The exasperation dripping through Kagan's dissent is notable, as many are pointing out. So too is the utter exhaustion with, well, everything: "Except to the extent all of us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congressional election is not well underway."

🤷🏻‍♀️ No one has ever been able to explain to me what exactly those funds are covering that aren’t already covered. IME, a summer ninth costs ~1.5 what you receive in salary. (Some might go to taxes + retirement contributions, which might be extra, but not that much extra.) I’d love to understand it.

“Payment” in research funds rather than increasing salary or giving a stipend

Summer salary from internal sources that requires paying overhead/benefits even though benefit costs are already baked into AY salary

As painful as it would be, all the things need to fail. We need, to borrow a concept from @smettler.bsky.social, "unsubmerge" the state, & make folks finally, a century later, realize that it is the federal government that backstops, underwrites, & guarantees all the other institutions in society.

1) group accountability document — part of the final submission is a statement of what each person contributed, that all agree + sign off on

2) individual component that builds on the group work but is clearly separate, graded distinctly, and counts for more (but can’t be done w/o group part)

Right, there is an accommodations process under the DOD directive on "Religious Liberty in the Armed Forces," and "grooming" is listed as a specific area of possible accommodation. Whether or not Hegseth knows about this directive... 🤷‍♀️

I don't give a shit about Comey, but I give several shits about the president actually and personally using the carceral state as a vehicle for his petty grievances against individuals he doesn't like. You shouldn't risk jailtime if the president finds you irksome
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I suspect it’s a very inelegant way of indicating that *if* the hire is associate (and thus with tenure), they will run a tenure case for which UCB requires a minimum of 7 external letters. Not involved in the search & not sure why the ad was written this way, but it might be about formal notice 🤷🏻‍♀️

There’s also lots of legal scholarship, of course, but law review articles can be tricky to teach. That said, there’s also edited collections like The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty that might be good as shorter intros to legal scholarship (and give various approaches/perspectives).

Any particular time period/spaces? There’s more work on early US than 20th C, but some starting points:

*Sally Gordon, 1) The Mormon Question 2) The Spirit of the Law

*Tisa Wenger, We Have a Religion

*Kathleen Holscher, Religious Lessons

*David Sehat, The Myth of American Religious Freedom