The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is siding with the plaintiffs — the Center for Taxpayer Rights, Main Street Alliance, and two labor unions — in a suit arguing that the IRS has no compelling reason to share data with the Department of Homeland Security. Not only that: the court ruled that the IRS' assertion that the preliminary injunction is "highly unusual and harmful" is "weak sauce."
JUST IN: D.C. Circuit says IRS decision to share taxpayer info with DHS tens of thousands of violates the law — and that the administration's rebuttal to that claim is "weak sauce." https://t.co/hHeeN3jYPo pic.twitter.com/gp0ciUllwo
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 8, 2026
The panel says IRS personnel "face steep civil and criminal consequences" for continuing to make similar disclosures of taxpayer info to DHS. https://t.co/hHeeN3jYPo pic.twitter.com/GfZ876CoPZ
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 8, 2026
It's an embarrassment to the Court that 2 judges would not have told the author to change a different phrase with the same meaning. Now that is going to be quoted/cited in future cases and it will look sophomoric and unserious. https://t.co/8fgRdwKiDL
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) September 8, 2026
Did Ketanji write that or some TikTok fan girl? Borderline illiteracy.
— Quaran-Tina (@superbucks2050) September 8, 2026
No, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, surprisingly, did not write that opinion.
Why would anyone put that language in a professional document of any kind? 😂
— Makaveli (@D16_Makaveli) September 8, 2026
That goes beyond legal decorum. It’s just unprofessional across the board.
I think I have read about "weak tea" before in judicial writing. Weak sauce is millennial speak that didn't get edited out.
— JoshuaPJ (@joshuahiker) September 8, 2026
How hard would it have been to use "unpersuasive"?
— GumSlinger (@GumSlinger) September 8, 2026
I can’t believe a judge wrote “weak sauce” in a decision.
— Pucks N Ponies (@poniesNpucks) September 8, 2026
What legal argument would that be considered?
— Mike (@michaeljashmore) September 8, 2026
What does "sauce" add to "weak"? It manifests the author's bias.
— Nick Waranoff (@NickWaranoff) September 8, 2026
Weak Sauce? This is why these courts are to be ignored and disregarded and the political hacks they are.
— Sir Chugs (@vitale1776) September 8, 2026
Appointed by Obama - makes sense considering only DEI hires would use the term "weak sauce"
— ScrollofTruth (@ScrollofTruthIF) September 8, 2026
That an actual response from a “judge”?
— Chipper Wood- (@SottileMic93705) September 8, 2026
Thats embarrassing.
This is so embarrassing. We are one step away from judges doing Tik Tok videos dancing and announcing their decisions. pic.twitter.com/FJcPme6Dho
— MaryLouWestin (@LouWestin) September 8, 2026
I guess they’re trying to normalize writing in a manner that makes them seem uneducated in solidarity with Ketanji Brown…or they just truly are this low-rent intellectually. Either way, it’s shameful and a stain on our once revered Judicial system.
— Proud American (@Meow81998508) September 8, 2026
Ketanji Brown Jackson AI engine wrote that 💩.
— Rob🗽U.S.A. (@Alpine80s) September 8, 2026
Sophomoric, bush league, & unprofessional.
"ChatGPT, write me a legal opinion in the style of Ketanji Brown Jackson." She's the one who actually put the phrase — (wait for it …) —in an opinion.
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