Opinion | I’m a principled conservative who opposes activist judges legislating from the bench. Here’s why the Supreme Court is right to skip over the specifics of Trump’s insurrection case and spend months writing opinions to set future Department of Justice policy.

Can’t help but compare this to the very calm and peaceful arrest of the guy spraying chemicals on the Penn students

Think of the children! No, not those children. No, not them, either. No,

Thoughtful and important post from Joseph Fishkin

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A UCLA professor described the attack as ‘pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement. It placed scores of anti-war demonstrators in the encampment in direct and serious danger’ forward.com/opinion/608479…

I hope Penn can do a better job than UCLA of stopping this kind of escalation

Sources at NYPD claim that spouse of insurrectionist sitting on Supreme Court.

An inspiration to us all

Let’s also try to keep this in mind

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Wow

While we focus on what SCOTUS means for Trump, we forget what Trump means for SCOTUS. If he wins, he could replace Thomas, Alito, and 40+ federal judges over 75 with young zealots.

Trump is the means to the end of an ongoing Federalist Society coup. That coup, in charts: 🧵

Storming colleges with riot cops to keep them ‘safe’ should scare America about what’s next inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Remember the “free speech crisis” on campuses we’ve been hearing about from an industry of pundits employed by the nation’s leading newspapers and magazines? Forget it.

There’s a new crisis: *Too much* free speech for student radicals - can’t possibly tolerate such impunity!

FIVE MONTHS AGO the ‘Blood Tribe,’ a white supremacist, neo nazi group demonstrated on the University of Wisconsin campus, brandishing rifles, carrying swastika flags, and chanting “Israel is not our friend” and “there will be blood,blood,blood.”

The protesters were all white…

I'm pretty sure I see some police

I was chanting 'Death to Inclusive Legal Positivism'

Hmmm

“whos afraid of well you should be
little old me?”

As a faculty member, definitely prefer this to the Emory approach

Emory University Economics professor Caroline Fohlin's arrest video was bad in a vacuum but seeing what precedes it makes it even worse.

Dark times.