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Julian Davis Mortenson

@jdmortenson.bsky.social

likes his oatmeal lumpy

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how I arrived on Bluesky

04.03.2026 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

lol dangit I’m trying to save the paragraphs here : )

03.03.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i read him that way too! But that reading makes a total bash of the case of proclamations.

03.03.2026 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve ask for help resuscitating the patient fitzy not burying it!

03.03.2026 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thank you!

03.03.2026 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thomas’s dissent in Learning Solutions cites Case of Proclamations (1611) as evidence a nondelegation principle in English law.

UK law and English legal history peeps β€” I’m trying to muster a reading of these paragraphs that rescues them from elementary error. Can anyone help me see one?

03.03.2026 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

hard same

03.03.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Breyer wins the Souter Award for most touching remembrance of a late colleague:

10.05.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SCOTUS better up its game for its remembrances because Souter was the GOAT for his colleagues

09.05.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Good advice! And it goes for institutions as well as people.

03.03.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

new blootski who dis

03.03.2026 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

agree!

*And also*, if dolley saw something there, that counts fr something

03.03.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Intellectual is the prompting concern

But I’m trading on other turdlinesses in my declaration of his status

03.03.2026 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

yw

03.03.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ok fine from Fisher to u

03.03.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œthe acute penetration of the gentleman” this is a gift from me to u

03.03.2026 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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@anthonymkreis.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social @evanbernick.bsky.social i commend to your collective wisdom this frame to share with whomstsoever and in which casesoever seems appropriate

03.03.2026 00:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

(u neither, cuh)

03.03.2026 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BUT IM KIND OF ANNOYING, LETS BE HONEST

03.03.2026 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

in related news, there is no balm for the historian’s soul like turning back to the sources and just. plain. reading.

03.03.2026 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it would make me sad tho kevin : (

03.03.2026 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

that’s my swaine

03.03.2026 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tubman

03.03.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

i would 100000% have wanted to punch Jefferson in the face

03.03.2026 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need a founders turd scale. I'm sure Harvard Law Review will publish it.

03.03.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

a couple years back I was laying out a bio of [bizarrely underbiographied major figure] as my next project, to be researched in btw other demands.

And my mentor (he doesn’t know he’s this but he is) was like β€œso you look forward to spending a decade with this person?”

And that was the end of that.

03.03.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

a couple years back I was laying out a bio of [bizarrely underbiographied major figure] as my next project, to be researched in btw other demands.

And my mentor (he doesn’t know he’s this but he is) was like β€œso you look forward to spending a decade with this person?”

And that was the end of that.

03.03.2026 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

complicated question!

03.03.2026 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Madison was kind of a turd

(We already knew this.)

That is all.

03.03.2026 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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