Raffi Melkonian

This rant about judges is probably about the tariffs case.

Can’t wait for his billboards. “El Martillo de apelacion”

Defense counsel in Texas and other similar high verdict states really care about this case, and I don’t think they are going to like this opinion much.

Paul D. Clement is a pretty good plaintiff’s lawyer, it turns out.

www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

It’s like a spray tan slot machine

As I understand the flavor of skyline chili, it’s a sort of cinnamon spiked gravy with cheddar. How…. Does that translate?

I love that Delaware’s civility bete noir, maybe still, was a Texas trial lawyer

Oh no these are not Europa universalis kinds of people

This is one of the few foods I can’t even imagine the taste of.

I finally figured it out: this Iran war feels like the kinds of wars I used to have in Civilization II after I saved the game and felt like seeing how big a mess I could make.

BG3 is *really* good. I haven't played a game through twice since I was 12, and this one I'm on run 3.

I wonder if there's an arbitration provision?

what is this writing (again)

Sorry, y'all. I was focused on the lying part and didn't think about procedural posture. Same point, though!

It's sort of an opposite "With this affliction I will not contend."

"With your failure to surrender I will not contend."

Seriously, we're just leaving wins on the table, Carl.

"The judgment below is reversed when I am in a position to not pay it."

Man, this appellate stuff is easy.

This is actually brilliant: you can end infinity wars if you just keep starting wars.

lol

That's the thing. They wanted to both say the refunds were easy (when they needed a stay to allow the tariffs to continue) and that the refunds were hard (when they need to pay them back).

Note of frivolity: The other day at the supermarket, I thought I'd found one of my old shopping lists in the cart. It wasn't; it was someone else's, but was on the same paper.

But for a moment I thought about what kind of adventures my list might have had while I was away and this delighted me.

It doesn't read, to be fair, that they are refusing to pay, they're saying it will take a while. Which may well be fair.

1. So sad too bad.

2. I think smoking out the implementation problems is a really good reason for the Judge to have entered his order requiring refunds immediately.

3. I'd forgotten about interest!

And as everyone else has pointed out, we have extracted "unconditional surrender" from large countries in the past, and, uhh, I'm not sure we're ready for that level of commitment.

The "unconditional surrender" stuff is *probably* Trumpian nonsense rather than policy but again - and I posted about this a few days ago - I'm pretty confident that a country that sustained hundreds of thousands of dead fighting in Iraq isn't going to "surrender" all of a sudden.

Paging @jdotj.bsky.social for her thoughts on how this interaction with the legal team went.

No one will know how or why this is so, just that you need to do it

Mr. Trump announced the change on social media, along with a new, and previously nonexistent, role for Ms. Noem inside the administration: special envoy for the Shield of the Americas, which he said would be a new security initiative for the Western Hemisphere.

You know how you can’t resign a seat in the UK parliament, so you get appointed to a sort of fake office, which disqualifies you for parliament? (the Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds)

Decades from now people will resign their jobs in favor of being special envoy to the shield.

Yep, right at the south most tip of Texas, at the Mexican border.

TFW you are reminded again that Yooty is the coolest person