Dear reader, it was *not* a very good gift

Illinois Supreme Court holds that the odor of burnt cannabis, on its own, no longer constitutes probable cause for a warrantless vehicle search! ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resou…

Every word I want to utter about the state-sponsored murder of Marcellus Williams would get me disbarred if I put it in writing. What the *fuck*.

*slams the sign until it breaks*

Omg got a petition for leave to appeal granted today. Taking my first trip to the Illinois Supreme Court, y'all!

Do other appellate courts do end-of-quarter dispo dumps, or is the Illinois Appellate Court unique(ly problematic) in this regard?

I should be allowed to argue that any witness who uses “catty-corner” in their testimony is inherently not credible.

As one of the ALA Moot Court Committee co-chairs, I can confirm we are still looking for dozens of judges! Even if you’re not an ALA member (and brief graders don’t even have to be from the Chicago area)!

Wicked opening weekend tickets: secured.

Accepting the amicus appointment in Glossip? Embarrassing behavior.

I need people who sign up to judge moot court competitions to not do that if they're just going to back out week of.

Was gonna early vote at the Chicago super site but the line was too long for my hour lunch (yay!), so looks like a crack-of-dawn Election Day vote for me (boo!).

9th in line! But I locked myself out when I left and it’s raining so you win some, you lose some.

Well I guess the people that were predicting a blowout were kinda right...

Fresh out of despair, could I interest you in some unadorned nihilism?

So I should definitely get gay-married now before he appoints 2+ 40-something homophobes to the Court, right?

Yes, I'm definitely able to focus today and writing this brief is definitely going great.

My most old-man-shakes-fist-at-sky belief is that we have met and vastly exceeded the point of diminishing safety returns on the brightness of car headlights.

Would love them to tackle the stop-taking-the-most-unreasonable-position-possible-in-Illinois-Supreme-Court--criminal-cases unit first.

Oh you want grandchildren? I’m sorry but I’ve had three hour-long sobbing breakdowns because my dog has to have incredibly safe, very minor surgery on his ear flap tomorrow. And you want me to rear a human baby? Be so for real.