Matt Bodie

Watched “Mountainhead” last night and had mixed reactions. I found it a weird and somewhat sterile exercise in tech bro satire, but I found a lot of the dialogue to be a decent approximation of how they actually seem to talk. So maybe insufferability is the point? Wondering what other folks thought.

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I guess it’s because it’s a CR and not a “budget” bill?

So why are 60 votes needed in the Senate when it’s a budget bill? Is it because they used up their one-shot 50 votes bill on the BBB?

180. The Roberts Court Turns 20 The Supreme Court is much less popular and much more divisive today than it was when John Roberts was sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice on September 29, 2005. And at least much of that is his fault.

“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?”

Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:

A meditation on the justification of civil disobedience when in service of a higher moral authority.

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Starbucks unions are practicing picketing as the company abuses its workers and denies them a fair contract.

This is your reminder to not cross a picket line and support workers!

NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE.

A poster for the talk: The Limits of the ADA: Exploring the Duty to Accommodate in Law & Society by Doron Dorfman, Thursday, Sep. 25 at 5 pm at the Riggs Library - Healy Hall. ASL interpreted. A photo of a man with dark hair and glasses smiling alongside a photo of signing the ADA into law.

Thrilled to be giving a talk on The Limits of the ADA’s Duty to Accommodate @oneillinstitute.bsky.social (@georgetownlaw.bsky.social) & the Georgetown Program in Disability Studies tomorrow (Sep. 25) at 5 pm. If you’re around, please join us. Details below 👇

Bothsiderism in its final form

Trump’s War on Law Firms is a War on You Why he won’t stop at destroying the legal profession.

New from me: Why everyone should care about Trump's unlawful attacks on law firms.

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Kind of like when Larry Tribe gave up on the project of constitutional law

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Given what’s happened in the last few years, I can’t imagine how anyone can expect new law profs to take the enterprise of corporate law seriously.

A panel of four individuals of different genders and races smiling at the camera

A woman at a podium amid speech and four people behind her sitting at a panel

Audience in a lecture hall listening to a lecture

A big room with full round tables

It’s a wrap on COSELL 2025 (Colloquium on Scholarship on Employment & Labor Law) hosted by Seton Hall Law. Photos are from the panels on work in digital spaces & work law under the Trump admin. Thank you to 70+ scholars from around the country for sharing your work! See you next year in Berkeley!

Four people smiling to the camera in front of a blue screen with the seton hall law logo on it. A man and a woman in the middle are holding plaques).

My wonderful colleague Tim Glynn and I were thrilled to present the Miller Award for a senior work law scholar to Catherine Fisk (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) & the Zimmer Award for a junior work law scholar to @nelsonryanh.bsky.social (South Texas Law) at the 2025 COSELL at Seton Hall Law🏅🏆

A impressive team of nonprofit law experts (+me), have banded together to comment on the new proposed rules from the Education Dept. on public service loan forgiveness.

The rule purports to give ED authority to strip PSLF eligibility from any employer that acts with an "illegal purpose."

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Just putting this out there in case people don’t know of the case:

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PAUL NOTH cartoon of a cop walking a detained man to a cop car / a photo of Brett Kavanaugh is superimposed over the cop’s face "Anything you say with an accent may be used against you."

Kavanaugh, J., concurring. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

This is a perfect excuse to watch “A Perfect Candidate” and read “When the Clock Broke” by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Oh no! Hope you are feeling okay. Sounds close to a workers comp claim!

Apocalypse Now, famously a movie about how war is awesome and always turns out well

I know this is useless to even point out but: if Mexico bombed a boat off the shore of the U.S. and killed a bunch of American citizens on the stated case — without providing a real criminal case in a court or anywhere else and after having lied about everything for 8 months — that those Americans…

It makes sense as a way to test what’s possible at a media and a legal level, with an escape hatch if things go too badly on either front. I

This is gibberish.

Trying it as a Mad Libs makes just as much sense.

Trump may try to declare a [noun] crisis to claim “[imposing adjective] powers” over [noun] and override [collective noun]

Count me in! I’ve long thought this was the way. GM elections would drive overall voter turnout!

let's goooooooo, this is step 1 on the road to state-owned pro sports teams which generate money for local governments and can't threaten to move whenever they want money for a ballpark.

we will figure out whether head coach is an elected position or government appointee at a later date

Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat.

Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable.

Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

This is important. The first 24 hours of press coverage fumbled the ball. But the US just murdered 11 people in international waters. Analogies to the US’s (highly suspect, morally and legally) targeted killings of suspect terrorists don’t work. This crossed their own lines, and they know it.