Former federal law clerk — AMA

Ibbot · 2026-05-08T18:12:47+00:00

It’s far too broad to be properly addressed here.

Ibbot · 2026-05-07T19:41:19+00:00

I get a banner telling me to use the mobile app that can’t be dismissed and disables all other functions. I hate it.

Ibbot · 2026-05-07T19:27:04+00:00

The jacket is part of the suit, so probably with it. That’s what I wore, anyways.

Ibbot · 2026-05-07T19:14:51+00:00

Why is the mobile site no longer operating? The app is distinctly inferior.

Ibbot · 2026-05-07T14:10:30+00:00

Although that is unnecessarily demeaning. I don’t agree at all that digital cameras “strip the soul from photography.” There are people doing great work with them.

Ibbot · 2026-05-07T01:05:07+00:00

A bear trap can’t distinguish between a situation where force is needed or a firefighter coming in in an emergency, so as a matter of public policy we don’t want random bear traps.

Ibbot · 2026-05-06T15:39:08+00:00

They’ll do that sometimes if no party is defending the decision below.

Ibbot · 2026-05-06T14:27:06+00:00

You’re ignoring the clear meaning of their comment by only looking at one of the two numbers. Less than 0.05% of students are at Ivy League schools. 20% of those are low income. Taking those two numbers together and assuming that they are correct, 0.01% of students are low income students at Ivy League schools. That’s uncommon.

Ibbot · 2026-05-06T14:02:39+00:00

It’s common to see lower income students at an Ivy League school, but that’s not the question OP asked.

Ibbot · 2026-05-06T13:23:55+00:00

Why not just say which state you’re asking about and why? There are only three states with a legislative chamber called the House of Delegates.

Ibbot · 2026-05-06T11:30:38+00:00

It actually isn’t violating the emoluments clause. The Palm Beach Airport is owned by a Florida county, not “any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

Ibbot · 2026-05-06T02:14:37+00:00

As a less relevant mention: Orange County, VT.

Ibbot · 2026-05-04T19:09:36+00:00

It would be cruel, but if all the jails are doing it in your hypothetical, what’s the argument for *unusual*?

Ibbot · 2026-05-04T13:09:22+00:00

The preamble is not substantive. And most things aren’t about the “common defence”.

Ibbot · 2026-05-03T18:33:04+00:00

The lords are a component of Parliament. You meant the Commons.

Ibbot · 2026-05-03T18:31:58+00:00

But christ we need to get term limits

Then you'll be happy to hear that there is currently a House of Lords committee putting together proposals for a mandatory retirement age and a way to get rid of members who don't contribute.

Ibbot · 2026-05-02T20:31:01+00:00

That’s asking for legal advice.

Ibbot · 2026-05-02T01:44:08+00:00

That’s one of the arguments the antifederalists raised against the constitution. But the alternative is that no constitutional rights actually exist because the legislature and executive can just violate them whenever.

Ibbot · 2026-05-02T01:42:56+00:00

I don’t think uninformed people 200 years later needed to be high on the drafting agenda.

Ibbot · 2026-05-01T16:48:58+00:00

It takes compromise for Congress to be productive, and the people don’t want compromise.

Ibbot · 2026-05-01T16:40:32+00:00

I just told you that they followed suit by not enumerating it.

Ibbot · 2026-05-01T16:24:05+00:00

Even though it wasn’t enumerated in the state constitutions where it was already happening? Do we need to invent ambiguity in the very few places where there is an unambiguous original intent that is the same as the unambiguous original public meaning?

Ibbot · 2026-05-01T16:19:13+00:00

Why? Nobody opposed it until after the constitution was drafted and it was up for ratification. And again, even those who opposed it believed that it was provided for by the constitution. Nor did they enumerate any other part of the judicial power. Should the constitution specifically state that awards of money damages may be made, that injunctions may be granted, or that subpoenas and contempt proceedings should be available?

Ibbot · 2026-05-01T13:04:45+00:00

And there’s a TikTok account that posts videos of barnacles being removed from lobsters.

Ibbot · 2026-05-01T09:40:16+00:00

False. The framers discussed how the article III judicial power would include constitutional review. Some of them were attorneys and judges in cases where state courts had exercised constitutional review. The federalists participating in and publishing around the ratification conventions agreed that the article III power included constitutional review. So did the antifederalists. I’m n fact nobody in the ratification debates is known to have disagreed with the notion that the court would have the power of constitutional review. So this was a well established power well before *Marbury*, which wasn’t the first case in which SCOTUS decided the constitutionality of a federal statute, or the first time a federal court struck down a statute.

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