It’s so funny that they pubbed this the day before “john roberts invented the trump era shadow docket to make sure fossil fuel companies could keep killing you and make money doing it” bsky.app/profile/cris...
There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter.
But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t:
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they're saying that all traces of Viktor are being erased so thoroughly that he's now just an orban legend
I am so glad they are safe. My 2026 heart could not have handled it honestly.
BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
this is exhausting.
"It is a historical irony that Doctor Cochrane would use an instrument of mass destruction to inaugurate an era of peace"
Happy First Contact Day.
ARTEMIS FROM SAILOR MOON WAS AT THE ARTEMIS 2 LAUNCH AND IM VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT
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Immigrants ask Fifth Circuit to revisit ruling on “historically unprecedented” mandatory detention policy.
A 2-1 panel of the Fifth Circuit sided with the Trump admin in Feb — splitting with the vast majority of judges to consider the matter. Now, an attempt to reverse that with en banc review.
I am literally dying laughing at this.
This is the kind of energy we need in 2026.
In advance of the SCOTUS oral arguments for Trump v Barbara, (the birthright citizenship case) on April 1, and for the 14th Amendment's timelessness as one of the great achievements of US democracy, this website is incredible.
I’m utterly uninterested in “debates” about whether AI can do things well. I wouldn’t care if it could. 1. It stole from me. 2. I prefer me having my job to a computer having it. 3. I don’t teach “with” Lockheed or Raytheon; why wld I teach with Anthropic or OpenAI?
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Okay so here's what happened at immigration court today. Starting a new thread.
When we got to 26 Federal Plaza, about ten ICE agents were completely surrounding two courtrooms and two waiting rooms. Like a phalanx of ICE that people had to walk through to see a judge.
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The "rally-around-the-flag" effect is not some law of physics that works automatically. It largely seems to happen because 1) the opposition party stops criticizing the president or the military operation, 2) partially as a consequence, the mass media is flooded with pro-government messages. /1
So I've been teaching a controversies in the law course this semester, and we've been grounding ourselves by understanding originalism. One of the big critiques we've hit on is "where do you start your history?" and well...I can promise you that it's not with "the King of England was in the right"
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
You’re allowed to quote this on page 1 of your brief, you know.
In Zone of Interest, Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife, Hedwig strive to build a idyllic family life in a home directly bordering the concentration camp, ignoring the atrocities and mass murder taking place just over the garden wall under Höss's supervision.
Once again I'm asking Democrats to take their messaging cues from the sitting Democratic Senator who is the most vulnerable for re-election in 2026
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CONGRATS! Would love an adv. copy if you're willing to use in my current controversies in the law class. We just spent 4 wks working through what originalism is in theory, and will be using it to discuss personhood in several respects for the rest of the semester (including in the abortion debate).
👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
Next time I chair a panel, I'm bringing a stuffed bear to throw at speakers when they hit the 0 mark.
The SAVE Act failed to pass last year because of nationwide public opposition. Now it’s back, and Congress should reject it again. Add your voice: bit.ly/4tmVIor
Happy anniversary to what is likely one of my "professional posts" on social media.