Like most everyone else, I see the government losing in today's #birthright #citizenship case. And it's braggy to note this, but this is such a rare thing that I'm going to do it anyway: My amicus curiae brief got *two* call-outs in the courtroom this morning. Kind of a dream come true.

Justice Alito should bring this sensibility to his effective assistance of counsel jurisprudence!

I'm stunned. Rachel Maddow spent a full 3 minutes tonight detailing the arguments I make in my amicus curiae brief in the birthright citizenship case. Here's hoping Sam Alito and Neil Gorsuch are regular Maddow Show watchers! 😉 www.youtube.com/live/e5u_Dmb...

I'm stunned. Rachel Maddow spent a full 3 minutes tonight detailing the arguments I make in my amicus curiae brief in the birthright citizenship case. Here's hoping Sam Alito and Neil Gorsuch are regular Maddow Show watchers! 😉 www.youtube.com/live/e5u_Dmb...

In my amicus curiae brief in the birthright citizenship case, I show that the U.S. recognized as citizens children born to (1) Japanese enemy aliens, (2) US citizenship renunciants, and even (3) people dragged to the US from Peru and held for deportation. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

You cannot make this shit up — UNC is hosting an “AI for the Public Good” conference. Tickets for this event, conceived of and held at a publicly funded university, are $250. 🙃

What an odd take. I've been on college campuses since 1994. There have been countless events worthy of big protests over that time -- and almost no sizable protests. The question is the opposite of the one this piece asks: why has there been only one seize-the-campus-style protest in decades?

Pssst, hey, you, thinking about #lawschool? Let me fill you in on something. The so-called "socratic method" in most of your classes will really just be a reading quiz. With your reading assignment open in front of you.

I can say only that the right place for this obscenity of a planning session was a space called the Indian Treaty Room. #skystorians

1925 called and they want their antisemitic stabbed-in-the -back myth back.

Check out the twink in this weird new #DHS Bobby Kennedy #MAHA video. (There's also a person dressed as a dessert pastry.)

Until this, my 64th turn around the sun, I'd had one encounter w/ out-loud antisemitism. In a store, a salesman accused a guy of trying to "Jew" him on a price. In the last 6 weeks I've had three. All conventional anti-Jewish things. None of them about Israel, Gaza, etc. Something has shifted.

This is a peak UNC Chapel Hill story. They've put a popular undergrad tour guide on probation after an undercover UNC employee went on her tour and disapproved of a few things she said. It's astonishing how fragile this university often is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThTSf6dk/ #academicsky

This is a peak UNC Chapel Hill story. They've put a popular undergrad tour guide on probation after an undercover UNC employee went on her tour and disapproved of a few things she said. It's astonishing how fragile this university often is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThTSf6dk/ #academicsky

Two critical reviews have appeared of the @maddow.bsky.social podcast "Burn Order" on Japanese American incarceration -- mine and Scott Kurashige's. densho.org/catalyst/mul... substack.com/home/post/p-... Will @maddowblog.bsky.social be acknowledging and responding to the critiques? #skystorians

SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS. Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.

Consider.

"Burn Order," the new @ms.now podcast from @maddow.bsky.social on Japanese American internment in WWII, is gripping, dramatic ... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. Read my review at densho.org/catalyst/mul... #skystorians #lawsky #history #bluesky #podcasts

"Burn Order," the new @ms.now podcast from @maddow.bsky.social on Japanese American internment in WWII, is gripping, dramatic ... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. Read my review at densho.org/catalyst/mul... #skystorians #lawsky #history #bluesky #podcasts

"Burn Order," the new @ms.now podcast from @maddow.bsky.social on Japanese American internment in WWII, is gripping, dramatic ... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. Read my review at densho.org/catalyst/mul... #skystorians #lawsky #history #bluesky #podcasts

I'm thrilled this morning to see my amicus curiae brief about birthright citizenship as one of just 2 (out of 43 filed!) singled out by @stevevladeck.bsky.social in his newsletter "One First." The brief is here: tinyurl.com/3hy76638 Please help spread the word! #lawsky

Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties. #lawsky #skystorians tinyurl.com/3hy76638

Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties. #lawsky #skystorians tinyurl.com/3hy76638

Evergreen

Allusive historical essays are the bracing tonic our crisis demands.

Remember this? #skystorians

Where we're headed. #skystorians #nps #nationalparks

People need to ask the creators of the film SAPIRO V FORD why they're presenting the work as their own without crediting (or even mentioning!) the book on which the film is based by legal historian Victoria Woeste. Kinda scandalous. @victoriawoeste.bsky.social #academicsky #lawsky #skystorians

Never let it be said that @law.harvard.edu doesn't teach you how to write a precise Question Presented #lawsky #academicsky

It's International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Of all the photos from this era I've seen - and I've seen a lot - this one is the most arresting. March 1944, deportation of the Jews of Ioannina, Greece. A young woman sees a loved one taken away. #Holocaust #skystorians

I can't think of a worse title for a documentary about Elie Wiesel. #documentary #movies #holocaust

Our shape-shifting Second Amendment, ladies and gentlemen. #SecondAmendment #guns #KristNoem #Minneapolis #ICE

You can take the lawprof outta Wyoming, but you can't take Wyoming outta the lawprof.

Works better in the original: 𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖀𝕾 𝕭𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕻𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖑, 𝕴 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖑 𝖘𝖆𝖞 𝖚𝖓𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖛𝖔𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖜𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖊𝖝𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖗𝖊𝖓

If you're looking for more reasons to detest the #Greenland move, consider this: 90% of inhabitants are indigenous. A repeat of the 1867 Alaska Purchase, a transaction between U.S. & Russia that ignored native (Tlingit, Inupiat, Yupik) sovereignty entirely. We're redoing the 19th century, folks.

If you're looking for more reasons to detest the #Greenland move, consider this: 90% of inhabitants are indigenous. A repeat of the 1867 Alaska Purchase, a transaction between U.S. & Russia that ignored native (Tlingit, Inupiat, Yupik) sovereignty entirely. We're redoing the 19th century, folks.

This "height of irony" is what Alito and company rely on to conclude that rights to (for example) privacy and bodily autonomy don't exist: X was forbidden in the past, so this shows there's no right to X. Isn't that the height of irony? #lawsky #guns #SecondAmendment

I've just posted a draft essay called "Tradition Without Text?" (forthcoming in Duke Law Journal Online). It critiques Dobbs for using crude positive-law proxies to identify "historical understandings of ordered liberty." papers.ssrn.com/abstract=609...

"Reign of Blows" by XTC, 1984.

I can recall a time when I would've gotten a screen saying the National Archives' website was down and thought, "huh, guess it's just a technical glitch," and moved on. #acacemicsky #skystorians

Now let's talk football programs, smartypants #academicsky

Diagnosis: contusion to manhood #reneegood #ice #internalbleeding #lies

So the administration's demanding lists of Jews. What's the big deal?

Hey White House, I fixed it for you.

If there's ever a contest for "Eulogy as Self-Promotion," this one from Robert George will be my entry. TL;DR -- "Bob Weir died. Did you know I'm an amazing banjo player?"

Book recommendation: "The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told" by Keith Richotte, Jr. This is a wonderful and *highly* entertaining account of the development of Indian law. I learned a lot!!! #indianlaw #law #constitution @skystorians @lawsky