“Not everything that s[tink]s violates the Constitution,” Judge Kevin Newsom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said in a special concurrence for a Florida due process opinion that’s generating #AppellateTwitter buzz. “If ever a case proved the truth of that little nugget, this is it.”

Newsom said he was borrowing a 20-year-old quote from “an insightful (and hilarious) lawyer friend.”