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Chris Edwards

@chrisedwardsca4

North Carolina based appellate lawyer • USCA4 • Tottenham Hotspur

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Now is the time for me to come clean and admit I started using a fountain pen six months ago and have not looked back.

05.03.2026 02:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Winning is really a state of mind. If you are the plaintiff, and an appellate court, affirms the dismissal of your complaint, you’ve sort of one. You no longer have to pay me, think of all the savings.

03.03.2026 23:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The extraordinary renditions will continue, until we get a regime that we like!

03.03.2026 23:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am writing a brief that involves a lot of discovery requests and discovery sanctions. I’m sticking to my guns and not block quoting anything.

This is the seventh circle of Hell.

03.03.2026 23:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m going to start telling my clients that they’ve won, no matter the outcome. I won’t be explaining what I mean. If they disagree, I will tell them the same thing, but louder.

03.03.2026 23:06 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Both politicians and lawyers should learn that you aren’t supposed to capitalize Very Important Words just because they are Very Important.

02.03.2026 13:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This, by the way, was the nightmare scenario for the second Trump presidency.

28.02.2026 17:19 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

I’m an Eagle Scout. And people wonder why I don’t give back or engage…

27.02.2026 23:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thought about getting a semi colon, or a Picasso dachshund, there. Did it hurt?

27.02.2026 23:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Gang of 8 briefing was just a video of explosions synced with the William Tell Overture.

26.02.2026 03:45 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I see your Costco pizza and raise you the Costco chicken cordon bleu

24.02.2026 01:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If they’d just consent we could all avoid this but oh yes the government doesn’t do that

24.02.2026 01:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christ. Mowed = lose

24.02.2026 00:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You aren’t there to make your case. You’re there to answer their questions. Don’t worry if you finish early, it means they understand your argument.

24.02.2026 00:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don’t fight the hypothetical. If a judge asks you to assume you mowed it’s fine to say you disagree but don’t take it as an opportunity to tell them how right you are.

You’ve got to consider all your arguments and know when one isn’t working. Be prepared to make your points but to pivot.

24.02.2026 00:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is my actual oral argument strategy

24.02.2026 00:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Me, when the associate points to their screen and asks “what do you think about this sentence?”

23.02.2026 22:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(1) I have never heard of a college political group doing so and (2) I am also certain that Orban would have had 95%…”support” even without the endorsement

23.02.2026 20:13 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bring me lunch on your finest china.

23.02.2026 18:20 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I laughed until I realized it wasn’t a shit poster. Or maybe until I realized the Executive Branch is now a collective shit poster.

22.02.2026 21:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He watched the press conference on one of his 35 screens. The other were littered with Ilya Wurman articles

22.02.2026 21:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New to the series and not sure how. Trying to diversify my heavily non-fiction TBR.

Came across Operation Bounce House, noted the authors name, realized he’d written a whole (unrelated) series, and dove in.

22.02.2026 21:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Doing Very Serious Legal Work in Nashville this weekend.

22.02.2026 21:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Might have predicted Pizza Gate

22.02.2026 19:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Predates my chronically online status by just a few years. Earlier this week, I had to explain to a younger coworker who Kimbo Slice was. I also had to explain that people used to just fight on YouTube.

22.02.2026 18:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You just saved me so much time. Finishing the last chapter of the book I’m reading and putting on my tinfoil hat.

22.02.2026 18:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kash Patel leading an FBI investigation searching for Quinn Hughes ghosts.

22.02.2026 18:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Unfamiliar. Now I need context. I love a good lunatic.

22.02.2026 18:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

On the one hand, we have 11 players injured (some very good!). On the other hand, the players we have healthy are…well…they’re something

22.02.2026 18:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess I should come clean. I think that guy already uses amphetamines.

22.02.2026 18:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0