To Presume to Overrule a State Anti-DEI Executive Order, a, Get This, DEI Judge Uses AI to Write An Opinion Filled With Fake Cases

Huh, a DEI hire resorting to AI to do his homework for him. And all to stop the people from ending DEI practices.

Who could have seen this coming.

There is good news: the Appeals Court was so shocked by the complete DEI incompetence on display that they not only reversed him, they kicked him off the case entirely.

The decision is a victory for Republican Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's office, which had argued that US District Judge Henry Wingate's apparent misuse of generative AI tools had compromised the integrity of the judicial process.
US Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, writing for the three-judge panel, took Wingate to task for a "botch job" that led to a ruling that contained "sloppy edicts" and "several factual assertions nowhere to be found in the record" and got the law wrong.

Really? A DEI judge botching the law and making sloppy mistakes?

And using cheaters' tools instead of writing his paper himself?

First time we're seeing anything like this. "Few such cases," I would say.

This is very harsh: Usually judges protect each other like media hacks protect their fellow guild members.

But this appeals panel is absolutely blasting this complete DEI incompetent.

"The district court -- or perhaps, being charitable, its AI agent -- ignored and manipulated governing law, apparently to satisfy a policy agenda," Smith wrote.
The appeals ⁠court laid out detailed instructions for how the new judge should assess the law.
It made clear it does not apply to students, and it said that while states have broad power to regulate their own curricula and publicly funded speech, the new judge will need to balance the state's interests against the individual speech rights of teachers and professors.

Apparently the DEI judge pretended the law said that students would be banned from discussing race under the law, which is a complete fabrication, either created by himself, his DEI clerk, or "hallucinated" by the AI agent he used to do his homework for him.

But... if it was just the AI agent -- did this guy not bother checking the opinion he was going to sign his name to to make sure the cases cited said what the AI said they said, or even existed at all?

Apparently not.

Gee, Judge Wingate, you're right -- DEI really is super-important and leads to excellence.

...
The case before the 5th Circuit concerned a challenge by teachers, professors, students and advocacy groups to a law Republican-led Mississippi enacted last year that bars government-run educational institutions from mandating activities like diversity training or promoting DEI.
The plaintiffs argued the law violated the US Constitution's First and Fourteenth Amendments, and convinced Wingate to issue a temporary restraining order blocking its implementation.
But that order was later found to contain fabricated names and nonexistent legal authorities, prompting scrutiny from Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Wingate in ⁠a subsequent letter told Grassley that the errors stemmed from a law clerk's unvetted use of the AI platform Perplexity. Even after the errors in that initial order, Wingate continued to block the law by issuing a preliminary injunction.
Lawyers for Mississippi argued on appeal that even after Wingate replaced the faulty ruling, the AI-related errors cast doubt on the court's core legal reasoning, and they urged the appeals court to reassign the case.
...
But Smith said the case "easily calls for reassignment." He said given the number of errors in Wingate's ruling, the judge might be tempted in future proceedings to want to unjustly find a way "to prove that, even with ⁠the correct law and fact, that his initial view should prevail."

This is obviously grounds for impeachment and removal. We'll see if Senate Republicans have the courage and conviction to do the right thing.

I doubt they will.

Update: From Courthouse news, via Ed Morrissey, more spicy quotes from the smackdown:

The panel ordered that the case be assigned to a different judge on remand, finding that Wingate had based his decision "on impoverished legal analysis that barely paid lip-service to the precedents of the Supreme Court or this court, seeming at times purposely to misconstrue the law by manipulating the words of statutes and cases, without regard to their texts' meaning as a whole."
The panel noted factual errors in a temporary restraining order that appeared to be the result of AI hallucinations, including naming plaintiffs and defendants who were not parties to the case, quoting terms that did not actually appear in the act and citing evidence not in the record.

So racist, Appeals Court.

Be better, Appeals Court. #BeBetter.

With all the examples of Judges tearing into lawyers who use AI slop... now a judge has done it!
cc: @alexthechick @MixyPisa @AceofSpadesHQ https://t.co/XmCQ7x5nIN
— Arthur Kimes (@ComradeArthur) October 23, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:09 PM (iFTx/)

2 Bam!!! Beat Blade

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 23, 2026 01:10 PM (P9Ea3)

3 Sponge

Posted by: rickb223 at October 23, 2026 01:11 PM (zFt5U)

4 Or not.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 23, 2026 01:11 PM (P9Ea3)

5 Good morning on the West Coast! I will notify the others.

Posted by: SciVo at October 23, 2026 01:11 PM (ke3zm)

6 Apparently the DEI judge pretended the law said that students would be banned from discussing race under the law, which is a complete fabrication, either created by himself, his DEI clerk, or "hallucinated" by the AI agent he used to do his homework for him.

Dayum.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 23, 2026 01:11 PM (zFt5U)

7 >>>DEI Judge Uses AI

What a dumbass.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 01:12 PM (dK+Kv)

8 Done.

Posted by: SciVo at October 23, 2026 01:13 PM (ke3zm)

9 US District Judge Henry Wingate was appointed by Ronaldus Magnus back in the 80s. He even served as a Chief Judge, so impeachment and conviction would be a tall order.

Posted by: mrp at October 23, 2026 01:14 PM (rj6Yv)

10 Apparently, Wingate (the lazy judge) is a Reagan appointment. He was also born in January 1947, which means he's about to turn 80. Maybe he should consider hanging up the robe and spending his days feeding ducks at the nearby pond.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 23, 2026 01:14 PM (P9Ea3)

11 Once we adopt AI, all societal rules are going to be adapted to whatever some soyboy in a basement decides to push into the database.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 23, 2026 01:14 PM (0U5gm)

12 Henry Wingate sounds like he golfs at Bushwood with Judge Smails.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 23, 2026 01:14 PM (8B4gm)

13 This might be a good test case for impeaching judges at the federal level.

Obvious incompetence and a direct rebuke from the Appeals court while they take him off the case? All while the olds in the Senate are afraid of AI because it can make naked pictures of them?

I guess testing impeachment failure theater may be useful every once in a while on cases where it actually has a halfway decent chance of getting a couple of Democrats agreeing to convict in the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 23, 2026 01:14 PM (U/SFE)

14 "Robert McDuff, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at the Mississippi Center for Justice, in a statement said the ruling addressed some of their concerns by making it clear that public school teachers and students could still discuss issues related to race, sex, and civil rights on a variety of fronts"

Which of reading, writing and arithmetic is advanced by discussions of race, sex or civil rights?

Posted by: Oglebay at October 23, 2026 01:15 PM (2ap+5)

15 Wingate needs to be kicked to the curb, stripped of pension, and pilloried.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 23, 2026 01:15 PM (6Egig)

16 This is obviously grounds for impeachment and removal. We'll see if Senate Republicans have the courage and conviction to do the right thing.

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who stentoriously intones "Nothing will happen." at October 23, 2026 01:15 PM (0sNs1)

17 DEI Judge Uses AI to Write An Opinion Filled With Fake Cases

DEI, AI, Kamala's slogans... It all fits.

Posted by: t-bird at October 23, 2026 01:15 PM (IYMzU)

18
Never let a Marine around a white woman.

Never give a DEI access to AI.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2026 01:15 PM (eRlcH)

19 And so it begins.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at October 23, 2026 01:15 PM (amcLV)

20 What a dumbass.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 01:12 PM (dK+Kv)

Spoiler alert that shit

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:16 PM (EX3Wq)

21 Judge Henry Wingate is 80 years old and should have retired long ago.

"Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Wingate received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Grinnell College in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1972."

He was put on the bench in 1985 by Reagan of all people.

The "Imperial Judiciary" in full action. He's also a black guy so he gets full protection from the DEI mob.

But black, white, yellow, orange, brown, whatever -- judges shouldn't be on the bench for 40 fucking years.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

22 Maybe the 'judge' is Average Joe?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 23, 2026 01:17 PM (6Egig)

23 Been on the bench as long as I've been alive?

This is solid impeachment territory because the stakes are actually really low.

I kind of doubt Johnson brings up articles, and I often talk against impeachment. But, in this case, I hope he does.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 23, 2026 01:18 PM (U/SFE)

24 There seems to be a complete lack of empathy for Mr. Markel around here these days.

Also, a lack of attention toward the rousing WNBA Finals currently in progress. Sad!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2026 01:18 PM (0sNs1)

25 Orde Wingate > Henry Wingate

Posted by: far cry at October 23, 2026 01:18 PM (Q6P2R)

26 More like Losegate, amirite?

Posted by: 496 at October 23, 2026 01:20 PM (sYOFY)

27 White mans is bad

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 23, 2026 01:21 PM (G4kNP)

28 Judge Wingate is a 1972 Yale Law grad and was nominated to the federal bench in 1985 by Ronald Reagan.

Posted by: mr tmz at October 23, 2026 01:21 PM (rJ48h)

29 Wingate was appointed by Reagan. Served in the Navy. Got his Juris Doc from Yale Law.

(((((On September 29, 2016, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals removed Wingate as judge from two cases for continued failure to rule upon pending motions. This was not the first time the Court of Appeals had taken notice of Judge Wingate's judicial backlog; in 2010, the higher court criticized him for taking more than six years to issue a final judgment in a civil case.)))))

It would appear that Judge Wingate is kind of lazy. And his CV of two year stints in an entire menagerie of positions suggests that everyone knows it and pass him to someone else almost immediately.

Posted by: Orson at October 23, 2026 01:22 PM (dIske)

30
Orde Wingate

___________

A wacko. Lucky to have died when he did. Appeals to the British love of eccentric failures.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2026 01:22 PM (eRlcH)

31
Even the judges are phoning it in.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 23, 2026 01:22 PM (OkYzo)

32 I updated with more quotes from the opinion.

Posted by: ace at October 23, 2026 01:23 PM (1wjle)

33 But he went to Yale!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 23, 2026 01:24 PM (hqgX1)

34
Even the judges are phoning it in.
Posted by: Frank Barone at October 23, 2026 01:22 PM (OkYzo)

___________

A serious question. How many opinions are actually written by clerks? Most of Thurgood Marshall's were.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2026 01:24 PM (eRlcH)

35 Then the appeals court threw in some yo mama jokes for good measure.

Posted by: steevy at October 23, 2026 01:24 PM (KDeM8)

36 10 Apparently, Wingate (the lazy judge) is a Reagan appointment. He was also born in January 1947, which means he's about to turn 80. Maybe he should consider hanging up the robe and spending his days feeding ducks at the nearby pond.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 23, 2026 01:14 PM (P9Ea3)

The Senate was a different animal in 1985 than today. Reagan may have had to do some horse trading to get people he wanted confirmed. Wingate could have been part of the bad end of a deal that Reagan made.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 23, 2026 01:24 PM (8mulE)

37 DAI

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:25 PM (EX3Wq)

38 "But... if it was just the AI agent -- did this guy not bother checking the opinion he was going to sign his name to to make sure the cases cited said what the AI said they said, or even existed at all?"

The dirty little secret is the majority of opinions are written by clerks or principal attorneys with little oversight by the judge. The judge might not even "decide" the case so much as ask his clerks to do the research and decide it for him, knowing the clerks will decide the case the way the judge wants.

Same thing at big law firms. I graduated law school and was researching and writing memos and legal briefs on multi-billion dollar cases. The partners rarely if ever read the cases I cited to see if I was correct.

I couldn't believe it then. I still don't now.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

39 the AI platform Perplexity
.......

I'm perplexed.

Posted by: wth at October 23, 2026 01:25 PM (UjdFS)

40 Every day is Fuck It Friday for Wingate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 23, 2026 01:25 PM (8B4gm)

41 We will regret AI.

Posted by: Eromero at October 23, 2026 01:26 PM (w5SWv)

42 I can't believe the Appeals Court was so mean to a great-grandfather.

Posted by: far cry at October 23, 2026 01:26 PM (Q6P2R)

43 Bam!!! Beat Blade
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 23, 2026 01:10 PM (P9Ea3)
__________

You spoketh too soon ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:26 PM (iFTx/)

44 36 The Senate was a different animal in 1985 than today. Reagan may have had to do some horse trading to get people he wanted confirmed. Wingate could have been part of the bad end of a deal that Reagan made.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 23, 2026 01:24 PM (8mulE)

========

What probably mattered most was the blue slip process.

The senators from MS at the time where Thad Cochran (GOP) and John Stennis (Democrat).

So, any Mississippi judge to get through the judicial committee had to be approved by both Cochran and Stennis.

Do you imagine Thad Cochran and John Stennis were green lighting the next Clarence Thomas?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 23, 2026 01:26 PM (U/SFE)

45 completely confused, puzzled, or bewildered because something is difficult to understand or solve.

Posted by: wth at October 23, 2026 01:27 PM (UjdFS)

46 Spoiler alert that shit

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:16 PM (EX3Wq)

Save yourself time and presume they are all dumbasses.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 01:27 PM (zJkfE)

47 41 We will regret AI.
Posted by: Eromero at October 23, 2026 01:26 PM (w5SWv)

Shut up! It can hear you!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 23, 2026 01:27 PM (hqgX1)

48 Today is

NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

not even kidding.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (W2Pud)

49 The "reasoning" in dozens of enormously consequential rulings at SCOTUS and below is no better than this case, perhaps even better since it was done without AI. Which means the idiots actually believed what they were writing.

Courts are the unfixable defect in all western constitutional representative systems. Different places reflect different degrees of degradation, matching the state of the civic culture in a given place.

Obergefell, Hamdan v. Bush, the O-care case. All farcical rulings without AI, or DEI per se.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (U/Byj)

50 What is the difference between AI hallucinated authority and Jumanji Jackson et al. "muh feelz" authority?

None.

And I'm not trying to make a joke:
These cartel judges are just making up what they want the law to say and then cite to the thinnest of authority to justify it.

E.g. someone walking by the White House has standing to stop any renovations.
Some golfers who like the way the course is now, have standing to block any and all landscaping.
Illegally entering the country and giving birth gives your child citizenship.
And on and on.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (3cUTc)

51 Turns out people who never have to worry about getting fired aren’t that concerned with doing a good job.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 23, 2026 01:29 PM (hqgX1)

52 Claude is perplexed.

Posted by: wth at October 23, 2026 01:30 PM (UjdFS)

53 48 Today is

NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

not even kidding.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM

Human Resources is going to be fun on Monday.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 23, 2026 01:30 PM (OkYzo)

54 History lesson.

https://tinyurl.com/3ztz4z33

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 23, 2026 01:31 PM (ndZc7)

55 48 Today is

NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

not even kidding.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (W2Pud)

Heh.

Good thing most of my coworkers are away at a conference. Maybe that's why this date was selected for it?

Posted by: Thrawn at October 23, 2026 01:31 PM (oPFtC)

56 >>>48 Today is
NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

Question: ass or face?

Posted by: No Name Today at October 23, 2026 01:31 PM (8mulE)

57 And, generally, the opinion of the court is cribbed from the briefs of the winning side.

Which, I'll bet, is the source for some of these hallucinations.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 23, 2026 01:32 PM (3cUTc)

58 Is this "judge" going to be removed from the bench? If not, why not? I could not imagine a more compelling case for impeachment, or for having this idiot resign in shame.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 23, 2026 01:32 PM (nJ/vH)

59 ass or face?

Posted by: No Name Today at October 23, 2026 01:31 PM (8mulE)

What's the difference?

Posted by: Lena Dunham at October 23, 2026 01:32 PM (EX3Wq)

60 Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (W2Pud)

Is there anyone of your co-workers you'd like to slap today?. Kindly and hard working poster, Skip, sometimes says in the morning thread that he hates his co-workers (Because they goof off or show up late, I think) but it would probably not be a good idea to do that. I don't have any co-workers at the moment .

Who comes up with these names?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (JrHfD)

61 How come Blade's post is EARLIER THAN ACE'S POST??!!

Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (AKptf)

62 Today is
NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

Question: ass or face?
Posted by: No Name Today
.......

female or male?

Posted by: wth at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (UjdFS)

63 ass or face?

Posted by: No Name Today

Yes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (8B4gm)

64
4 Or not.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon

==============

Your mistake was to type. The Blade only has to press Ctrl-V. You had to type in 15 characters and 2 spaces. It adds up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (mmrXZ)

65 The Senate was a different animal in 1985 than today. Reagan may have had to do some horse trading to get people he wanted confirmed. Wingate could have been part of the bad end of a deal that Reagan made.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 23, 2026 01:24 PM (8mulE)

========

What probably mattered most was the blue slip process.

The senators from MS at the time where Thad Cochran (GOP) and John Stennis (Democrat).

So, any Mississippi judge to get through the judicial committee had to be approved by both Cochran and Stennis.

Do you imagine Thad Cochran and John Stennis were green lighting the next Clarence Thomas?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 23, 2026 01:26 PM (U/SFE)
_______

His politics may not have played into the decision. Dude is 80 and probably semi-senile and his clerks do all the work.

Federal district judges usually have two clerks. This is an old black judge from Yale so his clerks are almost certainly leftwing DEI hires from leftwing Ivy schools. They wrote the AI opinion, I'll almost guarantee.

Think an 80 year old, semi-retired, probably senile judge is up on the latest AI?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (iFTx/)

66 Sorry, Fen,

I thought it was funny.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (W2Pud)

67 "The district court -- or perhaps, being charitable, its AI agent -- ignored and manipulated governing law
=
And there's the problem with tolerating AI.

So much of it is being created by the nation's enemies, who have no interest in what is true, much less our purpose in being, and so many people are blindly using it and assuming the results are reliable.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 23, 2026 01:35 PM (vSvIl)

68 Who runs Bartertown anyway ?

Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:35 PM (AKptf)

69 > First time we're seeing anything like this. "Few such cases," I would say.

I've heard of some lawyers submitting bad AI briefs. But a judge? And he just YOLO'd it without confirming anything? What a dumbass.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 23, 2026 01:35 PM (mkw2N)

70 How come Blade's post is EARLIER THAN ACE'S POST??!!
Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (AKptf)

THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

Posted by: far cry at October 23, 2026 01:35 PM (Q6P2R)

71 Nowhere in the US Constitution does it say Judges have to be impeached. It’s mentioned in the clause for the Executive Branch.

It was judges that “interpreted” it to apply to them. Congress could dismiss them with a simple vote, but the judges said, nah, we’re too important and shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 23, 2026 01:35 PM (hqgX1)

72 Damn right wing extremists!

https://tinyurl.com/bdp6wa5b

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 23, 2026 01:36 PM (ndZc7)

73 ass or face?
Posted by: No Name Today at October 23, 2026 01:31 PM

One is a slap, the other is a spank.

Unless we're talking about a monkey, in which case both are spank.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2026 01:36 PM (0sNs1)

74 Today is

NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

not even kidding.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM

So are you celebrating it?!

*and it's a good thing I work from home today*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 23, 2026 01:37 PM (KRh8R)

75 It would appear that Judge Wingate is kind of lazy. And his CV of two year stints in an entire menagerie of positions suggests that everyone knows it and pass him to someone else almost immediately.
Posted by: Orson at October 23, 2026 01:22 PM (dIske)

Poster boy for the Peter Principle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 23, 2026 01:37 PM (n7Dzq)

76 You shock the monkey.

Posted by: Peter Gabriel at October 23, 2026 01:37 PM (AKptf)

77 Pretty sure you can use AI to check the citations to see if they are real, against db's or whatever - which is different from just asking one to draft a legal opinion with only real citations - so there's no excuse for publishing hallucinated ones other than pure laziness.

Don't say it.

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:38 PM (EX3Wq)

78 What a dumbass.

It's pronounced "Doo-mah".

Posted by: Judge Dumbass at October 23, 2026 01:38 PM (Hh0yq)

79 How come Blade's post is EARLIER THAN ACE'S POST??!!
Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (AKptf)
_________

[Insert monkey side-eye meme]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:38 PM (iFTx/)

80 Posted by: nurse ratched

You have nothing to be sorry about and it was kind of funny.

I think I've only had one co-worker I was really annoyed by. That was when I worked at a publishing company. She was kind of like what I expect a drill sargeant was like, but very good at what she did and I respected her, even if I was annoyed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:39 PM (JrHfD)

81
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

Posted by: Dan Rather, CBS News at October 23, 2026 01:39 PM (OkYzo)

82 First time we're seeing anything like this. "Few such cases," I would say.

I've heard of some lawyers submitting bad AI briefs. But a judge? And he just YOLO'd it without confirming anything? What a dumbass.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 23, 2026 01:35 PM (mkw2N)
____

See my comment above. I'll bet serious money the opinion was written entirely by his DEI clerks.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

83 How come Blade's post is EARLIER THAN ACE'S POST??!!
Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM

Does anyone really know what time it is?

Posted by: Chicago at October 23, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1)

84 You had to type in 15 characters and 2 spaces. It adds up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (mmrXZ)

To what though.

To.... what.

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:40 PM (EX3Wq)

85 We would never slap a coworker!

Posted by: The Three Stooges at October 23, 2026 01:40 PM (n5tGW)

86 Slapping a coworker isn't as funny as redacting one

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM (EX3Wq)

87 "When is National Blow a Coworker Day?"

-- James Talacreepo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

88 The court system and corrupt judges will be the death of our republic. And they know it.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM (/nX+B)

89 Armed Citizen Who Stopped Oregon School Shooting Speaks Out
bearingarms.com
https://t.co/1umy8mpQmL
Kaylub Giamanco, the man who shot and killed the 16-year-old engaged in a murderous rampage at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, has shied away from the press in the wake of that horrific incident.
Giamanco has now broken his silence in an interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting, and in doing so has dispelled some of the myths created by the media about him.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM (iVhsR)

90 Self charging robots.

https://tinyurl.com/4pc5zwkt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM (ndZc7)

91 Question: Has this dude always been shit or is this a recent development? Must be Trump's fault. He is just preserving our democracy I'm sure.

Posted by: connected and litigious at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM (cS1cw)

92 How come Blade's post is EARLIER THAN ACE'S POST??!!
Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM

This has all the hall marks of collusion.

Posted by: 51 Random Commenters at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM (KRh8R)

93 You had to type in 15 characters and 2 spaces. It adds up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM (mmrXZ)

To what though.

To.... what.
Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:40 PM (EX3Wq)

You know the rules.

No math on the blog.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (vSvIl)

94 DONUT DAY >>NATIONAL SLAP YO' COWORKER DAY

How come it took over 200 comments in the Poetry thread before anyone mentioned the word 'Nantucket'? Are you people asleep today?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (QGaXH)

95 This is obviously grounds for impeachment and removal. We'll see if Senate Republicans have the courage and conviction to do the right thing.

I doubt they will.

—

We are bed wetting ourselves over a mean TV ad in Ohio. Odds of us impeaching a DEI judge in the South: less than zero.

Posted by: GOP at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (YNt71)

96 90 Self charging robots.

https://tinyurl.com/4pc5zwkt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM

The Borg

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (OkYzo)

97 Once we adopt AI, all societal rules are going to be adapted to whatever some soyboy in a basement decides to push into the database.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 23, 2026 01:14 PM (0U5gm)

Scary shit ahead for us. Especially after we've seen what "social" media has turned into.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (g8Ew8)

98 Yeah, waiting on any Senator to do the right thing is like watching your cruise ship moving away from the dock without you on it because you thought they would do the right thing for you.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (Q/FnY)

99 Slappa da bass.

Posted by: far cry at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (Q6P2R)

100 Posted by: The Three Stooges at October 23, 2026 01:40 PM (n5tGW)

I never really understood why some men insisted that all women hated physical comedy . I thought that The Three Stooges were pretty funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (JrHfD)

101 48 Today is

NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

not even kidding.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (W2Pud)

I don’t have one. Does this mean I have to slap DH?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (mPw9b)

102 > I'll bet serious money the opinion was written entirely by his DEI clerks.

If so, I'd hate to be one of those clerks. I'll bet the judge went nuclear.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 23, 2026 01:43 PM (mkw2N)

103 Self charging robots.

https://tinyurl.com/4pc5zwkt

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 23, 2026 01:41 PM (ndZc7)

They'll go blind.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 01:43 PM (dK+Kv)

104 Wingate is 79 so he must have senior status. Appointed by Reagan . He's been smacked down several times by appeals courts. Retire already

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 23, 2026 01:43 PM (vJPf4)

105 Oh man: Fusion Ken is out they claiming the two FBI agents merely "gave a defensive briefing to two Republican Senators that Russia was peddling disinformaiton about Biden"

So, you know, Kash has them dead-to-rights on the criminal charges if this is their best defense/defender.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 23, 2026 01:43 PM (3cUTc)

106 Today is

NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

not even kidding.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (W2Pud)

I don’t have one. Does this mean I have to slap DH?

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (mPw9b)

My Cow-Orker is Comradette Flounder.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 01:44 PM (dK+Kv)

107 Self charging robots.

https://tinyurl.com/4pc5zwkt
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?
........

The legs are on backwards.

Posted by: wth at October 23, 2026 01:44 PM (UjdFS)

108 We say "super intelligence" in these parts.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 23, 2026 01:45 PM (0efKR)

109 I thought that The Three Stooges were pretty funny.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (JrHfD)

Sure but you like all humor.

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:45 PM (EX3Wq)

110 Always fact check the AI. But I'm glad they got caught. This time.

Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2026 01:45 PM (Toos7)

111 Sometimes you just have to slap yourself.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 23, 2026 01:45 PM (n5tGW)

112 Search Assist
Henry Wingate was appointed by President Ronald Reagan on September 11, 1985, to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
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He's senile.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2026 01:45 PM (nqf1u)

113 Posted by: tcn in AK at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (mPw9b)

Totally OT/ but what's your take on the Alaska Senate race ? All I hear is conflicting reports

Posted by: It's me donna at October 23, 2026 01:46 PM (+gK6I)

114 Slap could equal "spank", penis could equal "coworker". Spitballing here.

Posted by: connected and litigious at October 23, 2026 01:46 PM (cS1cw)

115 I'll bet serious money the opinion was written entirely by his DEI clerks.

If so, I'd hate to be one of those clerks. I'll bet the judge went nuclear.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 23, 2026 01:43 PM (mkw2N)
________

To the extent he's paying attention, yes. But he's probably senior status and rarely works at all.

It's an institutional problem in the federal courts that aging judges, many of whom are no longer capable of doing their jobs, are placed on "senior status" so they can technically remain judges on the payroll while doing little if any work.

Corrupt clerks in the filing office will feed these judges only the kinds of cases they want -- or rather, what their law clerks want.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 23, 2026 01:47 PM (iFTx/)

116 He's senile.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2026 01:45 PM (nqf1u)

No, just stupid. Who stays on the bench at 80? Go home already.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 23, 2026 01:47 PM (mPw9b)

117 I never really understood why some men insisted that all women hated physical comedy . I thought that The Three Stooges were pretty funny.--

Honestly, you're the first woman that I've heard (read) say that. All the women in my life HATE the Stooges, and any kind of slapstick. For whatever reason.

Posted by: Les Walrond at October 23, 2026 01:48 PM (2iYtv)

118 107 Self charging robots.

https://tinyurl.com/4pc5zwkt
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie?
........
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Didn't know the Greeks were making robots.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2026 01:49 PM (nqf1u)

119 Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:45 PM

Thanks. That's kind of you to say, ellipses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:49 PM (JrHfD)

120 Speaking of other sloppy things...

A bunch of my friends worship Sharon Says So, and this is making the rounds on social media. I know it's inane and anti constitutional republic. But what would be the proper pithy response be to push back, without completely burning the bridges of friendship? Anyway here's what the hive mind is spreading:

"You're on a private jet with nine other people, and the pilot asks where you want to go. Two vote to go to Jamaica. Three people vote to crash the plane into the ocean. Five people don't vote. The plane is going down because too many people on the plane didn't think voting was important.
@ SHARONSAYSSO

Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2026 01:49 PM (Toos7)

121 There are reports that two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.

The charges stem from an ongoing investigation into the since-dissolved FBI Foreign Influence Task Force.

Is it possible that That Guy who says "Nothing will happen"'s perfect 1.000 batting average will be no more?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 23, 2026 01:49 PM (0sNs1)

122 >>So, you know, Kash has them dead-to-rights on the criminal charges if this is their best defense/defender.

Here's Ed Martin's reaction to reading the affidavit and if anyone would know it would be him.

>>@EagleEdMartin

>>The affidavit in this is sooooo damning.

https://tinyurl.com/nhfywrb3

Has not been a good few days for the nothing will happen crowd.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2026 01:50 PM (viF8m)

123 California mayor accused of following man she mistook for ICE agent #AWFUL #Karen
https://t.co/AFqE9Tmyhq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0g1PdYV3w
KFOX14 Oct 20, 2026
Kerman Mayor Maria Pacheco is accused of following a Fresno hairstylist for about 25 minutes and confronting him because she believed he was an immigration agent, according to complaints filed.
Eric Bridges' attorney said the complaints were submitted Monday to the Fresno Police Department and the Fresno County district attorney’s Public Integrity Unit. They ask authorities to investigate allegations including stalking and false imprisonment. No criminal charges or investigative findings have been announced.
Bridges said the encounter began Oct. 14 near Kearney Park, outside Fresno, when an orange vehicle began following him. He alleged the driver photographed his white Mercedes, blocked him in and continued following him into Fresno, eventually confronting him outside his sister’s home.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at October 23, 2026 01:50 PM (iVhsR)

124 It's White Supremacy to expect diverse peoples to exist without extensive help from The White Man's Magic.

Posted by: zombie at October 23, 2026 01:50 PM (HD2n/)

125 Are these people just DEI, or is that understating the issue.

They are political officers inserted into the system. Activists designed to subvert our system and civilization itself.

Yes, they are incompetent DEI hires, but mostly they are there because they are radicals.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 23, 2026 01:50 PM (0efKR)

126 Posted by: Les Walrond at October 23, 2026 01:48 PM (2iYtv)

My mother thought that they were pretty funny as well . Maybe that's part of the reason.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:51 PM (JrHfD)

127 111 Sometimes you just have to slap yourself.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 23, 2026 01:45 PM (n5tGW)

Guy Mohawk

I read and appreciated your responses to my Sharia Law vs Constitution question yesterday. Thanks!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 01:51 PM (QGaXH)

128 Today is

NATIONAL SLAP YOUR COWORKER DAY.

not even kidding.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (W2Pud)

----------------

BRB, getting bail money together.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 23, 2026 01:51 PM (2UnvF)

129 >>here are reports that two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Floris and Bradley Benavides, were taken into custody today on charges of allegedly lying to Congress about their involvement in the FBI’s investigations into Hunter Biden.

If by reports you mean Kash Patel, Jeanine Pirro and Todd Blanch all publicly announcing they have been taken into custody then yes, there have been reports.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2026 01:51 PM (viF8m)

130
Wingate was appointed by Reagan. Served in the Navy.

As a fucking JAG. Goes a long way to explaining this douchecanoe.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (y9nCu)

131 Curse you Charles Babbage and Joseph Jacquard! This is all your fault!

Posted by: zombie at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (HD2n/)

132 >>> All the women in my life HATE the Stooges, and any kind of slapstick

Am I crazy for thinking there were female comedians like Lucy that did slapstick? And sone got their butts slapped, because of the era, but not their face. But there was slapping.

Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (Toos7)

133 I kind of doubt Johnson brings up articles, and I often talk against impeachment. But, in this case, I hope he does.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely
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Poor Grassley, he brings them cases tied up with a bow and they do nothing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (nqf1u)

134 Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 23, 2026 01:51 PM (2UnvF

lol.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:53 PM (JrHfD)

135 Totally impartial and apolitical.

This is the biggest lie in the American political system.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2026 01:53 PM (W2geB)

136 Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (Toos7

I always thought of "I Love Lucy" as physical comedy thought not to the extent of the Stooges.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:54 PM (JrHfD)

137 And it's just the Biden family corruption they were covering up. They also hid evidence that China attempted to interfere in the 2020 election.

Crazy rightwing conspiracy theorists were right again.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m)

138 Am I crazy for thinking there were female comedians like Lucy that did slapstick? And sone got their butts slapped, because of the era, but not their face. But there was slapping.
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (Toos7)
===

Laverne and Shirley

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2026 01:54 PM (W2geB)

139
These cartel judges are just making up what they want the law to say and then cite to the thinnest of authority to justify it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 23, 2026 01:28 PM (3cUTc)

You got emanations in my penumbras!

Posted by: Zombie Justice William O. Douglas at October 23, 2026 01:55 PM (y9nCu)

140
It was judges that “interpreted” it to apply to them. Congress could dismiss them with a simple vote, but the judges said, nah, we’re too important and shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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This will continue until judges are put in their proper place.
_slappy

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2026 01:55 PM (nqf1u)

141 Are these people just DEI, or is that understating the issue.

They are political officers inserted into the system. Activists designed to subvert our system and civilization itself.

Yes, they are incompetent DEI hires, but mostly they are there because they are radicals.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 23, 2026 01:50 PM (0efKR)

DEI exists only to disrupt, agitate, and destroy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 23, 2026 01:55 PM (g8Ew8)

142 Brit Lass doesn't like certain kinds of slapstick but howls at MXC and John Ritter. That episode where he drinks the Rocket and dances at the party and embarrasses Janet. Legendarily funny. If you don't laugh at it I think there is physically something wrong with you.

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 01:55 PM (EX3Wq)

143
As a fucking JAG. Goes a long way to explaining this douchecanoe.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (y9nCu)

___________

Conned a desk through a devastating barrage of briefs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 23, 2026 01:56 PM (eRlcH)

144 133 Poor Grassley, he brings them cases tied up with a bow and they do nothing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (nqf1u)

========

The problem with impeachment is the same problem with how Democrats now vote as a block on appointments in the Senate.

It's just far too partisan.

Impeachment is just a partisan question among others, what benefits my side and degrades the other side?

So, you have to find something to convince 14 Democrats (and the recalcitrant GOPers like Mitch, Murkowski, Tillis, Cassidy, and Cornyn) to vote for conviction beyond "this judge is bad at their job". And, no, "this just a partisan hack who's overstepping his bounds and trying to destroy the constitutional order" isn't enough either, because it's all about cui bono.

And we barely impeached judges before this. Like...8 total? In American history?

The real solution is actually to amend the Judicial Acts to impose punishments and limitations in statute. That would just require 60 votes instead of 67. So, slightly less impossible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 23, 2026 01:57 PM (U/SFE)

145 A.I. is gonna take over guys!!!!

Posted by: Max Power at October 23, 2026 01:58 PM (SwyyQ)

146 You can absolutely be assured this was written by clerks. A 79 year old judge isn’t applying AI in this manner. But it is also his responsibility to review, edit and approve whatever the clerks produce.

There are several things becoming more prevalent in the judiciary. The vast number of clerks graduating from law school are not just completely left wing, they are ignorant, unqualified and not at all well schooled in the law. They don’t write these decisions from a textual understanding or material recitation of the law. They are not formulaic or structured in their thought process, at least not in a traditional legal sense. They are written with an extreme bias in mind which is completely disconnected from actual case law. So you have unqualified, left wing and legally ignorant using AI to reach a predetermined conclusion irrespective of case law, which by the way most of their professors have told them is biased and should be subverted.

This is why your current judiciary, and in the very near future is such a danger to the country. You no longer have lawyers or judges in the traditional sense of the law. You have left wing ideologues projecting their counter factual bias.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 23, 2026 01:58 PM (zvo7E)

147 It's not been a few good.days for the nothing will happen crowd...

Then suddenly, over the top turnbuckle, Chuck Grassley comes flying into the ring!

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 23, 2026 01:58 PM (bX16E)

148 How come Blade's post is EARLIER THAN ACE'S POST??!!
Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM

Does anyone really know what time it is?

Posted by: Chicago at October 23, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1)

Not to my knowledge.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

149 I didn't really appreciate the Stooges until I introduced them to my boys. Watching them laugh uproariously made it funny.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 23, 2026 01:59 PM (W2Pud)

150 They are political officers inserted into the system. Activists designed to subvert our system and civilization itself.

Speaking of that I see there are a bunch of Immigration Judges Trump wants fired for making anti- ICE statements... Wonder which way they were ruling on deportation cases .....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 23, 2026 01:59 PM (+gK6I)

151 If we don't have any co-workers, we could always slap ourselves for the stupid stuff we've done.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:59 PM (JrHfD)

152
Honestly, I was never a big Stooges fan, being more of a Marx Brothers guy (except for their douchebag cocksucker stepbrother Karl). But I heartily respected the slapstick genius of the Stooges.

You're still gonna have to fight me before I give up my Man Card for this transgression.

Posted by: Zombie Justice William O. Douglas at October 23, 2026 01:59 PM (y9nCu)

153 I had a judge (white guy) call my case "ludicrous on its face". Court of Appeal didn't think so.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at October 23, 2026 02:00 PM (Fv808)

154 Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2026 01:54 PM (W2geB)

Yes, indeed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 02:00 PM (JrHfD)

155 136 Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (Toos7

I always thought of "I Love Lucy" as physical comedy thought not to the extent of the Stooges.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:54 PM (JrHfD)

I think Lucy usually did it to herself but could be wrong. In 'The Long, Long Trailer' * she clobbers Desi in the face with a handful of food.

•Watched it (again) recently. Several scenes were eerily similar to our adventures last August going from L.A. to the Mighty Missis'sip and back in 30 days.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 02:00 PM (QGaXH)

156 Not to my knowledge.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

LMAO

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 02:01 PM (EX3Wq)

157 If we don't have any co-workers, we could always slap ourselves for the stupid stuff we've done.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 01:59 PM (JrHfD)

There ain't enough slaps in the world

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 02:01 PM (EX3Wq)

158
Oops.

Justice Douglas was a humorless commie cocksucker who probably thought Lenny Bruce was a genius, rather than just being a loudmouth with no filter on his piehole.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 23, 2026 02:02 PM (y9nCu)

159 waiting on any Senator to do the right thing is like watching your cruise ship moving away from the dock without you on it because you thought they would do the right thing for you.
Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 23, 2026 01:42 PM (Q/FnY)

5:00 departure means 5:00. Not 5:02. Capiche?

Posted by: Princess at October 23, 2026 02:02 PM (YNt71)

160 And, here's a very good judge:

Will Chamberlain

@willchamberlain
·
1h
HUGE: The en banc Fifth Circuit just held, 11-6, that illegal aliens caught in the interior can be detained without bond for the duration of their removal proceedings.

Judge James Ho in a concurring opinion: "A nation ceases to be a nation if it can't protect its borders."

Posted by: beckster at October 23, 2026 02:02 PM (kX27y)

161 160 Judge James Ho in a concurring opinion: "A nation ceases to be a nation if it can't protect its borders."

Posted by: beckster at October 23, 2026 02:02 PM (kX27y)

=======

Judge Ho is often talked about as a potential SCOTUS pick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 23, 2026 02:03 PM (U/SFE)

162 Didn't know the Greeks were making robots.
Old Greek homo robots.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 23, 2026 02:03 PM (Ml5y8)

163 And, here's a very good judge:

Will Chamberlain

@willchamberlain
·
1h
HUGE: The en banc Fifth Circuit just held, 11-6, that illegal aliens caught in the interior can be detained without bond for the duration of their removal proceedings.

Judge James Ho in a concurring opinion: "A nation ceases to be a nation if it can't protect its borders."

Posted by: beckster at October 23, 2026 02:02 PM (kX27y)

LFG!

Next, bounties.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 02:04 PM (dK+Kv)

164 133 I kind of doubt Johnson brings up articles, and I often talk against impeachment. But, in this case, I hope he does.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely
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Poor Grassley, he brings them cases tied up with a bow and they do nothing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (nqf1u)

Isn't there some way to sideline the guy short of impeachment? Put him in charge of the suggestion box or send him to hear night traffic court in some remote outpost where they don't have cars ?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 02:04 PM (QGaXH)

165 >>@BillMelugin_
·
17m
>>Huge decision from the 5th Circuit. Illegal aliens arrested by ICE can, in fact, be detained without bond, even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades, overturning three lower Fed judges.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2026 02:04 PM (viF8m)

166 Wingate ... told Grassley that the errors stemmed from a law clerk's unvetted use of the AI platform

Was the law clerk a Federal District Judge or are you the Federal District Judge?

Posted by: t-bird at October 23, 2026 02:05 PM (IYMzU)

167 164
Isn't there some way to sideline the guy short of impeachment? Put him in charge of the suggestion box or send him to hear night traffic court in some remote outpost where they don't have cars ?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 02:04 PM (QGaXH)

========

I believe the rulebook for the judiciary does give the chief jurist in the circuit authority to limit cases heard by individual judges given bad behavior.

Considering the guy's on senior status, I think the move would effectively force retirement.

But, if we want impeachment to mean...anything ever, especially against judges. Well, you have to start somewhere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 23, 2026 02:05 PM (U/SFE)

168

Eh?

Posted by: US District Judge Henry Wingate at October 23, 2026 02:06 PM (VWtfl)

169 I’ve been doing a little research on the Voyager probes and their relation to “nearby” stars. For the most part the AI summary provided by Google has been helpful, providing both sources and math.

I did get a “fun” response last night. Why will Voyager 2 take longer to reach Sirius than Ross 248, when Sirius is closer to us?

Voyager 2 will take longer to reach Sirius because it is approximately 4.3 light-years away, compared to just 1.7 light-years from Ross 248. This greater distance means it will take about 296,000 years to pass near Sirius, while it will reach Ross 248 in about 40,000 years.

Sirius is not 4.3 light years away; it is double that. Ross 248 is not 1.7 light years away—more like ten. But all of those numbers appear in various web sites such as NASA’s. The AI just put them together into a sentence that answered my question without regard to what the numbers meant. (The 1.7 light years for Ross 248 is how far Voyager 2 will be from Ross 248 at its nearest point.)

(The reason Voyager 2 will “reach” Ross 248 first is that it is more appropriate to say that Ross 248 will reach Voyager 2 first. Both

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 23, 2026 02:06 PM (kYmoU)

170 =======

Judge Ho is often talked about as a potential SCOTUS pick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely
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May as well put an honest Ho on the court.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 23, 2026 02:06 PM (nqf1u)

171 This sounds serious. That means there will be consequences, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at October 23, 2026 02:07 PM (NlEaG)

172 Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 02:01 PM (EX3Wq)

Don't be so hard on yourself, ellipses.

And what kind of British slapstick humor does Brit lass appreciate? . They really had some great ones such as Fawlty Towers" or Benny Hill . I still laugh at "Don't mention the Germans" and Basil's long legged German walk or "The Ministry of Silly Walks."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 02:07 PM (JrHfD)

173 We need to redefine the phrase " a hangin' judge."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 23, 2026 02:07 PM (nEUC6)

174 (The reason Voyager 2 will “reach” Ross 248 first is that it is more appropriate to say that Ross 248 will reach Voyager 2 first. Both…

…stars are moving toward Earth, but Ross 248 is moving faster.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 23, 2026 02:07 PM (kYmoU)

175
The beautiful and excellently humored Mrs naturalfake loves the Three Stooges.

Which places her in the Top .0001 Percentile of Womanly Excellence.

Sorry, boys. She's taken.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 23, 2026 02:07 PM (YSUhf)

176 What does this mean, blaming a law clerk? Isn't the judge responsible for a ruling issued under his own name?
Did he even read it?

Posted by: PG at October 23, 2026 02:08 PM (W33Nw)

177 138 Am I crazy for thinking there were female comedians like Lucy that did slapstick? And sone got their butts slapped, because of the era, but not their face. But there was slapping.
Posted by: LizLem at October 23, 2026 01:52 PM (Toos7)
===

Laverne and Shirley
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 23, 2026 01:54 PM (W2geB)

Two and a Half Men -Season 7 or 8 - Charlie tries to carry gf Chelsea to the bed, hits her head on door frame, stubs his toe, hopping around in pain tosses her on the bed, she bounces off lands on the floor. 'I think that's enough fore play for now'.

Laughing just thinking about it....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 02:08 PM (QGaXH)

178 Judge Ho is often talked about as a potential SCOTUS pick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely

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I don;t suppose someone can impress on good old Amy, or good old Robert that that they should spend more time with family ? Theirs or anyone else's, I don't care.

Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 02:08 PM (AKptf)

179 It will surprise no one that the imbecilic judge's middle name is 'Travillion'.

Ghetto gotta ghetto.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 23, 2026 02:09 PM (4R/FS)

180 We are moron tried and true and we'll do our yell for you

https://tinyurl.com/43zakaur

Posted by: JackStraw at October 23, 2026 02:10 PM (viF8m)

181 Isn't there some way to sideline the guy short of impeachment? Put him in charge of the suggestion box or send him to hear night traffic court in some remote outpost where they don't have cars ?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 02:04 PM (QGaXH)

Nope there is nothing that can be done other than impeachment. I mean this guy got overrruled hard, but it doesn't even go down on his permanent record - he does not have one. He has a lifetime appointment. Impeachment is the only possible sanction. He won't lose a paycheck or even get leave with pay.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at October 23, 2026 02:10 PM (NlEaG)

182 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone

The Long, Long Trailer is a funny film.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 02:11 PM (JrHfD)

183 ...had compromised the integrity of the judicial process.

Ya think???

Posted by: Diogenes at October 23, 2026 02:11 PM (2WIwB)

184 NOOD Brandon and Ukrainian.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at October 23, 2026 02:12 PM (2CeDH)

185 Nood.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 23, 2026 02:13 PM (dK+Kv)

186 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 23, 2026 02:13 PM (8B4gm)

187 83 How come Blade's post is EARLIER THAN ACE'S POST??!!
Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM

Does anyone really know what time it is?
Posted by: Chicago at October 23, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1)

Does anybody really care...,?

Geez - you people must be asleep this morning/afternoon in the east....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 02:13 PM (QGaXH)

188 I can't wait for the Dems to nominate the first AI SCOTUS. It'll be even more impressive that Action Jackson, by being able to define what a woman is.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 23, 2026 02:14 PM (l3cgK)

189 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 23, 2026 02:07 PM (JrHfD)

She likes Fawlty Towers. I think everyone from over there does. In terms of slapstick not sure. Definitely not a Mr. Bean fan.

Posted by: ... at October 23, 2026 02:14 PM (EX3Wq)

190 187 83 How come Blade's post is EARLIER THAN ACE'S POST??!!
Posted by: runner at October 23, 2026 01:34 PM

Does anyone really know what time it is?
Posted by: Chicago at October 23, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1)

Does anybody really care...,?

Geez - you people must be asleep this morning/afternoon in the east....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at October 23, 2026 02:13 PM (QGaXH)

Blade cut out the middle-man?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 23, 2026 02:14 PM (l3cgK)

191 The first rule of using AI for rulings is to proofread what AI gives you for rulings...especially of they keep referring to Madagascar...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 23, 2026 02:16 PM (l3cgK)

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