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Anthony Sanders

@ijsanders.bsky.social

Center for Judicial Engagement @IJ.org. Short Circuit podcast. Adj Prof @umnlawschool.bsky.social. Book: Baby 9th Amendments. Victorian London. Opinions=mine. https://ssrn.com/author=2923907

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Anthony Sanders@ijsanders.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yeah, sure, whatever, my colleague Josh Windham got the PA Supreme Court to overturn the state’s open fields doctrine. But the more interesting part of the story is how his dazzling looks wowed at oral argument. Here was how it ended (edited for clarity & space): 1/4

State Court Report@statecourtreport.org · 2d ago

The PA high court ruled last month that warrantless searches of private land violate the state constitution, departing from federal law and overturning a 2007 case that lockstepped with federal protections, writes @ij.org's Joshua Windham.

Anthony Sanders@ijsanders.bsky.social · 3d ago

How someone can be surprised by actions like these, after watching Trump on the political stage for 10 years, is confounding. But not surprising. His psychology is so weird & non-human that most people can't come to terms with it, even when personal interests should concentrate the mind wonderfully.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2

Among the leadership of Paul Weiss, there was enthusiasm for resolving the executive order, according to multiple people involved. Even Ms. Dunn, who had helped the Harris campaign, pushed to finalize the deal. "Let's get this done!!!!" Ms. Dunn wrote to Mr. Karp and other senior leaders in an email reviewed by The Times.
Anthony Sanders@ijsanders.bsky.social · 4d ago

FWIW, I think law professors should charge whatever the heck they want for their Substacks. If you don't like it don't pay them. (I say this as someone who doesn't pay any subscriptions to profs. I do pay for a handful but the creators are all outside academia.)

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: The 7th Circuit joins the chorus today, issuing a 2-1 decision ruling against the Trump admin on whether a 1996 law mandated the detention without a bond hearing of all undocumented immigrants who ever crossed the border unlawfully. The split is now 6-2 against Trump.

We hold that Cirrus Rojas is not “seeking admission”— and thus not covered by Section 1225(b)(2)(A)—because that is his real-world status. We join the majority of the circuits that have confronted this question in rejecting the government’s newfound statutory requirement for mandatory detention, which rests upon the illogical use of both legal fiction and ordinary meaning for the same term. Congress may use legal fictions to place statutory terms in their desired context. But legal fictions are just that—fictions. One mixes fiction with fact at their peril. And the facts in this case are clear: Cirrus Rojas is not seeking admission to the United States. If Congress had meant to define individuals like Cirrus Rojas as “seeking admission,” it could have done so. But that is not what our elected representatives decided to do, and we must apply the statute as it is written.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d ago

Great news; yet another court finds that ICE and the DOJ were wrong to declare that Congress secretly mandated detention of millions of noncitizens in 1996 (specifically, anyone who entered unlawfully at some point in the past, no matter how long ago), and that no one had noticed until now.

Katuwestākos Göransson@seadogdriftwood.bsky.social · last wk.

Absolutely: Ante Aikio has demonstrated that loanwords into various Saami languages demonstrate that pre-IE, pre-Uralic languages survived in parts of Sápmi in Scandinavis at least to the year 1, and possibly even into the late(ish) Mediaeval era in some isolated areas!

Anthony Sanders@ijsanders.bsky.social · last wk.

How have judges used Homer’s Odyssey in their opinions? I voyage across American caselaw, in constitutional matters & on the wider wine-dark jurisprudential sea. There’s many familiar characters plus I find the practice isn’t just for former ages. 1/ ij.org/cje-post/jud...

Judicial Odysseys - Institute for Justice

How have courts used Homer’s homecoming epic in their opinions? With Odysseus’s voyages on everyone’s mind, I thought it would be fun to investigate how […]

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Dr Danny Bate@dannybate.com · 2w ago

I rarely write about Homer, being daunted by the topic, but since the poet is having a moment, here's a piece about the alphabet, writing, and their absence in the epics. Inspired by a chat with @viewsproject.bsky.social, I hesitantly suggest a theory for that absence. dannybate.com/2026/07/24/h...

Homer’s ABCs

Or: Why don’t people in the Iliad and Odyssey write anything down? Sing, goddess, of how Homer is all the rage right now. My timelines have become streams of Nolan-inspired analyses, hot takes and …

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Charlotte Garden@charlottegarden.bsky.social · 2w ago

First, what counts as "commercial speech" is sometimes a difficult question -- but "commercial speech" =/= "speech someone tried to get someone else to pay for." (Otherwise, every book, newspaper, and movie would be "commercial speech")

Anthony Sanders@ijsanders.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don't often get angry while writing but I did putting this together as I realized how whimsically the court used the state constitution to undermine at-will employment given its dreadful history of not taking that constitution seriously.

State Court Report@statecourtreport.org · 3w ago

The CO Supreme Court looked to the state constitution's natural rights guarantee to find a public policy exception to at-will employment. @ijsanders.bsky.social explores the possible unintended consequences of the decisions.