Chris Butler

Energy Law | Corporate M&A | Catholic

[UChicago Law School @UChicagoLaw]

We mourn the loss of Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime #UChicagoLaw scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, who died on November 10.

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[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

This self-proclaimed “archbishop” is really riding on the coattails of a denomination-hopping has-been that is more interested in starting culture wars online than actually being a faithful witness to the true Catholic faith.

Where Pope Leo strives for unity, it seems the only these guys are interested in is sowing division.

[Archbishop Jayden A.M. Hagood @FatherHagood]

Let me piss everyone off a smidge more.

I gave him the necessary dispensation to get Engaged.

Don’t like it?

I don’t care, I’m his Bishop.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

@FatherHagood Man, you’re really riding on the coattails of a denomination-hopping has-been that is more interested in starting culture wars online than actually being a faithful witness to the true Catholic faith.

[Kevin C. Walsh 🇻🇦🇺🇸🧡 @kevincwalsh]

This is the third time in recent memory when I've had to vote yes or no on a Virginia constitutional amendment that itself is unconstitutional. Question No. 1 this year takes the cake for brazenness, falsehood, and injustice.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

Prompted this in Claude, and this was the response.

Frankly, “deciding whether to save the stated preference” is crazy. You are not a person. You don’t have feelings. You are a computer program.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

It seems the “English Catholic Church” suffers from the same issues of pride infecting other Protestant denominations.

You may not call yourselves Protestants, but that is exactly what you are. I asked Calvin Robinson at an event in Pittsburgh a few years ago why not be Catholic, and he gave some nonsense answer that basically amounted to “I know better.”

You have no authority. You are not an Archbishop. And you have more audacity than even the mainline Protestants, who are at least honest about their separation from Rome.

Pray, repent, come into the universal church. Don’t reject the gift Jesus gave to us.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

I’ve made it a habit of automatically blocking accounts that make obvious and blatant AI-slip posts.

I feel this is my duty as a Catholic, to prioritize our humanity. But also, frankly, I’m sick of the lack of creativity.

Nobody has original ideas anymore. I open this app and it feels like the same recycled crap over and over.

You know the posts when you see them - “it’s not x, it’s y”

So the least I can do is block and report these accounts, and I encourage you all to do the same.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

Faithful Roman Catholics have a stronger pro-life understanding than evangelicals, let alone the wider population.

There is a difference between somebody calling themselves Catholic because they went to Catholic school or go to Mass every now and then, versus the faithful Catholic who is actually practicing the faith and living out the teachings of the Church.

Evangelicals don’t know how to approach things like commercial surrogacy and IVF because the understanding of life isn’t as developed as the church Jesus founded, the Roman Catholic Church.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

Kevin Reddington: “Mr. Trump, please consider pardoning my client, Lindsay Clancy.” (Knowing Trump couldn’t)

Also Kevin Reddington: “how is a jury supposed to find her guilty when even the President of the United States is weighing in on the case?”

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

Well, it seems we now know why Kevin Reddington asked President Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy, fully knowing state charges are beyond the President’s pardoning power.

A thread 🧵

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

Now for the part where it starts to make sense:

Reddington: “this is coming from politicians, from President Trump all the way down. So we end up trying the case, I tried to raise the issue as best I could on the issue of probable cause.”

He goes on to promote a defense that Clancy was not guilty of the crime at all, in what seems to be a desperate Hail Mary defense.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

Well, it seems we now know why Kevin Reddington asked President Trump to pardon Lindsay Clancy, fully knowing state charges are beyond the President’s pardoning power.

A thread 🧵

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

Reddington continued: “Then they go off on a tangent about all of these horrific allegations, you know, that she’s a demon, that she’s possessed and should be executed.”

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

During today’s hearing Reddington was explain the conundrum of admitting culpability in order to raise the issue of lack of criminal responsibility.

On this, Reddington said the following:

“Many many lay people had difficulty understanding the concept of the bifurcation, and say well she admitted that she did it, so she’s guilty.”

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

Pope Leo XIV is restoring the light of Christ to this broken world.

The world says suffering is to be avoided at all costs. That death is preferred to disability.

The dignity of the human life is under attack, and Pope Leo XIV is on the front lines, fighting for their humanity.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

This Pope is the absolute best.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

@electionsjoe There is a difference between defunding and banning. If it can’t be afforded, why waste money on it? Why punish the rest of the tax base?

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

@jamestalarico The issue is you proclaim a Christianity that makes it sound like Jesus asked nothing of His disciples, when in fact He asked for their very lives.

If this is the fruit of all your years as a seminarian, I certainly don’t want to see the fruits of whatever you’d do as a senator

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Many people are rediscovering the Gospel and embracing the faith against the backdrop of a society marked by a deeply secularized culture. With pastoral tenderness and fraternal charity, we must recognize, welcome, and protect the small flame that the Holy Spirit has kindled in the darkness of the night. #ApostolicJourney #France https://t.co/Uhu1qqqrzO

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

@ChristopherHale DesJarlais's sins are real, but you don't get to call yourself the “only pro-life candidate” while spending your career getting pro-abortion democrats elected.

[Chris Butler @ChrisButler716]

@SellersCounsel Work experience between undergrad and law school is a better way to go. Less debt, similar options, more flexibility later.

Not in T14, ranked toward top of class, and relevant work experience landed big law roles.