🧵
It feels trite to say “I am thrilled to announce” but I truly am THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE that today I have launched my own legal recruiting firm, Risepoint Search Partners (Risepoint Search Partners)

There aren’t enough words to describe just how hard KSV has worked to make this happen or just how much she is going to crush it. But she has, and she will.

Mazel tov, Karen!!

For the second time in <checks notes> three days, Texas is filing a nationwide lawsuit challenging a Biden administration policy in the Amarillo Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas—where it has a 100% chance of being assigned to Judge Kacsmaryk.

Hey y'all!

The paperback edition of 'The Shadow Docket' drops on May 21—and includes a brand-new preface on how events of the past year underscore the need to look at #SCOTUS more holistically.

Basic Books is offering 20% off with the code 'VLADECK24':

tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb

Among lots of other things, Judge Alexakis is also the first former clerk to (my former boss) Judge Marsha Berzon to be confirmed to the federal bench.

I doubt she'll be the last.

Hey y'all!

The paperback edition of 'The Shadow Docket' drops on May 21—and includes a brand-new preface on how events of the past year underscore the need to look at #SCOTUS more holistically.

Basic Books is offering 20% off with the code 'VLADECK24':

tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb

I recommend this Steve Vladeck post in its entirety, and especially the point that by deciding things it doesn't need to decide the Court is not only providing de facto immunity to Trump but creating a roadmap for future presidential misconduct: stevevladeck.substack.com/p/78-writing-a…

Steve Vladeck, as usual, brilliantly intuits what is going on with SCOTUS in the Trump immunity case suggesting '...they will make an error for the ages, rather than a rule for them.' stevevladeck.substack.com/p/78-writing-a…

In new piece on Trump immunity case, ⁦Steve Vladeck⁩ reminds SCOTUS of CJ Roberts’s “cardinal principle of judicial restraint”: “if it is not necessary to decide more, it is necessary not to decide more.” Decide THIS case, not one for the ages. stevevladeck.substack.com/p/78-writing-a…

Really good analysis of the immunity argument from Steve Vladeck.

I agree with him that the big problem is the Court's apparent desire to write an opinion 'for the ages,' when it should just narrowly resolve this case and leave more difficult questions for another day.

At last week’s oral argument in the Trump immunity case, Justice Gorsuch defended the Court’s focus on hypotheticals by saying it’s “writing a rule … for the ages.”

Today’s “One First” explains why that’s the *exact* problem with how #SCOTUS appears to be approaching this case: