Todd Blanche would have not been my top choice for Attorney General.
Scott Shapiro
@scottjshapiro.bsky.social
Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
Embarrassing confession: I don’t fully understand the political implications of everything that is happening.
By waging pointless forever wars, we are depleting the ammunition we need to wage more pointless forever wars.
I stopped teaching Constitutional Law 15 years ago because what's the point.
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that it can do whatever it wants.
There is no bottom to the Roberts Court--it must be reformed "with all deliberate speed"
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The three dissenters (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch) are insane.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · last mo.SUPREME COURT: BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. 6-3
Trump's political genius is to claim credit for every success and assign blame for every failure.
BREAKING: Dept of Justice investigating green algae blooms for conspiracy to commit vandalism.
What if Chief Justice John Roberts is a moral idiot?
The real badge of corruption is not being indicted by the Trump DOJ.
By constantly claiming a deal has been reached with Iran, President Trump is losing credibility.
Using Fable 5 makes explicit the stupidity of Opus 4.8
guy who's really into scaffolding logging on to bluesky for the first time tonight: holy shit
"If he would eat my face, he would eat anyone else's face," said Face-Eating-Leopard Party member, John Cornyn
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2mo agoSen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says Trump threw him under the bus. “If he would do that to me, he would do that to anybody,” Cornyn says. “There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100 percent, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...
Some personal news: Claude said I asked a "sharp" question
We are a week away from "We have always been at war with Israel"
Forgot to say, based on the book The Internationalists by @oonahathaway.bsky.social and @scottjshapiro.bsky.social.
A Sorkin-esque drama about the creation of the legal theory to prosecute aggressive war at Nuremberg. Big characters! Complexity! Nazis! It has it all!
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat’s your white whale tv/film adaptation that needs to happen