Everyone send your best wishes to this brave old man, who came out the worst of an encounter with a copperhead today
LSM
@slukemorgan.bsky.social
law professor. dad. democracy & solar power. hoops. my opinions are solely my own & not attributable to anyone else. or even to me. thoughts arise of their own volition. ssrn: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=6381985
My latest essay, "Common Sense and Candor in Rahimi and Beyond," is finally posted! It will be part of the symposium issue of the Cardozo Law Review for their 2026 symposium: "Umpires or Pinch Hitters? Twenty Years of the Roberts Court and American Democracy." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1
![AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS, LEONARD BRIGHT, VANITA REDDY, LANDON SADLER, and AARON GEORGE,
Plaintiffs,
V.
ROBERT L. ALBRITTON, JAY GRAHAM, DAVID
C. BAGGETT, JOHN W. BELLINGER, JAMES R.
BROOKS, MICHAEL A. HERNANDEZ III,
WILLIAM MAHOMES JR., KELLEY SULLIVAN GEORGIADES, and SAM TORN, in their official capacities as members of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents,
Defendants.
CIVIL ACTION NO.
COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs American Association of University Professors ("AAUP"), on behalf of
its members in the Texas A&M University System ("Texas A&M"), and individually named member professors Leonard Bright, Vanita Reddy, Landon Sadler, and Aaron George (collectively, "Plaintiffs") challenge Texas A&M System Policy ("System Policy") 08.01's prohibition on teaching "gender and race ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation, and gender identity" in academic coursework (the "Censorship Policy" or the "Policy").
On its face, the Censorship Policy imposes a complete prohibition, in all core-
curriculum courses, on courses "advocat[ing]" particular disfavored views of race or gender, or
any topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity, but the Policy does not impose any corresponding ban on opposing views on these issues.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jcats4toei4ybf5ibk3njty3/bafkreidml3fbnbiivajg7rverpx3nckfhv3zdron6klbxc7kaffoyslpty)
The author of the Democrats’ 2024 autopsy says a key chapter was left out of what was made public. The chair of the DNC says he never saw it. The chapter addressed “the sway of an operative class that had become ‘generationally wealthy off politics’ while steering Democratic strategy.” Gift link:
Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter (Gift Article)
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.
nytimes.com
We're going to eliminate the department of education and return education policy to the states, by which we mean Linda McMahon is going to add a political test to your faculty hiring policies
Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d agoScoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What the Griswold, Lawrence v Texas cases teach is there is a spectrum of human activity in our private lives not conducive to government categorization because actual peoples life is more complex than a statue. This is easily understood with a smidgen of good faith but it’s anathema to prejudice
I think the bad AI/okay AI in scholarship test is this: are you… (1) letting it write blocks of prose for you? If yes, bad AI. (2) Are you letting AI substitute for your independent judgment? If yes, bad AI. Otherwise, everything can be AI, and then any limitation seems meaningless.
youtube automatic transcription is good but not perfect @espinsegall.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social
(whispering) post-publication peer review via non-exclusive curation
Thoroughly enjoyed this timely conversation!
Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 4d ago✨ MotL 93 is live! ✨ @victorpickard.bsky.social returns to Money on the Left 6 years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. moneyontheleft.org/2026/08/01/d... Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 * Transcript forthcoming ...
Download of the Week: “The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs” by Murray & Shaw The Download of the Week is The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs by Melissa Murray and Katherine Shaw....
Download of the Week: “The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs” by Murray & Shaw
The Download of the Week is The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs by Melissa Murray and Katherine Shaw. Here is the abstract: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court announced that it was leaving the power to regulate abortion “to the people and their elected representatives.” In the wake of Dobbs, state-level “elected representatives” quickly got to work, resulting in dramatic changes to the abortion access landscape.
legaltheoryblog.com
Hi gang. Finalized this between the ceremony and celebration at a wedding yesterday. Its thesis is that rules matter. If you want to read it let me know and I'll email it to you. If you know any 2Ls, who hold my fate in their cupped hands like a baby bird, tell them it's good.
oh man straight to the top of the list
Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · 5d agoAlong similar thematic lines, I have a piece newly up on SSRN about what the Trump Administration might have to teach us about libertarianism, Reichian/Naderite liberalism, and abundance liberalism. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
it was funny to see how fast organizational standing went from "you have to name a member" to "you have to say there is a member"
Paul Gowder@gowder.io · 5d agoYet another website with not a single member, officer, or employee listed. Just a name, attached to nothing, used as a basis to file bullshit lawsuits. www.americansforequalopportunity.org
A strong dissent from denial of rehearing by Judge Willett in McKesson - the case where the Fifth Circuit upheld liability for a Black Lives Matter leader when there is no evidence he had anything at all to do with a police officer's injury. 1/ www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
"economical," which is a less economic way of saying "economic"
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
If we don't have a scandal coming from a juror betting on kalshi about the outcome of the trial I will be extremely disappointed with you, new york
karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 5d agowww.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p... Shoutout to Letitia James, the only law enforcement official in the entire country who still tries to do her job
your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
pleased to announce that as of this morning every major airline has adopted my boarding program that puts people in window seats in the last boarding group
I have labored for four hours and it is now 30,041 words
LSM@slukemorgan.bsky.social · last wk.current status: 30,120 words
Omni Amelia Island answers the question: what if we made a hotel in which there is not, at any location, a power outlet next to a table