It’s really surreal to read the end of Graetz and then think about what happened next.

On a related note, I’m going with that the Bluebook also makes unnecessary subtle changes every year, not to clarify citation rules, but as an ongoing revenue stream, particularly from law students.

I don’t know. I’m mobile. 😔

Nice antisemitism there too. 🙄

Type a new post and next to post is drafts. Things you’ve written and saved but haven’t posted.

Kiley (CA3) was elected as a R who switched to I after redistricting. He continues to caucus with the Republicans.

Will be 217-214-1 with 3 vacancies.

I wonder if that would matter based on whether it’s a state with a codified privilege or just a professional practice, eg an actual reporter-source confidentiality statute vs a professional practice of protecting one’s sources.

Then what is Goofy? 🙃

Read this thread and, as someone with a long enough reading list of things I actually want to read, thank you for your service Achi.

Oh, look who’s sponsoring actual genocide.

These folks don’t know who Rojava Kurds and Druze even are.

Big Shabbatai Zevi vibes in this one.

Do I want to know which this is for you, Achi? 😉

Not great, Bob. Not great.

Canal Zone

We favor the employment of American citizens in the operation and maintenance of the Panama Canal in all positions above the grade of messenger and favor as liberal wages and conditions of employment as prevailed under previous Democratic administrations.

demand constructive legislation that will allow capital and labor a fair share of prosperity, with adequate protection to the consuming public.

Coal

Bituminous coal is not only the common base of manufacture, but it is a vital agency in our interstate transportation. The demoralization of this industry, its labor conflicts and distress, its waste of a national resource and disordered public service,

Immigration

*Laws which limit immigration must be preserved in full force and effect,* but the provisions contained in these laws that separate husbands from wives and parents from infant children are inhuman and not essential to the purpose or the efficacy of such laws.

We oppose bureaucracy and the multiplication of offices and officeholders.

We demand a revival of the spirit of local self-government, without which free institutions cannot be preserved.

(If you don’t know what this meant in 1928, I don’t know what to tell you)

Some of the lowlights of the 1928 Dem Party platform:

The Rights of the States

We demand that the constitutional rights and powers of the states shall be preserved in their full vigor and virtue. These constitute a bulwark against centralization and the destructive tendencies of the Rep Party.

All I know is the last thing to say to attract people to the present day Democratic Party is to look at its platform from 100 years ago. 😳

It’s sort of like the “look how much drugs the Biden administration stopped from coming over the border!” argument they made regularly.

But, even considering the horrific takes of this administration on these issues, when you look at the abstention list and then see this as their basis for a no, it’s just wtaf.

Not that it makes things better, but the purported rationale for the no vote:

If only there were some short document they could read to learn the threshold in the Senate for conviction on an impeachment. 🤔

And it’s called party affiliation.

He also frustrated generations of law students in civil procedure with the Erie Doctrine.