Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.
People wanna be like "oh why do law professor norms keep you from calling people out" but it seems to me that the response to the Eastman apologists in the academy has been swift and decisive.
"Elmo is weak on crime" - Elmo
Wisconsin is showing that you can fight creeping authoritarianism by getting organized and consistently voting, year after year, in small races and big ones, to win back democracy by voting in people who actually support democratic process.
Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.
Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.
You know what I do admire about the student system: all the cite-checking. I have worked with student journals: we have caught plagiarism, we have caught AI, we have caught copyright infringement. Some fields are little too trusty. That said, more peer review would be good.
The fact that the assault on birthright citizenship has gotten this far, despite the plain text of the constitution, is astonishing. It also reveals some flawed assumptions about intellectual diversity, which sometimes involves resuscitating a dead and discredited idea b/c powerful people want to.
2010s: a startup worth $1 billion is a vanishingly rare thing (a "unicorn")
2026: a company that makes AI collars for cows is worth $ 2 billion
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Trump Administration's violence and corruption is impossible to ignore.
I created the nation’s first Accountability Commission to gather the evidence of wrongdoing in Illinois by ICE so we can hold them criminally and civilly liable.
I'd say that 150 hrs is very little for a full law review article that includes any kind of actual research, and that there is no way 15 hrs is enough to fact check a full length article written by an LLM.
I think this is key. I initially thought the process for using AI the attorney described sounded potentially acceptable, but the 150 hrs to 15 hrs point may well imply that the attorney did not spend sufficient time and care to make the article his or her own work rather than AI slop.
WaPo Deputy Opinion Editor is just straight up lying about Mamdani's estate tax proposal (in both tweets and an op-ed).
The bill contains a $1.75 million primary residence exemption, exempts retirement accounts, and the 50% marginal rate doesn’t kick in until $30 million.
Almost like it was a mistake to alienate all of our allies with idiotic trade wars, and then launch an actual hot war where we needed their help gcaptain.com/trump-calls-...
yeah the problem with leaving is that you actually have to leave
“You’re a member of the L.A. County Club? Not anymore, you’re not,...That’s where a lot of these conversations break down. People realize they don’t want to give up these things they love.”
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Prof. Peters teaching at Yale, she stands by a blackboard and is wearing pants and a blazer. She looks to be in her mid 40s but it is hard to say. Picture from Yale law school website obituary.
In honor of international Women's Day I am going to tell you a story about Ellen Ash Peters, the first female professor at Yale Law and the first female Justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court.
DHS gets the worst of the worst.
[Touches ear]
Sorry, correction...
DHS is the worst of the worst.
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Yes
What an incredible embarrassment for all the lily-livered law firms that surrendered without a fight. Their dishonor is indelible. abovethelaw.com/2026/03/doj-...
Also, the government has lots of computers, but they are the wrong kind of compute for inference. They need to use AWS or another cloud provider just like you do. www.aboutamazon.com/news/company...
A useful piece of context is that the government does not have access to better AI models than you (actually they are worse, because they usually don't get the latest models), though they may have different guardrails. You should view government AI capabilities through that lens.
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Everyone in America should see this and think about what it implies. And have the courage, like him, to stand up.
Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.
Congrats!!
Happy to share that The Non-Punishment Principle and Restorative Justice is now out in the Penn L Rev! Thanks to the editors for their excellent work and to everyone who generously shared their feedback on this project!
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That serious people are still LOLing at threats to the integrity of the midterms is disheartening.
People really need to read more about how democracies deteriorate.
I hope (and still believe that) most risks won't materialize, but discounting the risks at this point is anti intellectual.
Some more #CABillionaireTax in the news:
A deeper dive into whether the CBTA has learned the lessons of the most successful European wealth tax systems in Spain and Switzerland (spoiler: yep). Plus commentary from some people who haven't read the bill text 🫤.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
This guy is standing up to a lot of powerful people on a lot of fronts. 🫡 (that's the salute emoji)