If an italicized word is made plain, and a plain word is italicized, I would use "emphases altered."

"Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell" -- Jake Tapper reads Trump's Truth Social post on air

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Opinion | The Birthright Con

Excellent Bouie piece on the birthright case. Especially how it points out that every academic backing Trump has either explicitly rejected Trump’s take in the past or somehow written extensively on the 14A without raising it (and implicitly rejecting it)… and have no new evidence now.

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no kings, no empires

The answers on Mystery Hour today were so beautiful, @mrjamesob.bsky.social
It was a joy to hear

Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

Trump is in serious trouble. His war is deeply unpopular. He's now in the toilet on the economy, immigration, and national security. His public standing is getting close to being broken in an irreparable way, akin to Bush after Iraq and Katrina:
newrepublic.com/article/2074...

There’s an ex ante prophylactic that judges can use to prevent filings with hallucinated cases: adopt a standing order to require filing of an appendix with all cited authorities. 1/3

I was surprised, @mrjamesob.bsky.social , that – to accompany the four donkeys (which I love) – you went with Crapocalypse. I thought, as you started rolling out the new lingo, it would be Kakpocalypse ... given your interest in Greece and it language.

why not show, instead of tell? my suggestions - No Lex, No Rex
that's straight outta Bracton 😄

Political scientists see non-violent resistance as much more effective--and it's not just from aggregate statistics. Rather, it's the way that peaceful resistance undermines the state's repressive capacities.

This op-ed by Berkeley prof @owasow.bsky.social explains this logic 🎯.

Give it a read!

As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets."
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Patent Law: An Open-Access Casebook, by Sarah Fackrell, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec & Andres Sawicki, now with a turquoise cover!

Friends, I am so delighted to share that Version 2 of our FREE patent casebook is now available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is a fascinating new experimental jurisprudence paper from Chris Jaeger on what is "reasonable."

For laypeople's judgments of reasonableness, the probability of harm (P) has an important effect beyond its role in the B<PL formula.

yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...

it has a real "underpants gnomes" vibe

Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...

1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism.
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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

huzzah! endnotes are a scourge

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S.

Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.

I'm guessing it's harder to do well than to do poorly, but kudos to all for giving it a try

that time of year when every news story you see makes you think, "hmmm ... that could be an interesting exam question!"

Reading Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith again today, teaching it tomorrow ... trying to capture the majority's vibe

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Image shows (left to right) alumni coach Donavan Juleus, Dresden Day, Sawyer Bradford, Brianna House, Chan Creswell and Adjunct Professor Jeremy Dailey at the competition with their trophy.

Congrats to third-year #UGALaw students Chan Creswell, Dresden Day and Brianna House, along with second-year student Sawyer Bradford, on finishing as semifinalists at the Tournament of Champions Mock Trial Competition, a national invitation-only event! www.law.uga.edu/news/79692

We cannot be a meaningfully representative democracy until we replace the Senate & single-member districts as currently structured with actually representative & democratic institutions

the only nationally elected federal office-holder. That, too, could be a really healthy development.

to vote in every senate race. That's lots of voting, I realize! Every two years, 33 more choices to make on one's federal general election ballot. But the resulting mix of Senators would represent, at some level, the whole country. The malapportionment would fade. And the president wouldn't be ...

better fits our time, when politics is genuinely national, and the Senate has a thoroughly national role. Here's the idea: Senators have to reside in the state they represent. And each party's nominee gets in a primary among that state's voters. But in the general, everyone in the country gets ...

Would love to see that result. But the text of Article V seems to pull quite hard against it: "no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate." (And Art I, § 3, puts the number, per state, at 2.) I have kooky idea, focused on how Senators get elected, that ...