Every time someone posts a link to a new Chotiner interview.

I know everyone talks about AI as the great "access to justice" solution, but I like what our living breathing judges and administrators are doing out here in Washington! www.courts.wa.gov/self-help/ap... 1/

Justin Timberlake song about the Salhyr, which flows through Simferopol.

This is true. Too much practical stuff to learn in law school. Only so much of it can be done during 1L legal writing. An ask for employers who supervise summer interns: Instead of thinking "How did they not learn this in law school!??!" please take an opportunity to do some practical teaching!

Commenting on student papers.

Very good news for the Rule of Law . . .

Love this distinction. They will turn it off if the government "violates the rules" but not if they "disagree" with the government's "legal decision" that the government did something that didn't violate the rules?

Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.

"strains the rules"

"Summer Girls" by LFO came out in 1999, with these lines: You're the best girl that I ever did see The great Larry Bird, jersey 33 When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets & New Kids On The Block had a bunch of hits Chinese food makes me sick

Oh my: "Rather than look for what the Citizenship Clause meant to white supremacists in the 1880s, the Court should start with the common meaning of the words at ratification."

Just like the best music is always the music that came out when you were in high school and college, the best Bluebook edition is the one that came out when you were in law school. That's just how it works.

18th edition is still the best.

For those asking, this is the Bluebook order of authorities rule: "Authorities should be ordered in a logical manner. If one authority or several authorities together are considerably more helpful or authoritative than the other authorities cited within a signal, they should precede the others."

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

I continue to be confused by this "state sponsor" language. With terrorism, it makes sense that the state is sponsoring terrorism by non-state entities. But the detention is just being done by the state itself. They are not sponsoring it; they are just *doing* it, right?

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

I need this before the NCAA tournament starts so I can run the Bluebook abbreviation bracket.

Oh my: "Rather than look for what the Citizenship Clause meant to white supremacists in the 1880s, the Court should start with the common meaning of the words at ratification."

And the state coverage formula in the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional because it improperly singled out states

@ifbookspod.bsky.social Next?

Justice Montoya-Lewis authored an opinion that included a star footnote thanking an extern. Justice Madsen concurred just to say that she didn't join the star footnote. Fascinating look behind the curtain! (I agree that avoiding such FNs is probably best.) www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

You should be able to just abbreviate it as FCC under Rule 6.1(b).

Bluebook abbreviations in general are stupid but abbreviating the Federal Communications Commission to “Fed. Commc’ns Comm’n” is doing psychic damage to me.

There's a Bluebook quiz on LinkedIn designed by someone whose profile name is just Joseph K. (though not Josef K.) and, given the endless complexity of the Bluebook, I think that's just a bit too on the nose.

Seems like the examples of "caused by intentional misconduct" here don't involve misconduct by the primary person responsible. It's the difference between Elaine being responsible for the lost coat bc she chucked it out the window and being responsible bc she was "in charge of coats."

I'm old enough to remember when "negligently" meant something different from "intentionally and maliciously".

For those of you who like to use Seinfeld when discussing statutory interpretation, here's something for you from the Supreme Court today:

Seems like the examples of "caused by intentional misconduct" here don't involve misconduct by the primary person responsible. It's the difference between Elaine being responsible for the lost coat bc she chucked it out the window and being responsible bc she was "in charge of coats."

It's funny how sometimes an opinion begins with something like "We begin with the text of the statute and its reasonable interpretation" and other times it begins with "Here's a lot of background to explain why we don't want to interpret the words to mean what they say."

I generally agree. I suspect people's disagreements about the goodness of AI are less about using different models or not knowing how to prompt, and more about how we think about legal work, how we do legal work, what parts we value, and what we consider helpful.

J'Accuse!

I understand why they do it, but every time the announcers excitedly say "Jack Hughes!" using his full name, I hear "J'Accuse!"

Bees are fish. Fish are not tangible objects. And...

Early stages of a citation study. Looking at citations in the Wash. Ct. of App. before and after the Sup. Ct. said no horiz. precedent w/in the Ct. of App. My first rough run of the numbers: Before rule: 62% sup. ct. cites, 38% ct. app. cites. After rule: 62% sup. ct. cites, 38% ct. app. cites. ???

The problem, of course, is that this answer is not correct.

Also it's divisible by 3.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

As someone on the board of two mentorship-based organizations, I had no idea "mentee" was at all controversial. I'll need to research this!

Your honor, I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future.

bro if you think the bluebook is bad get a load of mla 9th edition lawyers have it so good

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

TIL what the Clever Hans effect is and goddamn if that doesn't just perfectly describe the AI hype. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_...

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