Hannah Bloch-Wehba

Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

fear in my heart as I prepare to send an email using the AALS system, knowing the likelihood that I will accidentally send it to everyone in the legal academy

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:41 UTC

👋🏻 I have a WIP I’m working on this summer!

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 21:38 UTC

people are Wrong on the Internet but I’m letting my baby nap on me and drinking a sbagliato rather than wading into it

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:04 UTC

Also LOL

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 22:03 UTC

lfg

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:37 UTC

just drove through Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and saw a grand total of two Trump signs

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 11:29 UTC

someone please tell me that forgetting crayons in my pocket when I do the laundry is a mistake I’ll only make once

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:21 UTC

men would literally rather file a federal lawsuit than go to therapy

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

on the one hand I need a decision in Netchoice for the book chapter I’m working on that’s due in July. otoh we are moving cross country with a uhaul trailer, dog, and two children under 3 so every day SCOTUS doesn’t rule is a giant reprieve for which I am grateful. 🫠

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 02:37 UTC

she’s the best

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 01:27 UTC

okay, I’ll bite: what’s a starter pack

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:22 UTC

tHe mArKeT WiLl SoLvE iT

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

I’m reading All Fours rn and I’ll be shocked if some censorial small towns don’t ban this book soon.

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 02:52 UTC

sure but why bother? it’s pretty clear that the majority doesn’t care about secular purpose after Kennedy v Bremerton

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 02:34 UTC

this great phrase is the work of the fine ladies of the Strict Scrutiny podcast - Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, and Kate Shaw!

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 02:18 UTC

Tbc, the article gets to Stone v Graham, but only in the last graf. I think this novelty-oriented framing is a real problem.

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 02:16 UTC

what’s really happening: a coordinated campaign to use the court’s traditionalist drift as an opportunity to reopen settled questions about religious freedom. it’s not new! in fact I see it as particularly pernicious precisely because it has been done before. stare decisis for suckers &c. 3/3

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 02:11 UTC

The “first” designation matters because it obscures the history. This was a relatively settled area for decades, until Kennedy v Bremerton in 2022 shook up Establishment Clause jurisprudence. Saying this 2024 law is “the first” makes it seem like it’s novelty that matters rather than… 2/

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 02:07 UTC

this lede is misleading, imo. Louisiana is absolutely not the “first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.” Kentucky’s law requiring the same was struck down in Stone v Graham in 1980. 1/

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 19:53 UTC

honestly this is basically just me trying to speed up the packing so that I am finished before I have to listen to The Rising

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 19:51 UTC

Greetings from Asbury Park was… fine. The Wild, The Innocent starting off stronger but I feel like “Sandy” is gonna sap my packing momentum

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 18:53 UTC

packing to move to New Jersey means listening to the entire Springsteen discography in chronological order

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 21:29 UTC

(Biased bc he is a mentor of mine. Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....)

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 21:28 UTC

Following! FWIW I am biased but I think Barry Friedman is an exceptionally clear and accessible writer. Lawless Surveillance is a newish article of his. But many fit this “big think” description

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

packing for our fifth intercity move in a decade (!) and wondering why I still can’t bring myself to get rid of this box of race medals

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

yes and my hunch is that this is going to be more systemically gutting for the press than fighting about OpenAI scraping etc but the latter seems to be getting way more attention

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

I only have one sign on my lawn thank you very much

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

out on a pleasant morning walk when

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

I still lol thinking about my surreally bad experience at the DMV in Hamden, CT, in 2016. the wait was so long there was a hamburger stand inside the DMV to feed the hungry masses. but adding insult to injury, the burger concession wasn’t open in the mornings.

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 14:15 UTC

the toddler’s sick day activity of choice appears to be… vacuuming

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

not the point but the newsroom staff doesn’t look thrilled about whatever he’s saying in this photo

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 18:23 UTC

RIP to the wall between business and editorial 🪦

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 16:16 UTC

That’s the one!

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 06, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

once again at the decisive moment in drafting new work where I turn to Martha Minow’s Archetypal Legal Scholarship to tell me what exactly I’m trying to do here

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 05, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

it wouldn’t be a law and tech conference if there wasn’t a manel 🙄

futurefreespeech.org/symposium-ar...

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 20:54 UTC

very rude of NYT Cooking to be down at thinking-about-dinner-o’clock

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 14:28 UTC

belting out “Take This Job and Shove It” to start off my writing day 🎶

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 26, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

trying to get our house ready to rent means peeling these off of every doorframe in every room

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 01:08 UTC

News orgs have also made these kinds of arguments, though they often have a slightly different flavor www.politico.com/news/2023/11...

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 13:02 UTC

just got word that the Board of Regents officially approved my tenure 😅

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 03:27 UTC

and 12333

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 01:56 UTC

for no reason whatsoever I’m thinking about how NPR prohibits its editorial staff from displaying political flags, bumper stickers, and yard signs

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 15:18 UTC

also reflecting on the fact that (as my therapist has had many occasions to remind me) moving is more stressful than divorce or having a child

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 15:16 UTC

As we prep for the fifth move in ten years I am ready to finally admit that there is in fact such a thing as too many books

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

that guy sucks

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 20, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

I finally watched Oppenheimer, under very imperfect conditions: on the flight back from Berlin, while holding the sleepless baby, with subtitles on because my headphones were in the overhead bin. Not the point at all but it did put me in a real mood about being at IAS next year 🤓

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 16, 2024 at 17:20 UTC

there are only seven possible reasons your baby is crying: hungry, tired, diaper needs to be changed, Justice Alito, gassy, teething, bored. 🤷‍♀️

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 12, 2024 at 18:44 UTC

finally made it to Berlin to see the exhibit about my grandfather at the Jewish Museum before it closes. here are my grandparents on their wedding day, 1945. www.jmberlin.de/en/exhibitio...

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

👀

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Hannah Bloch-Wehba @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social [ View ] May 01, 2024 at 01:54 UTC

Shafik is asking NYPD to stay on campus for over two weeks?! jfc

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