Ellie Margolis

This lawyer is getting torched. 🔥🔥🔥

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And there it is.

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Get vaccinated. For the babies

Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases.

BREAKING: Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act.

Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases.

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Under Faculty Pressure, Harvard FAS Dean Hopi Hoekstra Rolls Back Restrictions On Campus Signage | News | The Harvard Crimson The Faculty of Arts and Sciences quietly revised its guidance on campus use rules last week to allow publicly visible signs in private spaces, after months of pressure from faculty who said the guidel...

A win for academic freedom.

Being a professor is a tough job because we have a lot of competing pressures, but remember that we have an obligation to govern ourselves.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

So an admission that the SAVE act is entirely about suppressing Dem votes.

That is distressing to me personally, but not as surprising as Elvis. Now I have to ask my (adult) kids if they've heard of Cary Grant.

Yikes

Your brief before partner comments, your brief after partner comments.

Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. (Gift Article) A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge. That can make them pretty good writers.

I picked human every time. Mostly I could tell the difference, but even on the one I wasn't sure, I still chose the sample written by a human. I seem to be an outlier based on the results.

I'm curious if my preference stems from being an avid reader. I'd love to see how others do.

This is incredible

BREAKING: Judge Brann has ejected the new leaders of the NJ U.S. attorney's office, once again finding the Trump administration is illegally attempting to circumvent Senate confirmation.

He says this could result in dismissals of indictments.

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We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that:

cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood

cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

An important limit on using AI to do legal history research: Here, my request was to have Claude (Opus 4.6 extended) find early cases on search & seizure, but it kept running into paywalls and other barriers that made it ultimately unable to do it in a useful way.

Is this "the most severe ENERGY crisis since the 1970s"? Or is it the most severe OIL crisis since the 1970s?

Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

I’m involved in a case where there is a pro se party filing 3-4 things a day that essentially say the same thing on repeat. As soon as I saw the pro se’s filing here, I knew the pro se in my case was using ChatGPT. Exact same structure and tone. Now I know why they keep filing over and over

Losing is a weird word for not completing a puzzle, I agree.

Federal district judges have threatened DOJ lawyers with contempt over violated court orders time and again.

Why haven't they followed through?

Badge for completing NYT Connections 365 consecutive days without losing.

So this happened.

Watch Drive to Survive. Also, the book The Formula gives a great overview of the history and developments up to the last couple of years.

Finally finished Harrow the Ninth (delayed by my travels) and I’m going to start How to Read a Book by Monica Wood. Watching Shrinking.

I'm honored to be publishing this piece with Vanderbilt Psych Prof Sarah Brown-Schmidt in volume 112 of the Virginia Law Review. In this empirical evidence law and cognitive science article, we identify the risks posed by "hear-witnesses" who inaccurately recall and recount statements at trial.

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

First they came for gender studies . . . and now they are attempting to ban sociology. Florida has written its own sanitized sociology intro book and banned all others that reflect what the discipline knows about gender, race, inequality and the world. truthout.org/articles/flo...

Is it bad when you're an AUSA and include what appear to be AI hallucinated cites in a brief? Is it worse when the pro se plaintiff calls you out on it? (Though, in fairness, it appears the plaintiff is also an attorney.)

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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission