The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

I remember when Nick at Nite used to show Leave it to Beaver. Now, it shows Friends and I hate everything.

"Worst of the worst"

It’s fascinating that the young folks at CPAC use “J-pilled” to describe “skepticism of Israeli influence.” I guess the J must stand for “Jisrael”!

More research showing how AI chatbots often show “sycophantic” behavior( agreeing with and flattering users) which makes people trust them more but can reinforce bad judgments and reduce accountability in conflicts. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This response from @gowder.io to the “engagement question” is absolutely brilliant & 🔥. Worth reading the whole thing. We ought to be carefully considering our role as con law scholars, but that needn’t counsel abandonment of the enterprise of legal argument. balkin.blogspot.com/2026/03/poli...

Chaotic Evil is a bad alignment for a Secretary of Defense.

As Justices Sotomayor & Jackson note in their dissent from the denial of cert, the Louisiana courts are basically in "open defiance" of the U.S. Supreme Court when it comes to Brady v. Maryland. (They cited my amicus brief for the point, which you can read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).

Gerrymandering is out of control!

Asked Claude to make a clickable map of the US for an app I'm building and it did not do great on its first attempt.

Proud that our brief was featured in the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... And Wurman can bite me with this. These were not a handful of authors, they were the primary authors who the government is relying on, either directly or indirectly

You had me at "thought experiment with Martians."

Yes, I am the Law. At least the Law referenced in this post below and in the generous blurbs for my book. Thanks, Professor Solum for the shout out.

My state constitutional law casebook, which I coauthored with Marcus Garson and Jon Marshfield, is now out! I’m excited to be (mostly) done (though the teachers manual is forthcoming) and to share this with everyone. If you have any questions about the book or might consider adopting it, reach out!

The Originalist Case For Whatever Donald Trump Wants To Do This Time

Yvette Lindgren & I have a new essay recently accepted by Southern California Law Review! "The Post-Dobbs Abortion Irony" explores how abortion bans only seem to be chilling medically necessary abortions while everyday abortions are increasing everywhere. 1/4 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My current prediction for the Citizenship Clause litigation: Plurality of Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Roberts, and Barrett adopt a "middle ground" position similar to Tom Lee's new article about tourists vs immigrants. Liberals concur in the judgment. Alito and Thomas dissent. 1/

This is the question I wake up with and go to bed with every day and the rest of my real life is just a deserpate and failing attempt to avoid the question, since I have no answer for it. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Delighted to review @azizaahmed.bsky.social's terrific book "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of Aids" at JOTWELL: health.jotwell.com/public-healt...

It's disconcerting that Trump still has near complete control over the Republican Party with these poll numbers. Ambition is failing to counteract ambition.

Well this is exciting. My book First Woman Judge is an Amazon Hot Release, #1 New Release in Gender & Law.

A new book chronicles the evolution of legal education over 200 years at #UVALaw.

A rich person's life is worth more (in a lawsuit) than a poor person's.

If reports are true that the US is using commercial genAI systems for targeting, I wonder if that meets the standard of "recklessness." It's not an easy analysis because the models are non-deterministic and are essentially a black box.

I'm perpetually fascinated/horrified at the coalition of white evangelical Christians and wackos like Yarvin who subscribe to a deranged occultism.

Checking in on the Dark Enlightenment

A timely and vital Q&A on Historian's briefs before the Supreme Court in Modern American History. Explores the difference between "law office history" and the requirement of "relevance" in amicus briefs, and how relevance often limits the ability of briefs to lay bare societal myths and falsehoods.

Law professor beefs are just wrestling kayfabe in order to trick innocents into reading our scholarship.

One lesson from Italian history: the lawyers and law professors who are still celebrated to this day are those who stood up to fascism, putting their reputation and career on the line; not the ones who hid behind supposed academic collegiality & so contributed to legitimise those supporting fascism

Our military strategy is being determined by a man who wrote an entire book ("American Marxism") about the evil influence of the Frankfurt School but called it the "Franklin School" throughout. What could go wrong?

Same is true in a classroom.

Braylon Mullins had his breakout game against KU at Allen Fieldhouse. My assessment at that time was that he could hit a shot from anywhere with no space. He is a walking bucket.

HOLY SHIT UCONN

OMG!!!!!!

IMHO, Keaton Wagler's best NBA comp is Shaun Livingston. And I'm not sure if that is a compliment or a curse. Wagner is a better shooter, but his offensive game inside the arc is remarkably similar to Livingston's.

If I was UConn's coach, I would tell my team to score more.

A chatbot trained entirely on the writings of Dorothy Parker

Is it possible for both Duke and Dan Hurley to lose?

Mission accomplished. Sorry @jcsalterego.bsky.social

While @samuelmoyn.bsky.social recent post series received a lot of backlash, I thought his comparison between the Citizenship Clause and NFIB commerce clause litigation was apt. People who weren't active scholars in the area don't fully appreciate how the argument was invented out of whole cloth. 1/

The police are overfunded almost everywhere and some level of defunding would be sane fiscal management, not radical leftism

Thousands. Are you sure, the New York Times? Thousands?

There were over 8 million No Kings protesters today. That's the combined population of the 10 smallest states. Give the No Kings movement 20 Senators.

This story actually makes sense when you realize RFK Jr has no idea what the map of the Middle East looks like and Trump was just drawing random lines and numbers. It's a confederacy of dunces.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

With the broken horn in the IA v IL game, the scorers seem to be using a handheld air horn and it's hilarious.

They stopped the horn after about 12.5 minutes but they had to shut the scoreboard off to do it

Horn fixed. Damn it.