The crowd certainly liked it. 2016 seems like a lifetime ago to me.

Why is he even relitigating 2016? What's the upside?

no basketball player - maybe no sports player - has ever had the hype that LeBron James did as a kid

he came into the league with his expectations set at “if he doesn’t finish top 10 all time he’s a bust”

he somehow exceeded them

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

You don't have to hand it to Leo, but...

More uplifting material from Linkedin: "The legal market is a $400 billion-plus industry . . . it's incredibly fragmented. That's basically a neon sign for investors. They see what happened with dental, dermatology, veterinary practices, and now it's legal's turn."

A small cohort of ("prominent"?) law professors are trying to portray John Eastman as some kind of innocent victim of viewpoint discrimination, and his disbarment as some kind of assault on the First Amendment.

That's complete and utter bollocks. As usual, @gabrielmalor.bsky.social brings receipts:

Eastman was disbarred for lying, repeatedly & intentionally, to the court. The findings that he lied were made after extensive evidentiary hearings, detailed at length by the bar court. Lying is barred by rule every court in the country. Why? Law becomes indistinguishable from politics without it.

I am reading some speculation on LinkedIn re: the effects of early BigLaw recruiting on lateral hiring. Basically, newish BigLaw associates have lower grades than their predecessors since they were hired based on first-semester grades. But firms still want top grades from junior associate laterals.

If this counts as intellectual diversity in legal academia, count me out. See the attached for a very light sampling of Eastman's "allegedly questionable" arguments.

Psychology being what it is, expect lawyers to "check AI" about as often as gamblers "quit while they are ahead."

Could you broaden this to include pardons issued to citizens of Virginia in other states?

It’s obvious on reflection but bears occasional repeating that there’s no reason to think the ideological spectrum of professionally validated academic work should align with the contemporary political spectrum. Sometimes it’s left of it and sometimes right….

When prosecuting widespread human rights violations, starting small is a wise strategy. This is effectively a prosecution of road rage, and any immunity claim would be very weak.

Do I think that Graham Platner will pull a Fetterman if elected? I don't know.

Do I find it annoying that people portray white men who went to elite schools and grew up in affluent families as "working class" just because they hate wearing suits? Yes, definitely.

On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.

Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

Highly relevant in light of investors flocking to Arizona to acquire law firms.

I appreciate the rigorous design here, which tested the treatment group's ability to adapt midstream and answer the same types of questions without AI.

Will Justice Alito still cite Eastman's amicus brief in his Barbara dissent?

SCOTUS is probably worse than we are (although that may be changing). BigLaw is markedly better. I don't know as much about other fields, but Rivera's work certainly seems to suggest that finance and consulting are similarly obsessed with pedigree.

No worries. I added a clarification in case candidates are reading.

Friends, this was sarcasm. The path to legal academia is elite undergrad + elite law school + some combination of elite clerkships / work experience followed by a PhD or fellowship (sometimes both). There are exceptions, of course, but our obsession with elite pedigrees is virtually unmatched.

I agree!

The author of the Law Professor Pipeline was being sarcastic.

Elitism is not a problem in legal academia because candidates can surmount their law school pedigrees via PhD programs. See also www.templelawreview.org/essay/the-la....

Meritocracy.

JD Vance deciding he knows more about Catholic theology than the actual Pope because he read a bunch of posts and Wikipedia articles is how you know he went to Yale Law School.

His LinkedIn reads: "I am an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values."

New episode with @profmarkovic.bsky.social covering potential brain drains in various dimensions (public to private, red to blue states, US to abroad). The biggest and most consequential brain drain will be the people who don’t enter higher ed because of policies and budget cuts.