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Good news out of Texas for faculty speech rights. Far too rare these days.
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Garrett Gravley
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Campus Rights Advocacy @theFIREorg. Proud Texan and JD alum of @untdallaslaw. Former journalist and concert promoter. Opinions are my own. RTs ≥ Endorsements.
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Tony Hinchcliffe also made a Charlie Kirk joke. And a George Floyd joke. And a joke about Sheryl Underwood's husband's suicide. Any comment on that?
It's a roast. It's supposed to be irreverent and scathing. Joan Rivers and Gilbert Gottfried made careers out of such jokes.
Cielo 🇺🇸🇵🇷@CieloBonit
Netflix doing Netflix things, with Pete Davidson making fun of Charlie Kirk, is what's expected from a company that's losing money every day. The Roast of Kevin Hart sucks, and Shane Gillis can carry it on his own.
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(And in all fairness, the Chief Justice DID say "purely political actors." But even then, the Court's existence and the way it operates is, itself, political.)
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I get that he's talking about partisanship, but in my view, they ARE political actors. The judiciary as a whole has a very profound impact on the political process. Democrats are literally losing seats in Virginia because of judges. It's absolutely political.
The Associated Press@AP
Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not “political actors.” apnews.com/article/suprem…
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I get strong Michael Avenatti vibes from this guy.
Neal Katyal@neal_katyal
Five months ago, I argued against the President's $4 trillion tariffs at the Supreme Court. In 237 years, the Court had never struck down a sitting President's signature initiative. Legal scholars said it was impossible. Some of my own colleagues said it was impossible. We won. 6-3. But the real story isn't what happened in that courtroom. It's what happened in the months before. And its the subject of my TED talk, coming out tomorrow. I had the best legal team in the nation, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak, the most outstanding legal strategist I know. Huge thanks, too, go to the Liberty Justice Center (and in particular its fearless and hyper-intelligent leader Sara Albrecht), who organized the client small businesses, as well as to the brave small businesses themselves. I also had four teachers preparing me. A mindset coach who'd worked with Andre Agassi. An improv coach who taught me that "Yes, and" works in Supreme Court arguments the same way it works everywhere else. A meditation coach who taught me stillness. And Harvey. Harvey predicted many of the questions the Justices asked — sometimes almost word for word. Brilliant. Tireless. Occasionally insufferable. Here's the catch: Harvey isn't a person. Harvey is a bespoke AI I built over the last year with a legal AI company, trained on every question every Justice has asked in oral argument for 25 years, and everything they've ever written. Tomorrow, TED releases my talk about what really happened — and what I learned standing at that podium. AI can predict. AI can analyze. What AI cannot do is the one thing that actually won the argument. Connect. Read the room. Hear not just a Justice's words, but her worry — and answer the worry. That is the irreducibly human skill. Find yours. Go deeper. In this age of AI, that's where your edge lives. The talk goes live Thursday, May 7 at 11am ET: go.ted.com/nealkumarkatyal What's the irreducibly human skill in your work — the thing AI can't touch?
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@whignewtons I get strong Michael Avanatti vibes from this guy.
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From anonymous member of the Supreme Court bar:
“I hope Neal knows he just announced his retirement in the form of a Ted talk bc he can never appear in front of the Court again.”
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Reporters Without Borders “found that while in 2002 a fifth of the global population lived in a country where press freedom was categorised as “good”, that had now fallen to less than 1% of the world’s population.”
Deeply depressing and dangerous stat. theguardian.com/media/2026/may…
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A judge patiently explains law to Matt Taibbi:
"[Taibbi] may not like Higgins' subjective conclusions, or agree with their accuracy, but that does not make them defamation... The statement that [Taibbi] was in the 'snug patronage of billionaires' is a nonactionable opinion."
Scott Nover@ScottNover
A federal judge dismissed Matt Taibbi's defamation suit against Eoin Higgins. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Why are we treating SCOTUS justices like immunocompromised children who can barely even go outside? Between this and Justice Jackson going to the Grammys, we scrutinize justices for the stupidest reasons imaginable.
What's next? Justices shouldn't have TVs in their homes?
Brian Allen@allenanalysis
Neil Gorsuch was on Fox & Friends this morning. Imagine if Ketanji Brown Jackson went on MSNBC. The hearings. The outrage. The constitutional crisis. One standard for them. Another standard for everyone else. Never stop connecting the dots.
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Former federal prosecutor finds himself writing hysterical and absurd Trump fan fiction in order to come up with a possible justification for Comey's arrest.
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@CaseyMattox_ "Longhaired Redneck" is my go-to for karaoke. I tend to rank it among "Pancho and Lefty" as one of the greatest country songs of all time.
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RIP David Allan Coe.
You Never Even Called Me By My Name will forever by my karaoke choice.
Praying he was correct that he will hear Jesus calling "David Allan Coe" on his final judgment day.
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@iateitupagain @josephproctor21 @brad_polumbo Yes, but even if they haven’t, why does that matter? We have a First Amendment, and rhetorical hyperbole (especially when core political speech) is protected.
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@GarrettGravley @josephproctor21 @brad_polumbo Do you seriously believe both Presidents have been treated even *remotely* similarly?
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don't hold your breath waiting on any shred of consistency
(you'll pass out)
Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired)@ColMoeDavis
Still within the statute of limitations. Look forward to @TheJusticeDept indicting @JackPosobiec for threatening to kill Joe Biden.
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@iateitupagain @josephproctor21 @brad_polumbo “But this guy was treated differently than the last guy” is not a cognizable basis to commit viewpoint discrimination.
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No no I've clarified why I feel this way. There were a few stragglers who hated Biden and would say gnarly shit online but it is very obvious that the number of people comfortable enough to tweet violent shit about Trump far exceeds the number of people expressing those same type of thoughts about Biden. I feel like you know this and are in denial about it...
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@iateitupagain @josephproctor21 @brad_polumbo They're interpreted differently because people can't muster any shred of principle, and hold their own side to a more lenient standard than their opposition.
I feel like you know this, and are in denial about it.
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@josephproctor21 @brad_polumbo I am not saying it's different I am saying there's a reason they're interpreted differently.
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@AnnaBower I agree this prosecution is stupid and dangerous, but it's pretty tough to get indictments dismissed before the merits are addressed.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I wouldn't be surprised if it went all the way to trial.
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This case will be tossed out prior to trial. So no, Comey is not likely to face a Trump voting jury in North Carolina.
Clay Travis@ClayTravis
James Comey is likely to face a Trump voting jury in North Carolina. He picked the wrong seashore to make a seashell message. Smart prosecution here. Great venue and a simple case. Comey is a moron to put himself in this legal peril over an Instagram picture.
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In at least one case, a 4th Circuit federal district court has dismissed an indictment based on a pre-trial First Amendment as-applied challenge, when a man was charged with cyberstalking based on twitter posts.
United States v. Cassidy, 814 F. Supp. 2d 574, 581 (D. Md. 2011)
Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew
The lefty legal beagles -- and others -- decrying the merits of the indictment of Comey all realize one thing: the case is going to trial. Not one yet has explained how it can be derailed pretrial in federal court. That's why they are still harping on the merits.
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