Re-reading Paul Lombardo's original "Three Generations of Imbeciles," and my goodness it is terrific. I don't think the article is publicly available, but SSRN has the intro from the eventual book: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Have a look. The case was so much worse than you realize.

On the other hand even Mathews balancing is better than

our family, allegedly

miss you boss now and always

First up is the great @cary-coglianese.bsky.social , who considers genAI's propensity to offer language with a confident tone & whether it can satisfy the APA's requirement for reasoned decisionmaking. www.yalejreg.com/nc/ai-taxi-d...

Over at the Yale Journal on Regulation's blog, @j-p-a.bsky.social and I have put together a 🔥 symposium for you on the intersection of AI and administrative law. This symposium is for AI skeptics, AI believers, and everyone in between. Come join us! www.yalejreg.com/topic/sympos...

each time I teach W Va v EPA I am worse at sincerely communicating the legal arguments of the majority

WHATS THAT MISTER PRESIDENT?

it's remarkable how many of these become songs i kinda groove too after a decade passes it's like a 4th cousin of comedy = tragedy + time

PLEASE STOP SENDING ME EMAILS OF ANY SHAPE SIZE OR KIND, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Sca-li-a. I just met a judge named “Scalia”! And suddenly that name will never be the same to me.

Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

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SHE’S READY FOR THE OLYMPICS BUT ARE THE OLYMPICS READY FOR HER

someone should write about this www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-buy-a-g...

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

Ben, Leondra, RonNell, Sambhu—you know what you did. Thank you for your friendship, and for your love.

New at Can We Still Govern: NIH scientist @markhisted.org reviews the damage done to American biomedical science in the last year and looks ahead: "Scientists should not be political partisans, but they should be partisans for liberal democratic principles."🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/american-b...

man it fees good to write a review of academic work that’s like “damn this person is doing it right”

Yeah, I probably decline 2/3 of my interview requests. Assuming they're from a reputable outlet, I generally try to put them on to someone else, if I can.

worst structural con law decision in the 20th century

I've just uploaded a revised version of "The Chadha Presidency" to SSRN. The revisions both account for some incredibly helpful feedback I've gotten from colleagues and also bring the discussion of the Trump presidency up to date (as of today). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This. It’s not just the ethical thing to do; it’s super satisfying!

My second favorite thing to do other than agreeing to do any interview? “I’m not the person you want. Talk to my colleague at XYZ law school, ____.”

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

structural arguments have their place but don’t ever ever ever ever forget that it’s just humans upon humans and that the battleground is to love or to hate, to see the humanity in the other or to be blind to it

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

this is what lies behind midwest nice dont mistake us

when i think about the amount of [Polish Tradition] Days and [Italian Tradition] Days and [Greek Tradition] Days we grew up with in school, the thought that any of this would be remotely contestable causes a brain bleed

WHO TOLD HIM THE SOCRATIC METHOD

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this is what lies behind midwest nice dont mistake us

o the happiness it gives me to use late 90s bill simmons screen shots for my leg reg class

[For more on the unitary executive theory, check out our virtual event with @sam-breidbart.bsky.social @jdmortenson.bsky.social @wuc3.bsky.social and Yale Law Dean Cristina Rodriguez: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qvx...

Friedman & Mortenson Constitutional Law is currently sold out of literally every outlet because the uptake of adoptions continues at such an astonishing rate. (2x adoptions Spring 2026 vs Spring 2025 😱) 9 out of 10 dentists agree: don't walk, run to adopt this exceptional platform next year 😇

i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*

I absolutely thought the shares of this tweet were disinformation no. this is in fact a currently available department of labor post

“HALT, SIR, ARE YOU CURRENTLY ENGAGING IN CORRUPTION, I MUST FRISK YOU FOR EVIDENCE” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Part of the horror of Good’s killing, in the video, is precisely its deeply gendered dynamic: a man responded with murderous violence to a woman’s perceived subversion of his male authority. This gender violence aspect is not mooted by Ross’s simultaneous status as an enforcer of federal policy.

I find myself with some prettay mixed feelings around social media’s egging on / celebration of people intensely confronting ice agents Not despite but magnified by the Minneapolis homicide

This is the REAL power of federalism. Not the 10th Amendment, or the commerce clause (dormant or otherwise), or any of that stuff. It's staffing. For all its bluster, fed law enforcement is REALLY thinly staffed for a nation of our size. Structurally, makes SUSTAINED authoritarianism REALLY hard.

From my colleague Clark Neily yesterday: "If you were stuck in a cage with a gun, two bullets, and qualified immunity, absolute prosecutorial immunity, and the judicially fantasized presumption of regularity for govt litigants, what would you do? Shoot the presumption of regularity—twice." /3

New from me at Cato: In the National Guard case, Justice Alito wrote in dissent that "under the presumption of regularity, the Court must presume that the President properly arrived at his determination.” That raises a good question: does the behavior of the Executive still merit that presumption?

When I am president, any company putting stuff in welded plastic packaging will immediately have all of their assets appropriated.

I ❤️ NY

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

if you’re in the mood for a pick-me-up 💪