I have decided to undertake a dry social media January. See you all in 31 days. But you can reach me on text, WhatsApp, or FB chat (not IG). Send memes and legal theories!

College football is the most embarrassing sport in the entire world, Exhibit J.

Gentlemen, I regret to inform you that I no longer believe in science.

The Kruse Missile eliminates all targets.

We are fast approaching the point where a bye week in the CFP is going to be seen as a disadvantage.

It’s Mamdan-we now.

The alleged daycare fraud taking place in Minnesota should be investigated fully and carefully. But don't engage in the rank bigotry of blaming "the Somalis," especially if it is compounded by the hypocrisy of calling out those who blame "the Jews" when one of our number commits a crime.

I give a ton of credit to Professor George, who has managed to be a principled and thoughtful conservative despite what his commitments might imply.

Why used bookstores matter: I have spent the last two years searching for this wonderful little book. Cheapest price online is $225 - and the copy from the Harvard Law Library is missing. Today I picked it up for 29.

What are we about to learn?

Purely a hypo: If one acts illegally in removing lettering that was illegally installed, can they be charged with a crime?

Just learned that Norman Podhoretz was still alive

I have a theory (I didn't ask ChatGPT if it's mine) that the abortion conversation would benefit from acknowledging the presence of inertia; namely, that there is a higher barrier to declaring an entity "alive" that previously wasn't. This makes it obvious why a story about a 2-year is wholly unapt.

The face of legal pragmatism. Your formalist argument is invalid.

They should be friends

Ad hominem implies the existence of ad homophone. This is an example.

It is not the job of a law scholar to upend clearly settled law with meager source material and convoluted textual readings, and doing so does not create a live debate.

I have resigned as Governor of Alabama.

What happened to the plain meaning of the words?

Honestly, if the CFP committee was made up of exactly nine members the comparison might be too on the nose.

Someone check on @patsobkowski.com. #NotreDame

If Alabama doesn't make the CFP (which they shouldn't) expect the SEC to eliminate its championship game next year.

Ohio State's QB just went Super Sayin.

This is just sad.

SCOTUS is about to overturn the exclusionary rule in an emergency order, aren't they

Hello Skyers! After an extended hiatus to deal with various health matters I am back in your midst and ready to once again spend hours engaging in The Discourse. Anyway, what did I miss?

By the logic of the fetal personhood movement, this baby can constitutionally be elected to the United States Senate.

Against the law.

How is deploying the Marines in LA (or, for that matter, nationalizing the California National Guard) not a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act?

More like Tar-what-ifs

I cannot believe that Professor Bray agrees with the way SG Sauer used his article in oral arguments.

I'm pretty sure taking a jet from the sovereign nation of Qatar to then use for personal use is the textbook example of "accept[ing] of any present... from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Every time Stephen Miller talks it's helpful to remember that he did not go to law school.

Today in New York Times corrections

It is bittersweet to inform #LawSky that Tree Law is back in the news. www.npr.org/2025/04/30/n...

A late entry in the contest for biggest sycophant

How I arrived on Bluesky…

A lighthearted story about the U.S. Constitution, for a recent change; or, the kids are alright. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

This is the kind of stately document that should be read by every American. A magisterial reassertion of the values of liberty enshrined in law.

“One of the top MS-13 members”? This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States. She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility. Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.

At the zoo today. Several hundred spectators at the panda enclosure, and when Qing Bao started eating they all burst into cheers. More convinced than ever this would end the trade war within hours.

He is confusing having autism with being RFK, Jr.

Old enough to remember when the GOP thought the biggest scandal in the world was the Obama admin's IRS reviewing the tax exempt status of some right leaning non-profits.

Oh. "This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence 16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" 17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent" 18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial" 19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

I will not apologize for my buying habits.

Once again, the anti-birthright citizenship article is published on a Jewish holiday and I am deprived the chance to dunk on it with everyone else.

Why hasn’t China just taken their pandas back yet? That would end any remaining support for this trade war tomorrow.

I will never cease to have a sense of pride when I make a point and then learn that a top-regarded law professor has made the same point.

Another way, pace Justice Jackson's dissent, that the Court's emergency order is even more worthy of criticism than Korematsu.