@lloydesq.bsky.social
Prof. of Law, Wake Forest. Law & Humanities including Semiotics, Hermeneutics, Rhetoric, Emotion, Virtue, & Legal Education Reform. Lampoon Langdell. Also commercial transactions & verse & translation. https://haroldanthonylloyd.blogspot.com
For the other Sherlock Holmes fans
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/a...
Bove's word salad on fixed meaning, "words on a page," Loper Bright's "β[S]tatutes, no matter how impenetrable, doβin fact,mustβhave a single, best meaning,β "'ordinary, contemporary, common,' public meaning," & more @espinsegall.bsky.social Bovine #originalism?
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Don't stop there! His reasonable minds can differ juxtaposed with Loper Bright's "[S]tatutes, no matter how impenetrable, doβin fact, mustβhave a single, best meaningβ & more is quite some word salad.
04.03.2026 02:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kagan calls out her colleagues for recognizing a parentβs right to decisions about childβs health here but repudiating a womanβs right to make important decisions about her own health in Dobbs www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
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Hungry? HHSS Kennedy: "eat liver or 'cheap cuts' in response to the high cost of beef."
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Some #semiotics of yellow: Van Gogh & Others
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/a...
Why haven't they already done this?
27.02.2026 16:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Maybe state officials can interview this woman if she's willing?
27.02.2026 01:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)
25.02.2026 02:42 β π 16120 π 4223 π¬ 260 π 186A particularly disapproving emotional tone is displayed by John Roberts as he enters the chamber. #BodyLanguageAnalysis #SOTU
25.02.2026 01:58 β π 661 π 153 π¬ 111 π 27Hands are too big
25.02.2026 02:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A wood fern unfurling
An English Woodland Spring is a gift beyond compare. The anticipation only increases the wonder
21.02.2026 20:18 β π 234 π 28 π¬ 2 π 0
Lloyd on Bowers vΒ Hardwick
Harold Anthony Lloyd (Wake Forest University School of Law) has postedΒ Bowers v. Hardwick Postmortems at Forty: Timely Dissections of Its Tradition, Enumeration, and Other Errors on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The fortieth anniversary of Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186β¦
So how phrase the so-called major questions doctrine after today? @espinsegall.bsky.social
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CATO: β.. In short, seven independent research teams have now examined the βwhoβs payingβ question and have reached essentially the same answer: We are.β
@cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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Giving up perfectionism for Lent. Highly recommended.
18.02.2026 18:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hopes keep seeming to grow for finding "lost" ancient texts.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...
Sharing to plug American Ancestors site & to toast Anne Yale who happens to be my 9th great grandmother. Despite awful abuse by New Haven puritans in her 2nd Eaton marriage, she left us these descendants. She deserves a Biography & Netflix series. #genealogy
www.americanancestors.org/gary-boyd-ro...
First draft of my 40th anniversary autopsy of Bowers v Hardwick's tradition arguments, enumeration ploys, & other errors. Also looks at Greek & Hebrew of Court's "firm" "Judaeo-Christian" tradition. Comments welcome! @lpcprof.bsky.social @espinsegall.bsky.social #LGBT
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Surely someone can identify him.
06.02.2026 22:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The skillful rhetoric and semiotics of this opinion exceed what's annotated in the article. I'll be using this in my rhetoric class.
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MST3K lemonade via frankconniff.bsky.social last night.
30.01.2026 03:29 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0What are the odds you actually get paid?
30.01.2026 01:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Where's the $50,000??
29.01.2026 23:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Shouldn't we demand they rescind the entire BBB?
29.01.2026 04:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Alabama Republican Barry Moore held a town hall and said migrants are not allowed due process. His constituents heckled him, chanting βshame, shameβ as the coward made his hasty exit.
#Resist #ProudBlue #FuckMAGA
Gifting this excellent article. No paywall. Please share this link widely: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
#ICE #Ruleoflaw #Trump