Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a criminal investigation by the Justice Department The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

I mean, I think it gives me license to dish it back haha.

At least he didn’t give you a new nickname.

I just have a weekly pyramid outside my door like Abby Lee Studios.

Thomas, yes.
Oliver, no.

GELBACH SAYS HE TOTALLY CONTROLS HIS OWN SOCIAL MEDIA USE

My Scottish ancestors are probably judging me for making that assumption.

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Is the sky blue?

re: airport discourse

I get to the airport early because I enjoy writing in them.

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Just set up another very exciting faculty workshop exchange for GSU — so if any fellow deans out there want to swap folks next academic year, let me know!

Once again I am begging my fellow legal academics to remember that judges are the objects of our study, not our bosses, priests, or revered elders.

Last week, Cornell's Federalist Society chapter hosted John Eastman. Earlier this semester, it hosted Amy Wax. On the blog today, 1L Milo Ratner says the law school and university were right not to block these events but urges Fed Soc itself to stop platforming conspiracy theorists and bigots. 👇

Dum spiro spero.

That’s just how I write!!

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🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.

Perhaps you should take your own advice first.

Relatedly, I think it’s also important to distinguish bad faith from blind spots. I think tends to get conflated sometimes in public exchanges.

Oh. That is one person who I had in mind.

Worst thing too.

Somewhat related: the worse thing a law professor can ever have is an obligation to write a regular op-eds.

This is such a huge gift. What an incredible resource.

This is not consistent with First Amendment law. At all!! Strong 1A protections apply when lawyers engage in public discourse. (Even when they don't, see Chiles v Salazar!)

I think we should probably be skeptical of folks who come to the aid of their former bosses with big claims that are light on facts and law. Indeed!

Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?

A good rule of thumb is to ignore any accusations of unethical conduct that focus almost exclusively on 8.4(d).

Trying to legalize institutional norms and by turning it into a classified documents case is massive stretch here!