Incredible how women’s labor only gets its due when it inconveniences a certain kind of dude

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Supreme Court Canada marked 150 years in 2025, so @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social asked former #scc justices about cases that stand out to them as the most important. Features Rosalie Abella, Frank Iacobucci, Michael Moldaver, Morris Fish, Marshall Rothstein. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...

Check out this exciting new initiative by the @uottawa.ca Law Faculty: a free interactive docu-course and video game about Canada's Supreme Court. It's a great resource for teachers, as well as anyone who wants to better understand the Court and the country. supremecourtexperience.ca

Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history. scholar.google.com/scholar_case...

First annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence

You don’t get to pick. That’s the whole damn point of the rule of law.

“This frustrating gap between initial ease and final effort is the essence of the Gen AI Paradox: better quality, worse motivation”

A gift of a season from the team with the most heart. So proud of our Blue Jays 💙 🇨🇦

One of the many pleasures of this World Series has been reading great baseball writers. From Bill Pleschke at the LA Times after game 4:

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

That Barger blast was the FIRST PINCH-HIT GRAND SLAM IN WORLD SERIES HISTORY. #HolyCrap #Bluejays

Dear America: It's time to do right by baseball and root for the Blue Jays. Sincerely, Canada. slate.trib.al/OhJQW3B

The Blue Jays’ starting pitcher for Game 1 of the World Series is 22 years old and in his first season in pro ball. Not in the majors, in pro ball, period.

Jays fans do your thing (and cheer on behalf of us who can’t come cuz of Yom Kippur) www.mlb.com/bluejays/tic...

This year’s Opening of the Courts of Ontario starts at 3:30 today. You can watch the ceremony live at www.youtube.com/live/JiMXCx-...

Fan interference called and the run counts anyway? 🤔 #gojaysgo

OK, fine, I'll allow it. It's too fortuitous.

Neuroscientists from 22 labs joined forces in an unprecedented international partnership to produce a landmark achievement: a neural map that shows activity across the entire brain during decision-making. https://cnn.it/4gn1iRG

A real gut-punch to us #legalwriting profs and other law faculty who impress upon our students the importance of carefully analyzing the law and then explaining that to your audience with precedent and thorough reasoning. But who needs CREAC when you’ve got the votes?

Finally the silence is broken (and the media report it). Lower court judges have been attacked by both the White House and the Supreme Court - and they are finally speaking out in self-defense. The rest of us should support them too for upholding the rule of law! www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

👇👇 Editing is a skill. But so is *being edited*

Here’s the *second* story in a week of a federal district judge — this time in Mississippi — issuing an error-filled opinion that reeks of AI hallucinations: mississippitoday.org/2025/07/28/a...

You don't really see exclamation points in judicial opinions like this, but the Judge in our case trying to force the Admin to follow the law made his opinion of their behavior clear: "Defendants are therefore required to stop violating the law!" ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Jews can confirm www.foodandwine.com/why-do-some-...

“The AIs would often go after Jewish people, even if they were not included in the initial prompt.”

The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.

Summer used to be when SCOTUS took time off from *issuing* decisions but apparently now it’s when SCOTUS takes time off from *explaining* decisions

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

Can a company be charged with wilful promotion of hatred under the Criminal Code of Canada?

Listen & share

A judgment without reasons is not justice.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

How to be a writer, no. 1256899 1. Write 2. Think about writing 3. Worry about writing 4. Write some more 5. Be the envy of social media with your fictional playboy lifestyle 6. Tea

“Let me exercise my role as chair” —> Canadian for “STFU”

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

The attack on Colorado demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza has heightened fears among many American Jews that simply existing in public is becoming more dangerous across the U.S.

Happy non-routine cognitive task month to all who celebrate

If you’re in Toronto, take the time to visit the Nova Exhibition before it closes on June 22. Coming to DC June 14-July 6 novaexhibition.com?utm_term=nov...

(House of Commons actually but the sentiment is bang-on)

Write effectively. The rest is commentary.

Bora Laskin known as first Jewish Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Canada. New Heritage Minute celebrates Bora Laskin, namesake of Thunder Bay, Ont., law school. #scc #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Writing is like parenting. Mostly self-doubt with flashes of triumph.

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.