my kids' holiday present this year was celtics-OKC tickets for next weekend (their two fav teams) and they will absolutely lose their minds if tatum is back (sorry for all the tatum haters)
(this is my primarily law-focused social media but it is also an intermittent sportsball account)
this is 100% true. as in, i know of multiple professors who do this (some who think they don't even need to acknowledge it in a footnote).
to @katmacfarlane.bsky.social's original post, i have also heard this from multiple people, but it was the first cycle where i got *any* interest from top LRs 🤷♀️
it was meant for you!!
05.03.2026 16:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What @justinlawguy.bsky.social said!
04.03.2026 18:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🆒
03.03.2026 22:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This was fun! Got to talk about what it is actually like to litigate election law and redistricting cases - something often lost in the (terrific) academic scholarship on these issues. Thanks to the @lawanddemocracy.bsky.social podcast for having me on! (the photo they used is me arguing at SCOKAN!)
03.03.2026 15:17 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0When I ran a legal department I always said that I had three full time jobs: running litigation, responding to emails, and managing people’s feelings. Sometimes there was overlap between them but it was for sure a venn diagram and not a single circle.
03.03.2026 14:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of SSRN page and abstract for article Law Enforcement Gang Designations.
Thrilled to share that my latest, "Law Enforcement Gang Designations" will be published in volume 112 of the Virginia Law Review. Draft is up on SSRN, comments welcome!
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27.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 4Good.
27.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As expected, the ACLU has sued over Kansas SB 244 (the drivers license/bathroom bounty hunter bill). Petition linked here; motion for TRO also filed, and hopefully the court moves quickly. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
27.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0remind yourself of the parts of you that you may have put on a shelf for a while while you did the whole career/young kids thing. they're still in there, and they get to come out again in your 40s.
26.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He lost that fight in the courts; then got the legislature to pass this SB8-style bounty hunter scheme.
The AG's solicitor general, who ran point for the prior drivers license litigation, was just nominated by Trump for a vacancy on the US District Ct for Kansas.
A reminder that the cruelty is the point. That was on full display when the AG argued in prior litigation that the previously-passed so-called "women's bill of rights" prevented trans Kansans from having IDs that matched their gender identity.
26.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Glad you're covering this. We should connect about potential amicus opportunities for the (inevitable) litigation to come. bsky.app/profile/shar...
26.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve got stories. And a court record’s worth of receipts.
26.02.2026 03:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anyway, talk to folks on the ground in KS. The context (and evidence) from the prior litigation is important here.
Organizers fought this bill with less than 24 hours notice, and no opportunity to give meaningful public testimony. That was intentional.
Some seriously shady stuff, top to bottom.
The constitutionality of his position wasn’t fully tested (for procedural and statutory interpretation reasons I’m happy to explain) but with the enactment of SB 244 the constitutional questions will be front and center. And likely as a matter of state constitutional law, too.
26.02.2026 03:28 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Important to note: in that litigation the AG could not come up with *any* evidence that justified his position that the state needed drivers licenses to reflect sec assigned at birth for “safety” reasons.
Like, we’re talking no rational basis to be found.
Oh look Kansas is making headlines again.
TL/DR: There’s a years long history behind that letter re: drivers licenses being revoked for trans folks.
Including litigation (that the attorney general LOST). Which was why he urged the legislature to intro SB 244 and rush it thru in a gut and go.
Today one of my best friends from law school happened to be on my campus and he got to come say hi to me for a bit and he happened to meet a bunch of my current and former students and it was just the most wholesome feel good full circle moment. I can't really explain why but it felt awesome!
25.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CC @maybell.bsky.social, relevant to your recent work.
24.02.2026 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This was basically a plot point in last night’s episode of Industry
Also I’m sorry :(
Grateful to @jaredmcclain.bsky.social for talking about this case on the @ij.org podcast. He highlights the subject of my next academic article, which I touch on in prior work: the equitable relief paradox. Injunctions w/ too few details are too vague; w/ too many details violate federalism.
20.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I've been thinking a lot about this lately too. The in-your-faceness of it all gave courts cover to at least *try* to reign in these policing tactics. When they're done under the guise of having RS, no matter how flimsy, courts just sort of go 🤷♀️
20.02.2026 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0can't wait to read this!!
20.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great new project, run by my former colleagues at DOJ Civil Rights Division who have since left and are now tracking this current administration's reversals on civil rights enforcement efforts across a host of issues. Check it out! redlinecivilrights.org/about/
19.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0congrats, friend! glad the vortex spit you out in a good place 😉
19.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In her Case Comment, Prof. @sharonbrett analyzes Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in the recent Supreme Court case Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, highlighting the distinctions undermining his reliance on City of Los Angeles v. Lyons and his skepticism of the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment claims.
17.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My essay on the Kavanaugh concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo is now live with the @nyulawreview.bsky.social online. Many thanks to the incredible editors who helped bring this piece to completion (rage-writing it in one week meant we did a lot of work on it post-acceptance!).
17.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 59 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1