Joey Porter sharing his thoughts on James Harrison and Big Ben and what they’ve said about Mike Tomlin. RuPaul was right. Reading really is fundamental. youtu.be/nS94iViLF1A?...

My paper on the original meaning of birthright citizenship is now published

Everybody: That show was beautiful. Me: OVERRULE THE INSULAR CASES TOMORROW FFS

Have to give it to the NFL for dropping that Kenny G Easter egg in there for the boomers and Gen X

Okay, I wasn’t the only one who saw Kenny G in the orchestra there, was I? If so, I REALLY need to lay off the cold meds.

Advance copies are in the mail. Can't wait to hold a physical copy!

Thinking on something @beaubaumann.bsky.social said yesterday. There would be less acrimony in the legal academy if folks developed expertise, workshopped ideas, and incorporated criticism into their work. That's the process of doing scholarship, but it doesn't work when you're chasing litigation.

Words fail me. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

“The 69-page report, titled ‘Making Our Children Healthy Again,’ also says these drivers are partly propelled by corporate influence and government lobbying.” He called it the MOCHA Report. I vaguely remember learning that titles set the tone for what follows… www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

This is how the Republican Justices on SCOTUS have defined corruption-they insist it is the *only* definition of corruption. (It is not! They don't control the English language! Or common sense!) Congress has defined corruption in other ways- SCOTUS has just imposed its own definition on all of us.

Had a really interesting discussion with some friends last night about why so many lawyers end up practicing at full blast into their 70s and even 80s. From all our perspective, man no way! But then I bet many people who said that 30 years ago are still at it.

You’ll want to read @ilyasomin.bsky.social on anti-commandeering and how Trump keeps losing in court with this stuff

So this, I think, is reasonably interpreted as a claim that it is illegal for states to prohibit state officials from assisting ICE. This is bullshit. State officials are not obliged to enforce federal law and actually constitutionally can’t be forced to do so. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Remember how in “Romeo and Juliet,” Romeo was really distraught because he was banished from his city-state and he felt that banishment was worse than death?

Y’all, I remember when I thought that AI legal research and drafting tools were ok if they were used by lawyers, who would have the capacity to know if the cites were good

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

There it is: 7:19 pm — Cory Booker has buried the odious arch segregationist Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest speech in Senate history — and Booker is acknowledging him as “the man who tried to stop the rights on which I stand… I’m here despite his speech." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Watching Cory Booker and thinking about just how committed to segregation Strom Thurmond had to be to do this before Gatorade, Depend, and 48-hour antiperspirants.

“Like an attorney, the media are supposed to have a duty to their client, the public.” Just had a flashback to an ethics class where the professor mentioned imminent harm to others as one of the times when an attorney’s duty to the public outweighs the duty to the client…

Not being the least bit curious about who you’re related to has its benefits.

The AI chatbots apparently have a lot in common with bad lawyers.

‘Earth, Wind, & Fire’ implies the existence of Water and Heart, and when their powers combine…

Bond is going to be “British or from the Commonwealth.” Which means a Jamaican Bond is possible. I’d go to the theater twice to see that. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

It really doesn't

I wonder how many weeks it would take to pick an impartial jury on this triblive.com/news/wire-st...

Anyone ever have to tell a co-counsel that they are too much of an asshole to work with? No matter how good the case is?

The 40th Anniversary of Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone’s vault is next year apnews.com/article/jeff...

I will never pre-judge a book I haven’t read yet, but if half of this book doesn’t cover why journalists didn’t rely on their own eyes and video archives instead of what their sources were telling them… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

There is no acceptable reason for doing this. None. There is no conceivable situation in which Trump officials will be in the position of Lincoln officials trying to figure out whether to obey Dred Scott. No one should fall for this.

HUGE: The Supreme Court sides with Richard Glossip, holding that prosecutors violated his constitutional rights by failing to correct false testimony at his trial. It directs the Oklahoma courts to vacate his conviction! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Birthright citizenship 3: My letter to editor of NY Times on Barnett and Wurman’s misleading essay They’re not publishing it, so I’m self-publishing. Now y’all know what to do: shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/b...

Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) is *so* gifted at distilling key political themes. Trump 1.0 was "The Cruelty Is The Point"; this piece explains how the admin is now pursuing "The Great Resegregation." It captures *so much* of what's happening. READ IT! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Turns out that trying to fight book bans with retail activism is as effective as trying to treat depression with retail therapy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

Just so we’re clear: There is no serious case against birthright citizenship. The EO is unjust and unconstitutional. Those who claim otherwise are wrong, and law professors who are doing so are behaving irresponsibly.

I get that people feel that LeBron should have known that his ankle wasn’t good to go earlier, but I’m old enough to have joints that were fine when I stood up but decided to quit five steps into my walk to the fridge

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

A few of us are cooking something about the birthright citizenship mess, so I will keep my powder mostly dry until then. I know there are a lot of folks in my mentions who want law professors to push back, so I think y'all should know we're writing!

“They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.”—Kendrick Lamar

basedfob.substack.com/p/big-tech-h... is a long post with a WILD story, but... kinda worth it. "When people and corporations told us that they would disrupt industry, did any of us ask what would happen after that disruption? Would anyone actually take possession and be held responsible?"

It’s not just that the Barnett-Wurman op-ed lacks evidence from critical periods and sources. (Which, fatal!) It’s not just that the latter evidence exists and refutes them. (Which, fatal!) Every one of *their own sources,* properly understood, refutes them. Dead, dead, and dead again.

RFK, Jr is talking about getting McDonald’s to use beef tallow for their beef burger when what people want is for the fries to be fried in it. Good times. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

One silver lining I hope comes from this is that ... all this ... is that it pushes law profs to move away from teaching in a way that too often (strongly) suggests that "the law" is almost entirely what is written in statutes and opinions, not how those charged w enforcement choose to follow them.

Drake dissed her husband on a song in 2022. Yesterday, Serena settled all family business and I love that for her.

Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...

@sjquinney.bsky.social and LABS are hosting a fabulous lineup 3/28 to discuss the post-Dobbs legal landscape for repro care. CME and CLE provided—registration now open! www.law.utah.edu/event/naviga...

So much of the online right-wing "logic and reason" guys' thing is to mistake their own intuitions for "reason." And they lack the intellectual and emotional wherewithal to notice their mistake, or to introspect about their own intuitions.

We have PhD-MD physician scientists because there’s a generally accepted understanding that being a practicioner of something and being a scientist of it are distinct skillsets with different training, but for some reason “legal academia” lawyers get to freely cosplay as historians and economists