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This is a very good post, and also provides some clarity as to why it took SCOTUS so many days to produce the ruling that very clearly was negotiated by the Court's right flank to be very squishy (albeit 9-0).

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

There is no limit to how dumb and feckless the Supreme Court is willing to appear in order to give Donald Trump a way out ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I see a lot of people falling into the "this is pointless" trap, and I can only say it so many ways — though I suspect I will have to write something specifically about it on this front — but the bottom line is that we must expect compliance. Anything less is just making noncompliance easier.

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

🕯Summoning the mystical power of the Calgorithm🕯

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Humbly requesting (demanding in a profanity-laced tirade) that my fellow Golden Bears join me in kicking some money to @newap-georgia.bsky.social this week so that we can experience what “top 25 Cal” feels like, if only for a moment www.moneycannon.org

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

Legal media is about to enter a golden age of Bob Jones University v. United States (1983) explainers

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

For the Trump administration, there is no upside to returning Abrego Garcia. It’s all downside. They are going to stall, quibble, argue, and whatever else until a court orders them to do it, and then they are going to make explicit what they’ve been doing all along, which is say no.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Verily I have blogged it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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The Supreme Court's opinion in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case did exactly what the justices intended, which was provide the Trump administration with a way to "comply" with their opinion while still doing nothing to retrieve him from a foreign gulag ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Nothing I can say about this story will prevent you from being astonished by how fucking creepy this man is www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

A mom at my kid’s school asked what I do and then very politely offered to “read my blog” so I’m looking forward to finding out if she despises me after this

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The judge in Abrego Garcia's case ordering a two-week discovery schedule to determine whether the Trump administration is sufficiently "facilitating" his return is a good example of how the legal system is doing its best, and also the legal system's best is nowhere close to good enough

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Sorry but the idea that the justices "may not have anticipated" the White House's bad-faith reponse to their Abrego Garcia opinion is silly and insulting. They are not rubes. They know what words to use to make themselves clear! It's not an accident that they didn't! www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

I would like to see norms of academic collegiality evolve to the point where more law professors are comfortable publicly calling other professors brain-dead piece of shit hacks who need to shut the fuck up

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Heading to Seattle. Will be at Town Hall Seattle tonight with @jaywillis.net Entertainment for this long ass flight include @dancarlin.bsky.social (he’s got one up on Alexander I’ve been saving for this) and probably Rimworld on the Steam Deck.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

will never wrap my head around how Ken Griffey Jr and Randy Johnson were Hall of Fame teammates who both became successful sports photographers

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In 2018, John Roberts claimed that the Supreme Court had overruled Korematsu, the Court's decision upholding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Recent events suggest otherwise! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/korem...

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Reading coverage of the Supreme Court's opinon in Abrego Garcia's "favor" and feel like I'm going insane. The White House says his return is up to El Salvador, which the U.S. is paying millions of dollars. Of course El Salvador is going to "refuse" to "cooperate," this is all so stupid

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If the Supreme Court wanted to require the Trump administration to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the justices know what to say. But they didn't say it ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I am once again calling on my beautiful, noble California Golden Bears to take advantage of this opportunity to both (1) love and support our neighbors and (2) see what it looks like for Cal to be ranked

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I've said this a million times at this point: I've worked in extremely "woke" social justice spaces my entire adult life and this simply didn't happen.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

The Trump administration doesn’t want to bring him back. The Supreme Court knows this, and could have been explicit about what they have to do, and didn’t ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

NEWS: the pregame Steph Curry show is as cool as advertised

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The conservative justices don't actually care about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They just want the Trump administration to disappear him The Right Way next time ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Read the name too quickly and honestly assumed based on the description that it was a bill rollout from Elise Stefanik. Anyway, Democrats are doing great!

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

This is the Administration “sharing what it can” about what it’s done to facilitate Mr. Abrego Garcia’s return, and the “prospects of further steps.”

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

I love when they take this "ok let me 'splain it to you" tone when in fact it's blindingly obvious they have not spoken to or read anything from anybody who has any actual expertise on the topic.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments