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Emeritus law professor, civil procedure nerd. Hoping to find my old friends from #LawTwitter. Moved here when Musk bought the other place. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=121753
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Well this sends chills up my spine.

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Saying it out loud. Big city newspaper drops Doonesbury because it is “not fair to Trump.” www.dallasnews.com/opinion/publ...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

I was really hoping this was satire, but apparently it is real. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Good thing that Republicans are here to promote campus free speech

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Laying the groundwork for clear and significant defiance of court orders?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Remaking military leadership from the outset www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices. My latest post: buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...

submitted 28 days ago • 20 comments

Agreed order limits DOGE access for now

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking my heart.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

an important column. This won't revert back to normal by acting like its normal. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 31 days ago • 77 comments

The guidance does a good job tracking the provisions of Judge McConnell’s TRO. ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This may be the scariest so far.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

It’s beginning to look a lot like Texas.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

And Leavitt’s tweet is certainly good evidence that the pending lawsuits challenging the freeze are not moot.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The Inspectors General refuse to leave until the action is taken legally, which they do not believe it was, and neither do senators like Chuck Grassley. This is what not backing down looks like. static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...

submitted 42 days ago • 310 comments

I was hoping I wouldn’t need this one again.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Seems like this report needs to be posted as many places as possible. www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

I have a discovery joke but it’s unduly burdensome.

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Ken Paxton avoids the transparency provided by discovery by conceding merits of whistleblowers’ lawsuit www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Edith Jones’s outrage at legitimate criticism of specific behavior is laughable. Does she have a take on politicians attacking #SoCalledJudges? scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol71/...

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

submitted 236 days ago • 40 comments

What with #Chevron biting the dust and the temptation of judges to play expert, maybe it’s time to re-up my article on the problem of independent judicial fact research. scholar.smu.edu/law_faculty/...

submitted 253 days ago • 1 comment

Paxton’s attack on Title IX (filed in Amarillo of course) includes claims of two UT professors who hypothetically want to penalize students for absences to get abortions. See paragraph 184, p 43. www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 278 days ago • 1 comment

Come on, NDTx, you can do better. www.reuters.com/legal/texas-...

submitted 343 days ago • 0 comments

Judicial Conference makes it a little harder to get desired result by filing in single-judge federal districts. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 360 days ago • 1 comment