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Eric Muller

@elmunc.bsky.social

Fading lawprof. Scholar of WWII Japanese American incarceration. Quasi-intermediate bassist. Squeeze, XTC, Fountains of Wayne. Lover of small dogs--yes, all of them.

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People need to ask the creators of the film SAPIRO V FORD why they're presenting the work as their own without crediting (or even mentioning!) the book on which the film is based by legal historian Victoria Woeste.

Kinda scandalous.

@victoriawoeste.bsky.social
#academicsky #lawsky #skystorians

06.02.2026 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Never let it be said that @law.harvard.edu doesn't teach you how to write a precise Question Presented

#lawsky #academicsky

05.02.2026 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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It's International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Of all the photos from this era I've seen - and I've seen a lot - this one is the most arresting.

March 1944, deportation of the Jews of Ioannina, Greece.

A young woman sees a loved one taken away.

#Holocaust #skystorians

27.01.2026 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I can't think of a worse title for a documentary about Elie Wiesel.

#documentary #movies #holocaust

26.01.2026 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our shape-shifting Second Amendment, ladies and gentlemen.

#SecondAmendment #guns #KristNoem #Minneapolis #ICE

25.01.2026 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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You can take the lawprof outta Wyoming, but you can't take Wyoming outta the lawprof.

24.01.2026 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Works better in the original:

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23.01.2026 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're looking for more reasons to detest the #Greenland move, consider this: 90% of inhabitants are indigenous.
A repeat of the 1867 Alaska Purchase, a transaction between U.S. & Russia that ignored native (Tlingit, Inupiat, Yupik) sovereignty entirely.
We're redoing the 19th century, folks.

21.01.2026 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're looking for more reasons to detest the #Greenland move, consider this: 90% of inhabitants are indigenous.
A repeat of the 1867 Alaska Purchase, a transaction between U.S. & Russia that ignored native (Tlingit, Inupiat, Yupik) sovereignty entirely.
We're redoing the 19th century, folks.

21.01.2026 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This "height of irony" is what Alito and company rely on to conclude that rights to (for example) privacy and bodily autonomy don't exist: X was forbidden in the past, so this shows there's no right to X.

Isn't that the height of irony?

#lawsky #guns #SecondAmendment

20.01.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tradition Without Text? <p><span>It is no secret that the <i>Dobbs </i>framework dooms virtually all liberty claims brought under the ambit of due process. Yet for all their devotion t

I've just posted a draft essay called "Tradition Without Text?" (forthcoming in Duke Law Journal Online). It critiques Dobbs for using crude positive-law proxies to identify "historical understandings of ordered liberty."

papers.ssrn.com/abstract=609...

19.01.2026 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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"Reign of Blows" by XTC, 1984.

17.01.2026 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I can recall a time when I would've gotten a screen saying the National Archives' website was down and thought, "huh, guess it's just a technical glitch," and moved on.
#acacemicsky #skystorians

15.01.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Now let's talk football programs, smartypants

#academicsky

15.01.2026 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Diagnosis: contusion to manhood

#reneegood #ice #internalbleeding #lies

15.01.2026 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MΓΆtorhead love their jobs. Exception that proves the rule, I guess.

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So the administration's demanding lists of Jews. What's the big deal?

15.01.2026 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey White House, I fixed it for you.

14.01.2026 03:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If there's ever a contest for "Eulogy as Self-Promotion," this one from Robert George will be my entry.

TL;DR -- "Bob Weir died. Did you know I'm an amazing banjo player?"

13.01.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Book recommendation: "The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told" by Keith Richotte, Jr.

This is a wonderful and *highly* entertaining account of the development of Indian law.

I learned a lot!!!

#indianlaw #law #constitution @skystorians @lawsky

12.01.2026 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's all so stupid.
Did anyone care how fit Henry Stimson was?

10.01.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

you saw the subhead, yes?

05.01.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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People saying this Venezuela action will facilitate the application of the Alien Enemies Act to Venezuelans in the USA have it exactly backwards.

04.01.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

With the #Maduro regime now toppled, shouldn't the Venezuelans held under the Alien Enemies Act be entitled to immediate release?
A legal predicate for invoking that law was that the Tren de Aragua gang was an arm of the Maduro government.
If that was ever true, it surely can't be now.
#lawsky

04.01.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Fixed it.

04.01.2026 05:43 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is almost like the FIFA prize had no real meaning.

03.01.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 971    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

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