I've done a bunch of CLEs about AI this weekend, but none of them touch on a concern I have: people looking for legal representation have been feeding information about their "claim" into LLMs and then having the LLMs spam it out to plaintiffs' firms; we get dozens every day. This is not privileged.

strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Real talk from the fine folks at @votebeat.org @jessicahuseman.bsky.social

If you’re worried your polling place might be disrupted, one constructive step you can take is volunteering as a poll worker. It’s a hands-on way to help ensure the election runs smoothly—and it gives you direct access to the people who can explain what security measures are in place.

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If the Solicitor General is to be called General—when really Solicitors General are Solicitors, not Generals— I think it only appropriate that we henceforth refer to any Associate Justice as Associate.

For my Arizona legal watcher pals, we call this the Rachel Alexander defense.

This was the wildest live-skeet ride since Shiv Ramdas’s lorry load of rice.

We lost our friend Judith Loeb Whittaker this year to cancer. Years ago she gave me permission to print these great pictures her father, Albert Loeb, took at the Selma march. They are extraordinary. web.archive.org/web/20201212...

I've heard rumors that Philadelphia is next for the ICE invasion after Minneapolis. Maybe I'm wrong, but 1) More than 11% of all ICE agents are in Minneapolis, and they've utterly failed to pacify the city. 2) Philly is 5x the size of Minneapolis. 3) "Minnesota nice" is a thing. We don't have that.

if you can’t use language to reflect very straightforward power differentials then maybe you shouldn’t be in the language business.

Arizona Republicans continue targeting the State Bar as they demonstrate they don't actually understand how attorney discipline works story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

taylor swift reading that kyrsten sinema lawsuit

Every year in Civil Procedure, I talk about the tort of alienation of affection, and how North Carolina is one of the only states that still recognizes it. Welp...

I was fed up with Krysten Sinema's Senate career by the end but her pivot to taking ibogaine and breaking up marriages has me thinking more highly of her www.law360.com/articles/243...

I am saddened to hear of the sudden passing of former Attorney General Mark Brnovich. My heartfelt condolences go to his wife Susan and their entire family at this difficult time. Mark dedicated many years to public service in Arizona, including his two terms as Attorney General.

Things are so bad that if you're focused on something other than the news for a few hours, you come back here and aren't sure whether people are still mad about the outrage you knew about or some new one that's been conjured up in the interim.

This is why people need to pay attention to races like County School Superintendent. Cota was appointed to fill a vacancy on the PUHSD board by Shelli Boggs. He never would have been elected to office in the district.

Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby cannot claim he has legislative immunity as he defends himself in a felony case stemming from his refusal to certify the 2022 election story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Elected officials still making X their main form of public communication should be asked about their allegiance to a platform that is now mass producing nonconsensual content including CSAM. Unfortunately that’s unlikely to happen locally since almost all mainstream outlets here are also glued to X.

If you try to illegally manipulate Arizona's elections or mislead Arizona voters, you will be held accountable under the law. There are real consequences for cheating the system. Full press release here: www.azag.gov/press-releas...

“They’re going to have to put me in jail if they want this information and have somebody else give it to them because I’m not going to do it.” story via @jimsmall.bsky.social

With all that is going on in the world, it might be easy to overlook that the D.C. Circuit appears to have changed its Special Panel (aka Motions Panel) so that it's no longer in place for a month. I think this change is both really important and really good. (A quick courts 🧵 . . . )

Made a new playlist

REM was wrong about how I'd feel.

Once again begging people to volunteer for 1 (ONE) election cycle to understand how this works. Civics illiteracy continues to destroy this country

House Republicans asked Jack Smith about me. I continue to live rent free in the heads of these MAGA idiots. h/t: @emptywheel.bsky.social

I spent last weekend at AmericaFest which was bizarre as hell. The infighting was popcorn but it does suck to see that TPUSA is not going away any time soon. They announced new affiliates, events and a new AZ-focused PAC + they are working with red state officials to force the org. in more schools.

So I hate to be That Guy, but we're entering into uncertain territory here with the Epstein Files, and it's more important than ever that we make sure we know all the facts before we blow things up. I'm talking now about the "tips" that DOJ is now releasing. They sound super salacious and evil.

Prof. Wurman is now tossing about bits of historical evidence for his mission to undermine the 14th Amendment. Far from useful, this tells us nothing. To start, this unsigned newspaper blurb was published in 1862– years before the 14th Amendment.

After nearly two years of court rulings, with wins and losses on both sides, one of the Republican challenges to Arizona’s elections rulebook is finally finished story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery. My story:

Support independent journalism! Important scoop from @marisakabas.bsky.social

Anyone who says “the election was rigged,” needs to stop. There are so many reasons, but let’s start with the logic one: Elections are run at the county level. Every county does things differently. For instance, in Los Angeles, Prop 50 was actually called State Measure 50 on the ballot, 1/

Happy Repeal Day! As is my tradition, I will be raising a glass tonight to celebrate the fact that the U.S. Constitution allows us to fix things when we make stupid mistakes.

All Constitutional Law courses are hereby renamed WTF LOL 101

This is great news! We have the coalition of Democratic AGs to thank for this reversal of an illegal decision that overrode Congress’s direction.

A life well lived. The music he made is eternal.

This is the kind of news I can use today.

Jeannette Garcia is affiliated with Turning Point Action and an Avondale City Council member. She’s being sued for allegedly sexually harassing another Turning Point employee and then drunkenly kidnapping his daughter alongside another Turning Point employee after he rejected Garcia’s advances.

You can’t spell crazy without AZ.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Did the @phoenixnewtimes.com just publish a story that seems to be on the side of a cop named Hendershott?

Tomorrow in my election security course we dissect election denial BS, always fun. I'm grateful to the "election truth" conspiracy people for keeping the 2020 dream alive in 2024, giving us a steady stream of new (actually recycled) material. The pillow guy gets old after a while.

Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement. "If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."

amazing

RIP Jimmy Cliff

Many of us learned long ago that there is no "Legal Philosophy" in the Federalist Society. It is a club that gives members a leg up in the competition for certain judicial clerkships and jobs in the Trump administration. That is it. Period. How does the NY Times not know this?

New at Media Nation: @marisakabas.bsky.social is the alternative to wallowing in Olivia Nuzzi's tale of dysfunction and deceit. There are 42,000 journalists across the U.S., and the vast majority are performing honorably and ethically. dankennedy.net/2025/11/22/m...