Joe Dunman

Our next Supreme Court nominee, probably.

👀 A Jan. 6 defendant has spent a year arguing that his unrelated firearms conviction should be covered by Trump's Day One pardon.

Today, DOJ asked for an extension to respond to his request because of ... a crushing backlog of immigration cases. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Americans Should Stop Using the Term Christian Nationalism Religious beliefs have driven political change for centuries. The question today is which Christian values will prevail.

Heath Carter's new article discussing Matthew Sutton's new book, Chosen Land, is an excellent and provocative piece pointing out something that I argue in my last book: the mainline liberal Protestants of today were the "Christian nationalists" of yesterday.
www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

Buddhists are the world’s only major religious group whose population shrank between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of religion in 201 countries and territories. In 2010, an estimated 343 million people around the world identified as Buddhists. By 2020, that figure had fallen to 324 million. That’s a decline of roughly 5%. During this period, the global population grew by 12%. The size of other religious groups we track at the global level also grew. As a result, Buddhists’ share of the global population dropped from 4.9% in 2010 to 4.1% in 2020.

A bar chart showing that, for every 12 adults worldwide who have joined Buddhism, 22 adults have left. The decline of Buddhism also is in part of religious switching. We use that phrase to describe any change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (in childhood) and their present religious identity (as an adult). Globally, Buddhism has attracted many converts. For every 100 adults who were raised Buddhist, 12 adults have joined, according to a Center analysis of people ages 18 to 54. In proportion to its population, Buddhism gains more converts than Christianity, Hinduism or Islam do. (Due to data limitations, we don’t have comparable worldwide figures for Judaism or other religions.) However, Buddhism also loses a higher share of its adherents than any other world religion we study. For every 100 adults who were raised Buddhist, 22 have left Buddhism and now identify with other religions or with no religion. As a result of this switching in both directions, there is a net loss of 10 adherents for every 100 people raised Buddhist.

A bar chart showing that Buddhists tend to have fewer children and be older than other religious groups. Buddhists are older, on average, and have fewer children than any other worldwide religious group we routinely study. The median age of Buddhists around the world was roughly 40 as of 2020. That was nine years older than the median age of the overall global population (31). It was also older than the median age of Jews (38), Christians (31), Hindus (29) and Muslims (24). Buddhists around the world were estimated to have 1.6 children per woman, according to Pew Research Center’s most recent estimates for 2010-2015. That’s about one full child less than the average fertility level for women globally. It’s also well below the minimum of 2.1 children per woman that typically is needed for a population to stay the same size (without other factors like immigration or, in the case of religious groups, conversion). This number is also known as replacement-level fertility. Buddhists are the only religion in our analysis whose 2010-2015 global fertility rate was below replacement level.

NEW: Why is Buddhism shrinking worldwide? Many people are drawn to Buddhism, but even more have left Buddhism behind. Also, population aging & low fertility.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Here's one reason I appreciate Talarico. Experimental research finds when self-identifying Christian leaders say "I'm a Christian and Christian nationalism is bad news for everyone," it can get those movable people in the middle to distance themselves from it. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

I just posted something critical of AI on LinkedIn. Will I get banned?

Give us some alt text!

You: “Look how Edward Coke was said to have framed the issue.”

Me, squinting: “Sir, I am apparently illiterate when it comes to 1608 handwriting.”

oh my God it's a real image from Getty www.aol.com/articles/jd-...

How Faith Forward Democrats Are Flipping The Script On Christian Nationalists Are the 'What Would Jesus Do?' politics of James Talarico the key to taking MAGA down?

Talarico And Beshear Lead New Faith Forward Democrats

I block trolls

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is:

A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans.

Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.

People Hate AI Even More Than They Hate ICE, Poll Finds The only things less popular than AI in the poll were Iran and the Democratic Party.

USA: People Hate AI Even More Than They Hate ICE, Poll Finds
gizmodo.com/people-hate-...
#pol #polUSA #AI #ICE

No sports game should ever start at 10:00 PM eastern.

Entering the chat to share that my article, Cooperative Oversight and the Separation of Powers, is forthcoming in the Emory Law Journal. Feedback welcome! Available for download @ssrn.bsky.social here: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=635...

This is the way.

No it didn't. Also was it you or Claude that cannot spell lawyers?

The scholarly consensus is more complicated.

My alarms are the only things keeping me in order.

The plain text has never been of much concern to him.

When we get back from spring break, I and several volunteer Lawyering Skills students are going to act out this thread for the rest of my class. I want to create an immersive learning opportunity for them. Shout out to @randyhermanlaw.com for doing the Lord’s work here.

Thank you tremendously for your service.

Judge: why are you using AI to do run of the mill issue spotting which is a basic part of your job?

(I am also interested in this question)

That’s what they all say

I bet Claude or whatever was telling him how good of a boy he was the whole time.

Judge: the challenge is, when you file something with the court that is not forthright, it makes me question everything else you say

I remain steadfast, against the tidal wave of professional inertia, that the only acceptable amount of generative AI an attorney should use is none. Ever. For anything.

Somebody ask ChatGPT if this is bad

A (former) DOJ attorney commits professional suicide by AI. Keep pouring the slop, folks. Pour it all over yourselves.

There it is