Husband, father, lawyer, policy advocate. Former Senate leadership, Exec Dir GOP Platform, SLF/Crossroads. @UChicagoLaw @Georgetown. Alaska. From San Diego.
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β‘οΈ "It is wrong and unacceptable that he pins Russiaβs aggression and Russiaβs killings on me,"
Zelenskyy regarding Trump's statements.
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NEW YORK TIMES now confirming my reporting from weeks ago that El-Sayed signed a letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012
(naturally not crediting the Free Beacon at all)
El-Sayed also refused to comment on letter to them!)
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Seems important!
NEW YORK TIMES now confirming my reporting from weeks ago that El-Sayed signed a letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012
(naturally not crediting the Free Beacon at all)
El-Sayed also refused to comment on letter to them!)
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/us/poβ¦
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It can absolutely be both if the billionaires think it will not be a one time tax, even if they're wrong.
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First Macron, now this. Do Europeans understand incentives?
In light of recent episodes of violence, the Church in France is calling for a response to the anxiety expressed by young people and those who feel marginalized or left behind, with the Archbishop of Tours advocating for restoring democratic dialogue through intermediary institutions.
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She can authorize her university to release her records so the GPA can be compared to the threshold that year. She won't, because it looks like she's continuing to lie.
Minnesotaβs Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Peggy Flanagan said she βgraduated Phi Beta Kappa,β but records raise questions about the claim. π on.wsj.com/4ByFoFc
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And by omnipresent, what I mean is something other than omnipresent.
The Republican Party is becoming the party of corruption and immorality, with self-dealing, philandering, and perversion omnipresent among the partyβs Senate candidates and in the Trump administration. washingtonexaminer.com/in_foβ¦
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Great opportunity for young lawyers to work for a great firm with an outstanding attorney, @tedfrank. You'll do more real, hands-on litigation in one month here than you will in five years working in BigLaw.
Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute @HamLincLaw is hiring attorneys!
If your BigLaw firm only does left-wing pro bono or sneers at your @FedSoc membership, if youβve billed 250 hours this month on discovery that will never matter and would prefer spending more time with your family, or if you miss thinking about the law from first principles instead of writing kitchen-sink briefs you know are tendentiousβread on.
Weβre looking for strong writers who are smart, self-starting, computer-literate, detail-oriented, and can work independently from home in a flat organization; who hate rent-seeking and love the free market; who have BigLaw-or-government-litigation or clerkship experience; who know the difference between abuse of discretion and de novo review; who read judicial opinions, Garner, and Volokh for fun; who can do their own ECF filing; and who want to be thrown in the deep end. You have opinions about typography, and hate cy pres, rent-seeking, and DEI nonsense. You noticed this paragraph used βrent-seekingβ twice and wanted to edit it.
Our last six attorneys went to Chicago, Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, and UCLA Law. Our alumni have had four presidential nominations to super-cool Senate-confirmed positions; one became a state SG. We canβt promise that youβll be up for the Fifth Circuit in 2038 if you work for us, but it apparently doesnβt hurt much.
We're known for our class-action objections that are taught in 1L and have gone to the Supreme Court and won hundreds of millions for consumers and shareholders, but weβve also successfully challenged FCC abuses in the D.C. Circuit, regularly beat California in First Amendment lawsuits, won a settlement for a client against a top law schoolβs DEI program, are challenging a Virginia anti-landlord law, are suing left-wing NGOs engaging in civil terrorism, and are expanding our public-interest wings. Maybe you have ideas for our next lawsuit.
Junior attorneys get first-chair work in federal court if they want it. Most HLLI attorneys have argued and won their first federal appeals with us. Weβll match experience-equivalent GS scale; you can moonlight in your own practice. We believe in Moneyball: part-time is possible. Bonus points for CA/DC/FL/IL/NY bar.
Email Ted Frank with resume, transcript, writing sample, preferred hourly/salary requirements, and why you want to work with us. (Our first filter is whether you can figure out my email address.)
Please donβt hold the cringe AI slop against us, the algorithm prefers it.
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Republicans will do anything to win these elections, except learn something about health care.
GOP candidates in key Senate races have not bothered to tell voters about their opponentsβ hostility to Medicare Advantage. | @RameshPonnuru
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Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute @HamLincLaw is hiring attorneys!
If your BigLaw firm only does left-wing pro bono or sneers at your @FedSoc membership, if youβve billed 250 hours this month on discovery that will never matter and would prefer spending more time with your family, or if you miss thinking about the law from first principles instead of writing kitchen-sink briefs you know are tendentiousβread on.
Weβre looking for strong writers who are smart, self-starting, computer-literate, detail-oriented, and can work independently from home in a flat organization; who hate rent-seeking and love the free market; who have BigLaw-or-government-litigation or clerkship experience; who know the difference between abuse of discretion and de novo review; who read judicial opinions, Garner, and Volokh for fun; who can do their own ECF filing; and who want to be thrown in the deep end. You have opinions about typography, and hate cy pres, rent-seeking, and DEI nonsense. You noticed this paragraph used βrent-seekingβ twice and wanted to edit it.
Our last six attorneys went to Chicago, Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Georgetown, and UCLA Law. Our alumni have had four presidential nominations to super-cool Senate-confirmed positions; one became a state SG. We canβt promise that youβll be up for the Fifth Circuit in 2038 if you work for us, but it apparently doesnβt hurt much.
We're known for our class-action objections that are taught in 1L and have gone to the Supreme Court and won hundreds of millions for consumers and shareholders, but weβve also successfully challenged FCC abuses in the D.C. Circuit, regularly beat California in First Amendment lawsuits, won a settlement for a client against a top law schoolβs DEI program, are challenging a Virginia anti-landlord law, are suing left-wing NGOs engaging in civil terrorism, and are expanding our public-interest wings. Maybe you have ideas for our next lawsuit.
Junior attorneys get first-chair work in federal court if they want it. Most HLLI attorneys have argued and won their first federal appeals with us. Weβll match experience-equivalent GS scale; you can moonlight in your own practice. We believe in Moneyball: part-time is possible. Bonus points for CA/DC/FL/IL/NY bar.
Email Ted Frank with resume, transcript, writing sample, preferred hourly/salary requirements, and why you want to work with us. (Our first filter is whether you can figure out my email address.)
Please donβt hold the cringe AI slop against us, the algorithm prefers it.
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Giving highly sensitive nuclear technology to the Saudis is so obviously not in our national interest.
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Heresy
Recent prescriptions and policies would have us judge research by non-evidentiary standards, e.g. presumed political impact and scholar identity. In a new essay, Tom Clark and I argue empirical claims should instead be evaluated based on evidentiary strength. We outline a framework for judging evidence, and show its usefulness by revisiting high-profile scholarly disagreements spanning policing, political violence, election administration, and terrorism, before critiquing non-evidentiary approaches. We also argue social science needs a culture that is hospitable to critiqueβrather than one which condemns critics as βbulliesββif quality standards are to be upheld.
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The question was whether the USPTO can declare an act of Congress (the America Invents Act) purely discretionary in order to deny Americans their express statutory rights. Appalling cert denial.
The US Supreme Court wonβt review the legality of a Trump administration policy that has made it harder to administratively challenge the validity of patents. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-lawβ¦
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I know we've become desensitized to it, but I really want you to pause and reflect on the fact that a congresswoman cannot post a picture with anyone of Indian ethnicity without getting blown up with hateful comments. β at Irving, TX
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I've been using @Apple for a decade. Today's experience with @AppleSupport has convinced me to switch, and it should convince you to do so, too.
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Should have moved to CA and had Prop 13 protections if you didnβt want to support your kids and grandkids.
βIβm old. Iβve paid my home off,β said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. βWhy would I pay property tax?β
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
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A few years ago I realized from old newspapers that he had once lived in the same apartment that I did during law school. 1209 E 60th in Chicago. Now the Rubinstein Building.
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Notice how he hedges here. The smoking gun is βnonexistent.β Then it is only βlikelyβ without basis in law. I have no idea why he would have confidence about the facts. Why not just say that it isnβt worth prosecuting no matter what because of the time lapse? One might say he is calling on Trump to use his pen and his phone.
It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government canβt selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But thatβs exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
To understand why this is so appalling, itβs important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administrationβs fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.
Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone β all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.
Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And itβs not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies β from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.
In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omarβs life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and sheβs been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.
The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omarβs political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, thereβs no reason to believe it will stop with her β or that future presidents, in either party, wonβt do the same.
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At UChicago, @SenatorSlotkin just told us that young conservatives should live in fear of political persecution if we dare to serve our country in the Trump administration. That sounds like selective targeting based on political beliefs. Care to comment?
It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government canβt selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But thatβs exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
To understand why this is so appalling, itβs important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administrationβs fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.
Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone β all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.
Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And itβs not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies β from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.
In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omarβs life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and sheβs been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.
The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omarβs political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, thereβs no reason to believe it will stop with her β or that future presidents, in either party, wonβt do the same.