So honored to receive this award from American Constitution Society, especially since all of the judges and previous winners are people I so greatly admire. And I'm of course so grateful to my colleagues at Stanford Law School and elsewhere, and the editors at the NYU Law Review, for their invaluable help.

Jed Shugerman announces at adminfest 2024 that history does not support the MQD and supports Chevron. I will be retiring immediately to ride that high.

These people are children. “I’m so angry at the world leader who has been the most stalwart with Israel that I’m willing to let a maniac light the country on fire” is a temper tantrum not the action of an adult who has to make a considered decision between imperfect options .

A Drai-sighting. Good news.

1/ Had a few minutes before the faculty meeting yesterday so I stopped by the Harvard Yard encampment. An interesting mix: a bunch of people quietly hanging out and listening to a teach-in lecture, amid handmade signs glorifying violence and urging the destruction of Israel

The long term ideal for Israel would be one pluralist state where everyone lived together safely and democratically. A second very acceptable option is a negotiated pair of states who agree to live side by side peacefully with genuine and full autonomy. The current situation is

I just tried Coca Cola Spiced.

Unless I can meet some Bene Gesserit, ride a giant sand worm, and have some people think I’m the messiah, it definitely wasn’t worth that $2.
Ick.

If only we could switch Judge Merchan and Judge Aileen Cannon.

(And while we’re at it, switch SG Prelogar and Judge Leondra Kruger for Roberts and Kavanaugh)

Denver Fuggits.

Richard W. Painter Jed Shugerman That’s a lot of words for “I can’t”

The 'what a pro wants, what a pro needs' commercial is an act of terrorism, I swear.

Mine for @TheHill: “Don’t look now, but there’s a power grab in Louisiana — one that might well destroy the ideal of equal justice in that state.” bit.ly/3Qva4Bi

From an article cited in Rᴏʙᴇʀᴛ L. Tsᴀɪ's piece: 'Appointed-counsel clients seemed to lose out on the benefits of lesser sentences through plea bargaining, _without any statistically significant increase in the likelihood of acquittal after trial_.'

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