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Author & blogger, about law especially; & .

Washington DC; New Market, MD
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Joined September 2008
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    14 Apr 2014

    Some of them want to block you/Some of them want to be blocked by you/Some of them want to RT you/Some of them want to be RT'd

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    21 hours ago

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    Feb 26

    So this is pretty extraordinary. , an account dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, gets into a disagreement with Unite General Secretary Len McCluskey. McCluskey urges people to report the account, which is then censured for having a "hateful" profile picture.

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  4. 8 hours ago

    "4x the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s than today." "Shooting incidents involving students have been declining since the 1990s." "'This is not an epidemic.' Mass school shootings are incredibly rare events." []

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    Feb 24

    Before being wrongly convicted, a Chicago man worked a dream job as a groundskeeper for . For years he watched on prison TV as his old coworkers pulled the tarp during rain delays Now, after his exoneration, the team offers him his old job back

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  6. 11 hours ago

    It's easy peasy since the correct holding is clear at a glance

    Hoo boy
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  7. 11 hours ago

    AP: "The roles are reversed in Maryland, where Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is proposing an independent redistricting commission ..."

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    21 hours ago

    "woke dicta". That's a new one.

    Replying to @AnthonyMKreis
    LOL. Judge Jacobs in his concurrence says majority opinion contains some "woke dicta." I think Judge Katzmann can live with that!
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    Feb 24

    Here's Connecticut, by contrast, being smart enough not to say *which* peaceful protests they won't hold against applicants.

    UConn would like to assure students who have applied or been admitted to the University that disciplinary action associated with participation in peaceful protests will not affect your admission decision in any way.
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    13 hours ago

    Yep, that's the level of legal analysis and insight I've come to expect from ThinkProgress.

    There is a puddle of urine stagnating on the otherwise immaculate marble floor of the Supreme Court’s men’s room and it is the perfect metaphor for Neil Gorsuch.
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    13 hours ago

    On what planet does "I disagree with a judge sometimes" = "that judge is literally excrement"? Wouldn't any decent person be embarrassed to be associated with that view? Isn't it instantly discrediting? So many questions.

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    18 hours ago

    My quick reaction to the argument. We didn’t learn anything and I’d still rather be on workers’ side than union-state collusion side.

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    Feb 26

    -Left: when you just read the Abstract. -Right: when you read the whole paper. (via Reddit)

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    15 hours ago

    11. I do think state officials should be careful about announcing potentially unconstitutional motives so flippantly. Prior to twitter, it was often difficult to get such explicit evidence of unconstitutional motive in 1st A cases. (End)

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    16 hours ago

    The Lt. Governor of Georgia's proposal to tax for ending its program giving discounts to members raises interesting First Amendment questions. A thread with some thoughts:

    Need some constitutional scholars to weigh in on this one from the Lt. Governor of Georgia.
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  16. 14 hours ago

    Medical roundup at links

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    Feb 25

    Redistricting in listenable format

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    15 hours ago

    Yeah. You know what’s not super conservative? Using government power to attempt to bludgeon a private company into entering a business arrangement with another specific private group.

    I will kill any tax legislation that benefits unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with . Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back.
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    22 hours ago

    Please retweet this as a pamphlet on a wooden printing press

    How about we ABOLISH private gun ownership EXCEPT for muskets—which we'd then REQUIRE for Americans over 18? That'd be a PRO-GUN reading of what the Second Amendment meant in 1791. Then 98.7% of us could break our muskets in half, and the 1.3% in the NRA would have A MUSKET.
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    19 hours ago

    While I disagree with them, you should read on this subject. Forcing agencies to allow gay adoptions may mean less adoptions.

    Bill making it legal to ban gays & lesbians from adopting passes in Georgia
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    19 hours ago

    The Factual Feminist has been denounced by the Southern Poverty Law Center as enabler of male supremacy. Oy vey. Last year leader of MRA group denounced me for being a female supremacist Both wrong. I’m a facts & logic supremacist.

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