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Ruth Anne Robbins

@rarobbins.bsky.social
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Law Prof @Rutgers #LegalStorytelling, #LegalWriting document design | NJ legislative & policy clinic | Gardening and making jam in my off hours | 🌒🌕🌘 | #SouthJersey | Google Scholar go.rutgers.edu/2b1v80wz

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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
One of the lesser discussed issues of #allergyseason is the amount of wet shredded tissues I’m constantly dealing with in the laundry machines when I forget to check pockets.
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洗濯機 家事 洗濯 アニメーション
Alt: Drawing of washing machine that is jumping and shaking
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
What fresh new anti-science hell is this? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Entire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administration
Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roses are red Violets are blue We failed as a country To punish Trump's coup
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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dtsjr @dtsjr.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
If a judge is extremely justifiably verbally eviscerating me in open court, I’m not interrupting to explain oh hey point of order but only 14 of my cases were hallucinations not 15, your honor. Take that beating and genuflect in pathetic humble apology and beg that your license isn’t ripped.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Loving this.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Expletive expletive expletive.
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Now this is what a newspaper front page should cover.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
tbf, this is because the plan is literally the dumbest and most counterproductive bit of idiocy the United States has ever contemplated (I'm not saying the worst thing; the dumbest)
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
More “don’t look away.”
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Don’t look away. This is what we’ve become.
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Diminish a band 100 Maniacs
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Hot take. Grading LW memos ~ Wrapping holiday gifts. Same sore muscles, same sameness, same curve on the final submissions. #LegalWriting
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 19/12/2025
Not for the first time, the signature block for Self-Proclaimed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan spelled it “Virgina.”
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Rutgers Law School @law.rutgers.edu · 30/10/2025
#NewJersey Legislature staff members met with #RutgersLaw students earlier this week to share opportunities for students to work on legislative issues. These include externships and the Legislative & Policy Advocacy Clinic - spearheaded by Professor @rarobbins.bsky.social #lawsky #realworldimpact
group of men and women in business suits standing and smiling in front of large red R banner
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Appalling
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This is today youtu.be/rG9kgoNVxJI
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Why Frog Costumes F*ck With Trump's Head w/ Indivisible
YouTube video by Fast Politics w/ Molly Jong-Fast
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I cannot stomach what this country has become. The viciousness and hate now visited on the dogs of people living here (in this case: the people are citizens).
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Really interesting video about AE’s last and failed leg of her flight.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
My mother was a virologist who worked on vaccines for two members of the virus family that includes the one causing shingles. A few months before she died she told me to go get the shingles vaccine. Do it.
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Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Six Google searches within 4 minutes, slightly different words but same query: Who’s the real killer in Anthony Horowitz’s The Twist of a Knife? WHAT THE HECK! Literally none of these is correct
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This. Is. Not. Normal. This. Is. F#ck*d Up.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Co-sign
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A vicious exam, with vicious procedures with a vicious origin story behind its very existence. The entire enterprise should be stopped. Here’s this July’s first horror story. abovethelaw.com/2025/07/bar-...
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Bar Exam Taker Suffers Apparent Heart Attack - Above the Law
The exam never stopped during what seems to have been a major medical emergency.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Love the way he signs his name
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I 💕 NJ
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NJ Department of Human Services @njhumanservices.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Know and exercise your rights when interacting with ICE. For more info, visit: ╰➤https://www.nj.gov/humanservices/njnewamericans/newcomers/rights/
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The conference was wonderful (as always!). Thanks to Aysha Aymes for all the program planning. And thanks to @bethwilensky.bsky.social @mchannon.bsky.social and Ted Becker and the whole Michigan team for everything. Truly my favorite conference.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Here’s an idea: what if the United States had a legislature.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
As a quick distraction: Jersey sour cherries are in. This year: we’ve added cherry-almond jam to the lineup.
10 lbs of sour cherries and a few pints of blueberries too. Jars of homemade cherry jam, waiting for labels.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Amazing. Amazing that there’s an article spilling tea about the Bluebook inside drama, and that it’s placed so well.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This one really terrifies and enrages me
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Very interesting database
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Oh FFS
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Sometimes the best antidote is going outside and hacking at—errr—trimming the nonstop rose bushes. 🌹🥀
Two milk jug vases of red nonstop roses from the trimmed rose bushes
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David Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
New Bluebook v.22 is out. Further updates as events warrant. For now: cc: @scotusplaces.bsky.social #LegalWriting #CleanedUp
B5.3 Modifying Quotations and Citations for Clarity (p.9)
When a quotation includes material quoted from another source, the quotation may, for clarity, be stripped of internal quotation marks, brackets, ellipses, internal citations, and footnote reference numbers; the original sources of quotations within the quotation need not be cited parenthetically; and capitalization may be changed without brackets. Indicate these changes parenthetically with “(citation modified).” Other than the changes specified, the text of the quotation after modification should match the text used in the source cited. If the quotation is altered further, indicate the changes or omissions according to rules 5.3 and 5.3.
Thus: “[A]n ‘on the merits adjudication’ is” understood as “one that actually ‘pass[es] directly on the substance of [a particular] claim’ before the court.” Semtek Int’l Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497, 501–02 (2001) (alteration in original) (quoting Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 19 cmt. a (A.L.I. 1982)).
becomes: “An on the merits adjudication is” understood as “one that actually passes directly on the substance of a particular claim before the court.” Semtek Int’l Inc. v. Lockheed Martin Corp., 531 U.S. 497, 501–02 (2001) (citation modified).The modification of any quotation under Bluepages B5.3 affirmatively represents that any alterations were made solely to enhance readability and that the quotation otherwise faithfully reproduces the quoted text.
Bluepages Tip:

The parenthetical “(citation modified)” should be used in lieu of any other parenthetical that indicates a quotation or citation has been modified for readability, such as “(cleaned up),” especially when such parentheticals lack a definite meaning in practice.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
What's going on at my alma mater? www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
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At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure
The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
BREAKING: Judge Burroughs has granted Harvard's restraining order, barring the administration from terminating its foreign student population. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I’m so proud of my clinic students for using their visual #legalwriting skills to help our @law.rutgers.edu pro bono Name Change Project. The Project has been led by two other former students. law.rutgers.edu/news/name-ch...
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Rutgers Law Students Launch Online Name Change Resource | Rutgers Law SchoolClose SearchSearchOpen SearchOpen SearchOpen SearchOpen MenuClose
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🤣🤣🤣🥳🤣🤣🤣
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Beverley Kendall Author 👩🏾‍💻📖🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇾 💙 @beverleykendall.com · 13/05/2025
"You are not refugees. You are just a case study of white flight dressed up as martyrdom. You are not escaping violence, you're escaping equality."
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Ann Coulter, trying to regain relevance.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13/05/2025
There's literally no difference between a public national monument approved by Congress and a $400 million jet the president keeps
I can't wait for the press to find out about France's so-called "gift" of the Statue of Liberty, accepted in 1886 by then-President Grover Cleveland.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The joys of gardening!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?
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