Alex Botoman

Full-time appellate defender, part-time tennis umpire, U.S. Soccer Fan Council member, former SID for @DemonDeacons. Find me on Bluesky

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@tedfrank @shipwreckedcrew The Ninth Circuit has dramatically decreased the number of visiting judges in the last few years. Extremely common to get a panel of three CA9 judges these days

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@lawsonmc90 @Jermainejunior @stuholden @ussoccer Matt, I like you, but this isn’t true. One of the changes U.S. Soccer made this cycle was to also reward longevity in the lottery. I’m sorry if the draw didn’t end up working out, but as a 20–year member, you had more entries than someone who signed up this year

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@ConorONeill_DI And that accomplished….what exactly? If anything, that validates their decision to opt out

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@SenAdamSchiff And so you are going to withhold your vote until they agree to pass an actual plan, right? RIGHT?

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@jonlovett @grahamformaine @PodSaveAmerica Do you still stand behind this now that it’s come out that he was repeatedly using gay slurs as recently as 2020? That’s well well well past the point where anyone could claim not to have known better

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

So are the president’s handpicked outlets going to show up like everything is normal? Because that would be mighty embarrassing

[Eli Stokols @EliStokols]

First day of WH controlling the pool looks like this:

• What was three pool slots for wires is now one (Bloomberg here; Reuters is out
• WHCA supplemental print seat gone
• New “secondary TV” seat (for Newsmax tmrw)
• New “new media” seat (for The Blaze)

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

Is there some new rule that we don’t name 21-year olds in news stories? Don’t remember that one from my journalism classes

[Brendan Duke @Brendan_Duke]

Hoo boy.

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

The cruelty is the point

[Arelis R. Hernández @arelisrhdz]

Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1 pm CBP1 parole appointments learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down & those appointments are no longer valid.

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@DelJohnsonVC It seems like a problem that the type of reasoning you have to use to puzzle through these inscrutable questions has very little in common with what one does as a practicing lawyer. Like what are we testing here?

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

Someone defend this

[Taniel @Taniel]

Chad LaVia was jailed in Harrisburg for one year, prior to a trial.

He ended up being found *not guilty*.

But the county charged him $14,320 in “room & board” fees for his time in jail & gave him just 2 months to pay, saddling him with immediate debt. https://t.co/5fIumjUOr1

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@joshgerstein Ninth Circuit courthouse in Pasadena is closed because of the fires too

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@aldoughty 10000%. 9 PM New Years is life changing

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

One of the real good guys in sports 🎩

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

Sources: TCU is expected to hire Army AD Mike Buddie as the school's next athletic director. The deal is expected to come together in the upcoming days. Buddie has been at Army since 2019 and worked as the AD at Furman prior to that.

[Pope Francis – ARCHIVE @Pontifex266Arch]

This morning, I opened a Holy Door at the Roman prison of Rebibbia, following the one at St. Peter's. It was, we could say, "the cathedral of pain and hope."

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@GlennThrush Man if only there were some reporters out there to write about this and put it in context

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

Would love anyone to explain how logic puts Penn State ahead of Ohio State, when Penn State lost to Ohio State at home

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

Texas has zero ranked wins and just lost to a backup QB. Should they even host a playoff game?

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@slmandel Seems like it can’t realistically hold if Penn State loses though, right? How could you put two-loss Penn State (0 top 10 wins) ahead of two-loss Ohio State (2 top 10 wins, including @ Penn State)?

[Alex Botoman @abotoman]

@CFBHeather @SportsCenter Tell that to ESPN’s announcers….

[Tom Lang @_TomLang]

They didn’t call holding on this.

What more do you need to know?