Want to learn more about how SCOTUS screwed up equal protection, from ratification through Skrmetti v US (2025)? Read my latest www.cato.org/sites/cato.o...

Want to learn more about how SCOTUS screwed up equal protection, from ratification through Skrmetti v US (2025)? Read my latest www.cato.org/sites/cato.o...

Having fun (including with friends) in 🗽 after a hectic few months of work. Needed this.

I’ve gotten more threats on Bluesky, which I use less often. YMMV

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Autumn Shades : Melancholy drifts, Autumn’s breath touches, … within- Fall colors abide ~ #senryu #nature #poetrycommunity #haiku #HaikuSaturday #poetry #haikuchallenge #poet @bleuowl.bsky.social

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Like what business does the United States have responding at all "Brazil's supreme court has--" mind ya bidness

Always great chatting with @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/09/marr...

Morning hike

Charlie Kirk was a person. He might not have cared if I died, but if I don’t care that he died then I’ve already lost. I believe in the dignity of all human beings and I want to live in a society that treats each of us as sacred and ensouled.

BREAKING: Supreme Court *denies* an emergency request from South Carolina to let a public school bar a transgender boy from the boys' bathroom. Justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch dissent.

All murder is wrong. Categorically. That value should unite us, not divide us. I honestly didn’t know that much about Charlie Kirk beyond the basics. No one deserves let alone should be murdered for sharing their views in a public fora. Everyone should condemn this murder.

Texas is going to execute a man who is innocent of the crime, because there was no crime.

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

Things are going great!

NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...

The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

29 Jul 25 - Natl Women's Law Center--a stand-out among women's groups in supporting trans ppl--files suit against EEOC for violating civil rights law by stopping processing of all trans workplace complaints. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

What I’ve learned from British cozy murder shows is that you should never look at someone and say “What are YOU doing here?” Just avoid that phrase altogether.

I spent a year doing misdemeanor defense, and if you are at all interested in the justice system, I cannot recommend enough that you spend some time watching a misdemeanor docket. It does not feel low-stakes to the people involved.

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

A thing that fascists do is appropriate and redefine left concepts until everyone forgets what they described in the first place

Extravagant spending by an arbitrary executive. You don’t say.

A newspaper wrecked on purpose.

NEWS: DOJ filed its notice of appeal in the WilmerHale case, again waiting about as long as possible to appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The United Methodist building next to SCOTUS has opinions.

Faith through action… www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-i...

Heading into NYC for a live shot, and this is the sign on one of the overpasses

hi

con law prof here. Wut.

The Bates family moved from Tennessee to Nicodemus, Kansas during the Black homesteading movement. African Americans successfully homesteaded in all the Great Plains states. The Nicodemus Town Company was formed in 1877 by 7 Kansans (1 white & 6 Black). Today 45 descendants reside in the community.

The NYT ethos: we will scrupulously and conspicuously use “whom” but we are kind of on the fence about freedom

DOJ filed an emergency motion at the DC Circuit today for a stay pending appeal and administrative stay request in the case over Trump's effort to fire Rebecca Slaughter as an FTC commissioner. (The district court, unsurprisingly, sided with Slaughter, b/c of Humphey's Executor.)

The party of limited government.

"Gabriel" shared this pic with us from where he was harvesting eggplants in CA Central Valley. He earned min. wage. Harvesting eggplants take skill as they don't change color to signal ripeness. one needs experience to rely on factors like skin sheen, firmness & size. #WeFeedYou

New art.

The "financial decision" being "it is expensive to mock a President who will fuck with our businesses"

Chicago Law Review is open, Georgetown LJ is open, Yale opens tomorrow--Mid-July is the new August 1st!

ausmashmash Ashley Photographer East Coast of Australia "Here's a little #wildlifewednesday moment for you, filmed only an hour ago, as this gorgeous humpback descends into the water right on sunset, ready for the night to take over"

Last year I argued my first motion to dismiss in Delaware Chancery and won. Today, that decision was affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court. 🥳 courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better