Picture of pretty good Vesper martini next to a copy of Laura Kalman's excellent biography of Abe Fortas.

Not me though. I love a Vesper martini.

Wikipedia article on Vesper martini: "Just as the character Vesper Lynd dies in Casino Royale, the cocktail named for her makes no appearance in any of Fleming's later Bond novels. Fleming, in a letter to The Guardian in 1958, said that when he tasted a Vesper for the first time "several months" after including it in his novel, he found it "unpalatable""

Enjoy that Ian Fleming created a drink for Bond thinking it was so cool and sophisticated. Took a sip of it for the first time a few months after publishing the book where he has the super cool drink and goes, "This is garbage."

Overreliance on the internal workings of the executive branch to solve our problems and diminishing Congress's executive-constraining powers is part of how we got here.

Imagine if these goofs directed their viewers to call Congress demanding impeachment instead of wasting their breath hoping members of the executive branch will do anything.

"Nixon was conflicted about the outcome. On the one hand, easier access to abortions would break up the family and encourage permissiveness. Girls did not have to worry about getting pregnant anymore: They could simply go to a doctor and get an abortion for $5. On the other hand, there were times when abortions were "necessary." He cited the first example that came to mind. "When you have a black and a white." "Or a rape," Colson interjected. "Or rape. You know what I mean. There are times.""

Nixon's reaction to Roe v. Wade is really about what I would have expected.

The chasm in quality of oral advocacy skills between the Sauer (bad) and Wang (really good) was wild. Even when you bracket the merits of their arguments.

Listened to oral args on birthright citizenship at SCOTUS and I want the Barrett quote, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but what about the Constitution?" on a shirt.

A true modern woman of the second half of the 19th century.

Post World War II to mid-50s has a similar decade division problem.

This is the ideal.

Inter arma enim silent leges nudem.

Of everything I have written, it is the thing I am the most proud of.

Mostly responding to the liberalism without legal liberalism point. That there is a larger field in which constitutionalism comes into play than just courts.

Currently writing a more expansive essay on the same theme, but really enjoyed the final product of this one (I never enjoy writing).

Legal liberalism success is always downstream of political liberalism. I have touched on this point in @liberalcurrents.com actually. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-fight-ma...

Man in 70s suit saying "36% of the time it works everytime."

That is devastating to me.

Yeah. I am becoming more comfortable with AI use now, but I did a decent amount of reading about what AI does and how it works before diving in and making it part of my professional practice.

This long but really good thread fits in with my general heuristic on AI in legal work: it is only useful if you already know a decent amount about what you are asking the AI to find or do.

I got a friend just like that. Also military.

Also people underrate temperament because polling can't capture it. Which is something to consider.

Is my experience with my dad, lifelong Republican cishet white male conservative Christian Boomer who did not vote for Trump in the last three elections because he is not a hater informing this analysis? Absolutely.

I think it is a toss up who Hank Hill would vote for. People overrate demographics and underrate individual temperament when assessing people's voting choices. Demographically Hank seems like a Trump voter, temperamentally Hank doesn't seem like a hater, which cuts against Trump's appeal.

You already did a Chadha article for the real ones, now it is time to speak to the People.

Aren't we getting a taste right now?

In fairness, contemplating the design of the Supreme Court building keeps one's mind fat, far, from politics. Just pure consideration of the law's neutral and very not-political majesty.

AI needs to be treated like any legal treatise or head note summary. You cannot get around actually reading the case. Heartbreaking, I know.

Do not knock cinnamon rolls and chili until you try it.

Hamlet: [stares in Aurelius]