from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

If you are a judicial nominee who was so in love with posting right-wing slop that you have to apologize to senators with a weak "retweets are not endorsements" disclaimer, you should have logged off a long time ago

Has anyone had success using a VPN to get around local blackouts on MLB.TV? If so, which one? Please note that this is strictly a hypothetical.

Needed a dot-edu email to access an archive for a research project. A very helpful guy in the law school IT department helped me resurrect my alumni account, which to my delight contains 13 years of accumulated DNC fundraising pitches, student store coupons, and Bonobos flash sales

Few sights more beautiful than someone emailing the block listserv to ask if anyone has jumper cables, and then 3 minutes later, every dad emerging triumphantly from their respective garages and sheds, cables and battery packs in hand, making a beeline for the house in need

Competition is stiff, but this might be the most farcically awful qualified immunity decision I've ever seen: Cops twisted the text of an obscure anti-corruption law beyond recognition, and then used it to arrest a journalist who *asked them questions*. No problem, says your Supreme Court!

Yes, I have seen the Bad Law Professor Post of the Day and I am choosing not to engage with it

The full Bluesky Experience this morning: Half my mentions are people arguing that gutter homophobia is actually really funny when Lindsey Graham’s political opponents do it, and half my mentions are people arguing about whether I used “whomever” correctly

Two and a half months still until the primary, so it is not too late to fire whomever told you this was good or smart. Just something to chew on

Cops in Laredo were tired of Priscilla Villarreal reporting stories they did not like. In 2017, they arrested her for texting two questions to a source in the police department. She sued, but a lower court gave the cops qualified immunity. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal this week.

The discovery of extensive Klan paraphernalia in a Mississippi Department of Public Safety building is absolutely newsworthy on its own, but it’s very funny that this write-up manages to carefully write around the obvious implication here

Dental floss in the hands of a dental hygienist qualifies as a deadly weapon

At this point, in my view, any Justice Department lawyer hired in the past year should be presumed to have insane right-wing culture-war skeletons in their closet

I get a little bit angrier every time a cable news talking head describes a candidate as “leading” or “ahead” on Election Night, before mail-in ballots have been tallied. The process of counting votes is not a horserace. It just takes a while to figure out who earned more of them.

what happened to if you have time to lean you have time to clean. or does that only apply to me making $7.25/hr to sell shitty frozen yogurt and not the highly paid murder squad

There is a decent chance that, under the status quo, the 2028 election would yield a Dem-controlled government that is serious about meaningful Supreme Court reform. It is not a coincidence that the Court's conservative justices really, really want to make it harder for (certain) people to vote.

First take out of court: It will come down to Roberts and Barrett how this case gets resolved. The 4-3 ideological split otherwise was clear. A lot of very real questions about early voting (w/ weak answers) and totally hypothetical questions about recalling mailed ballots (w/ more weak answers).

One of the real problems with establishment Supreme Court journalism is that there has not been a meaningful accounting for the fact that Sam Alito now has the politics of your average InfoWars listener

SO many questions from the Republican-appointed justices so far having little or nothing to do with the law—they're venting their evident frustrations about modern election laws that broadly authorize mail voting and fretting that they're spoiling elections with distrust and fraud. Really bad!

I think where I’ve come down on this case is that I don’t THINK there are five votes Supreme Court votes to uphold an insane Fifth Circuit case ending 30+ states’ long-established practices for conducting elections, and also, my confidence is basically zero and I would not bet anything on it

Love talking Supreme Court with @jaywillis.net, even when the news is weird and grim (evergreen skeet) slate.com/podcasts/wha...

3-year-old choosing to manifest his anguish that mom isn’t the parent testing him books before bed tonight by screaming DAD IS BAD AT READING and I’m like, listen here kid

Today I saw a guy who was learning to ski wearing shorts and looking like he was having the time of his life out there, and I was instantly annoyed I hadn’t thought of doing that

Commandeering the T-ball set at the 3-year-old’s birthday party to smash home runs over their heads and then doing increasingly ludicrous batflips

[somberly] Mueller, She Wrote

Walking around the house humming "RANDY WALTERS IS A SON OF A BITCH"

Is there a canonical best nonfiction book about John Brown? I’d love recommendations if you have them.

This is beautiful word choice because it is very innocuous, and also everybody understands exactly what it means www.nytimes.com/athletic/713...

I remain very charmed by Afroman's choice to respond to a police raid on his home by cranking out a bunch of bangers skewering the individual cops who broke down his door. When he starts cracking up right after belting out "RANDY WALTERS IS A SON OF A BITCH," I laugh every time.

I’m only half joking when I say that 20 years ago, Chuck Norris’s death would have resulted in candlelight memorials and weeklong mourning periods on college campuses across the country

This feels important to save for the future

@jaywillis.net writeup of the Afroman saga is easily the most delightful I've read. The case shows "what can happen when cops, who as a general rule rarely face consequences for their actions, manage to cross a person with plenty of time, a sizable social media following, and a smooth baritone."

Everyone has a favorite Novelty Afroman Song Making Fun of Cops, and I think that's great. The "Under the Boardwalk" parody about the deputy eyeing his lemon poundcake is a delight. So is the ACAB version of "Battle Hymn of the Republic." So is "RANDY WALTERS IS A SON OF A BITCH." No wrong answers!

I have had all the goofy little songs that Afroman made about the crybully cops that broke his door stuck in my head all day. Decent chance that "Randy Walters Is A Son Of A Bitch" is the song of the summer for me. defector.com/lets-catch-u...

Speaking in my capacity as a guy who has been to Adams County, Ohio, I would very much like to know why in heaven’s name Afroman has elected to live in Adams County, Ohio

Afroman really hit them with Omar Little's "I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase, all in the game, right?" www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Accidentally got a spritz to the face while opening the bag of cayenne pepper-based mole repeller and now I can't stop sneezing or crying

When the "here's how Congress can fix the Supreme Court, including term limits for jsutices and adding seats" op-eds are coming from relatively normie Democrats like Sean Casten, something is changing in The Discourse thehill.com/opinion/judi...

My takeaway from Trump's latest tirade about the "disloyalty" of the Supreme Court's conservatives is that the next person Trump puts on the Supreme Court is going to make Brett Kavanaugh look like Thurgood Marshall

One of the most important things that Famous Law Professors need to learn is that being a Famous Law Professor does not mean that every thought you have about any given subject is inherently interesting or smart or worth writing down

me taking the loaf of bread out of the oven 10 minutes too early

it’s always adorable when felix is happy and excited

This shit is so fun man

Cal Raleigh throws him out

More like Aaron Sludge, amirite

“LOL what kind of person actually subscribes to Fox Nation?” Me, that’s who. My children’s only heroes are C-list actors reenacting Bible stories. My favorite Insta follow is Callista Gingrich. I used to think Greg Gutfeld was funny until he stopped using slurs. All my ideas are awful.

The good news is that after 3+ years, the raccoons and I have arrived at an uneasy truce, and they are no longer methodically destroying my yard on a nightly basis. The bad news is that they have sent in even more pernicious reinforcements.

I shudder to think about what James Ho is going to do to try and one-up Lawrence VanDyke's "swinging dicks" opinon

The Trump DOJ is hemorrhaging so many lawyers that it is now allowing U.S. attorney's offices to hire new federal prosecutors straight out of law school news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...