Apache Stronghold would like a word!

Again: what are the liberal justices doing

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

I get why homogeneity happens and agree that the average article is too long, but imo the solution is not "let's make them all 40 pages instead of 50" but rather to let them diversify in form

Someone should start an inverse JOTWELL that just publishes vicious personal attacks on bad legal scholarship

Engaging in some nonjudicial functions this beautiful autumn afternoon

I don't have it fully fleshed out but my (serious) working thesis is: this is all pretty much Yale and Harvard's fault

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

had no idea this existed. time for an extremely targeted real estate search

Writing truly the most unhinged personal jurisdiction practice question of all time

fascinated by the concept of an anti-David Lat protest

RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)

As I've said before it's genuinely insane to say "democratic accountability requires the president to be able to fire everyone EXCEPT the guys that press the 'more unemployment' button"

our best scientists have finally created the Objective Reality Destroyer from the classic science fiction story, "Dont Create the Objective Reality Destroyer."

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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Just posted a new essay with @williambaude.bsky.social and Sam Bray - "Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis" (forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Did I miss the declaration of a national emergency related to foreign cinema, or are they not even pretending to bother with statutory authority anymore?

At home: if I see anything other than a chicken nugget on my plate, so help me god, I will burn this place to the ground At restaurant: hark! Do I espy a balsamic glazed flatbread? Pray tell, good sir, is the pesto made in house?

just one more exclusionary pricing structure bro, it'll work this time, people will start paying for news, I swear bro, it's totally consistent with the democratic ethos of journalism to charge more for breaking news, paywalls work I promise

been thinking a lot about Whitney lately

After extensive research I have concluded that literally no one knows what "the shared interest of the several states in furthering fundamental social policies" in the personal jurisdiction test means

Most law schools have substantially increased the median LSAT and UGPA scores of their incoming classes in the last decade. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/a...

They’ll stop at nothing to get that merger approved

I'm sorry—WHAT

Yup, and for the reasons stated. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The @zachlowenba.bsky.social "favorite non-Finals NBA teams of the 2010s" draft was an incredible conversation. I personally think about the mid-decade Blazers every day, but getting reminded about the post-Melo nuggets was such a perfect way to start the day.

classic example of a Nudge

"The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings."

wonder what they're gonna do

Not to belabor the point everyone's making about how this will immediately go in every civ pro syllabus, but: it's all the more extraordinary because Rule 12 lets the court sua sponte strike the pleading for the same reasons. going to Rule 8 is basically "this is so bad we don't even make it to 12"

all I can say is the NBA can’t start soon enough.

Not trying to discourage comments — you should absolutely do it!— but I just went and looked at the statute and there's just absolutely no way this proposed rule holds up? The statute isn't remotely ambiguous.

this reminds me of the time in 16U I pitched six shutout innings, we were up 7-0, and the coach put his son in (and made me experience it firsthand as the catcher) to walk in eight runs to lose the game

Climate change is causing excess deaths at every scale, from global trends in the burden of disease down to the number of people who die in the first 24 hours of a heat wave or hurricane.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

the Supreme Court is averaging about as third as many decisions per year as it did in the 80s; meanwhile a literal third of the court is on a book tour right now.

*Extremely* interesting case.

If I had a nickel for every time the epic sci fi series I was deeply engrossed in randomly and rapidly shifted to bone-chilling space horror I'd have two nickels. Which isn't that many but it's weird it has happened twice.

I don’t think in the abstract “the president has an absolute authority to remove executive branch officer” is an unreasonable constitutional position. I think it’s wrong but not absurd. But if that’s what the Supreme Court wants the rule to be, they should say it.

Wright on Well-Behavred Artificial Superintelligence, buff.ly/XbcjGSW - R. George Wright (Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law) has posted Some Concerns About Generally Well-Behaved Artificial Superintelligence on SSRN.

Have had my EV for a week now and the thing I've been thinking about most is —environmental benefits aside—how much of an absurdly better experience it is than an ICE vehicle in every conceivable way.

If you haven't checked out the LPE Project syllabus bank you're missing out!! (also, if you are teaching an LPE or LPE-adjacent course, please send us your syllabus!) lpeproject.org/syllabi

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

I'm sure everyone on both sides will interpret "does 'regulate...importation' include 'levying tariffs'" consistently with how they interpreted "does 'modify [student loan] repayment terms' include 'forgiving repayment'"

During covid a lot of newspapers made their covid coverage free in recognition that what they were providing was a necessary public service. Now they're discussing "dynamic paywalls and optimized pricing" — surge pricing for the news. Wish I could say this was surprising.