John J. Vecchione

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John J. Vecchione

John J. Vecchione

@VecchTweets

Senior Litigation Counsel @nclalegal Counsel of Record, Relentless v. Commerce. Chevron delenda est. Opinions are solely my own. Which is a shame.

Virginia Katılım Nisan 2023
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John J. Vecchione
John J. Vecchione@VecchTweets·
Ding Dong Chevron's dead...The wicked Chevron's dead.
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Dilan Esper
Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
one weird thing about this whole debate is that if you go back to, say, the Jim Crow South, segregated academies would have staged Shakespeare, Greek tragedies, etc. with Black casts. So righties who don't like Lupita are demanding a standard even more regressive than Jim Crow.
Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin

If you want to maintain a western canon in an increasingly diverse society you’re going to have to give some ground on casting (especially in stuff that was never really “historically accurate” in the first place like Shakespeare and epic poetry)

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Molly Nixon
Molly Nixon@mollyretweets·
It's fair to say the Anti-Weaponization Fund is worse than its precedents, for a few reasons, but putting it in context-as @baseballcrank does-helps clarify the scope of the problem. And that can lead to institutional solutions (Congress) beyond just putting a new guy at the top.
Dan McLaughlin@baseballcrank

You say this as if Keepseagle was a one-off situation rather than part of a much larger pattern of sue-and-settle, slush funds, consent decrees, strategic refusals to defend laws, etc.

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John J. Vecchione@VecchTweets·
@foster_type Hope he was talking about Tibet, a subject he knows well and has far more than the usual actor's depth on any political subject.
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Boris Ryvkin
Boris Ryvkin@BRyvkin·
Perhaps if Senate Republicans had bothered to fight hard to pass legislation that 90%+ of GOP voters wanted passed, they wouldn’t have found themselves in this predicament? Guess they still don’t know or prefer not to care about who Trump is and how he acts?
Andrew Desiderio@AndrewDesiderio

Senate Republicans are livid with Trump. Just now, Sen. Wicker remained stone-faced (appeared to be intentional) for about 20 seconds as he walked into lunch and we asked him for his reaction Sen. Murkowski says TX is all but lost to Dems now

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Ed Whelan
Ed Whelan@EdWhelanEPPC·
So Acting AG Blanche can somehow just keep adding addenda to a settlement agreement that was supposedly finalized yesterday? The settlement agreement contemplates an AG order to "establish funding and any other relevant requirements" for the so-called Anti-Weaponization Fund. I don't see how a release of all tax claims falls within the scope of that.
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein

FLASH: DOJ expands settlement in Trump-IRS leak suit to cover audits of all tax returns filed by Trump, family members, companies and trusts. Waiver of IRS' claims contained in addendum signed by AAG Blanche that was not in agreement released Monday politico.com/news/2026/05/1…

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John J. Vecchione
John J. Vecchione@VecchTweets·
@dilanesper We didn't endure Valley Forge to watch foreigners run around in shorts and never score.
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Thomas Berry
Thomas Berry@Thomas_A_Berry·
I just got out of oral arguments in the D.C. Circuit in @AnthropicAI's lawsuit against the @DeptofWar for labeling Anthropic a "supply chain risk" and banning all government agencies from using @claudeai or from contracting with companies that use Claude. We at @CatoInstitute joined a broad coalition of groups in an amicus brief arguing that the Pentagon violated Anthropic's First Amendment rights by retaliating against Anthropic for the speech of its leaders on matters of immense public concern, namely the ethical implications of using AI in warfare. But surprisingly, the First Amendment did not come up at all in nearly two hours of oral argument today. Instead, the panel focused almost exclusively on administrative law issues, particularly whether the government could have addressed its concerns with Claude in a less drastic way. Judge Henderson (participating remotely from South Carolina) was clearly on Anthropic's side, asking only a few questions and expressing deep skepticism that Anthropic met the statutory definition of a supply chain risk. But Judges Katsas and Rao were harder to read, asking probing questions of both sides. If I had to guess, however, both Katsas and Rao seemed to be looking for ways to find a plausible explanation for the government's conduct. Indeed, at one point Judge Katsas told Anthropic's lawyer that he didn't care about @PeteHegseth's or @realDonaldTrump's over-the-top rhetoric in criticizing Anthropic. Instead, he wanted to know if there was some plausible reason why the government might have wanted to not only cut off Claude from Pentagon contracts but from the entire federal government. In taking this approach, I fear that the panel may be blinding itself to the clear evidence of retaliatory intent in the government's conduct.
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Tim Carney
Tim Carney@TPCarney·
A felled tree trunk, 4 feet in diameter: would you call that a “log”?
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Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew·
Really early in my career as a prosecutor -- my first trial -- I was teamed up with a veteran AUSA who had dozens of jury trial wins. The morning of jury selection we were talking about the types of jurors that might be good for our case. He said something I'll never forget -- "I'm only looking for 2 jurors. I want the other 10 to be sheep. The 2 jurors will lead the 10 sheep where we need them to go." I'd like to have an entire jury full of Massie supporters.
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Timothy Sandefur
Timothy Sandefur@TimothySandefur·
How can anyone still be resigning in protest AT THIS LATE DATE? It is impossible to have come this far and...expect anything more.
Barbara Comstock@BarbaraComstock

👀The top lawyer at the Treasury Dept stepped down on Monday in the wake of the creation of a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” that could soon make payments to President Trump’s political allies, according to 3 people familiar with the move. Brian Morrissey, the Treasury’s general counsel, resigned from the position 7 months after he was confirmed to it by the Senate and just hours after the Trump administration announced the fund on Monday. Mr. Morrissey did not respond to requests for comment.

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Andrew Fleischman
Andrew Fleischman@ASFleischman·
man just finished voting and why are my least favorites all running unopposed it's as though competence draws opposition
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