Toy company owner: You get that new Easter toy done?

Toy designer: Sure did boss, real freakin' terrifying just like you asked.

April 4 - A Day of Mourning On this day in Labor History the year was 1968. That was the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in Memphis to support AFSCME sanitation workers, who were out on strike fighting for better wages and working conditions.

April 4 - A Day of Mourning

On this day in Labor History the year was 1968. That was the day that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered by an assassin’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in Memphis to support AFSCME sanitation workers, who were out on strike fighting for better wages and wo

So excited for @kateclancy.bsky.social and to read this!!!

The article is actually great

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous - Macleans.ca In B.C., Indigenous nations are reclaiming power and wealth for their own citizens—no matter what the neighbours think

This is the best piece I’ve read about it: macleans.ca/society/sena...

This & the cancellation of Title VI/FLAS funding for foreign language & area studies pose existential threats to the social sciences at every R1 university in the country. And it's been ~total 🦗🦗 from our university presidents/chancellors & a total lack of public collective action.

LAWFARE INSTITUTE •HABEAS NON-COMPLIANCE TRACKER Government Contempt & Non-Compliance 300 documented instances of government noncompliance with federal court orders in immigration habeas cases, with links to the specific filings and orders. 199 DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA 57 DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY 10 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 5 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS +15 more 300 TOTAL

“Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders”

An extraordinary database of non-compliance, from @katherinepomps.bsky.social and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org for @lawfaremedia.org.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...

This is like: Well, we can't comment. But please go talk to the We've Done Nothing Wrong Club, which we formed last year because, obviously, we've done nothing wrong.

Alt text: Smol adorable muskrat plotting bloody revenge with a tiny dagger

A muskrat sitting on a piece of floating ice. He has something in his hand that makes it almost appear as if he has a cane. His reflection is clearly seen in the water.

As the ice begins to break up, the muskrats start to reappear on the water. #wildlife #muskrat

No thank you!

Landowner lawsuit over Florida scrub jays has national ramifications • Florida Phoenix There’s no “Cutest Critter in Florida” contest but, if there were, I can name a few contestants. The diminutive Key deer, for one. The seagrass-munching manatee for another. And, of course, the friend...

The full piece in the Florida Phoenix is even better: floridaphoenix.com/2026/03/26/l...

Nice post by Ilya.

And, seriously, Sauer arguing that his position is supported by *the Mississippi Slave Codes* is both astounding and a weirdly honest admission that the admin’s position is basically the Lost Cause view of the amendment.

Dear Yale Law students: If and when one of your professors urges you to abandon legal craft and hard work and to "change the subject" lest you legitimate the judiciary, go listen to Cecillia Wang's magnificent oral argument today. You'll realize straight off which model to follow.

DUAL NATIONALITY AND ELECTION RICHARD W. FLOURNOY, JR. (1921)

Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:

"Are we bringing pregnant women in for depositions?" - KBJ

Serious question--are you allowed to leave in the middle of SCOTUS arguments?

I was wondering why I hadn't seen reports of him falling asleep during arguments--his handlers shuffled him out on time

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court Reins in Life Sentences for Felony Murder - Bolts The court’s ruling could create a pathway out of prison for more than 1,000 people who were automatically sentenced to life without parole for murders they themselves didn't commit.

NEW: Even by national standards, Pennsylvania has a sky-high rate of people serving life without parole.

That's bc it mandates anyone convicted of 2nd-degree murder serve that sentence.

The state supreme court just declared that to be cruel—a major ruling written by the Dem chief justice.

Never mind that I died inside when I heard Gorsuch say in Trump v Barbara arguments that there weren't any immigration laws in the 1860s. Taps new book 👇 in which I document the over a century of first colonial then state-level international and domestic migration laws before federalization.

Also arguing that the racist laws saying Italian immigrants could naturalize but non-white immigrants could not somehow helps the government . . .

Alito straight up misrepresenting what WKA's parents did. The had already moved back to China by the time the case was heard. (Not that the case says as much.) cardozolawreview.com/wp-content/u...

Cecilia rocking it--Wong Kim Ark in its own words rejects govts theory of domicile and allegiance: p693 quotes Webster to refer to folks "Independently of a residence with intention to continue such residence; independently of any domiciliation"

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is putting Trump-picked Solicitor General John Sauer COMPLETELY through the ringer on birthright citizenship.

Ketanji Brown Jackson such a master of the history and law--always

Photo of Torey Dolan in Choctaw regalia with her mother, a fellow citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

“The problem of Tribal Indians” - Solicitor General Sauer, Barbara v. Trump.

My Tribal Indian self and my Tribal Indian Mom, being adorable Choctaw Tribal Indian “problems.”

Not clear which way Kavanaugh is leaning though--looking for arguments to overrule WKA, wondering whether Congress has broader power to limit birthright citizenship

Kavanaugh also--we don't usually read the constitution according to what European countries do--why should we here