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Raffi Melkonian
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Raffi Melkonian
@RMFifthCircuit
Appellate lawyer at Wright, Close & Barger in Houston, with a Fifth Circuit and TX appellate practice. So-called Dean, #appellatetwitter (banner from Art Lien)
- Re-reading the Trump PA case just now, I’m struck that perhaps never has a man lost so many cases so quickly. It’s not just the volume of losses, but how fast and total they are. I’m a little impressed.
- “Put me in a cell with my client” is the story everyone will tell about this guy forever.Replying to @AnthonyMKreisBrian Steel requests that he be jailed with his client.
- You're telling me there was a US v. Canada football game where you played American rules in the first half and Canadian in the second and the trophy was a small teapot and we STOPPED PLAYING IT?A football match between Canadians and Americans in London, England during WWII in 1944. The game, known as the “Tea Bowl”, drew over 30,000 spectators just months before D-Day. Canada would win 16-6.
00:00 - There's a strange thread circulating about how food was more healthy in the 1980s. I just want to say, as someone who grew up then, it was *much* worse. Comically worse. In almost every way.
- Replying to @RMFifthCircuitNon-lawyer followers: this litigation (in all the states) is truly blowing my mind. It's as if you're playing chess and your opponent lets off a whoopie cushion, throws a Zebra Cake on the board, and then runs off without pants and says they won. I don't know what else to say.
- OK, I'm going to live-tweet the Twitter-Musk merger agreement, which just dropped. No judgment, just explaining. For new followers, I was a corporate lawyer at a Fancy Firm a long time ago, and have forgotten a lot! So hopefully that helps me be clear sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
- The country needs to come together to completely blow him away. No narrow wins, people. It has to be completely overwhelming. He has to become Mondale. It's the only way.
- Every time there’s another one of these appalling shooting, I think about what the public policy reaction would be if there were a low-grade terror campaign by a foreign enemy that, every week or so, had suicide attackers assault schools, religious institutions, and malls.
- Replying to @RMFifthCircuitThe perennial lawyering question is a chicken v egg scenario. Did they lose so badly because their lawyers are had or because they’re bringing nonsense claims. Well, the claims. But otoh good lawyers wouldn’t lose those cases because they wouldn’t have brought them.
- Guys, an actual filing in federal court is asking for the court to establish the Stewardship of Gondor in the absence of Aragorn. No, I'm not joking. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… h.t @questauthority
- This is a hobby horse of mine, so apologies. But - most NFL players aren't rich. They make less than a fancy lawyer for 3-4 years - maybe 10 if they're incredibly lucky - then they're left with injured bodies and a gap in their lives while they figure out what to do.
- My mini-thread on the Pennsylvania decision is here. Bottom line: a completely expected but humiliating and harshly worded defeat for Trump. The judge pours calumny on Rudy’s head civilly but brutally.Replying to @RMFifthCircuitI’m reading now. But the judge is… not amused.
