very excited to read this, andrew! congrats on the accomplishment.
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very excited to read this, andrew! congrats on the accomplishment.
things AI is good for: creating photos of a chicken nugget w/sunglasses dunking on my 9 year old. keeping my retired dad occupied with his new hobby of "writing songs." telling me the over/under on Michigan hoops winning the tourney this year.
things AI is not good for: writing whole LR articles.
I’m not joking!!! @msmith750.bsky.social you were there right?
@yeargain.bsky.social weren’t you at the juniors conference where the dean on a panel went on and on about how ai writes all his articles?
Agree on both points, @jerryedwards.bsky.social.
my kids' holiday present this year was celtics-OKC tickets for next weekend (their two fav teams) and they will absolutely lose their minds if tatum is back (sorry for all the tatum haters)
(this is my primarily law-focused social media but it is also an intermittent sportsball account)
this is 100% true. as in, i know of multiple professors who do this (some who think they don't even need to acknowledge it in a footnote).
to @katmacfarlane.bsky.social's original post, i have also heard this from multiple people, but it was the first cycle where i got *any* interest from top LRs 🤷♀️
it was meant for you!!
What @justinlawguy.bsky.social said!
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This was fun! Got to talk about what it is actually like to litigate election law and redistricting cases - something often lost in the (terrific) academic scholarship on these issues. Thanks to the @lawanddemocracy.bsky.social podcast for having me on! (the photo they used is me arguing at SCOKAN!)
When I ran a legal department I always said that I had three full time jobs: running litigation, responding to emails, and managing people’s feelings. Sometimes there was overlap between them but it was for sure a venn diagram and not a single circle.
Screenshot of SSRN page and abstract for article Law Enforcement Gang Designations.
Thrilled to share that my latest, "Law Enforcement Gang Designations" will be published in volume 112 of the Virginia Law Review. Draft is up on SSRN, comments welcome!
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Good.
As expected, the ACLU has sued over Kansas SB 244 (the drivers license/bathroom bounty hunter bill). Petition linked here; motion for TRO also filed, and hopefully the court moves quickly. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
remind yourself of the parts of you that you may have put on a shelf for a while while you did the whole career/young kids thing. they're still in there, and they get to come out again in your 40s.
He lost that fight in the courts; then got the legislature to pass this SB8-style bounty hunter scheme.
The AG's solicitor general, who ran point for the prior drivers license litigation, was just nominated by Trump for a vacancy on the US District Ct for Kansas.
A reminder that the cruelty is the point. That was on full display when the AG argued in prior litigation that the previously-passed so-called "women's bill of rights" prevented trans Kansans from having IDs that matched their gender identity.
Glad you're covering this. We should connect about potential amicus opportunities for the (inevitable) litigation to come. bsky.app/profile/shar...
I’ve got stories. And a court record’s worth of receipts.
Anyway, talk to folks on the ground in KS. The context (and evidence) from the prior litigation is important here.
Organizers fought this bill with less than 24 hours notice, and no opportunity to give meaningful public testimony. That was intentional.
Some seriously shady stuff, top to bottom.
The constitutionality of his position wasn’t fully tested (for procedural and statutory interpretation reasons I’m happy to explain) but with the enactment of SB 244 the constitutional questions will be front and center. And likely as a matter of state constitutional law, too.
Important to note: in that litigation the AG could not come up with *any* evidence that justified his position that the state needed drivers licenses to reflect sec assigned at birth for “safety” reasons.
Like, we’re talking no rational basis to be found.
Oh look Kansas is making headlines again.
TL/DR: There’s a years long history behind that letter re: drivers licenses being revoked for trans folks.
Including litigation (that the attorney general LOST). Which was why he urged the legislature to intro SB 244 and rush it thru in a gut and go.
Today one of my best friends from law school happened to be on my campus and he got to come say hi to me for a bit and he happened to meet a bunch of my current and former students and it was just the most wholesome feel good full circle moment. I can't really explain why but it felt awesome!
CC @maybell.bsky.social, relevant to your recent work.
This was basically a plot point in last night’s episode of Industry
Also I’m sorry :(
Grateful to @jaredmcclain.bsky.social for talking about this case on the @ij.org podcast. He highlights the subject of my next academic article, which I touch on in prior work: the equitable relief paradox. Injunctions w/ too few details are too vague; w/ too many details violate federalism.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately too. The in-your-faceness of it all gave courts cover to at least *try* to reign in these policing tactics. When they're done under the guise of having RS, no matter how flimsy, courts just sort of go 🤷♀️
can't wait to read this!!