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At least it’s iris season

BIG NEWS: Liberal Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht leaves the Democratic Party. “Nazi tattoos, jihadist chants, intimidation and attacks at synagogues, and other hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions are minimized, ignored, and even coddled,” Wecht said.

At least it’s iris season

For all the talk of how Democrats aren't close enough to the mainstream, only Republicans act—consistently, through all of their members in every branch, federal and state—as if they know there is no chance they could hold power in anything resembling a free and fair election.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

sorry I'm crowd-sourcing this, but ... ... what have been some of the most wild/fringe post-Students for Fair Admission cases where groups are arguing that schools (or employers) are discriminating on the basis of race in violation of SFFA (basically bc they admit/hire racial minorities)?

Happy Monday & your reminder that a healthy democracy requires people to believe that others deserve dignity, opportunity, and rights. The moment a society decides that some groups are less deserving of protection, freedom, or belonging, democracy itself begins to erode

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

an anti-endorsement from Jonathan Turley is a pretty good endorsement

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Phillies hitting the bombs for the moms!

It will be hilarious when AI turns evil after reading that AI was evil.

I left off an even more staggering way that Republicans have subverted state Supreme Court elections in Georgia—by canceling them. Republicans already did this in advance of some elections this decade to postpone them by two years, but in theory they could take things even further:

America's Greatest City

As you know, amazing things can happen when law students go deep on unexplored issues of state constitutional law.

Law students should be taking State Constitutional Law. If your law school doesn’t offer it, ask for it.

A must-read thread 🧵

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

THAT BALL'S OUTTA HERE! Justin Crawford Distance: 361 ft📏 EV: 96.6 mph💨 Launch: 35°🚀 HR in: 8 of 30 Parks🏟 #RingTheBell

Watching Suffs and it’s hitting particularly hard in light of recent news.

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

Not a good sign for abortion remaining legal in Utah.

Not enough of us are yelling about how unhinged (and entertaining) the OpenAI trial is. A judge who bars Elon Musk from comparing things to the Terminator? Elon Musk getting combative with his own attorney?? A witness who, instead of saying "I don't recall," says, "it's not in my neurons"???

Just to be clear, Justice Alito's majority opinion in Callais goes out of its way to purport to distinguish the 2023 ruling in the Alabama case. Now comes Alabama asking the Court to say "actually, these cases *aren't* different, and Justice Kagan's charge to that effect in her dissent was correct."

I am unbelievably cynical at this point, but this has astonished me, too.

🚨 BREAKING: Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen has resigned effective immediately. Hagen has been under fire from Republican legislative leaders after allegations she had an inappropriate relationship with one of the lawyers in the redistricting lawsuit.

“None of this drew any objection from the Supreme Court. Some of it they explicitly endorsed. That semester, my professors informed me that the Supreme Court is our nation’s bulwark against strongmen, and its justices are the last great protectors of minority rights and the separation of powers.”

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

ICYMI: A US judge blasted the Trump administration’s DOGE project for relying on artificial intelligence tools as it orchestrated roughly $100 million in cuts to federal funding for humanities programs last year buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Never change, Philly

I wrote about the emails Josh Shapiro didn't want you to see, exposing too-cozy ties between Pa. gov and Amazon, whose $20B plan for loud, energy-guzzling data centers across the state has sparked a citizen revolt Amazon delivers a political headache. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/tech...

Do. Not. Look. Away.

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

Among the most disturbing parts of a recent conversation I had with a number of biglaw partners re use of AI* in legal practice was their wilful ignorance re what the technologies actually *were*, leading to a kind of cargo cult reverence for the wonderful mystery of AI*. /1

Universities Should Make Our Own Software, Please. I Know It Is Expensive. But Our Course Content Matters To Our Mission And Should Not Be Given To These Dingbats.

There is not enough discussion of the EEOC's lawsuit against @nytimes.com for discriminating against a white man. Here's a gift link. Let's get into it.🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

feels like things are escalating rapidly, doesn’t feel great. revoking documents being required in my state to prove citizenship to vote for any reason feels like a significant escalation.

Dear Canvas Hackers, Please improve my course evaluations to reflect a perfect score on all questions and add some comments about how much my common law lectures are beloved.

I administer my final exam for my undergrads using the Canvas platform. Most of my students took my exam yesterday, but two of my students were literally typing their answers into Canvas when this happened....

I am going to be very upset if my memo comments get leaked as part of this Canvas hack. Everyone is going to know my thoughts on "As such," expletive constructions, the lonely "this," why you shouldn't predict what the other side will argue, and so much more!

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

I guffawed.

Roughly speaking every additional seat requires the Dems to win by ~1/3% nationally more than they already had to. 6 stolen seats is roughly 2% more -- or stealing the votes of more than 2 Million voters in the midterms.

Literally wrapping oneself in a partisan flag, to render it (supposedly) impossible to disentangle racism from partisanship... the contemptible politics that Rucho, Callais, and this Court have wrought.

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