Luke Smith Morgan
@slukemorgan.bsky.social
law professor. dad. solar power. hoops.
my opinions are solely my own & not attributable to anyone else. or even to me. thoughts arise of their own volition.
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my opinions are solely my own & not attributable to anyone else. or even to me. thoughts arise of their own volition.
ssrn: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=6381985
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I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
I think Democrats should offer voters a broadly defined anti-fraud platform. Yes, obviously, start with Trump’s influence peddling, but don’t stop there. Online fraud is massive, almost every phone call you get is a scam, and the solution has to be federal or it just won’t work.
increasingly toying with the idea that this is the root of all "rule of law" issues. A democratic theory of the rule of law should begin with the idea that the rule of law emerges from the average citizen's lived experience. And that experience today is being ruthlessly ripped off at all times.
Do you get extra votes in the house for overperforming
This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros.
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
December 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Do you get extra votes in the house for overperforming
still thinking about this guy's definition of "native population." wouldn't even be able to see the difference between him and the people he wants to exclude on the timeline of human activities in the Americas.
December 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
still thinking about this guy's definition of "native population." wouldn't even be able to see the difference between him and the people he wants to exclude on the timeline of human activities in the Americas.
I genuinely think they're just bored.
said it earlier but I genuinely do think there's something in anglosphere elite water that basically makes them want to sell out liberal democratic values
that Manhattan Institute focus group is a bad omen for the future of Anglosphere right politics
that Manhattan Institute focus group is a bad omen for the future of Anglosphere right politics
i do think there's something to be said for how there's basically been a preference cascade in elite opinions both in the US and UK, and it's not going to end well for either country imo
December 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I genuinely think they're just bored.
Elite form here
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Elite form here
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they should invent a law that protects and binds the same people
February 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
they should invent a law that protects and binds the same people
with the most illegal screen of all time?
LOOK AT HOW THEY WON IT 🌀🌀🌀🌀
December 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
with the most illegal screen of all time?
so uh
I feel like timothee chalomet releasing a rap song is not only possible now but imminent
December 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
so uh
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Franks on Dobbs and Bruen
Mary Anne Franks (George Washington University - Law School) has posted THE SUPREME COURT AS DEATH PANEL: THE NECROPOLITICS OF BRUEN AND DOBBS on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Two decisions in 2022, issued only a day apart, represent a dramatic and deadly escalation of the…
Mary Anne Franks (George Washington University - Law School) has posted THE SUPREME COURT AS DEATH PANEL: THE NECROPOLITICS OF BRUEN AND DOBBS on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Two decisions in 2022, issued only a day apart, represent a dramatic and deadly escalation of the…
Franks on Dobbs and Bruen
Mary Anne Franks (George Washington University - Law School) has posted THE SUPREME COURT AS DEATH PANEL: THE NECROPOLITICS OF BRUEN AND DOBBS on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Two decisions in 2022, issued only a day apart, represent a dramatic and deadly escalation of the Supreme Court's politicized jurisprudence. In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, the Court declared that the Constitution has always protected a right to armed self-defense in public as well as in the home.
legaltheoryblog.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Franks on Dobbs and Bruen
Mary Anne Franks (George Washington University - Law School) has posted THE SUPREME COURT AS DEATH PANEL: THE NECROPOLITICS OF BRUEN AND DOBBS on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Two decisions in 2022, issued only a day apart, represent a dramatic and deadly escalation of the…
Mary Anne Franks (George Washington University - Law School) has posted THE SUPREME COURT AS DEATH PANEL: THE NECROPOLITICS OF BRUEN AND DOBBS on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Two decisions in 2022, issued only a day apart, represent a dramatic and deadly escalation of the…
yes Yes YES YES Y E S
Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly. We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
yes Yes YES YES Y E S
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UNC system: pays Belichick $10 million a year
Also UNC system: cuts six research centers to “save” 4.8 million total
Also UNC system: cuts six research centers to “save” 4.8 million total
December 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
UNC system: pays Belichick $10 million a year
Also UNC system: cuts six research centers to “save” 4.8 million total
Also UNC system: cuts six research centers to “save” 4.8 million total
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Doerfler & Moyn on the Post-Legitimacy Supreme Court
Ryan Doerfler (Harvard Law School) & Samuel Moyn (Yale University - Law School) have posted The Post-Legitimacy Court (2025 Sup. Ct. Rev. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For a long time, for both Justices and many observers,…
Ryan Doerfler (Harvard Law School) & Samuel Moyn (Yale University - Law School) have posted The Post-Legitimacy Court (2025 Sup. Ct. Rev. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For a long time, for both Justices and many observers,…
Doerfler & Moyn on the Post-Legitimacy Supreme Court
Ryan Doerfler (Harvard Law School) & Samuel Moyn (Yale University - Law School) have posted The Post-Legitimacy Court (2025 Sup. Ct. Rev. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For a long time, for both Justices and many observers, “legitimacy” was a focal criterion for assessing the Supreme Court’s performance. But what if the Court, or a big enough faction of its Justices, dropped legitimacy as a concern or goal?
legaltheoryblog.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Doerfler & Moyn on the Post-Legitimacy Supreme Court
Ryan Doerfler (Harvard Law School) & Samuel Moyn (Yale University - Law School) have posted The Post-Legitimacy Court (2025 Sup. Ct. Rev. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For a long time, for both Justices and many observers,…
Ryan Doerfler (Harvard Law School) & Samuel Moyn (Yale University - Law School) have posted The Post-Legitimacy Court (2025 Sup. Ct. Rev. (forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For a long time, for both Justices and many observers,…
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Uber and DoorDash say it violates the First Amendment to require their apps to provide a tip option before checkout. We are through the looking glass, people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/n...
Uber and DoorDash Try to Halt N.Y.C. Law That Encourages Tipping
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Uber and DoorDash say it violates the First Amendment to require their apps to provide a tip option before checkout. We are through the looking glass, people. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/n...
"No wonder, then, that citizenship was nowhere defined in the original Constitution. It was not important... [The Constitution made] a government that ... held itself out as bound by certain standards of conduct in its relations with people and persons, not with some legal construct called citizen."
December 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"No wonder, then, that citizenship was nowhere defined in the original Constitution. It was not important... [The Constitution made] a government that ... held itself out as bound by certain standards of conduct in its relations with people and persons, not with some legal construct called citizen."
"originalist" case for limiting constitutional rights to citizens is incoherent. The guys who wrote & ratified the constitution were all born British subjects. When it was ratified, there was no statutory citizenship process. You think they conditioned constitutional rights on citizenship????
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"originalist" case for limiting constitutional rights to citizens is incoherent. The guys who wrote & ratified the constitution were all born British subjects. When it was ratified, there was no statutory citizenship process. You think they conditioned constitutional rights on citizenship????
A little thing, but: the way the title card was changed in the credits
Wake Up Dead Man..... in awe
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A little thing, but: the way the title card was changed in the credits
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i don't think i'd complain about there being too many benoit blanc mysteries until we hit the 25 or 30 mark
December 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
i don't think i'd complain about there being too many benoit blanc mysteries until we hit the 25 or 30 mark
Wake Up Dead Man..... in awe
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Wake Up Dead Man..... in awe
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all power is solar power, it's just up to us if we want it to be converted to plant mass, eaten by an animal that then dies (recurse as necessary), crushed by rocks for several million years, then set it on fire to everyone's detriment, or if we just want magic rocks to convert it directly to power
August 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
all power is solar power, it's just up to us if we want it to be converted to plant mass, eaten by an animal that then dies (recurse as necessary), crushed by rocks for several million years, then set it on fire to everyone's detriment, or if we just want magic rocks to convert it directly to power
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at this point it looks like you have to be putting carbon into the atmosphere out of spite if you do buildouts that aren't primarily solar
This is incredible (good news too): “After a 40% fall in 2024 in battery equipment costs, it’s clear we’re on track for another major fall in 2025…The economics for batteries are unrecognizable, & the industry is only just getting to grips with this new paradigm”
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
at this point it looks like you have to be putting carbon into the atmosphere out of spite if you do buildouts that aren't primarily solar
genuinely endearing how "oh you don't think we should respond to [problem] with [one specific solution]? you must be pro-[problem]" is such an enduring rhetorical form. we can't help it! it's too fun not to say!
December 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
genuinely endearing how "oh you don't think we should respond to [problem] with [one specific solution]? you must be pro-[problem]" is such an enduring rhetorical form. we can't help it! it's too fun not to say!
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Lawyers love to pretend to be the smartest people on earth until they need to pretend to be dumbest
what even is this argument Jamelle
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
December 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Lawyers love to pretend to be the smartest people on earth until they need to pretend to be dumbest
what even is this argument Jamelle
someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 12, 2025 at 8:10 PM
what even is this argument Jamelle
the real reason this threat didn't work, as any native Hoosier could tell you, is that the roads are already not paved
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
the real reason this threat didn't work, as any native Hoosier could tell you, is that the roads are already not paved