Sam Brunson

These brave Americans died because Trump was bored and wanted to spice things up with a fight.

back in MY day OUR illegal Middle East war had FOUR WEEKS of in-country assault planned out before Republican leadership expected democracy to magically happen

Honestly, the preparations they're making to lie are more and more careful than the preparations they made to launch a war.

In each of these cases identified by the district court, the court found that, on the plaintiffs’ version of the facts, law enforcement officers had used excessive force against individuals who had stopped resisting, were attempting to flee, and/or were only “passively resisting, i.e. . . . not complying, but . . . also not attempting to fight back.” With the possible exception of Yates, which involved the deployment of a taser, we agree that this collection of cases clearly establishes that Deputy Wright’s use of force would be excessive if the facts taken most favorably to Barricks were established. See Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 741 (2011) (recognizing that for a law to be clearly established in the context of 11 qualified immunity, we do “not require a case directly on point, but existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate”). And although there may be some factual distinctions with the case currently on appeal, these cases surely provide particularized examples of constitutional violations involving the use of excessive force “under similar circumstances” to those in the altercation between Barricks and Deputy Wright. White, 580 U.S. at 79.

4th Cir.: it was clearly established law that officer could not punch surrendering arrestee twelve times in the face, causing several fractures and a brain bleed.

Immediately after the arrest, officer told his girlfriend he "fucked his face up."

No QI.

www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

I thought he was fine (enough) in Holes. But I don't know if I've seen him in anything since. Or that I will.

I can't read that without also hearing it in my head!

And now I looked and, well, yeah.

That was absolutely shocking.

I don't know how widespread HH is--my wife is a fan and has CDs and cassettes of their greatest hits, so it may be unique to our household.

But the kids will spontaneously start singing Henry the Eighth with no clear trigger for it.

I was going to make a small corrective to the headline, but clicked through and saw that one South Carolina school has a vaccination rate of *21 percent* and there's literally nothing funny about that.

(Note that this was in the mid-90s, so SP was actually still popular.)

A couple months ago, I decided to give listening to them a try (they weren't on my radar when I was younger) and, well, that experiment ended within one or two songs. 2/2

What I can say for the Smashing Pumpkins: my freshman year of college in my music theory class, one of the class members was complaining about popular music and how the melodies all moved exclusively in half- or whole steps.

And the professor offered Smashing Pumpkins as a counterpoint. 1/

As long as it detracts from the Smashing Pumpkins' popularity, absolutely!

once again struck by the extent to which the damage in Trump's first term was - though extensive - limited by significant portions of his administration working extremely hard to contain his worst impulses

and how much the second term is the exact polar opposite of that

(Please don't suggest that to my faculty!)

And they all love Beatles and Monkees and Herman's Hermits(!), all of which significantly predate me. 2/2

My oldest decided to get back into Queen and other classic rock (while also being a superfan of contemporary pop).

My teenage daughter regularly plays Billy Joel and Queen alongside Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams.

My teenage son was listening to a B-52s cassette tape this afternoon. 1/

My understanding is that the CIA had a special team dedicated specifically to dialing down Smashing Pumpkins in the culture.

The trick is to make as few changes year to year as possible.

Which is why this year I'm adding a new 1L section.

Definitely the CIA. Definitely not that a music that initially defined itself by youthful rebellion is now seventy years old and the favoured choice of the establishment. No, it's the CIA.

And their streak of never not ever being fed continues apace.

I tried this for my workshop last year just to test it. I put in everyone’s availability, titles of their projects and subject areas, specifications for panel sizes and lengths, and then . . . it produced an entirely unworkable schedule that ignored the availabilities altogether.

of all the things that are not going to happen, this is certainly one of the not happeningest of them

So the Associate Dean three before me did scheduling on three or four massive whiteboards.

We've moved up to Excel. And on a quick informal survey, lots of law schools do the Excel method.

(And we're looking into scheduling software. With luck we'll have it.)

Thank you. And they have never not once ever been fed. Ever.

Also, their memories don't extend beyond 7:00 this morning.

Trump likes to close the curtains so the Declaration can’t witness the especially unconstitutional stuff

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else:

“What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

The law school class of 2028 will never believe that US DOJ used to be an extremely desirable and prestigious place to work