Mark Trachtenberg

Appellate lawyer @haynesboone. Believer in constitutional democracy & rule of law. Alum: @YaleLawSch/@Penn. Unrepentant @astros fan.

[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

China is watching today's events closely, and they now know that if they so much as lift a finger toward Taiwan, Trump is going to respond harshly by signing a deal and giving them Thailand and Vietnam along with full sovereignty over the South China Sea.

They better be careful.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

https://t.co/Zan4VyPtfq

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

@GChernack Greg Chernack post-game:

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

The craziest NBA playoff game I’ve ever seen. Stunned. Wow. #NYK

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

New UN report shows that Hamas perpetrated "hundreds of cases of extrajudicial punishment" against Gazans. "These cases involved executions, kneecapping, bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks and beatings" https://t.co/OyEcAuKdCu

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

@Levitt_Matt A shonda if true, @RonaldKlain

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

@ScottKingField @TexasLawbook Hi Justice Field - glad you liked it. If I can be helpful to your working group, please reach out!

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

I wrote this article for @TexasLawbook about how artificial intelligence is reshaping appellate practice, along with some practical tips on how to best use it (very carefully!). Curious about other lawyers’ experiences. #appellatetwitter #appellate #ai
https://t.co/NBVHPcag8h

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

@GChernack @FreddyLA7 Need to start!

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Gazans are calling for mass protests on June 26 against Hamas and its entrenched authoritarian, fascistic rule. The campaign, “The Voice of the Oppressed,” seeks to amplify the silenced majority in Gaza – voices crushed not only by Hamas, but also by its enablers in the West Bank, across the Arab and Muslim worlds, and within Western “pro‑Palestine” activist circles.

Gazans are exhausted by endless wars with Israel, perpetual Islamist repression, the collapse of their national hopes, and life as hostages to the suicidal nihilism of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Stand with the people of Gaza and elevate their voices; never speak over those who have lived under a terror regime that destroyed the Strip in the name of “resistance.”

Hamas will fall, externally and internally, no matter how long it takes.

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

Appalling

[Faytuks News @Faytuks]

Trump tells WSJ that Iran shooting down a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz yesterday "wasn’t a big deal"

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

TRUMP FAMILY REPORTEDLY POCKETED $500 MILLION FROM CRYPTO VENTURE AS INVESTORS TOOK HEAVY HITS

TRUMP-LINKED CRYPTO PROJECT GENERATED $500 MILLION FOR FAMILY WHILE INVESTORS FACED SHARP LOSSES

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun has this message for Iran: “There is a huge difference between helping us or interfering in our internal affairs… The people of Lebanon are paying the price… You are destroying the country for the sake of your own interest.”

@LBpresidency

[Dan Shapiro @DanielBShapiro]

This is exactly right. Trump should focus on doing the job, talking with advisers, military commanders, and allies. Talking with reporters in real time adds chaos into the situation.

[Steven Ratnik @StevenJosephR]

91 year-old D-Day veteran returns to Omaha Beach in Normandy for the first time...

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

@EmmaVigeland You need to do some serious introspection

[Mark Trachtenberg @marktrach]

I am looking forward to playing the role of counsel for Respondent!

[David A. Furlow @DavidAFurlow]

Start spreading the news! The Texas Supreme Court Historical Society will re-enact SCOTX’s 1925 All-Woman Court at the SBOT Ann. Mtg., 1:30-2:30 PM, 06/12/2026, Marriott Marquis, 1777 Walker St., Houston. 🏛️📜⚖️📃✍🏻
Re-Post pls.