No. NO. NO NO NO.
26.02.2026 15:33 — 👍 40 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0No. NO. NO NO NO.
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Unlike legislative term limits, justice term limits would likely have healthy downstream effects - specifically limiting the likelihood of the Court becoming ideologically lopsided (as it is now)
We show this in this USC law review paper
chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...
This is consistent with what we’ve found in our polling - term limits for Supreme Court justices are extremely popular and enjoy bipartisan popular suppprt
Dare I say it? With the right kind of elite alignment, it could even be “amendment-level” popular support (still unlikely)
seeing two different academic responses to AI in the classroom: 1) the below (go back to basics) vs. 2) incorporate it radically into a re-imagining of teaching
thoughts about how things will go?
AI grading will grade AI generated material…
23.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Can you say more about the annotating? Is that a graded assignment?
23.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yes
As well, students seem to really appreciate removing AI as a temptation
there’s a feeling it really punishes people trying to do the right thing (ie their own original work)
The flip side - and there is a flip side! - is that writing longer term papers over a longer time frame really forces students to think more deeply and in a way that writing a short 90 min essay does not
However it is harder to see a path forward with longer-form writing in the age of AI
That is a challenge!
23.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0mine were in-class essays, so writing/analysis can be done (though you sacrifice some depth). as for readings -- esp books -- that is hard. i teach mostly cases, which resolves that issue.
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I shifted almost everything in my fall course into in-class blue book evaluations, with no internet, and I’m glad I did
The students liked it as well
There is more to be done as AI advances but this is the way
The thing about the press conference is that Trump didn't say he would ask Congress to override the Court's decision, which is what a strong president whose party controlled both houses of Congress would do.
20.02.2026 19:44 — 👍 93 🔁 14 💬 8 📌 1what a day to be teaching policy students about the major questions doctrine and why it matters
20.02.2026 16:02 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Same at Harvard
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
@daviddarmofal.bsky.social Vandy and WashU are on this list!
13.02.2026 23:17 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Quite a list of potential targets:
13.02.2026 23:16 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1
This + the moment RBG’s death was announced are two moments I will always remember
The place I was, who I was with, the sense that everything was about to change
Things changed - just not in the way I expected!
Former U.S. Attorney @preetbharara.bsky.social on what politicization is doing to the Justice Department and why talented lawyers may no longer want to serve.
This is how institutions erode.
🎧 Full episode (audio) live now
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
📺 Full video tomorrow on Youtube
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Just constantly dripping with disdain and contempt
www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/u...
lots of examples
slate.com/human-intere...
Author of this piece: "Scalia almost certainly wouldn’t have been happy to see how American politics have grown coarser and more polarized than ever before"
...but is there any contemporary justice who wrote more "coarser and more polarized opinions" than Scalia?
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
lol mind you, Pete Hegseth went to Harvard Kennedy School.
07.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 96 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 0If this was based on anything remotely Epstein related, it would be much more justified
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Pete Hegseth is an HKS graduate
He is welcome to sit in on my law & policy class, in which we discuss opinions by Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist, and other conservatives, as well as foundational concepts in American democracy (federalism, enumerated powers, sovereign immunity)
This is a shame
We teach many military students at the Kennedy School
Our curriculum is heavy on free market economics, statistics, ethics, and US constitutional foundations - the very stuff that conservatives say they want taught
