It seems like it should be dispositive that courts immediately after Wong Kim Ark didn't look to domicile in determining citizenship, but birthplace. For example, in the Chinese Appeal Case, the United States cited Quock Ting v US (1891) as the controlling standard of proof to determine citizenship.

all i'm saying is that there were better options

Just throwing this out there - anyone know where I could get good scans of the briefs in Wong Kim Ark? I have some very bad scans. Switches orientation every other page, poor legibility, etc.

Who out there is seeing a specialist without first seeing a primary?

Want to know just how intellectually bankrupt this conservative project is? In the amicus brief from some Congressional members, they cite George Collins, with the parenthetical that he was "later appointed amicus in Wong Kim Ark" without mentioning that HE LOST in WKA!

It’s hilarious that this doofus wants to go to Mars but also lives in a place with no winter. The equator can get up to 70°F but the temperature drops 170 degrees at night! Mars is a VERY BAD place to go!

Oh, FFS!

Before he was the justice that wrote Wong Kim Ark, Horace Gray was reporter for the Mass Supreme Court. (He’d later become its chief justice.) As reporter, he wrote a scathing critique of Dred Scott - grounding his analysis in its rejection of birthright citizenship. www.loc.gov/resource/lls...

I love it when people talk to me as if I neither am disabled nor actually study this in my own work. But let me pitch someone else's work here, Doron Dorfman's "Fear of the Disability Con." Sharing it for everyone feeding the fear of the disability con right now: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Tipper Gore played the drums in an all-girl group called the Wildcats in high school. She's played with the Grateful Dead, Herbie Hancock and Willie Nelson. That's just kinda interesting.

This is the “find 50 errors” example of architectural drawings!

Evergreen post

What? “I’m under orders not to disclose whether there’s Brady material?” That’s not how this works!

Okay, how come nobody mentioned this?!? In the Epstein files released by the House, they have a folder “natives,” most of which are Excel files, but at the end, a movie of a doggo chewing on a Trump stuffed animal. A Hillary one nearby. drive.google.com/file/d/19MEn...

1) An administrative burden party is a brilliant idea. 2) This mundane crap is the stuff AI *should* be helping us with for a happier and more productive society, but capital prefers to weaponize it against us, including to make bureaucratic mazes more confusing and impenetrable.

@yrfatfriend.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social When you said you listened to “Milk!” I knew the author must be Michael Kurlansky, author of such classics as “Salt!” and “Cod!” Good stuff!

Pretty amazing mis-reading of the mood on Bluesky from Nate here. Maybe it’s just my feed, but I’m pretty sure the site is about to join @kevinmkruse.bsky.social in burning Democratic defectors in effigy.

The case of Imane Khelif demonstrates how fluid, and cruel, the right’s definition of “woman,” is. Assigned female at birth, birth certificate says “F,” lived her entire life as a female, but a “man,” because of claims a genetic test has a Y on it? www.sportskeeda.com/us/olympics/...

7 million people showed up for No Kings protests. A huge blue wave sweeps Democrats into power across the country, including a supermajority in Virginia. What’s that I’m feeling? Hope? Oh, good thing there are Dems who recognize their purpose is to quash that feeling! Politics suck again.

@gregdoucette.bsky.social For your cops are great files - and intersects with the fake overtime issue. nypost.com/2025/11/08/u...

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête Learning that phrase has made Duolingo worthwhile.

Just some casual Islamophobia from Brianna, here. Taqiyya is the Islamic concept that you can hide your Islamic faith if it would save your life. It’s the same as saying you’re not Jewish to the Nazi interrogator. It’s thrown around by racists to discredit anyone of the Muslim faith.

There is a good argument that Zohran Mamdani did not win the New York mayoral race, because constitutionally votes for him are only worth 3/5ths of votes for Cuomo. —Ilan Wurman, Yale Law Review, Spring 2026

AI is starting to be useful for limited tasks - as long as I don’t rely on it for difficult things. Alexa querying the smart fans and TOGGLING them from on to off or off to on … that’s something I couldn’t figure out how to program using their limited scripting language.

It’s time to for all Supreme Court advocates to start invoking the dicta about how “the Constitution is not a suicide pact.” Maybe a functioning system can allow for executive immunity, perhaps that’s even what the Founders intended, but that originalism isn’t compatible with continued existence!

Should probably pass this around to potential Dem politicians.

Grok will give WILDLY different responses on "main" X versus in the Grok app. Compare:

It’ll never not be wild that conservatives will gladly sign onto wild conspiracies like chemtrails and ignore climate change. “They’re spraying chemicals into the atmosphere to control the weather!” I mean, yes, but you’re not talking about the CO2, are you? kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The complaints about ObamaCare making health insurance unaffordable relies on people just not remembering 2010. 52 million uninsured (25-27m today) 10+% increases in premiums annually. (7.1% after ACA passed) Shittier plans The $600 plans they’re whining about today wld be $900 w/o the ACA.

It is hard not to be fatalistic, because it certainly seems like if the SC blesses this interpretation in the face of multiple, obviously partisan prosecutions, they have given up on the American experiment.

Narrator: It is, in fact, the easiest test. It’s designed to flag cognitive disfunction and anyone with a functioning brain should get a very high, to perfect, score. There are 30 questions on the MOCA and a normal score is 26 or higher. Missing 5 signals mild impairment.

Setting aside his medical ignorance, can anyone find the TikTok he’s referring to? Seems like she might need more subscribers!

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)

The immigration system seems like a black box. ICE will conduct a high-profile raid of a marijuana farm, for example, and claim to have arrested hundreds of people. People die. Citizens are arrested. And then. Nothing. The gov’t claimed they were practically slavers. Exploring child labor.

Not a video, but this is the funniest dog-story I’ve ever read. The original dates to the Salon [.com] forums back in 1999. I give you, “dogs in elk.” www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...

@kenwhite.bsky.social This seems great. Now, when a federal grand jury no-bills them, prosecutors will seek an indictment from a local grand jury. Cool, cool, cool. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

So, CNN cut away from the ramblings of President Trump after a FULL hour of nonsense with no end in sight. Just bopping from subject to subject. His fear of stairs, the press are the enemy, loosened rules of engagement allowing military force to be used against citizens. Cool stuff. #25thAmendment

Hey, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social - 25th Amendment! It’s a thing. You can do it.

L'instinct. - Quand la maison brûle, on oublie même de dîner. - Oui, mais on se rattrape en dînant sur les cendres. Nietzsche. Translation: Instinct. - When the house is burning, we even forget to eat dinner. - Yes, but we make up for it by eating dinner on the ashes.

It’s wild how much of the current Right-Wing is grounded in deliberate, obstinate, ignorance. Over on the bad-site, they’re losing their mind over the ADL characterizing “Christian Identity” as a racist ideology. www.newsweek.com/maga-rages-o...

Just saw a truck with a Malort ad on it. I actually laughed out loud. This is the ad, though I refrained from stopping to take a pic.

Trump won the popular vote in 2024, but it was the smallest margin of victory since 2000, other then Trump losing the popular vote in 2016. Before that, we get back to Nixon’s win in 1968, and JFK’s win in 1960 to find a closer election. Jimmy Carter had a bigger margin than Trump!

A book even Bret Stephens represent the views of no one. “It speaks for almost nobody beyond the fringe left—and certainly not for looters who hadn't thought about 'cisheteropatriarchalism.”

The thing about Ezra Klein is that he seems desperate to find that issue he can capitulate on, as opposed to figuring out how to win over the other side to our way of thinking. Voters in Kansas, for example, have had two PRO-CHOICE Democratic governors recently. Their governor CURRENTLY is!

Some states have a statewide, blanket, prescription for NARCAN. Wonder if states could have a similar thing for Covid vaccines? A state standing order that anyone who appears at the pharmacy has consulted with their physician about th vaccine.

The question is: "Do you think it is ever justified for citizens to resort to violent [in self-defense / in order to achieve political goals]?" I don't understand the people who say "no." Is it that my brain is ruined from law school? That I can't see absolutes anymore?

Reading a book from 2012, “Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.” It’s set in Silicon Valley. And it’s weird to remember a time when we didn’t think the techbros were evil.