Joe Dunman

BREAKING: SCOTUS shadow docket decision rules in favor of forced outing of trans students, reinstating a lower court ruling against California's law prohibiting forced outing. Also references forcing teachers to misgender trans students. Horrific precedent.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I don’t know but I did anyway.

Everything is just so stupid all of the time.

My friend & colleague @nelsontebbe.bsky.social has an Article on "First Amendment Inversion," just recently published by the Texas Law Review. It documents a fascinating and important shift in how different political groups have conceptualized free speech: texaslawreview.org/first-amendm...

Does "engage with" mean "gamble on?"

A functional country would yeet polymarket and kalshi into the sun

Hundreds of corrections being issued for Texas' Bible-infused curriculum The curriculum in what is known as the “Bluebonnet” textbook is among Republican-led efforts in the U.S. to incorporate more religious teaching into classrooms.

religionnews.com/2026/03/02/h...

Now on SSRN, the draft I've been teasing forever on here: Law and Petro-Masculinity. I would be so grateful for feedback on this piece from the brilliant law and climate communities on Bluesky!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As a former ARA kid I am absolutely losing my mind at people making excuses for a guy with a Nazi tattoo. People don't get those by accident!

Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself?

Judge Nixes Notice Requirements for Lawmaker Visits to ICE Jails The Trump administration must allow members of Congress to conduct surprise oversight visits of immigration detention facilities, a Washington federal judge ruled.

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

I just can't get over what a bullshit thievery based scam all this is and there are still actual academics doing tra la la think pieces about how we need to embrace it or be left behind, I mean, look at the state of it. Look at it. It is bad, wrong, offensive, stupid and scuzzy.

Screenshot of SSRN page and abstract for article Law Enforcement Gang Designations.

Thrilled to share that my latest, "Law Enforcement Gang Designations" will be published in volume 112 of the Virginia Law Review. Draft is up on SSRN, comments welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I always taught it in con law, more as a historical relic than anything else, to give the students the contextual framework for understanding subsequent cases.

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

WHOA: WSJ reporting that DOJ is dropping its appeals of the four law firm executive order rulings as soon as today. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Staffer: Sir, good news. One of the F-15 pilots ejected safely and is on the ground. Calm and cool under pressure. Badass aura. A video taken by a thankful Kuwaiti civilian is going viral.

Hegseth: Fuck yeah. What's his name?

Staffer: Okay, so, here's the part you won't like...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Over generations, DOJ built a reputation as the gold standard.

In one year, they burnt it to the ground.

Order – #66 in A. (W.D. Pa., 2:25-mc-01069) – CourtListener.com ORDER. The terms of the Order dated 12/24/2025 (Doc. [52]) are reaffirmed, there will be no anonymized production, and a Rule 58 Judgment will issue. Signed by Chief Judge Cathy Bissoon on 3/2/2026. (...

"The DOJ’s actions in this area are unprecedented,
to say the least. Reliance on historical norms, standards and, frankly, decency, cannot be seen as given."
www.courtlistener.com/docket/71443...

I would love to be in all the meetings when counsel have to tell their client who demanded AI adoption that AI adoption just got them sanctioned and dismissed.

By the way, this is a fake problem manufactured by companies trying to sell yet another edtech solution that will enable big firms to offload training costs onto law schools while simultaneously making students worse at the job.

Can you even hear yourselves? You're accelerating genAI adoption (against all good sense and proven bad outcomes) from literally zero a year or two ago, and you're worried that people younger than yourself (who are generally more immersed in new tech) cannot keep up? Really?

"As law firms accelerate genAI adoption, expectations for new associates are shifting quickly, often faster than curriculum cycles. In this Faculty Insights panel, law firms will discuss where the readiness gap shows up most in early practice and how law schools and firms can partner to close it."

I can't tell you how funny it is to me to see another email saying law firm partners are concerned about a tech "readiness gap" among new law school graduates when those law firm partners just discovered this bold new tech themselves like a year ago.

Is he just mad he's being left out of all the fun?

Shouldn't have been confirmed. Should have resigned after the Signal chat leaks. Should have been impeached after murdering helpless fishermen in the Caribbean. Should have been impeached after kidnapping the president of Venezuela...

And even then, in the mildest possible way.

"Forced on them" sure is a silly phrase in a silly argument.

Excited to be speaking to students at Texas A&M Law this afternoon about the Supreme Court, constitutional rights, and what it was like to litigate Obergefell. Always a pleasure to stroll down (increasingly distant) memory lane. Seems like a whole different world now.

Civility policing only ever goes in one direction.