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Gautam Hans

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That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream and laughs too loud. Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School. Technology law and policy, con law, clinical legal education, and screaming into the void.


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Content moderation is everywhere www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/s...

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Liz Sepper's avatar Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social
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Feels like an opportunity for the internet to go to work. Want to give "tips" to anti-abortion anti-equality Jonathan Mitchell? Submit your anonymous comments here www.fasorp.org

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agree and boy do i have the podcast for you if you feel this way

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Peteski's avatar Peteski @peteski.bsky.social
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Couldn’t get that stain out. Mitch Epstein

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Chris Petkus's avatar Chris Petkus @carolinesays.bsky.social
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“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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UPDATE: Jonathan Mitchell and Kyle Duncan get another go at the First Amendment, as the Fifth Circuit this evening announced — after business hours going into the holiday weekend — that they're taking the Llano County library books litigation en banc. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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As a C-3PO I can promise this metaphor makes no sense. 🫠🤔😒

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Breaking: Judge Ada Brown, a Trump appointee in N.D. Texas, has blocked the FTC’s noncompete rule, limited to the named plaintiffs, in an APA challenge as likely contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious. The rule is set to go into effect in September. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba's avatar Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social
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men would literally rather file a federal lawsuit than go to therapy

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)'s avatar Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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'We'll kill you if you try to stop us' is terrorism.

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On the plus side, no one would ever confuse your legal writing abilities!

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The timing is odd to celebrate but — effective 7/1 I am a full Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell. I am also starting a new Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Clinic this fall. I’m grateful to my friends & allies for their support, and to my enemies for ever motivating me to work as hard as possible.

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ACLU v. Ashcroft (III) 🫠

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In all seriousness, I know and respect some of the NW faculty whom this poorly written complaint attempts to demean. They have nothing to prove and their records will long outlast this distracting attack. I hate that it wastes their time. @heidikitrosser.bsky.social, Paul, Jamelia — I am with you.

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It’s giving Independence Day. 🫠

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It’s interesting that the complaint names Ernie Young and Eugene Volokh (but says neither is involved), but won’t identify the “ready and able.” I can’t wait for some Seventh Circuit judge to say that they are just like the NAACP members living in fear under Jim Crow of having their names exposed.

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Feelings over facts, I guess.

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It’s not me. I found it linked from their website.

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The complaint is here, but it's one of the grossest things I've read in a while so don't read before eating. I suppose I'm lucky that, as a non-TT person, no one is going to misrepresent me as "unqualified Asian gay man" — yet. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2q5ws...

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Order OMB to destroy all paper copies of every student loan and delete all the files.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history

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Jameel Jaffer's avatar Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social
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I was prepared for disaster, but the Netchoice decision is good. It rejects the broadest arguments made by the states and the platforms. It recognizes that platforms are ‘editors’ but dismisses the argument that regulation in this sphere is categorically unconstitutional.

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Between this and last week's decision in Murthy, the Court is telling the Fifth Circuit to knock it the fuck off.

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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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"In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives. Such an inquiry would risk exposing even the most obvious instances of of- ficial conduct to judicial examination on the mere allegation of improper purpose..." However as to Congress, we don't care?

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"The Fifth Circuit was wrong in concluding that Texas’s restrictions on the platforms’ selection, ordering, and labeling of third-party posts do not interfere with ex- pression. And the court was wrong to treat as valid Texas’s interest in changing the content of the platforms’ feeds."

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"Today, we vacate both decisions for reasons separate from the First Amendment merits, because neither Court of Appeals properly considered the facial nature of NetChoice’s challenge." Another five years of employment for me, thanks.

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Lionel Hutz, Saul Goodman, Ally McBeal, Annalise Keating.

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The wishcasting always reflexively makes me blame Aaron Sorkin but sadly it’s just group ignorance.

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David Noll 's avatar David Noll @david.noll.org
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Here's the most cited legal scholar in the United States, letting John Roberts know that, although he disagrees with him, his opinion overruling Chevron was "clear" and "learned."

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Jay Willis's avatar Jay Willis @jaywillis.bsky.social
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One pretty clear dynamic on display this week is whose legal interests the Supreme Court cares about (corrupt politicians, hedge fund fraudsters, literal January 6 rioters) and whose it doesn’t (poor people) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/grant...

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