Really happy to have done a very small thing to help make the Supreme Court's historical records and briefs freely available. Thank you to the @archive.org for doing the hard part. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
This connects today's case, though -- offering the Court the same two approaches to opinion writing we see in Cox v. Sony:
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Other things to focus on at the Supreme Court today, but here are a few thoughts on last week's Cox v. Sony opinion:
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Best article title ever.
But a lot of this has to do with norms in a particular industry. There isn’t the same outcry when judicial clerks draft most of an opinion and are equally not credited.
Just spent an entire class session giving advice on this to my 1L students. One of these days, I'll write it up, but in the meantime, this captures a lot of it:
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The image is a screenshot from the USPTO website indicating a pending application to register "Trump 250" as a trademark by DTTM Operations, LLC.
I guess I was mistaken about which birthday we're celebrating this year.
And the perils of using AI for charting!
“Today, the people of Merrimack and all of New Hampshire proved that organized, local voices are more powerful than a federal agency’s ruthless expansion,” she said. “This is a victory for us and all of New England but it is not the end of the fight.”
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Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten
UT-Austin is hiring a free speech czar. Among the "preferred qualifications" is experience in law enforcement.
What could possibly go wrong?
When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.
A thoughtful perspective: "We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to 'meet them where they are,' a bromide that has become doctrine for higher education. We have to do as Whitman says instead: Stop somewhere ahead and wait for them to catch up."
Related:
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My sense is that it comes from at least two places: growing up with much more parental involvement in decision making than in previous generations, and increased anxiety about failing. In both cases, having someone else (including ChatGPT) tell you what "the answer" is can be comforting.
Saw this last week and very much agree with your review. While the production design was strong, and I'm glad I saw it, the production felt both too much and not enough. Too much making the subtext text; not enough of what it could truly mean to recognize the themes Wilde could not overtly discuss.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Highlighting this article in light of today's Supreme Court argument in Cox v. Sony:
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Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.
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Tomorrow. Let’s win this, Virginia.
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Really excellent piece by @sivav.bsky.social. Anyone who cares about higher education (or free expression or democracy) should read this essay.
This is great. Maybe it's already implicitly included in the chart, but I would also highlight the practice of asking questions that assume the legitimacy of their premise -- "Do you plan to investigate/What is your response to [bonkers claim by opponent/random person on the Internet]?"
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Seems like a governmental pyramid scheme -- the early joiners are promised untold riches and expected to recruit others, and everyone but the one at the top loses in the end.
Also, her statement seems to ignore that Section 230 doesn't just apply to "these companies" -- it applies to any "provider or user of an interactive computer service."
