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Joe Dunman

@joedunman.bsky.social

Asst. Prof @ Louisville Law Former: Managing Attorney @ Ky. Commission on Human Rights and lawyer for KY plaintiffs in Obergefell. Blog: https://joedunman.substack.com/ Scholarship: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2147917

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Rich@rich-booyah.bsky.social · yesterday

Fixed it... (NYT) - Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department.

JP Collins@profjpc.bsky.social · yesterday

Judge Mascott received her commission on October 10, 2025, exactly 365 days ago. In that time, she has issued *ZERO* published majority opinions. Remarkable.

JP Collins@profjpc.bsky.social · last mo.

Judge Bove, who took the bench in August 2025 has issued 8 published opinions so far. Judge Mascott, who joined the same court in early October 2025, has issued none. In fact, she has only issued a single two-page concurrence in a published case and one nonprecedential order.

Joe Dunman@joedunman.bsky.social · yesterday

"One person familiar with the matter said Kirkland leaders were wary of client response to reporting on the firm’s equity partner profits, which were $11 million in the latest reporting." news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

Kirkland Hides Profits as Big Law Clients Scrutinize Legal Costs

Kirkland & Ellis’ decision to stop disclosing its financial performance shows law firms are hesitant to reveal profits as clients experience spiraling legal costs.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Joe Dunman@joedunman.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy to see my WIP proposal got accepted for Emory's "Christian Legal Thought from the Margins" workshop in January. I am in the early stages of an article about the free exercise rights of children and am looking for helpful advice on how to develop it fully.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d ago

The president of the U.S. Catholic bishops condemned the Trump administration on Friday over its plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley, a conservative prelate known for his pro-life work, called the decision “barbaric.”

U.S. Bishops’ President Condemns Hegseth’s Plan to Livestream an Execution

The U.S. bishops’ president answered the Pentagon within h. His statement comes as Tennessee’s bishops plead for Christa Pike’s life and Pope Leo XIV presses his home country to end the death penalty.

thelettersfromleo.com

Buffet Briefinity 🎃🎃🍬🍫@briesmith.xyz · 2d ago

I get the desire to stop paying exorbitant licensing fees for something that can replicate Photoshop, InDesign or Premiere, but this just isn’t going to be it. The fact that they’re also trying to do this at the same time with Office tells me this is about headlines and AI hype

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d ago

Even the headshot was AI, OpenAI says. Its verification tool shows the author photo and content on an "Ervin Hoskins" op-ed in the Port St. Joe Star came from OpenAI tools, part of an Iran-based “influence campaign” that placed about 100 fake articles in at least 20 American outlets.

Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT

ChatGPT users in Iran made more than 100 fake articles published across at least 20 news outlets, OpenAI said.

washingtonpost.com

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken. Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead. His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and "Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed] The spot where the scaffold stood (approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]へ End of public executions in Kentucky As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions. After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year. Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a 33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

Joe Dunman@joedunman.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the span of a couple of days, the President has publicly stated that he does not care if Los Angeles and San Diego are destroyed by Iran and has tried to stoke a race war and/or federal takeover in Minnesota.

Joe Dunman@joedunman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Don't want to be left behind by the technological advances of companies that not only cannot make any money but also lie about how much money they're making because it's so bad.