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September 10, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Columbia Law's Legal History Workshop
September 9, 07:16 PM / Althouse / This morning's sunrise, in the rain.This post is tonight's open thread. Scroll down for the 7th anniversary of the sunrise project, with the 19 best photos of the year — here .
September 9, 07:09 PM / Althouse / Isolated Transient Alexia, Part 2.No, I didn't have another incident, though I did run into another sentence that powerfully resisted reading. From Reddit: But I did have to add an update to Monday's post, "Isolated Transient Alexia — a migrainous accompaniment — ever had it?" : The various doctors would not simply accept my opin...
September 9, 05:45 PM / Althouse / September 9th is the anniversary of the sunrise project here on the Althouse blog.The traditional celebration is to post my favorite sunrises of the year. Here they are, in chronological order. Click through to see the precise date.
September 9, 02:58 PM / Althouse / "He’s clearly trying to make it easier for them financially to work in government service at the White House. You can’t do that."Said Richard Painter, "the former chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush and a critic of Trump." Quoted in "Trump gave $45,000 cash gifts to Natalie Harp, two other close aides/Financial disclosures released by the administration show the sums were equivalent to nearly one-t...
September 9, 01:36 PM / Althouse / "This vision of an endlessly shrinking U.S. population will seem foreboding to many Americans. Yet it is essential to realize...""... that depopulation, if and when it comes, doesn’t preclude ever-greater prosperity — thanks to the remarkable 'human-ingenuity-driven' nature of modern economic development. Already humanity proved it could cheat Malthus during a population explosion. Since 1968, world population has more tha...
September 9, 12:08 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Perez on The 14th Amendment from Homer Plessy to Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Citizenship and Due Process in America's Constitutional Evolution
September 9, 11:06 AM / Althouse / "We’re building a rocket ship as we fly it."Said Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Governor of New Mexico, quoted in "One year into free child care in New Mexico, too many kids and not enough slots/ In a first-in-the-nation experiment with universal child care, demand is outpacing availability and costs are soaring" (WaPo). Last September, Lujan...
September 9, 09:38 AM / Althouse / "How all baseball announcers sound."I like how the one word you can understand is "Moriarity" (that guy's name is Moriarity). @richietown They all sound like this. All of them. #MLB #baseball #NESN @redsox @nesn ♬ original sound - Richie Moriarty
September 9, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Discontent with Constitutionalism and Its Discontents
September 9, 09:15 AM / Althouse / "Her heart’s desire included a $400 sea-foam green jacket from the New York Liberty women’s basketball team that reads 'New York or Nowhere.'"She'd had more than $200,000 in student loans, but qualified for loan forgiveness, so "One thing I did is I gifted myself an extra loan payment for whatever my heart desired." She is New York City Council member Tiffany Cabán, who "spends much of her day thinking about how to address New Yo...
September 9, 07:06 AM / Althouse / "He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children."There will never be a more obvious sentence to look back on and explain the insanity of our times than the following… “He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children." pic.twitter.com/i7dnLg2MlE — Tandy (@dantypo) September 8, 2026 Said one of the Lindsay ...
September 9, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Reading the Past: Historians and Lawyers in Dialogue
September 8, 07:22 PM / Althouse / Sunrise.
September 8, 05:32 PM / Crooked Timber / Youth CNDHere’s another of my posts about being a peace activist in the UK in the early eighties. This one is mainly about my time in secondary school. When I linked to the substack version from Facebook a couple of people recognized some of the people involved, but they’re pretty well disguis...
September 8, 11:33 AM / Legal History Blog / Legal History Job at the University of Florida
September 8, 10:55 AM / Althouse / "At these gatherings, even the most peculiar activities are turned into celebration. Beyond amusement, though, I was searching...""... for proof that in an age of social isolation and online disconnection, people still hold on to the traditions that bring them together and make their hometowns unmistakably theirs. While I was in Sopchoppy, I asked Gary Revell, 74, why he still grunts for worms. He told me that the times he ...
September 8, 10:33 AM / Althouse / That very weird trailer for the Nathan Fielder documentary about Elizabeth Holmes.Extreme close-up Holmes: "I don't have anything to deceive you on. Of course, I'm not deceiving you. I'm engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you?" I don't know whose face is more disturbing, hers or Fielder's. Here's the NYT article about the film: "Elizabeth Holmes Docu...
September 8, 10:11 AM / Althouse / "Police set a dog on the two thieves, who were wearing masks and gloves. They dropped the two paintings in the museum’s garden...""... before escaping through a hole in the fence. One of the works abandoned was an 1895 portrait of Madame Stephen Pichon, according to Caroline Amat, the deputy mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer. The second abandoned painting has not yet been named." From "Thieves steal four Renoirs — and drop two while ...
September 8, 09:30 AM / Althouse / "In France, we do not ask women to erase themselves. No dogma, no religion is above the laws of the Republic."Wrote Aurore Bergé, France’s minister for gender equality. And "hard-right" presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said France would "never accept that women’s presence be 'limited.'" Quoted in "Strike at Eiffel Tower after female staff ‘told to be out of sight’ /Women workers at the Paris la...
September 8, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Constitutionalism's Contemporary Critics
September 8, 08:03 AM / Balkinization / The Lost Art of the Deal
September 8, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Cahn, Eichner and Ziegler on Parental Consent and Minor Rights
September 7, 06:52 PM / Althouse / Sunrise.
September 7, 03:50 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Some Labor Law Themed Films and TV Episodes for Labor Day 2026
September 7, 03:20 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Jacob on Roll of Law, Part One: The Story Behind the Game
September 7, 12:39 PM / Althouse / "Mr. Field found his calling by happenstance. As a newly enlisted soldier boarding a troop train during World War II, he was handed a bag...""... by a Red Cross worker. It contained a toothbrush, a comb, a candy bar and an anthology of poetry. 'I was on that train for three days,' he said in a 2022 interview for this obituary. 'I read it over and over. I knew immediately that I was going to be a poet. He was just 18 and had never read...
September 7, 12:21 PM / Althouse / "'Every day, another church is sold,' said Lilian Grootswagers-Theuns, the president of the advisory board for Future for Religious Heritage.... 'This is happening everywhere in Europe...'""'... in Germany, Sweden, Spain and Italy. It’s already going very fast,' she said. 'But now we’re going fast-forward. Now, there’s a tsunami coming.' Churches, once central to European cultural life, were typically situated in the heart of a city and built to last. 'Before you even had the natio...
September 7, 11:51 AM / Althouse / "Mr. Godin — 'pie-eyed, pudding-faced and potbellied,' in one writer’s description — was a pain in the derrière most of his life, beginning in Catholic school when he complained to the priests about his lackluster sex life."From "Noël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80/Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest" (NYT gift link). A quote from Godin: I have always remained true to the spiri...
September 7, 10:56 AM / Althouse / Isolated Transient Alexia — a migrainous accompaniment — ever had it?JAMA Neurology abstract: "Alexia as a transient or paroxysmal neurologic event is a rare clinical finding. John Hughlings Jackson made reference to the paroxysmal occurrence of 'word blindness' as a temporary sequela of neuronal exhaustion at an epileptogenic focus.... A transient episode of alex...
September 7, 09:52 AM / Althouse / "I am a virgin. I grew up with no friends. I didn't have anyone growing up besides my two girlfriends that I'm still very close with today....""And I didn't like like I didn't do extracurricular activities. Like I didn't go out. I didn't have fun. Like I was just school home school home. So like I never had a relationship with anyone. And then I started working. I was serving for about four years at a mom and pop restaurant. I was a wai...
September 7, 09:30 AM / Althouse / Elegant presence of mind in baseball.Just for the joy of it: Payton Tolle is the gift that keeps on giving
September 7, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / The Enduring Significance of Peggy Sue Got Married (and Constitutionalism and its Discontents)
September 7, 09:26 AM / Althouse / The White House is taunting.pic.twitter.com/Jh3DHXnflT — The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 6, 2026
September 7, 09:18 AM / Althouse / "The tone of your question was a little bit like Why haven't you done every single impossible thing possible?"I thought @jaredkushner gave a spot on magnificent answer to the really nasty-toned question from @RichardEngel . Kudos to Jared
September 7, 08:23 AM / Althouse / Sunrise, Monday morning.Video by Meade, just now.
September 7, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium
September 6, 09:15 PM / Crooked Timber / When Money MatteredThis week all the news services carried a story about the Dutch central bank shipping many, many tons of gold from the Mad King-led United States to the custody of cooler heads (well, cooling, we hope, after that very hot summer) in London. On the same day, the FT ran a story by Banu Baweja [R...
September 6, 07:51 PM / Althouse / At the Pictureless Café...... you can talk all night.
September 6, 12:52 PM / Althouse / The tilted hat, Part 2.Now both Cardinals and Rockies players are wearing their hats crooked in protest. This is the shit. pic.twitter.com/viy4cVD53h https://t.co/3ZXr97CKU0 — Jacob P.M.
September 6, 12:02 PM / Althouse / "Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Zelensky on first visit to Ukraine’s capital following three hours of negotiations with President Putin in Moscow."The London Times reports. “The situation is of course not simple,” Putin said before the negotiations began. “We will do everything that depends on us to ensure the safety of the negotiation process and mediators such as yourselves,” he added.... Afterwards, Witkoff thanked Putin for the “i...
September 6, 11:55 AM / Althouse / "[W]hen a man suddenly began to shout vulgarities and became violent... two other passengers, relying on zip ties, duct tape and sheer will, restrained the disruptive man until the authorities could board the plane and take him into custody."I'm reading "Unruly Passenger Is Restrained With Duct Tape During a Flight/The passenger on an American Airlines flight began to shout vulgarities and then became violent on Thursday, the authorities said. That’s when two passengers stepped in" (NYT gift link). Richard O’Lenick, 53, one of the pa...
September 6, 11:43 AM / Althouse / "The emergency request marks the latest turn in a dizzying legal fight over mail-in voting, even as states begin distributing mail-in ballots to voters.""The upshot has become clear in recent days: It will be the Supreme Court that has the final say on President Trump’s plans to restrict mail voting in the midterms. It’s unclear how fast the justices will move and announce a ruling.... The Trump administration had already filed emergency request ...
September 6, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Constitutionalism and the Discontents of Judicial Power
September 5, 06:29 PM / Althouse / Sunrise.Write about whatever you like in the comments. I really missed comments yesterday! So glad to have them back. I know readers are still there, but it really means something to me to see your words.
September 5, 11:03 AM / Althouse / "The Tetris Company, the company that owns the rights to the classic video game, denounced a clone of the game produced by the Trump administration that has the player block space aliens and zombies from crossing the U.S.-Mexican border."I'm reading "Tetris Owner Denounces Trump White House Clone of Game/Responding to Build the Wall, an apparent copy of the retro video game, the Tetris Company said 'we take copyright infringement very seriously'" (NYT gift link). Here's the "arcade" page at whitehouse.gov and, clicking through, h...
September 5, 09:59 AM / Althouse / "Washington professor who parodied university 'land acknowledgment' wins $600K settlement."FIRE reports. It has become increasingly common in academia to encourage statements that formally recognize indigenous ties to the land. In December 2021, Reges criticized land acknowledgment statements in an email to faculty, and the next month he parodied UW’s model statement in his syllabus: “...
September 5, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Democratic constitutionalism and the end of class-based societies
September 5, 08:14 AM / Althouse / The tilted hat."Grow the fuck up" Cardinals manager Oli Marmol was furious with umpire Doug Eddings after Eddings told rookie pitcher Hancel Rincon to fix his hat in the middle of his MLB debut pic.twitter.com/3t3AitYsCX — Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) September 5, 2026
September 5, 06:31 AM / Althouse / "An Illinois mother allegedly hanged her 2-year-old son that she described as the 'anti-Christ' — hours after discussing the Lindsay Clancy case with friends....""Corie Walsh, 38, is facing first-degree murder charges after one of her neighbors found Walsh’s son, Barrett, hanging from the rafters in the family’s basement.... Walsh allegedly told investigators she killed her young son because he’s the 'anti-Christ' and 'devil,' according to prosecutors. Li...
September 5, 06:21 AM / Althouse / "Not everyone at the Anti-Capitalist Co-Working Club is an actual anti-capitalist....""The club isn’t for debating Marxist theory or organizing labor unions. For many, the name simply signified a set of values they believe are missing from modern work culture: rest, community and self-actualization.The club, which operates on Fridays out of a recently opened arts space called Livi...
September 5, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Weekend Roundup
September 4, 06:58 PM / Althouse / Sunrise.This is the open thread, but there's been trouble with the comments function all day , so it might look empty. Thanks to the few who are able to get through and keep the home fires burning.
September 4, 02:25 PM / Althouse / "The defense argued that Judge William Sullivan should investigate a lone holdout on the jury before declaring a mistrial...""... which would allow the prosecution to continue to pursue a murder conviction. A justice is expected to rule quickly." The NYT reports on the impending declaration of a mistrial. The day of intense courtroom drama was prompted by a message to the judge on Thursday from the jury’s foreperson. I...
September 4, 12:48 PM / Althouse / "It's natural for dogs."Take a side: @ideas_fox91 September 3, 2026 ♬ Hacia Hacia Atras - Aryanna Nader Based on my own reaction and the comments over there, we're all on Team "Karen."
September 4, 12:44 PM / Althouse / "Ken Paxton, you might not like the way he dresses, and I say this, it's so insulting to him, but I might as well say it.""You might not like the way he looks. You might not love his look.... But he was the best Attorney General in the country, perhaps... and that speaks a lot louder than the suit he’s wearing that doesn’t look so great. Or anything frankly." @nowthisimpact Is Trump endorsing Paxton or not? ♬ origin...
September 4, 12:08 PM / Althouse / "The surrogate mother’s rights over the fetus she is carrying are greatly curtailed and she loses all rights to the baby she delivers."Wrote Gloria Steinem, quoted by Kathryn Jean Lopez in "Gloria Steinem, a Voice Against Commercial Surrogacy" (National Review). In 2019, when Andrew Cuomo sought to legalize commercial surrogacy, Steinem wrote : A state that medicalizes and rents out female bodies — with third party profit as a m...
September 4, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / The (not so) Secret Life of Constitutionalism and Its Discontents
September 4, 09:05 AM / Althouse / The driver may be drunk, but it's the cop whose speech is slurred.Oregon court throws out the charges: @theoregonian The Oregon Court of Appeals this week released the body camera footage judges reviewed that captured a Washington County sheriff’s deputy’s indecipherable Miranda warnings to a man stopped on suspicion of riding a motorcycle intoxicated. The cour...
September 4, 08:28 AM / Althouse / Comments don't seem to be working for the last hour or so.Even I can't comment. Maybe publishing this post will unclog things. UPDATE: I still can't comment. UPDATE 2: I asked Grok and was told this seems to be a general problem with Blogger. It recommended waiting. Please don't submit comments about how something's wrong with the comments. We don't wan...
September 4, 07:58 AM / Balkinization / Does Congress Have the Power to Ban Non-Citizen Voting?
September 4, 06:23 AM / Althouse / This is like the way if you mock someone for making a typo, you'll make a typo.But it's far worse: The guys at @PodSaveAmerica laugh at JD Vance for not knowing what the academic definition of a blood libel is—and then immediately demonstrate that they know even less about it than he does... Instant Karma. pic.twitter.com/LFN6HY6rAx — H.A. Hazony (@HAHazony) September 3, 20...
September 4, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable
September 3, 09:23 PM / Crooked Timber / The US Navy loses another war… but that won’t change any minds It’s now six months since the US-Israel war on Iran began with air attacks which killed the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei as well as around 200 schoolchildren. The war has dragged on a long time. But before that surprise attack, it had appeared th...
September 3, 07:17 PM / Althouse / Sunrise.That's my only photo. I saw a flash of lightning and chose to head back home. But Meade made a target of himself out on the dock, and he kept going all the way to the primary vantage point. There, he took this: And he made an awfully nice video:
September 3, 06:40 PM / Discourse.net / In Which I Geek Out About Why You Should Update Your Marvel AQtion 10bit Network AdapterI have an Asus Z790 atx motherboard on my home desktop and I’ve been happy with it. Except one thing (I’ll get to that). The ethernet port is attached to a Marvel AQtion 10bit network adapter, which sounds vastly surplus … Continue reading → The post In Which I Geek Out About Why You ...
September 3, 02:02 PM / Legal History Blog / McKoski Discusses Lincoln's Favorite Judge
September 3, 12:11 PM / Althouse / "We’re like Adam and Eve trying to build the futuristic garden of Eden where you can just exist and your world takes better care of you than you could yourself."Said Kate Tolo, 30, quoted in "My extreme life with Bryan Johnson, multimillionaire biohacker/He’s the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who famously injected his teenage son’s blood in a bid to reverse his biological age to 18. Kate Tolo is his collaborator and girlfriend. So what’s it like to be in a...
September 3, 11:56 AM / Althouse / "Ha ha. Wouldn't it be funny if I started it up again? 18 years have passed!""But in the larger scheme of things, what is 18 years? The whole idea was to liberate myself to wander around on the time line." I left a comment on an old blog post, here .
September 3, 11:02 AM / Althouse / Unsaid things.That's a favorite tag of mine and I've even blogged about the tag. In 2014, I said: "I feel that I've found the psychic key to my favorite tag: 'unsaid things.' ... Did you know that before I started blogging I believed myself to be a person without political opinions? I used to read the Ne...
September 3, 10:17 AM / Balkinization / APSA Panel and Symposium on The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
September 3, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Constitutionalism in Times of Democratic Backsliding
September 3, 07:24 AM / Althouse / "Gloria Steinem, lodestar of the modern women’s movement, dies at 92."A Washington Post obituary (gift link). In a tribute to feminism, the obit waits until the 6th paragraph to tell us how she looked: "With her willowy physique, her fashionable miniskirts and her straight, parted hair, she brought glamour as well as passion to her work, challenging the popular per...
September 3, 01:12 AM / Crooked Timber / Don’t use a gmail.com addressWe are being flooded with spam coming from fake gmail.com addresses at the moment. So, for the moment, I’ve set our spam filter to delete everything from gmail.com If you want to post a real comment, just give a spurious address like anon.com and use your existing name/nym. Although we ask ...
September 3, 12:38 AM / Crooked Timber / Taylor Swift: The Good Billionaire?I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, responding to a challenge* to write about the economic aspects of Taylor Swift. Not long after that, the world lost the marvellous Dolly Parton. Parton’s lifetime income almost certainly exceeded a billion dollars, but she gave huge amounts away. Her bigge...
September 2, 11:29 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / New Publication Forthcoming: World Law and Literature (Marco Wan, ed., Routledge, 2027)
September 2, 11:25 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Walker on "Not a Particle of Choctaw Blood": Samuel Caldwell's Four Citizenship Trials, 1896-1904
September 2, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Constitutionalism and Its Discontents: A Comparativist’s Take
September 2, 09:00 AM / Balkinization / Balkinization symposium on Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugaric, Constitutionalism and its Discontents
September 2, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Making Connections: The ASLH Author-Meets Reader Series
September 1, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Professional AI’s Dual Trust Problem
September 1, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / New Guest Blogger Alert! Gautham Rao
August 31, 03:49 PM / Crooked Timber / Teaching pluralizing political philosophyA couple of years ago, I edited a volume on pluralizing political philosophy, in particular in relation to economic and ecological inequalities. It was put together under the Covid-pandemic, so we had to swap the authors-conference for online meetings, with the authors spread out from China to Ar...
August 31, 03:00 PM / Legal History Blog / Thank You to Guest Blogger Mitra Sharafi!
August 31, 02:45 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Moller on The Radical Whig Origins of the Horizontal Necessary and Proper Clause
August 31, 10:33 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Submissions Deadline for Law and Literature in International Economic Law Now September 17, 2026
August 31, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Defining Predistribution
August 31, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Nelson on the Dictatorial Presidency
August 31, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Walker on a Choctaw Citizenship Citizenship Case
August 30, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / The Tech Energy Transition
August 29, 01:00 PM / Balkinization / Public Institutions Can’t Outsource Their Reasoning
August 29, 12:30 PM / Balkinization / Balkinization Symposium on the Global Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence
August 29, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Weekend Roundup
August 28, 04:40 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Tan on Metaverse Realities: Governance, Virtual Property and Legal Ordering in Emerging Virtual Worlds
August 28, 01:00 PM / Legal History Blog / Using Detective Fiction as a Source
August 28, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Stern on Henry Fielding
August 28, 01:51 AM / Crooked Timber / Gold and Myth in the Australian Blue MountainsAt the end of a glorious day hanging out at galleries, antique shops and the pub with friend and historian Matt Allen we walked to the station at Blackheath in the Blue Mountains, Australia (where I live) for Matt to get the train back to the city. We were confronted with this glorious mural repr...
August 28, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Bremer on the Judges Bill and Administering the Courts
August 27, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / CFP: Rethinking Pakistan through Legal History
August 27, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Bruhl on Legislative Interpretive Directives