I just saw an AI model substantially change its analysis of a legal issue when I asked it to provide links. It's wild that people trust these LLMs.

I upgraded to ChatGPT Plus, mostly to see what it could do. I fed it the pro-birthright amicus briefs of the recent Supreme Court case and asked it to do a consolidated table of authorities. Something that should be relatively easy for a computer, but tedious. Output: poor.

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Liberals say that rule by a star chamber of unaccountable judges has no place in a democracy. They're wrong—rule by a star chamber of unaccountable judges has no place in a republic.

Research question - anyone have this article, or access to HeinOnline? Birthright Citizenship, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Texas Legislature, 12. TEX. REV. L. & POL. 161 (2007) I didn't realize James Ho had written two articles about birthright citizenship in the course of 2 years.

I see that Matt Taibbi, who just lost the defamation case he filed against Eoin Higgins for criticism of his hackery, is one of the featured speakers at FIRE’s “Soapbox 2026” “celebrating free expression, fearless debate, and the courage to dissent.” Very free. Oh, no doubt.

very funny that ilya shapiro walks around like he is some grand arbiter of merit when he would be unemployable if not for wingnut welfare

This is excellent. I want to preempt a legit concern, namely that there is no chance that Congress will actually do this. 1. We don’t know that, and shouldn’t assume it. 2. Even talking about this is good because it disrupts the Court’s monopoly on our constitutional imagination.

On the meaning of 86: youtu.be/AAljQw3zMBQ?...

OpenAI's attorney mentions term sheet Altman sent to Musk in 2018 or '19 (I'm not positive on year) about creating capped-profit company. Trying to establish Musk knew for-profit was coming, didn't object then “I did not read the fine print,” Musk said. Attorney counters: “It’s a 4-page document.”

If I’m following the logic of the Comey indictment correctly, then Matt Gaetz is admitting to multiple murders here.

Matthew R Petracca, whose job before becoming an AAG was a seat on Morris County, New Jersey, Board of Taxation, is the signatory of this farce. He should be famous for this. W Ellis Boyle is the US Atty supervising this. Neither deserve a bar card.

A fascist movement is ascendant in the United States, and some of my illustrious colleagues are publishing papers that say race doesn't matter. Please be serious.

We need to start printing these on plaques that students can hang outside these professors’ offices. The “Not a racist bone in my body Klan appreciation” award! If they want to go mask off, they should own it in perpetuity.

A maker-space filled with 3d printers, woodworking tools and fiber arts supplies. Basically, my “ADHD hobby closet” writ large.

People here are being really shitty, including at fellow journalists who might have been startled just a moment before biting into a big fully dressed hot dog. Journalists who may have reflexively squeezed the bun and sent the sausage sailing across the room into the delicate champagne tower

Even then, they still wouldn't be happy. They'd say she engaged in emotional blackmail and they're the victims because it made them look bad.

I think about this a lot.

Dr. Kaltiala doesn’t deal with several criticisms of her study. Let me demonstrate what I think is one of the biggest with some Qs: T/F: Gender care in Finland is centralized in two university clinics - Helsinki and Tampare? T/F: Both clinics are considered specialist psychiatric services

Here’s an interesting clip from the CBC’s podcast, “tested” about sex testing in sports. This is about the older “Barr body” tests, but the issue isn’t any different under the new SRY testing. Women are going to find out they’re not “not really women” for the first time in these tests.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

You don’t have to get deep into “game theory” to understand what’s wrong with the advice like this (looking at you, Matt Yglesias, Nate Silver, et al). You just have to recognize that there ARE two players in the game!

Fogbow!

I keep coming back to how absolutely BRAINDEAD this argument of Jesse’s is. Let me summarize his argument - “the moral arc of the universe is long, but if there’s any sustained backlash, give up.”

Want a long and rambling story about birthright citizenship? I love arguing with people online. It’s one of my favorite activities. I’m obsessive about it. It kind of got me my first legal job when I talked about my spreadsheet of sources to defend GMOs.

If we get enough law professors to make up things, those things will become true!

I think Anthony is too generous to Hamburger here. He is, at best, somewhat correct in PLACE, not places. I’m kind of in awe at how many things this piece gets wrong. Let’s see: 1) It imagines a world where the common law only exists in England and wasn’t ever applied in the US.

Matt Yglesias has a new podcast and the premiere episode is arguing about affirmative action. I feel like he’s achieved his final form! He’s been begging to argue about affirmative action for at least half a decade. (Big surprise, his arguments aren’t well supported.)

A new paper has come out that has Twitter/X afire. It seems to argue that gender-affirming care for transgender youth is not only ineffective, but potentially harmful. It's also a very poorly-done piece of work. My new piece: gidmk.substack.com/p/does-gende...

Instead of throwing out the money changers and telling people to give all their money away, Jesus would’ve been better off preaching a gospel of abundance.

Hey, @benryanwriter.bsky.social what do you want from doctors OTHER than “more fertility counseling, more education, and more informed consent.” Related: what do you think “informed consent” is?

I don’t know man, I still think I’ll choose the anti-bedtime leftists over the literal Nazis.

So, was he disincorporated and then reincorporated - Star Trek style? Flown bodily through the air? Is he the same person as before the teleportation. He says it was while he was heavily medicated for cancer treatments. WS the cancer teleported, too?

“The Constitution isn’t a suicide pact,” like “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater,” is a vapid content-free bromide that translates to “my policy preferences override the constitution.” It doesn‘t mean a Goddamned thing and never has.

Yes, but … Today, we heard “originalist” arguments that there was an undiscovered original public meaning to the 14A citizenship clause. No philosophies of constitutional interpretation will protect against authoritarianism if good people don’t stand up for it!

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

/5 To expand on Point Four: the enemies of democracy and freedom are not just hacks like Wurman and Barnett, it’s also the people who demand that we treat Wurman and Barnett as good-faith commentators because they talk in law review articles or NYT editorials. Call evil evil.

/4. Fourth: Advocacy does have a moral component. Lying about law and history in an effort to make millions of people stateless is not “doing law the right way.” The notion that advocacy is morally neutral or even inherently good if performed according to cultural ritual remains vapid and harmful.

Just a reminder, anything less than a 9-0 opinion in the birthright citizenship case is an indictment of originalism!

Alito’s point here, that the “not subject to a foreign government” interpretation allows foreign governments to determine whether someone born here is a citizen. It’s a good point if that’s what he’s saying. Some countries don’t recognize naturalization as extinguishing jus sanguinis citizenship.

I’m low key pissed that birthright citizenship is interfering with my vacation. I’m ordering a margarita to retaliate. Screw you “General” Sauer for making me think about your BS claim that Japanese POWs are domiciled in ways that undocumented aliens are not!

news to the enslaved!

What’s the latest SCOTUS has ever “DIG”ed a case? (Denied as improvidently granted) The only April Fools Joke I’ll accept today is if Trump shows up at SCOTUS and they say this was all an elaborate prank!

my level of stress has crossed a threshold where i think it would be funny if trump attended the birthright citizenship oral argument and scotus incoherently ruled in his favor 6-3. cortisol levels so high that i can't stop lolling about all my family members in danger. wouldn't it be funny tho

This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10

Re the IOC rules on gender and transgender athletes. Compare the assurances athletes are to be given with the statements of an expert people like @benryanwriter.bsky.social cites frequently on sports.

Wurman has it exactly backwards. If we were arguing about a mainstream, if unpopular, alternate reading of the 14A, he might have a point that one or two racists agreeing with him wouldn’t be disqualifying. But, almost to a man, this argument is advanced by racists in bad faith!

I finally watched the new PhilosophyTube video (on UK anti-trans conversion therapy) and the description of "gender exploratory therapy" it's made me realise fully what I was subjected to by Tavistock back in 2016-17. 🧵