuses to believe that Kansas is in play but man it increasingly seems like Kansas is, in fact, in play.
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Gary L. Sanders @judgesandman27.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He obviously has a “type”.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026
“you will let me rename this after myself or I’m destroying the whole thing forever: the Donald Trump experience”
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Promises made promises kept
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Samuel Alito: Disenfranchising Millions of Voters Is No Big Deal If Mister Trump Wants It
For Alito and Thomas, there is no greater injustice than Donald Trump not getting what he wants, when he wants it.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What happened to the Major Questions Doctrine? Seems to me that if Congress wanted to empower the Postal Service to regulate elections, it would have said so. How 'bout that, Sam and Clarence?
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