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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14d

Here’s how a guy who wrote a book on the subject explained treason when we spoke in 2019. The definition is not “made the president mad for vague reasons.”
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...

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Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Excellent advice for incoming 1Ls.

Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW VIDEO: "So You're About To Start Law School: An Incoming Law Student's Guide to the First Month" My tips, especially for those first-gen students who don't know a lot of lawyers. Hope students find it useful.
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"So You're About To Start Law School": An Incoming Law Student's Guide to the First Month

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Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social · Aug 6

Alan Dershowitz’s acknowledgments in his 2003 book on the Declaration of Independence, thanking Jeffrey Epstein for his “warm support and inspired suggestions.”

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Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social · Jul 22

Looked up the original of Holmes's Path of the Law speech. A bit jarring to compare the end of the speech with the item that immediately follows it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 19

The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didn’t already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 19

it really is both insanely inaccurate and also wildly offensive to assume that scientists and reporters can be readily replaced with passive sensors

Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Jul 19

This is what popped into my head immediately upon reading that, like, okay, so all those field scientists... we can just replace them with Waymos, got it, can't wait to see how a Waymo creeps through a bush for 7 weeks just to take a photograph of a bird that nobody has ever photographed before

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Jul 17

It wouldn't be the biggest thing or the thing with the worst consequences, but I'm not sure there would be a purer distillation of the constitutional failure we're experiencing than the confirmation of Emil Bove to a lifetime seat on the federal bench.

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Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social · Jun 30

@jctate1215.bsky.social presenting a fascinating paper on the Cinque Ports and piracy at the 2025 Selden Society meeting.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Jun 27

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

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Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social · May 27

On Treason: A Citizen's Guide to the Law is out today in paperback from Ecco Books! In addition to explanations of the law of treason, it includes tales of various accused traitors in American history. I loved writing this book, and I hope you will enjoy it, too.
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On Treason - Carlton F.W. Larson

A Citizen’s Guide to the Law ON SALE 9.29.2020 BookShop Amazon Barnes and Noble Powells Indiebound Books-A-Million Apple Books A concise, accessible, and engaging guide to the law of treason, written ...

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Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social · May 9

RIP to one of the greats.

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Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social · Apr 22

Utterly appalling.

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Carlton Larson @carltonfwlarson.bsky.social · Apr 19

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. My book, “The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution,” documents the struggles around the rule of law during this bitterly divisive period. carltonlarson.com/the-trials-o...