@knwldgispwr.bsky.social
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With the Supreme Court set to hear the geofence warrant case, you may be wondering: How does the Fourth Amendment apply in the digital age? What are the choices? What's the tech? What's the big picture of the law? You can read it about in my 2025 book:
www.amazon.com/Digital-Four...
www.amazon.com/Digital-Four...
The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World
The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World [Kerr, Orin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World
www.amazon.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:55 AM
With the Supreme Court set to hear the geofence warrant case, you may be wondering: How does the Fourth Amendment apply in the digital age? What are the choices? What's the tech? What's the big picture of the law? You can read it about in my 2025 book:
www.amazon.com/Digital-Four...
www.amazon.com/Digital-Four...
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Countries recognize that invading for oil carries too high a material and reputational cost, writes Emily Meierding. So why has the United States intervened in Venezuela to take control of its oil production?
Explaining Trump’s Oil Grab
There’s a reason why countries don’t go to war over oil. The Trump administration miscalculated the costs.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Countries recognize that invading for oil carries too high a material and reputational cost, writes Emily Meierding. So why has the United States intervened in Venezuela to take control of its oil production?
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Grateful to @elpais.com for translating my article on Surrealism Against Fascism into Spanish and illustrating it with the most magnificent works of art. elpais.com/ideas/2025-1...
Contra el fascismo, surrealismo: de las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial al genocidio de Gaza
¿Cuál debería ser la respuesta ante el avance de las ultraderechas? Hay mucho que aprender del antifascismo de los surrealistas, un movimiento artístico que supo reflejar los horrores de la guerra. De...
elpais.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Grateful to @elpais.com for translating my article on Surrealism Against Fascism into Spanish and illustrating it with the most magnificent works of art. elpais.com/ideas/2025-1...
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By treating Iran like a threat to the entire international system—and encouraging other countries to follow suit—Israel and the United States have driven Tehran to invest more in defense, argue M. Javad Zarif and Amir Parsa Garmsiri.
How America and Iran Can Break the Nuclear Deadlock
Ending the cycle of hostility and threats.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
By treating Iran like a threat to the entire international system—and encouraging other countries to follow suit—Israel and the United States have driven Tehran to invest more in defense, argue M. Javad Zarif and Amir Parsa Garmsiri.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Josh Blackman resigns his position as Senior Editor of the recently-published Heritage Guide to the Constitution, posting the letter he wrote to Heritage over at Volokh.
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
December 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Josh Blackman resigns his position as Senior Editor of the recently-published Heritage Guide to the Constitution, posting the letter he wrote to Heritage over at Volokh.
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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Never stop talking about how the supposed president is a child RAPIST!!
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Never stop talking about how the supposed president is a child RAPIST!!
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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A dog alerting to the small of cannabis is still presumptively probable cause of marijuana being present under Florida v. Harris, even though hemp smells the same and is now legal, CA6 holds per Judge Bloomekatz. www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
December 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A dog alerting to the small of cannabis is still presumptively probable cause of marijuana being present under Florida v. Harris, even though hemp smells the same and is now legal, CA6 holds per Judge Bloomekatz. www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
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This is a big deal in the conservative legal world: John Malcom and the Ed Meese center are leaving the Heritage Foundation, 15 staff departing in all. (Hard to translate this for a BlueSky audience, but it's a pretty significant move in the conservative legal world.)
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Exclusive | Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence’s Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures
The former vice president’s political group is poaching top officials from the foundation amid growing ideological fights within the conservative movement.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is a big deal in the conservative legal world: John Malcom and the Ed Meese center are leaving the Heritage Foundation, 15 staff departing in all. (Hard to translate this for a BlueSky audience, but it's a pretty significant move in the conservative legal world.)
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Free Jacques Baud!!!
December 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Free Jacques Baud!!!
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"The Chinese Communist Party is shaping AI in the country to reflect its political priorities and societal constraints. China’s ambitions for global AI governance should be understood and evaluated against that backdrop," write @jordicalbad.bsky.social and @mchangama.bsky.social.
China’s AI Governance Ambitions and Their Implications for Free Expression
China is exporting its AI governance model; democracies must act now or risk letting others define the future of speech.
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"The Chinese Communist Party is shaping AI in the country to reflect its political priorities and societal constraints. China’s ambitions for global AI governance should be understood and evaluated against that backdrop," write @jordicalbad.bsky.social and @mchangama.bsky.social.
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The Supreme Court has handled much of the litigation challenging the Trump administration’s funding actions on the shadow docket–rarely explaining its reasoning.
@jtlew3.bsky.social highlights 3 strategic lessons that future plaintiffs should take away from how these disputes have proceeded.
@jtlew3.bsky.social highlights 3 strategic lessons that future plaintiffs should take away from how these disputes have proceeded.
Litigating in the Shadows: Federal Funding and the Supreme Court
Even the shadow docket holds important lessons for litigants challenging the Trump administration’s funding actions and others.
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Supreme Court has handled much of the litigation challenging the Trump administration’s funding actions on the shadow docket–rarely explaining its reasoning.
@jtlew3.bsky.social highlights 3 strategic lessons that future plaintiffs should take away from how these disputes have proceeded.
@jtlew3.bsky.social highlights 3 strategic lessons that future plaintiffs should take away from how these disputes have proceeded.
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I'm a fan of profs looking back on their past articles and pointing out their weaknesses. (I've suggested before that senior profs should write articles, "Where I Went Wrong.") Here, Penn's Dave Hoffman does that with one of his well known articles. Kudos.
profhoffman.substack.com/p/not-my-bes...
profhoffman.substack.com/p/not-my-bes...
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I'm a fan of profs looking back on their past articles and pointing out their weaknesses. (I've suggested before that senior profs should write articles, "Where I Went Wrong.") Here, Penn's Dave Hoffman does that with one of his well known articles. Kudos.
profhoffman.substack.com/p/not-my-bes...
profhoffman.substack.com/p/not-my-bes...
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Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video:
“This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
“This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video:
“This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
“This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
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Feijoo decías que el presidente no podía no saber nada? Y tú, o tus corruPPtos saben algo de esto?
SINVERGÜENZAS HDLGP
SINVERGÜENZAS HDLGP
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Feijoo decías que el presidente no podía no saber nada? Y tú, o tus corruPPtos saben algo de esto?
SINVERGÜENZAS HDLGP
SINVERGÜENZAS HDLGP
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Finding a gun on a driver is relevant to whether there is reasonable suspicion to frisk the passenger for a gun, CA5 rules—and here, there was reasonable suspicion.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Finding a gun on a driver is relevant to whether there is reasonable suspicion to frisk the passenger for a gun, CA5 rules—and here, there was reasonable suspicion.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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ICYMI: On the blog, Prof Neil Buchanan speculates about why the mass exodus of US academics to intellectually freer countries hasn't happened (yet). Main reasons: inertia; we're paid better for lighter teaching loads; denial about what's happening here in Gilead.👇
Where is the Higher Education Gold Rush?
With a major holiday in the US only two days away, this column will be uncharacteristically brief (slightly more than half the usual length ...
www.dorfonlaw.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
ICYMI: On the blog, Prof Neil Buchanan speculates about why the mass exodus of US academics to intellectually freer countries hasn't happened (yet). Main reasons: inertia; we're paid better for lighter teaching loads; denial about what's happening here in Gilead.👇
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“Trump is not interested in exporting democracy. What he is keen to export is his domestic political agenda—one that is anti-immigration, anti-woke, anti-green,” writes Ivan Krastev.
The Paradox of Europe’s Trumpian Right
How America’s weaponization of ideology could backfire.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Trump is not interested in exporting democracy. What he is keen to export is his domestic political agenda—one that is anti-immigration, anti-woke, anti-green,” writes Ivan Krastev.
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"The strengths of ‘The End of Immunity’ lie in its elegant language, its thorough recounting of historical developments regarding immunity, and its passionate call to action for accountability for heads of state who commit atrocity crimes."
Milena Sterio reviews Chile Eboe-Esuji's new book.
Milena Sterio reviews Chile Eboe-Esuji's new book.
The ‘End of Immunity’ for Leaders Who Commit International Crimes?
A review of Chile Eboe-Esuji, “The End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity” (Prometheus, 2024).
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"The strengths of ‘The End of Immunity’ lie in its elegant language, its thorough recounting of historical developments regarding immunity, and its passionate call to action for accountability for heads of state who commit atrocity crimes."
Milena Sterio reviews Chile Eboe-Esuji's new book.
Milena Sterio reviews Chile Eboe-Esuji's new book.
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ICYMI: Watch @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @rparloff.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, Loren Voss, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social discussed updates in the prosecutions of Letitia James and James Comey, a hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s civil case, and more. youtube.com/live/3wt5k3G...
The Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 21
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November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ICYMI: Watch @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @rparloff.bsky.social, @mollyroberts.bsky.social, Loren Voss, and @ericcolumbus.bsky.social discussed updates in the prosecutions of Letitia James and James Comey, a hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s civil case, and more. youtube.com/live/3wt5k3G...
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Especially for the 1Ls out there, preparing for their 1st set of law school exams, I wrote this post back in 2007 about how to get a good grade on a law school issue spotter. The post, "Bad Answers, Good Answers, and Terrific Answers," is available here:
volokh.com/posts/116838...
volokh.com/posts/116838...
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Especially for the 1Ls out there, preparing for their 1st set of law school exams, I wrote this post back in 2007 about how to get a good grade on a law school issue spotter. The post, "Bad Answers, Good Answers, and Terrific Answers," is available here:
volokh.com/posts/116838...
volokh.com/posts/116838...
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More Christian nationalism from the US Supreme Court
Dissent has it right: "[The government] provides no evidence of harmful confusion or other problems caused by transgender Americans who are using passports with sex markers corresponding to their current gender identity."
Dissent has it right: "[The government] provides no evidence of harmful confusion or other problems caused by transgender Americans who are using passports with sex markers corresponding to their current gender identity."
Supreme Court: Trump Administration Rules on Passport Gender Markers Can Go into Effect While Appeals Move Forward
In Trump v. Orr , (Sup. Ct., Nov. 6, 2025), the U.S. Supreme Court by a 6-3 vote granted an emergency stay of a preliminary injunction that ...
religionclause.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
More Christian nationalism from the US Supreme Court
Dissent has it right: "[The government] provides no evidence of harmful confusion or other problems caused by transgender Americans who are using passports with sex markers corresponding to their current gender identity."
Dissent has it right: "[The government] provides no evidence of harmful confusion or other problems caused by transgender Americans who are using passports with sex markers corresponding to their current gender identity."
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State Dept of Revenue issues warrant to search for and seize any property of value of suspect for failure to pay taxes on profits from selling meth. Searching her residence, officers find meth.
NC Court of Appeals: Can't get a warrant for this under the 4A. Meth suppressed.
NC Court of Appeals: Can't get a warrant for this under the 4A. Meth suppressed.
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
State Dept of Revenue issues warrant to search for and seize any property of value of suspect for failure to pay taxes on profits from selling meth. Searching her residence, officers find meth.
NC Court of Appeals: Can't get a warrant for this under the 4A. Meth suppressed.
NC Court of Appeals: Can't get a warrant for this under the 4A. Meth suppressed.
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State criminal prosecutions of immigration enforcement officials may end removed to federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power, write Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly and David Reiser.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
State Prosecutions of Federal Agents and the Presidential Pardon Power
State prosecutions of ICE agents may end up in federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
State criminal prosecutions of immigration enforcement officials may end removed to federal courts, but any conviction would be beyond the president’s pardon power, write Aaron Zelinsky, John Connolly and David Reiser.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/stat...