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May 16, 07:55 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:34.Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
May 16, 04:05 PM / Balkinization / The Appellate Void and Trump v. CASA
May 16, 10:52 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Censure For Neglect And Failure To CommunicateThe Kansas Supreme Court censured an attorney who had failed to respond to a court email that led to the dismissal of the client's personal injury claim. Priors as recounted by the hearing panel The respondent has been disciplined on...
May 16, 10:05 AM / Legal Profession Blog / No Suspension For Neglect Of AppealsAn attorney's neglect of several appellate matters drew a reprimand from the Iowa Supreme Court This matter raises the question of the appropriate sanction for an attorney who admittedly failed to comply with appellate deadlines in numerous appeals over a...
May 16, 09:56 AM / Althouse / Wow! Bob Dylan sings Ricky Nelson's "Garden Party"Amazing footage of Bob performing „Garden Party“ last night! https://t.co/NZ6SRl49uY #bobdylan pic.twitter.com/BDkqRuHUhn — Michael (@False_Prophet44) May 16, 2025 That was last night, and here's the relevant passage from Bob's book "The Philosophy of Modern Song" (commission earned): There’s an ...
May 16, 09:43 AM / Althouse / "Are you admitting that the case against Trump in New York was part of the organized Democratic Party resistance?"I can't believe it. They finally admitted it on live TV: The prosecution of President Trump was an organized effort by the Democratic Party "resistance." Lawfare is real. The justice system was weaponized against President Trump. pic.twitter.com/uvMKTHcA53 — Scott Jennings (@S...
May 16, 09:30 AM / Balkinization / Penningroth’s Achievement
May 16, 09:08 AM / Althouse / What are these annoying insects that were swarming like mad by Lake Mendota at sunrise today?Answer: Midges! These things are annoying. They're messing up photographs and you might get one in your eye, mouth, or nose, but they don't bite, and they don't last long. It's just crazy time for midges. "Midge" is a word that goes back to early Old English, where it was spelled "mygg." It just ...
May 16, 08:39 AM / Althouse / "Plenty of Democrats are annoyed that 'Original Sin' has catapulted the issue of Biden’s enfeeblement back into the news...""... threatening to distract voters from Donald Trump’s rococo corruption. I think, though, that Tapper and Thompson have done the party a favor. Some sort of reckoning is due for the disastrous missteps that paved the way for Trump’s return.... Party officials burned a lot of credibility defendi...
May 16, 05:40 AM / Althouse / "James Comey purports not to have known that 86 means to get rid of (after he posted a picture of rocks in the form 8647 (47 being easily read as a reference to Trump)). Is Comey credible?"For the annals of Things I Asked Grok. Follow-up prompts: "Compare that to how Trump was treated for telling protesters on January 6th, 2021 to walk 'peacefully and patriotically' to the Capitol" and "I'm interested in the difference in seeing violence in words and consider that Comey, like Trump...
May 15, 08:00 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:46.Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
May 15, 05:32 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Fireworks And School BoardsTwo recent opinions of the Rhode Island Ethics Advisory Panel Both involve conflicts issues Opinion 2025-06. FACTS The inquiring attorney is a member of the board of a local non-profit organization (the “Entity”). The Entity has been sued for personal...
May 15, 05:29 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Badge Of DishonorDisbarment should be imposed for an attorney's criminal conviction of a crime of moral turpitude, according to a report and recommendation of the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility. The analysis of moral turpitude per se was whether the...
May 15, 03:56 PM / Althouse / "And what's interesting here is that even people who are skeptical of Trump's tariffs might be in favor of reining in fast fashion for environmental reasons or because they're against overconsumption.""And you can actually see that playing out online. 'We need to stop filling up our closets and fill up our banks. There's this whole buy less movement.' 'We're not rich enough to afford these tariffs. So let's embrace the idea of under consumption.' 'Maybe we need to start taking responsibility f...
May 15, 03:44 PM / Althouse / The NYT is trying to heart-warm us with a story about saving Canada geese!With dismay, I'm reading "A ‘Quixotic’ Fight to Protect a Bird That Can Be Hard to Love/Two New York men who bonded over bird-watching at the Central Park Reservoir are united in their efforts to save the nests of its resident Canada geese." Edward Dorson, a wildlife photographer and regular visi...
May 15, 03:32 PM / Althouse / "Now, we love France, right? But I think we did a little more to win the war than France. Do we agree?""You know, I don’t want to be a wise guy, but when Hitler made his speech at the Eiffel Tower, I would say that wasn’t exactly exactly ideal. And I called up the president, Macron, good guy by the way, 'Donald, we are celebrating our victory over the Germans.' 'Oh, that’s wonderful.' No, we don’t...
May 15, 02:22 PM / Balkinization / The Government's "Domicile" Argument on Birth Citizenship
May 15, 01:25 PM / Legal Profession Blog / After 40 Years, Conviction VacatedPolice and prosecutor misconduct have led the Utah Supreme Court to vacate a conviction and sentence secured in a 1985 conviction The constitutional violations that took place during Carter’s trial and resentencing are serious. It is rare to see a...
May 15, 11:20 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Florida Rejects Proposed Domestic Violence Sanction As Unduly LenientThe Florida Supreme Court imposed more severe discipline that the 90-day suspension sought by the Bar and reprimand that had been proposed by the referee The Florida Bar seeks review of a referee’s report recommending that Respondent, Ryan F. C....
May 15, 11:12 AM / Balkinization / Legal Pluralism in “Before the Movement”
May 15, 10:01 AM / Althouse / "LISTEN LIVE: Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump’s challenge to birthright citizenship."Live-blogging at SCOTUSblog, here .
May 15, 09:55 AM / Althouse / "It’ll seem like it’s all systems go, let’s keep going, let’s cut the red tape, et cetera. Let’s basically effectively put the A.I.s in charge...""... of more and more things. But really what’s happening is that the A.I.s are just biding their time and waiting until they have enough hard power that they don’t have to pretend anymore."/"And when they don’t have to pretend, their actual goal is revealed as something like expansion of researc...
May 15, 09:46 AM / Legal Profession Blog / South Carolina Sanctions AttorneyThe South Carolina Supreme Court resolved a case involving an attorney who had been suspended on an interim basis by imposing an already-served nine month suspension if he meets conditions followed by monitored probation In late 2018, Respondent began experiencing...
May 15, 09:07 AM / Althouse / "Professor Carpenter was at home in Blackheath, south east London, plowing his way through Harvard Law School’s digital images as research for a book...""... when he opened a file named HLS MS 172 — the catalog name for Harvard Law School Manuscript 172. 'I get down to 172 and it’s a single parchment sheet of Magna Carta,' he said. 'And I think "Oh my god, this looks to me for all the world — because I read it — like an original."' Professor Carp...
May 15, 08:44 AM / Althouse / "The world’s first modern art museum celebrating migration opens on Thursday in the Dutch port of Rotterdam....""Dominated by a giant, futuristic, silver staircase at its centre — to symbolise movement — the Fenix museum is in the eye of a political storm and a populist backlash against mass immigration in Europe and across the Atlantic in the US. The museum is housed in what was once the world’s biggest w...
May 15, 05:56 AM / Althouse / "The scandal here is not Trump’s willingness to accept the gift of a plane, but Boeing’s utter failure to deliver the planes it promised Trump in his first term."Writes Marc A. Thiessen , in "Yes, Trump can accept an airplane from Qatar. Here’s why he shouldn’t. Just because Donald Trump can take Qatar’s largesse doesn’t mean he should. Qatar is a nasty regime" (WaPo). Legally, the U.S. government is in the clear to accept the donation of an aircraf...
May 15, 05:48 AM / Althouse / I see "RFK Jr. gives opening statements, gets interrupted by protesters at Senate hearing," and one of the protesters is Ben Cohen, the ice cream mogul.Why would Cohen think this is a good place to insert himself? I would think ice cream is one of the top reasons for the obesity crisis in America. Where does he come off thinking he can pose as an exemplar of virtue against RFK Jr.? The disruption begins at 1:50. The momentary look of terror on B...
May 15, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States
May 14, 10:25 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Second Chance Muffed In AI MisuseI don't often advise the readership of matters unless I have located them through original research. But I just saw a United States District Court for the Central District of California Special Master decision reported at The Volokh Conspiracy that...
May 14, 08:22 PM / Legal Profession Blog / ALL CAPSA complaint recently filed by the Illinois Administrator In September 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“the Agency”) removed Respondent from his position as a probationary patent examiner. Respondent challenged the removal by filing an employment complaint against...
May 14, 07:55 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:21.It was a gray morning here, but Meade was sojourning in the U.P., and he texted me these: Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
May 14, 02:30 PM / Balkinization / American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It (W.W. Norton, 2024)
May 14, 02:16 PM / Althouse / Trump says the president of Syria — a former jihadist — is "a young, attractive guy" — "Tough guy. Strong past. Very strong past. Fighter."Trump seems to love to comment on the good looks of men . I'm reading "Trump meets Syria’s ‘attractive, tough’ president after lifting US sanctions/US president meets Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia as lifting of sanctions is met with jubilation in Damascus" (The Guardian). In Syria, ...
May 14, 01:59 PM / Althouse / "You can often find the eldest brother of the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles down at the Twisted Fork restaurant in Port Charlotte, Fla., where, on Honky-Tonk Thursdays...""... he is most likely boot-scooting along with the rest of the line dancers. His ringtone plays the opening riffs of Led Zeppelin’s 'Immigrant Song.' He incurred $20,000 in roof damage from Hurricane Ian. And until recently, anyone could read his Facebook posts, which included vulgar potshots at...
May 14, 12:30 PM / Balkinization / Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Dylan Penningroth’s Before the Movement.
May 14, 12:00 PM / Balkinization / Balkinization Symposium on Dylan C. Penningroth, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023).
May 14, 09:40 AM / Althouse / Take this NYT article... and make a blog post out of it in the style used on the blog Althouse....I asked Grok, citing the NYT article, "The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It/Students call it hypocritical. A senior at Northeastern University demanded her tuition back. But instructors say generative A.I. tools make them better at their jobs." Grok responded,...
May 14, 08:41 AM / Althouse / "House Democrats erupted into fury and profane invective Tuesday as Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) forced a vote on his rogue efforts to impeach President Trump....""The vote could be tough for many Democrats, who feel impeachment is politically foolish but are facing demands from their grassroots to mirror Trump's shock-and-awe tactics.... Thanedar took to the House floor Tuesday afternoon to notice his seven articles of impeachment as privileged, which for...
May 14, 08:17 AM / Althouse / "The indictment of the judge, Hannah C. Dugan of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, was a routine but significant step in the Justice Department’s case against her.""The Trump administration has defended the prosecution as a warning that no one is above the law, while many Democrats, lawyers and former judges have denounced it as an assault on the judiciary...." From "Wisconsin Judge Indicted on Charges That She Helped Immigrant Evade Agents/Judge Hannah C. ...
May 14, 07:27 AM / Althouse / I don't want to read a Clooney-centric account of how the Democrats allowed Joe Biden to win the nomination and then swiped it from him.The New Yorker has this excerpt from Jake Tapper's new book: "How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump/At a fateful event last summer, Barack Obama, George Clooney, and others were stunned by Biden’s weakness and confusion. Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition fr...
May 13, 07:07 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — with insects — at 5:28.A second walk, in the mists of noon: And then, finally, some sun came out and made the woodland phlox look quite jaunty: Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
May 13, 06:36 PM / Althouse / "Pete Rose and 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson are no longer official baseball pariahs. In a seismic decision that will alter the legacies of 17 disgraced baseball players...""...Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that players punished with permanent ineligibility will be reinstated after their deaths. Players on MLB’s permanently ineligible list are banned from entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, meaning Rose, baseball’s all-t...
May 13, 05:28 PM / Balkinization / Review It All
May 13, 12:54 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Medical Student A Servant?A doctor who supervised a medical student in performing a procedure may be liable to the injured plaintiff, according to an opinion of the Georgia Supreme Court we agree with the Court of Appeals’ lead opinion that OCGA § 51-1-38...
May 13, 12:51 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Judgmental ImmunityThe Georgia Supreme Court concluded that the judgmental immunity doctrine had been misapplied by the Court of Appeals but nonetheless held in favor of defendant Barnes & Thornburg in a legal malpractice case The court [of appeals] also emphasized that...
May 13, 12:12 PM / Althouse / "Ron Chernow’s new biography of Mark Twain is enormous, bland and remote — it squats over Twain’s career like a McMansion."That's the crushing first sentence of Dwight Garner's book review, "A New Biography of Mark Twain Doesn’t Have Much of What Made Him Great/Ron Chernow traces the life of a profound, unpredictable and irascibly witty writer" (NYT). [Chernow's] book is an endurance test, one that skimps on th...
May 13, 11:27 AM / Althouse / "In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church...""... the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration...." NPR reports. In a lette...
May 13, 10:52 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Lot (Owners) WifeThe New York Appellate Division for the First Judicial Department reduced a Maine three-year term of suspension to one-year as reciprocal discipline Respondent, who had practiced criminal defense in New York prior to moving to Maine in 2020, was admitted...
May 13, 10:29 AM / Legal Profession Blog / No Proof Of BiasCleveland.com reports on a decision not to remove a judge from presiding at a high-profile criminal trial The Ohio Supreme Court rejected a request to remove the judge presiding over the public corruption case against suspended East Cleveland Mayor Brandon...
May 13, 10:13 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Georgetown In MaineThe Maine Grievance Commission imposed a reprimand and probation for misconduct in a parental rights matter J.T., a client of Attorney Davis’s, filed a complaint on May 2, 2024. Respondent filed an initial response on June 12, 2024. During the...
May 13, 09:49 AM / Althouse / "Biden's physical deterioration — most apparent in his halting walk — had become so severe that there were internal discussions about putting the president in a wheelchair, but they couldn't do so until after the election."Write Jake Tapper and Thompson in a book they call "Original Sin," quoted in "Exclusive: Biden aides discussed wheelchair use if he were re-elected, new book says" (Axios). The book will be out in a week, so presumably Axios can excerpt anything from the text and call it "exclusive." Nothing wron...
May 13, 09:46 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Not Held In TrustA justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court imposed a stayed three-month suspension and probation The following facts were found by the hearing committee and adopted by the board. The respondent, admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1985, primarily handles...
May 13, 09:24 AM / Althouse / About that free jet, let me tell you about Sam Snead.... He was a great golfer....REPORTER: What do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you? TRUMP: You're ABC fake news, right? Let me tell you -- you should be embarrassed asking that question. They're giving us a free jet ... when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk… pic.twitt...
May 13, 09:20 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Ohio Hears Bar MatterA summary of a bar discipline matter scheduled to be heard tomorrow by the Ohio Supreme Court Attorney Gregg Rossi of Youngstown faces discipline for professional misconduct involving a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) he drafted for a friend accused of assault....
May 13, 09:03 AM / Althouse / "'You may have heard of him as Puff Daddy, as P Diddy. Standing in this courtroom at 55 years old, in the same place he was born and raised, he’s going by the same name he was born with...'""'...Sean Combs.' He was a self-made man, [his lawyer] said. 'He is charismatic and magnetic, a larger-than-life figure.' He was a man people wanted to know. But he was also flawed, she said. 'I’m telling you that he is physical, that he is a drug user, and I’m telling you that he has a bit of a ...
May 13, 08:17 AM / Althouse / "The actor said he was not the 'vulgar, rude, trashy person who makes fun of people' that he had been portrayed as in the media.""I respect people. I like to help people,' he told the court in March. But he also said he was from a different generation and that his flamboyant, bombastic and unapologetic personality was ill suited for the current era...." From "Gérard Depardieu Convicted of Sexual Assault/The French actor wa...
May 13, 08:10 AM / Althouse / "If you say 'Keep Austin Weird' to somebody under the age of 40, they would think of that as an antique-y slogan, like Ye Old Shoppe.""It doesn’t have any resonance for their lived experience of Austin." Said H.W. Brands, a University of Texas historian, quoted in "Austin Welcomed Musk. Now It’s Weird (in a New Way). The famously liberal bastion of Austin is grappling uneasily with Elon Musk’s rightward turn, which has begun tr...
May 12, 09:29 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:34, 5:39.Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
May 12, 02:06 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Swain on Mrs. Jelleby, Victorian Values, and the Legal Framework of the Law of Charity in Nineteenth-Century England
May 12, 01:12 PM / Balkinization / Academic Freedom of Law Reviews: Personal Statements Under Attack
May 12, 12:21 PM / Legal Profession Blog / The Punching BagA bar discipline matter scheduled to be argued May 20 before the Missouri Supreme Court involves, in part, an appeal of a "no misconduct" finding as recounted in the brief of Disciplinary Counsel Client Effie Barrett’s personal injury case was...
May 12, 11:53 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Sanction At Issue In MissouriAn oral argument scheduled for tomorrow before the Missouri Supreme Court SC100925 In re: Roy King Jr. Jackson County Attorney discipline Roy King Jr. is an attorney practicing in Kansas City. Over the years, this Court has reprimanded and suspended...
May 12, 11:17 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Suspension Imposed For Domestic Violence And Probation ViolationA 30-day suspension has been imposed by a tri-county hearing panel of the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board and affirmed by the Board on appeal The Grievance Administrator filed a combined Notice of Filing of Judgment of Conviction and Formal Complaint...
May 12, 11:04 AM / Crooked Timber / Perry Anderson’s lazy endorsement of US self-mythologisingA few weeks ago the historian Perry Anderson published an essay “Regime Change in the West?” in the London Review of Books. Like many of Anderson’s essays this is a wide-ranging splurge full of bon mots and *apercus” delivered from some quasi-Olympian height. My attention ...
May 12, 11:01 AM / Althouse / Big shot takes fat shot.Trump: "A friend of mine who is a businessman. Very very very top guy. Most of you would've heard of him. Highly neurotic. Brilliant businessman. Seriously overweight. And he takes the fat shot drug." pic.twitter.com/pFFyXT6pHF — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 12, 2025
May 12, 10:55 AM / Althouse / "From the beginning, those voices were highly regulated and controlled so as not to provoke certain outrage...""... as if it were a given that a woman virtually freed of her uterus and visual sexual signifiers would obviously pose some considerable threat. Consider the guidelines of a pamphlet for operators published by the Chicago Telephone Company in the early 20th century and called 'First Lessons in T...
May 12, 10:21 AM / Legal Profession Blog / No Reasonable Apprehension Of BiasA motion to disqualify prosecuting counsel has been denied by the Ontario Law Society Tribunal Hearing Division The issues to be determined on this motion are: • Has the licensee established facts from which a reasonable apprehension of bias can...
May 12, 10:13 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Playa del CarmenThe Quebec Disciplinary Council ordered the immediate provisional removal of a recently-admitted attorney. Among the many allegations In Montreal, since or around January 24, 2025, and until the filing of this disciplinary complaint, published, disseminated, communicated on its website www.hathaw...
May 12, 09:56 AM / Althouse / "Research on chemicals that have been vetted by the F.D.A. tends to be extremely narrow in focus, looking mostly for cancer, genetic mutations or...""... organ damage in animal or laboratory studies. This means the ingredients in our coffee creamer, cereal, ketchup and frozen pizza aren’t tested for more subtle effects on long-term health, or whether they may increase the risk of the other common chronic diseases, such as obesity, cardiovascu...
May 12, 09:39 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Appeal Misconduct Draws SanctionMishandling of a criminal appeal has led to a six-month suspension by the New Jersey Supreme Court. The Disciplinary Review Board set out the particulars Based on the foregoing facts, respondent stipulated that he violated RPC 1.5(b) by failing to...
May 12, 09:08 AM / Althouse / "Suggestions that the number of people wanting to separate is growing worries me.... [Premier Danielle Smith] is manipulating the people of this province...""... into believing that we should seriously look at separating. It is just ludicrous. Not all of us think like that. I absolutely disagree." Said Kathleen Sokvitne, a citizen of Calgary, Alberta, quoted in "'We're Canadians': Some Albertans divided about separation in cross-province checkup/Repu...
May 12, 08:28 AM / Althouse / "Rockalina the eastern box turtle was captured in 1977 and forced to live on a kitchen floor for nearly 50 years. She was fed cat food and lettuce...."You may have followed the story of Rockalina on TikTok, but this YouTube version, which just went up yesterday, collects the whole story.
May 12, 08:22 AM / Althouse / "In what is now the guest bedroom, original lath and plaster smoothed over a rough brick insulation called nogging, had decayed in sections...""... and was coated in five layers of paint. Gentle application of a scraper revealed a floral lattice wallpaper, which he left as is, creating a distressed cottage-core atmosphere." From "A 'Romantic Idealist' Renovates a Derelict House on an Artist’s Budget/A street artist had to depend on patr...
May 12, 07:34 AM / Althouse / "While planning the first major overseas trip of his second term, a four-day swing through Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates...""... Mr. Trump told his advisers that he wanted to announce deals that would be worth more than $1 trillion. As a branding exercise it makes perfect sense. Surrounded by resource-rich royals and American business executives, Mr. Trump, who likes to brag about his deal-making skills, will scrawl h...
May 12, 05:06 AM / Crooked Timber / On the Retreat of the Enshittification of University BureaucracyMore than a month ago, I agreed to an offer to be a visiting scholar at a private US university next year. This was no simple matter because of obligations to my own family and (somewhat more unexpectedly) my department. I have made no public announcement on it yet not because I am especially per...
May 12, 03:17 AM / Crooked Timber / Online book launch ‘Pluralizing Political Philosophy’Over the last years, I have edited a volume of papers on the question how to make analytical political philosophy more inclusive, with a particular focus on the debates on economic and ecological inequalities. The starting point was the observation that analytical political philosophy has for a l...
May 12, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / A New Look at Domesday Book
May 11, 07:04 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:40.Talk about whatever you like in the comments. And please support the Althouse blog by doing your Amazon shopping going in through the Althouse Amazon link .
May 11, 10:13 AM / Althouse / "My hero was my father, a closeted bisexual Army major general who, in the 1990s, argued in favor of gays in the military by reminding people that they’ve always been there.""Yes, the military vibe could be depressingly macho, but it’s also about having your buddies’ backs, no matter their gender, sexuality or race. I spoke about the subject of my new play, Claude Cahun , a French Jewish Surrealist who, with her partner, Marcel Moore, broke into a church at night dur...
May 11, 09:55 AM / Balkinization / Is the Librarian of Congress an Executive Official?
May 11, 09:24 AM / Althouse / "This is a very significant choice, because it’s a vote against America since he has been a leading opponent of Donald Trump."Said Franca Giansoldati, "a Vatican expert at Italy’s Il Messaggero newspaper," quoted in "Who is Robert Prevost? New Pope hit out at Trump administration weeks ago/Robert Prevost, now Leo XIV, is the first American chosen to lead the Catholic Church, having steered a moderate path with the Augus...
May 11, 08:36 AM / Althouse / "Who made you feel seen when you were growing up?"One of the questions proposed in "25 Questions to Bring You Closer to Your Mom" (NYT). When did people start saying that they need to "feel seen"? I don't remember that from the period when I was growing up — the 1950s and 60s. Was there something else that we said that meant "feel seen"? Or is t...
May 11, 07:10 AM / Crooked Timber / Sunday photoblogging: Amiens Cathedral
May 10, 08:16 PM / Althouse / At the Saturday Night Café...... you can talk about whatever you want.
May 10, 01:25 PM / Althouse / In preparation for Alberta's joining us as the 51st state, I'm listening to Millennial Moron explain the Canadian love for Kraft Dinner Language (AKA K.D. Lang).And it's great that Bob Dylan went on to become a popular musician in his own right. Some commenter over there says "This is the single most Canadian bit of humor I think I might have ever seen." I don't know, but I want to find out. Join us, Alberta! We'll give you more gold/Than your apro...
May 10, 12:13 PM / Althouse / "We feel threatened by them. So it would’ve been a total disaster and a cold slap in the face if the pope had been full-on American."Said Araceli Torres Hallal, 64, "a Catholic entrepreneur in Mexico City," quoted in "World Catholics See the First American Pope as Hardly American/Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual identity has put them at...
May 10, 11:42 AM / Althouse / "Ms. LaFavers said in an interview that Liam, 8, became familiar with Amazon and other shopping sites during the pandemic...""... when she regularly ordered supplies. Since then, she has occasionally let him browse the site if he keeps the items in the cart." From "Boy Accidentally Orders 70,000 Lollipops on Amazon. Panic Ensues. Holly LaFavers said she was eventually refunded $4,200 for her 8-year-old son’s order of D...
May 10, 11:33 AM / Althouse / "... showing the best people the best people...."I'm reading "The Interview/Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?" (NYT). Wolfe Herd, a co-founder of Tinder, left Tinder and founded Bumble, then left Bumble and went back to Tinder, which she thinks she can reform into something that makes sense in this crazy world. Her career s...
May 10, 10:42 AM / Althouse / "Meghan Markle Wears Ginormous, Cozy Button-Down While Flower Arranging With Dog Guy."That's the headline of the morning for me — over at InStyle . Don't get me started on the present-day inanity of calling a shirt a "button-down" — in my day, a "button-down" was a shirt with a button-down collar, not a shirt that you button up ( up , not down) — because I've already spent an hour...
May 10, 10:09 AM / Althouse / "After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE.""Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Writes President Trump , on Truth Social. Thank you for your attention to this matter. AND: Here 's Marco Rubio at the State Department website: "Over the past 48 hours, ...
May 10, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Weekend Roundup
May 9, 07:58 PM / Balkinization / A Justice Souter Anecdote, or “Seeing a World in a Grain of Sand”
May 9, 05:32 PM / Balkinization / How to Avoid Accountability
May 9, 04:19 PM / Legal History Blog / "Dangerous Democracy": Upcoming Workshop at Stanford Law School
May 9, 04:08 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Giuliani on Past, Pastness, and the Broad Present: Changing Images of Time in Legal History
May 9, 11:00 AM / Legal History Blog / Stern on Criminal Law, Literature, and History
May 9, 09:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Bilder on Distinguishing Instrument and Constitution
May 9, 04:22 AM / Crooked Timber / David Attenborough’s OceanI watched Attenborough’s latest blockbuster at the cinema last night with my family, and thought I’d collect some thoughts here. First off, it’s wonderfully put together. That’s hardly news with Attenborough. Of course, it’s beautifully shot, and captures marine animals doing things we haven’t se...
May 9, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Dworniczak et al. on Legal Transplants
May 8, 01:00 PM / Legal History Blog / Vlahoplus on Treason and the Natural Born Citizen