A school district bars its students from referring to female classmates using the word “bitch.” The plaintiffs in this case believe that girls are bitches. They want to express this view by saying “bitch.” And they believe that they would convey a falsehood—that girls aren't bitches—if they use ...

When we teach our students how to be lawyers, we are also teaching them how to be human beings. These gloating coins reflect a problem within the profession.

UPDATE: Here's the written district court order that the Trump administration pay full SNAP benefit payments for this month by Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... DOJ has already filed a notice of appeal to the First Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Seven lawsuits allege OpenAI encouraged suicide and harmful delusions. The suits represent four people who died by suicide and three more who experienced psychological trauma following interactions with ChatGPT.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

How does the Dem Party not have up a running tally of all the cancelled flights? Make it look like an airport arrivals board and auto-port in the data. Should take a couple hours to get online, max.

Henceforth, Nov 6th should be National Sandwich Throwing Day!

This is incredible.

Sabrina Shroff's reputation is intact. 🤩

The jury trial, ladies and gentleman teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...

You can indict a ham sandwich, sure. But can you convict it?

Please, please, please let a juror throw a sandwich at lunch.

Amusing myself thinking of alternative headlines for the Douthat column. “Women, will they ever shut up?” “Why won’t women smile more?” “Have women said thank you even once?” “Do women lack a sense of humor and is that why they never laugh at my jokes and witticisms?”

‼️ (real ones know this is a hobbyhorse of mine, as the Supreme Court has on multiple occasions effectively accepted the administration's argument that being forced to follow the law constitutes irreparable harm warranting a stay of an injunction)

Ellis starting the day off by reading out Carl Sandburg's poem "Chicago" in its entirety.

Big results in PA's Dauphin County, a swingy area that's home to Harrisburg. Dems won judgeships in the county for first time in 33 years; one of winners is the first Black woman judge in county ever. They beat the Republican DA who was looking to become a judge. www.pennlive.com/elections/20...

Sometimes little races say just as much as big ones.

Tariff issue up at SCOTUS today:👉🏾 “the question presented is: Whether IEEPA authorized the President to impose tariffs.”⚖️💰

Humanities programs have 3 perfect tools here: "There's a reason they don't want you studying it" paired with "The only way to tear this down and rebuild is by practicing the empathy, understanding, and critical thought that can come with studying the humanities" and "We're already doing it."

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

Bucks County ousts ALL Republicans from the Central Bucks and Pennridge school boards after both school boards were ground zero for anti-trans policies in 2021. The wave is receding.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Ok, one last race call for the night from a bellwether county... The Democrats have FLIPPED the Erie County, PA (Trump+1) County Executive position by 24 POINTS!

Mary Sheffield will become the first woman elected mayor of Detroit, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4oRiL7z

Ok this wins the night. (Love that book)

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

First Asian American mayor of Cincinnati! Lots of firsts tonight. First Muslim woman as Lt. Gov. of VA First woman Governor of VA People are voting for the America they want. Powerfully. And it MEANS something. They’re voting against what they DON’T want. Take heart!

Another often overlooked but important election. Loudoun County Public Schools has been ground zero for targeting by the Trump administration over trans students, and chose to protect their students. Pro-trans candidates Chandler and Svenson are winning, and anti-trans Munoz-Melendez is losing.

NBC News projects that Pennsylvania will retain all 3 Democratic state Supreme Court justices. Its a complete and total loss for Republicans tonight. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

just in: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner is on track to win easily. With roughly a quarter of the vote reporting, he leads Pat Dugan 81% to 19%. Krasner already beat Dugan in the Dem primary... and Dugan kept running as the GOP nominee. (My write-up: boltsmag.org/2025-prosecu...)

I mean, retention is up 3:1 in Bucks county, which is generally a nearly even bellwether. Seems conclusive to me.

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

Kansas doesn't have the votes to redistrict, Sharice Davids' seat won't be touched. apnews.com/article/redi...

MSNBC now projects that Abigail Spanberger will win the Governor's race in Virginia.

Bari Weiss directed that 60 Minutes cede editorial control over the Trump interview to Trump. He then proceeded to edit out the most significant passages of the interview. newrepublic.com/post/202618/...

Here's what that looked like. Tactical excellence.

(Not paying out any SNAP benefits is violating the court order. She can insist they're complying all she wants, but that doesn't make it true.)

Turnout is pretty good at my small precinct with nothing on the ballot but judicial retention and uncontested school board elections. I feel pretty good about that.

MacKenzie Scott was taught and mentored by Toni Morrison, who was her professor at Princeton. Mentoring matters! It is some of the most important work that we do. #ProfessorLife

Get out to #vote today! If you’re in #Philly use the @reclaimphila.bsky.social voter guide! www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/blog/2025/10...

1/ Louisiana's AG is pushing for SCOTUS to overrule its bar on executing youth so she can reinstate a child's death sentence. Why now? Because "the conservative vs. liberal justices" balance has shifted, prosecutors told a state district court. state-law-research.org/wp-content/u...

Election Day visitor

State College is a hotbed of communication law/First Amendment issues in large part because of Penn State's Board of Trustees and their never-ending campaign for secrecy. A real bummer on the whole in terms of transparency and accountability, but it sure makes for interesting class examples...

This book is a huge achievement. It was my privilege, along with @megdeguzman.bsky.social and the Temple Int'l & Comp. Law Journal, to host a symposium engaging with it. For those of you who feel that Oxford Handbooks just aren't long enough, never fear: the symposium issue will be out soon.

Let's go vote, Pennsylvania!

TLDR: the late Devah Pager finds that stores that engage in discrimination were more likely to close in six years than those who didn't. Do with that what you will. 🤷🏿‍♀️

POLLING PLACES ARE OPEN ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Hello, Pennsylvania. Constitutional rights are nice things to have. Tomorrow we should keep three Justices who feel the same way. mailchi.mp/526fbe67aac2...