New draft paper on SSRN: "Fact Avoidance," forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review Supreme Court Issue. This Essay identifies a recurring feature where the Court decides presidential power cases entirely on legal grounds without engaging at all with the facts /1 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Fact Avoidance
<p><i><span>The legality of the President’s exercise of statutory power depends on questions of both law and fact. Yet courts often focus exclusively on the for
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The news media did an awful job explaining the OBBB other than as a horse race -- "Will Trump get what he wants?" I assume it was either too complex to try to explain, and/or the proponents didn't really want anyone to know what was in it.
Great news! We have a federal government task force focused on fraud, especially in public health programs. I'm sure this will be top of their list!
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.When Sen. Ashley Moody was the Florida AG, her office approved the diversion of $10m of taxpayer money--intended to expand Medicaid--to go to two PACs instead. One of those PACs was controlled by the governor and his chief of staff. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
And we’re back on SSRN! Debating Accommodations addresses extra time, malingering, the (bad) ADHD studies, and most importantly, the applicable law. Which as law profs we need to be talking about every time we have this convo. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Debating Accommodations
The reasonable accommodations provided to postsecondary students with disabilities are the subject of significant debate, both in the popular press and in acade
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In John Brennan's suit against Blanche, a bunch of lawyers have written what amounts to be a 50-page amicus laying how how Trump has squandered presumption of regularity. Kilmar is AFAICT the only case listed twice, and there's a bunch missing. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Amicus Brief – #19 in BRENNAN v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-02323) – CourtListener.com
Amicus Brief
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People are speaking to one another less and less, a study found. @olgakhazan.bsky.social examines the reasons behind this gradual silencing:
Another Symptom of Growing Isolation
A recent study found that people spoke fewer words a day in 2019 than in 2005.
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Journalism's commitment to "both sides" broke down when one side abandoned the truth. @stuartpstevens.bsky.social explains why independent media is filling the gap left by traditional outlets https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/live-with-lincoln-square-d70 Subscribe to watch— only on Lincoln Square!
Germans dancing at a protest waving the regime in Iran's flag as the regime hangs Iranians for doing the same thing is so dystopian that if you read it in a novel, you'd think the author was too on the nose.
Does your state *still* follow the felony murder rule?
In 39 states, people can be sentenced to life for murders they did not commit
The Sentencing Project highlights the perverse consequences of the felony murder rule, a vestige of British law that still prevails in federal courts and all but two states.
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💔If you have a neighbor like Russia, your life can be turned upside down at any second. 🇷🇺russia is a terrorist state. 🤡putin is a war criminal.
Elaine Chao: Senator McConnell is a very strong supporter of ICE. He’s been on it for almost two months.
A state agency wrote down, in a public document, that its plan would make the water dirtier. Seven thousand people read it. The plan is gone. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-...
Six months. That’s how long the federal government kept evidence away from the prosecutor investigating its own agents. She outlasted them.
The Trump Regime Was Betting On Exhaustion. It Lost.
A prosecutor got the evidence. Seven thousand strangers killed a plan to dump wastewater into their lakes and rivers. Trump’s own lawsuit turned on him.
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We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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When this war started, almost no analyst predicted a moment when Moscow itself would start looking like a battlefield. For decades, Russia flexed and threatened the entire world. Now it's taking the kind of hit nobody has handed it in a very long time. Support link is in our Bio.
🍿💃🕺After the popcorn, it’s time for music and dancing for Ukrainians and supporters around the world. What a beautiful day! Video from: @uno.army
In Kyiv entire section of an apartment building collapsed after the russian attack. In the middle of the night when families are sleeping at home...
Good night, friends. Thank you for supporting Ukraine and helping our warriors fight off russia🇺🇦
UNITED24@u24.gov.ua · 4mo agoUkrainian aces have mastered downing russian drones to the point where it sometimes seems impossible. Just watch how they use the Yak-52 aircraft to perform absolute magic — mid-air and with perfect precision🎯 Let’s develop air defenses further: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
This week, Iranian intelligence was caught surveilling London’s oldest synagogue, a terror plot targeting Jews was foiled in France, and Belgium deployed soldiers to guard Jewish institutions.
The Many Faces of Jew-Hate
This week, Iranian intelligence was caught surveilling London’s oldest synagogue, a terror plot targeting Jews was foiled in France, and Belgium deployed soldiers to guard Jewish institutions.
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I really do hope that Trumps illegal war results in freedom for the Iranian people. They deserve it.
(((Tendar)))@tendar.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe first monuments of the mullah regime in Iran are getting toppled.
Just in: Iranian state TV has confirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead.
Live updates: Trump say Iran’s supreme leader is dead
The U.S. and Israel struck Iran on Saturday. President Donald Trump said Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, telling Iranians to take back their country.
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Berlin, Germany, and Iranians are celebrating like there is no tomorrow.
First confirmation that I can find confirming the death of Khamenei from an Iran-based media company.
