Joe Dunman

Walker remains incredibly predictable.

Some Supreme Court Justices think that viewing the Fourth Amendment as a right to "privacy" is an illegitimate 1960s Warren Court policy invention. But it's not: That language goes back to the beginning, as I showed in this 2022 article. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...

This is the way.

Now on SSRN and looking for a good home - "The Case for Professional Disobedience"

Using healthcare professionals as a case study, the Article meets this perilous moment in U.S. history by thinking seriously about disobedience as a response to institutional failures
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That’s what I’m trying to describe.

He’s back!

And then it becomes a massacre?

Consequentialist also gets close, but that word carries more specific philosophical meaning than what I’m trying to convey.

Yes, very close to what I had in mind! Thanks

It’s 80 degrees out. Time to rev all the engines!

You'll have to consult your preferred member of the clergy for that!

We're not able to cover every case in the book, but we're covering most of them.

Sure! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

That is the subject matter at issue, yes.

Excellent. Now how do I make it a noun?

I got approved to teach Law & Religion again next year AND I am working to make it a permanent course in the catalog. This year's offering filled instantly and had a huge waitlist. Shout out to my Assoc. Dean for the support in letting me take a chance and in making it a curricular fixture.

I wanted to use "results determinative" or "outcome determinative" but those mean other things and aren't quite right, I don't think.

What is the phrase or saying that means "the method is determined by the desired result?"

And by shallow literal, I mean "the Bible uses 'he' pronouns, that means God is a dude just like me."

The idea that God is some kind of straight, cis male in the same way that a person can be would make no sense at all to pretty much every Christian tradition before the last 100 years or so. Only the most shallow "literal" reading could lead to that conclusion.

quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church 239: "We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood."

re: Talarico getting attacked for "God is nonbinary"; wait till they hear about the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

In the first line of his opinion for the Court in United States v. Skrmetti, Chief Justice Roberts writes that the issue in the case is “whether a Tennessee law banning certain medical care for transgender minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” That opening acknowledgment that the Tennessee law singles out transgender minors makes perfect sense given that the law only prohibits medical care when it has the purpose of “[e]nabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.” In other words, as Justice Sotomayor puts it in her dissent, the law targets the very “definition” of being transgender. Yet, notwithstanding the Chief Justice’s seeming acknowledgment of this obvious point at the outset of his majority opinion in Skrmetti, he ends up concluding in a brief section towards the end of his opinion that the law “does not classify on the basis of transgender status.” The whiplash-inducing progression of the majority opinion in Skrmetti is reflective of a larger trend of credulity-straining decisions in constitutional cases dealing with the interests of LGBTQ people. In a trilogy of recent cases—303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, Mahmoud v. Taylor, and Skrmetti—the Court has issued opinions that are difficult to imagine being written in similar ways had the interests of LGBTQ people been replaced by those of other minority groups. In 303 Creative, the Court held for the very first time that a

New Draft Essay:
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Still?

Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs aftermath.site/nintendo-tar...

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This piece is referring to SCOTUS*, but:

The Speaker of the House is an evangelical Christian, as is the Senate Majority Leader.

See also:

· Secretary of Defense
· OMB director
· Outgoing DHS sec
· Incoming DHS sec (if confirmed)**
· HUD Sec
· Head of the White House Faith Office

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

I'm trying not to cry on this warm sunny Friday.

Yeah, the job market may be shrinking but at least groceries and housing are unaffordable.

New article: an on-the-ground study of how police use of force investigations actually work in the US and why criminal accountability remains elusive. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....