Dan Lifschitz

I wish Fauci’s stock response had a little more meat on it. “Senator, while I would prefer to participate fulsomely in today’s hearing, I have no confidence it is being conducted in good faith and cannot predict the ways in which my testimony will be twisted for vindictive prosecution. Therefore…”

“We’re killing all the right people.”

X doesn’t do many things well, but it sands down the edges of contrarianism like nobody’s business, making it much easier to dismiss critiques of adventurism as out-of-touch wokescolds playing it safe. As it turns out, sometimes pearls need to be cluched so you don’t let them strangle you instead.

Hell yeah it’s LGBTQ Let’s Go Bob sTuart and Qevin

Congrats to Ilan Wurman for getting a whole three shoutouts in Thomas’s dissent. Hope it was worth it, buddy.

It makes sense once you buy into the worldview of the Gang of Six. Men are inherently superior to women, you see, so prohibiting trans women’s participation is about maintaining fundamental fairness. But for trans men, it’s like taking a handicap in golf. Let them try! It’s cute, even! /s

This is @lawprofblawg.bsky.social coded.

Divorced parents means divergent rotations. Mom was The Beatles, Neil Young, Nirvana, America, James Taylor, Marshall Crenshaw, The New Radicals, and Juliana Hatfield. Dad was Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Yanni, Sting, Billy Joel, and whatever Disney soundtrack we demanded.

I’m pretty sure one side of a war no longer being able to defend itself is precisely when the war ends as opposed to continuing forever, but maybe I’m overthinking this. Or underthinking. Or just thinking.

If you're a real man, why won't you let me hit you with a hammer

“Both sides”

Whenever Congress finds its spine, it should codify a federal anti-SLAPP statute that awards trebled fees for successfully dismissing any claim brought by a member of the administration presently in power.

Proving once again that everything great about New York has always been in spite of the one man most historically desperate to claim it.

To the tune of:

Looking forward to the DOJ having to defend how they actually blew the deadline because Trump insisted on a modesty tarp to hide his shame.

They built the scaffolding too high in an attempt to reach God Now God has made it impossible to communicate So they're just still going off their last orders and building more scaffolding The crowd is telling them to take the name down but tragically they don't understand anymore

This is me hoping enough people remember the sacred texts.

Hi, scaffolding expert here! This is not funny, scaffolding workers only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

At this point, I think it’s entirely reasonable for judges to skip down to the signature block on any DOJ filing before continuing to the brief itself. It’s a great shortcut for determining whether you need to take anything you’re about to read seriously.

Beatty notes in her opposition that the DOJ never raised this argument at any point before the district court -- likely becase they changed the bylaws at the 11th hour to juice their irreparable harm argument against the injunction. Judges love when fiduciaries take their own charity hostage, right?

There's also something incredibly gross about Trump deliberately changing the Kennedy Center's bylaws to condition the retention of donations on the retention of his name change, then mewling to the court about all the donations that will now have to be refunded absent a stay. Bitch, you did that!

The DOJ's appellate stay request regarding the Trump-Kennedy signage once again has all the hallmarks of having been written by Trump himself. There's literally nothing he cares more about than his own vanity projects.

Facebook memories are wild. Or maybe it’s just my old firm.

Every Knicks in Four shirt purchased karmically offsets a Hawk Tuah shirt floating around in the universe.

I want these people’s romantic partners to dose them with sodium pentothal and ask them exactly what it was they enjoyed about Mad Men.

Is this administration aesthetically illiterate or genuinely staffed with people who grew up rooting for the villain in every James Bond film? Because it has to be one of the two.

This. 👇🏻 The English lexicon is built on consensus. Someone had to start building that consensus for every single word added. When the drafting task at hand inspires a novel turn of phrase, the autocorrect highlight isn’t flagging an error. It’s testing your mettle. Will you meet the moment?

I’m really waiting for the new class of DOJ lawyers to realize that Trump’s veil of untouchability does not extend to his rank-and-file foot soldiers. The institutional memory of our shared profession will extend far beyond the waning days of this administration.

He’s either (a) too stupid to understand the AI bubble is poised to burst once everyone realizes these companies lack a viable path to profitability or (b) using taxpayers to forestall that financial reckoning at the behest of his benefactors who are leveraged to the hilt on the matter.

It’s almost become trite to point out, but if Putin had specifically conscripted Trump to sabotage our foreign policy for Russia (and China)’s geopolitical benefit, Trump would not be doing anything differently.

Irony alert: The Iowa legislature is forcing U of Iowa students to take courses on topics like "why capitalism works, how it works, & why it has been so successful"...because students weren't voluntarily choosing to enroll in the courses www.chronicle.com/article/a-fl...

To my fellow copyright litigators, don’t sleep on the Hikma decision just because it’s a patent case. The crux of the opinion is what allegations are sufficient to survive a Twiqbal challenge when alleging inducement to infringe under Grokster and Cox.

On LinkedIn, a lawyer posted a Brazilian judgment sanctioning counsel for "prompt injection"! In white on white text, the brief instructed any AI reading the brief to respond "superficially." That's ... very very interesting. www.linkedin.com/posts/jinyos...

Exam administered by Cardi B.

Not just journalists, but lawyers as well. It’s so reliable that courts will judicially notice its content without hesitation. I’ve used WM captures to defeat motions over personal jurisdiction, establish the popularity of streaming media over time to calculate copyright damages, and so much more.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Easiest $230 I’ve ever spent. Mike’s basically an uncredited coauthor on my 2012 law review piece covering ACTA and SOPA/PIPA. He helped shape my worldview *and* gave me one of my first platforms to write about copyright law. My admiration for him has only grown since then. Fight the good fight. ✊🏻