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I find it highly amusing that they wrote this like they were judges issuing a legal opinion. The board has some fabulous lawyers, so I get it, but at bottom

There's a lot to be said about the traffic stop of Lieutenant Caron Nazario, but one of them is that it makes this 2015 blog post unfortunately relevant again:"Sandra Bland

This is is my dad, a Holocaust survivor, telling one story of lucky survival in the concentration camps. The Germans held 516 boys at one camp. They sent 10 cattle

If Biden wins, we may see court-packing if the Democrats take over the Senate and court-draining if the Republicans keep it. My apologies— I have been informed that I should

Here's a thread with a few random thoughts about "court packing," that is, changing the size of the Supreme Court. Bonus: My views are somewhere in the middle and are

Some legal education history I didn't know -- a thread. In 1950, a significant number of law schools refused to admit Black students. That year, the AALS considered a rule

I have deleted my tweet about Sen. Johnson going to a fundraising event after testing positive, as I think the MSN story claiming this (see below) is wrong. Other sources

It might simultaneously be true that Republicans should wait to fill RBG’s seat because the election is near; that it is an act of stunning hypocrisy to fill it after

A few random and unhelpful thoughts on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, a thread. FWIW, I don't know Judge Barrett well, although we've met. She was a fellow at

I have a question about the way the police executed the warrant in the home entry that resulted in Breonna Taylor's death. It's about a part of the knock-and-announce practice

I would guess that, if Joe Biden is elected in 2020, Chief Justice Roberts will start to vote in a more consistently conservative way. And that would be consistent with

A part of Akhil Amar's interview on @TheLegalAcademy this week that resonated with me was his idea that it took him some time to figure out what he was doing