I had to read this several times to make sure I understood correctly: A bill in Missouri would make it so that if a judge releases a person charged with a crime on bail, and that person commits a felony, the *judge* would be charged with a felony for their decision to release that person
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
Big thumbs down.
Taking advantage of fake spring to walk around and listen to the Albini version of In On the Killtaker. Still figuring out what I think but damn what a gift in the midst of so much horror fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Abstract which states: The problem of the Twentieth Century was the problem of the color line. That problem, however, never seriously preoccupied the Legal Realists. This may come as disappointment to many scholars today who see the Realists, particularly those who critiqued courts, free markets, and oligarchic power, as intellectual ancestors. Then again, the answer depends on who we count as a Realist. The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold and unwind alongside the development of Legal Realism. Though he is better remembered as a political theorist and historian, his work also contained theorizing about law that tracked key Realist insights. But this Article shows that Du Bois wasn't simply another Legal Realist. He was an outstanding one, whose own Realism emerged not through colorblind critiques of classical legal thought, but through thinking, organizing, and propagandizing against race hierarchy. This Article traces how Du Bois's insights matured over the course of his career, including by examining works that receive little attention today, especially among legal scholars. From Du Bois's dissertation on the slave trade, to his studies of the South's political economy, to his collection of essays in Darkwater, where he developed an idea of whiteness as property. This long pattern of thought congealed most powerfully in the "dictatorship of property," an idea Du Bois developed in his famous Black Reconstruction. This memorable phrase and concept merged public and private, political and economic, and the traditionally separate domains of property and sovereignty. His profound legal-theoretical insights came through studying slavery and sharecropping; through responding to Lynch Law and race riots; through reacting to cases like Bailey v. Alabama, rather than Lochner v. New York; through historiographical battle with the Dunning School; and even through factional fights within the NAACP. After World War II, Du Bois would also…
Table of contents and opening paragraph of paper
🧵: my latest draft paper ‘The Legal Realism of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is still looking for a law review home 🤞🏽
Here are some brief highlights for anyone interested
It seems like the most obvious thing to say in the world, but people need to be held accountable for the murder of children during an illegal war. Yet any real accountability for this will clearly require a radical political break.
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Need a fact check on “growing.”
Also tough luck if you get into Brown, but yes.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
Get Miller in front of Congress now now now.
I heard from a friend at a top school that their law review had received an absurd number of submissions (even more absurd than usual), they think because law profs are now using AI to write articles. :( if that's widespread it certainly could be lessening the likelihood of all articles getting read
Arnold in Predator
"MCU is setting unrealistic male body ideals."
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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NEW from @shahrzadshams.bsky.social & me @rooseveltinstitute.org:
Donald Trump just called the Supreme Court "fools & lap dogs" and we've already forgotten about it.
What the ancient history of last Tuesday means for progressives rethinking SCOTUS power.
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Matt Damon crypto ad
a photo of Justice Powell from his time on the Supreme Court
Depending on who you ask, Lewis Powell Jr. is either: an ideological mastermind of the Right who led the corporate counter-revolution OR the Supreme Court’s quintessential “swing justice" upholding liberal positions in some of the Court’s most high-profile cases (from affirmative action to abortion)
people have been lied to about this. the GOP, the NYT, and sundry centrists have spread this bullshit story where kids are being bum rushed into surgery by a shadowy conspiracy of endocrinologists and gender ideologues
Anyway, the republic is gone without massive Supreme Court reform.
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#SCOTUS just granted emergency relief in *both* the California teachers case (putting back on hold, at least in this case, California’s law barring teachers from outing transgender students to their parents) *and* the Malliotakis redistricting cases.
The Democratic appointees dissented in both.
You can watch writer & filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara's documentary on this, THE BOMBING OF OSAGE AVENUE!
www.pbs.org/video/whyy-s...
Wirth paying attention to which elected officials talk about the deaths of Iranians, and which ones do not.
Thank you to the most brilliant @veenadubal.bsky.social for being my conversation partner about my book on the @lpeblog.bsky.social and to the masterful @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for his support. lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem... @bulaw.bsky.social
If it were bombing Iran it would be overwhelmingly positive.
It works though bc literally no elected Democrat will accuse the Obama administration of acting unlawfully.
“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”
