Michael Froomkin

FL Bar says it erred: "no such pending Bar investigation of Lindsey Halligan...The Florida Bar received a complaint against Lindsey Halligan and, consistent with standard practice, the Bar is monitoring the ongoing legal proceedings underlying the complaint.”

news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

Rebecca Roiphe

Jotwell Legal Profession:
Rebecca Roiphe, Be Careful What You Wish For: How Conservative Groups Learned from Liberal Cause Lawyers, JOTWELL (March 6, 2026), legalpro.jotwell.com/be-careful-w....

Lindsey Halligan Is Under Investigation by the Florida Bar

The Florida process for resolving bar complaints is very slow unless dismissed immediately, so don't hold your breath for the results in this bar complaint against Lindsey Halligan.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

I would love to see this data disaggregated by US state.

Not surprised though to see French people have a lower view of each other than the rest of Western Europe. Although whether that is due to suspicious natures or sus behavior is less obvious.

excellent deep dive into all of the ways that the Trump administration has used the federal budget to keep punishing critics and trying to bend them to his will. FWIW, this is precisely how Viktor Orban crushed the opposition in Hungary 15 years ago. The national budget is a powerful weapon.

Yes but it's warm

Aila Hoss

Jotwell Native Peoples Law:
Aila Hoss, Against Anticommandeering in Indian Law, JOTWELL (March 5, 2026) (reviewing Ann E. Tweedy, Anticommandeering & Indian Affairs Legislation, 62 Harv. J. Legis. 39 (2025)), lex.jotwell.com/against-anti....

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

FIU campus GOP chat group full of Nazi, racist, and sexist messages, including by leadership and head of Turning Point chapter. Not just disgusting, but also terrifying to see what goes on in a safe space.

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

It has to be fear. The question is whether it's fear for their political future, fear for their economic options after they leave office, or fear for their life if the mob decides to come after them or their families. (In some cases I guess it could be blackmail but that seems like reaching.)

In which we demonstrate that there is no need for a horse to become a member of the Senate in order for it to become irrelevant

Looks like yet another executive order or draft rule designed to get a headline more than achieve anything other than maybe drain legal resources from people who haven't drunk the Kool-Aid.

Izabela Skoczen

Jotwell Jurisprudence:
Izabela Skoczen, What is Real Law?, JOTWELL (March 4, 2026) (reviewing Brian Flanagan & Guilherme de Almeida, Lawful, But Not Really: The Dual Character of the Concept of Law, 43 L. & Phil. 507 (2024)), juris.jotwell.com/what-is-real....

Law School Tells Students, 'You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,' For Summer Job - Above the Law 'GPA is not a strong factor.' No kidding.

Liberty U career serv job advice, "The two most important requirements are you MUST be aligned politically with President Trump and his administration and you must be willing to work hard. Don’t be scared off by the transcript requirement. GPA is not a strong factor." abovethelaw.com/2026/03/law-...

Markets being perfect yadda yadda I should be able to buy a put on my lovely South Florida home, no? Or sell with a life estate remainder?

How Stop Black Box showing for selected text in MS Word - Microsoft Q&A I performed the recommended steps covered below, and it still hasn't fixed it. SOLUTION FOR BLACK BOX APPEARING ON SELECTED TEXT Anonymous Mar 7, 2025, 5:08 PM My problem was that a solid black bar wo...

For ages MS Word has shown black bars when I select text--but only after waking from sleep. Restarting Word solves it, but if you have many docs open it is a pain. At last I think I've found the solution in a registry hack! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer... (See 1st response, not the complaint.)

Useful quantum computing is inevitable—and increasingly imminent AI can help discover new materials, but we’ll need quantum computers to really move the needle.

Quantum computing, like fusion power, is always a few years away. The fusion horizon only very gradually shrinks, but timelines for useful QC are shrinking a lot faster. Still can't tell if it's hype or not, but folks are talking as if it's coming soonish. Cf.
technologyreview.us11.list-manage.com

We Robot 2026 April 23 – 25, 2026

The terrific preliminary program for We Robot 2026, to be held April 23-25, in Berlin is now online! 🤖 Get your tickets now!
pretix.eu/werobot26/ti...

Mathilde Cohen

Jotwell Int'l:
Mathilde Cohen, From Shadow Cabinets to Shadow Justices: Rethinking Constitutional Lawmaking, JOTWELL (March 2, 2026) (reviewing Julie C. Suk, The Shadow Court: Rescuing Democracy from the Supreme Court (2026)), intl.jotwell.com/from-shadow-....

You’d think the fact that Trump has already gotten 3 American soldiers killed with a reckless war of choice would be getting blistering coverage and be pounced on by every Democratic politician in the country

When Biden’s Afghan withdrawal saw casualties at Abbey Gate it nearly ended his presidency

Like Trump promised, I'm so tired of winning.

So weird to watch bombings mapped in near-real time. While we sit helpless at home far away.

YouTube video by Thibault Viaene Edwin Starr - War (What Is It Good For?)

Mood today:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7V...

In a long tweet about Anthropic, Pete Hegseth, through the offical "SecWar" Twitter account says "the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic."

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight But he still wants a Pentagon deal.

OpenAI claims it's joining Anthropic to say the DOD can't use their AI for surveillance/autonomous weapons. As DOD starts an embargo of any military contractor using their products, will they do the same to OpenAI? Wild this happens on a day a report is out about how Grok for government is awful....

I really hope someone follows up on this. The Antideficiency Act is ancient, so it has strong remedies--including sometimes personal liability for the person who authorized the illegal spending, for the full amount misspent.

Myrisha Lewis

Jotwell Health:
Myrisha Lewis, The Significant (and Unexpected) Causal Impacts of Common Health Conditions and Genetic Traits in Death Investigations, JOTWELL (Feb. 27, 2026), health.jotwell.com/the-signific...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

A BFD, folks:

www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

I think you're having too much fun. But I'm enjoying it.

Not worse than the alternative in the general election.