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Man killed his girlfriend and kidnapped their kids, then rented a hotel room in her name using her debit card and signing as her. Texas Ct of Criminal Appeals: The man had no Fourth Amendment rights in the hotel room. search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.as… #N

The ideological range of legal academics by subject area, as measured by Adam Bonica, et al (2018). Seems about right. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

I don't know about LeBron in particular. But a plausible lesson of Trump's electoral success is that, when the voter base is divided 50/50 & margins are usually small, picking someone known & liked by people who don't follow politics can be a big help. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/lebron-james…

There was no need for a factually similar case to overcome qualified immunity where an officer used a chokehold & punched a person who was compliant & subdued, CA11 holds per W. Pryor. The principle is established and its application beyond debate. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/f… #N

o3 now one-shots extremely New Yorker-y original New Yorker cartoons, and sometimes the punchlines are actually kind of okay. And most of them involve therapists or cellphones or both, which feels very on-brand.

From Jane Mayer's New Yorker profile of David Addington, June 2006. web.archive.org/web/2006070505…

Tommy Flanagan, "Oh, Lady Be Good!" from Lady Be Good...For Ella (1993), with Peter Washington on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. I saw this group at Tavern on the Green a few months after this album came out. So good. youtube.com/watch?v=nC4EV-…

It's Saturday 10pm, and 4 young men are biking near a convenience store. One is acting suspiciously, so the officer orders all of them to stop. Three take off, and officer seizes one. Louisiana SCT: There was no reasonable suspicion here. Suppressed. storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/05/09… #N

Justice David Souter has passed away at 85. Of all the Justices on the Court when I was a law clerk, he was the one about whom my opinion improved the most during the year of my clerkship. Agree or disagree w/him on the merits, but he had great integrity. nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/…

When I was a law clerk, Justice Souter had a lunch with a bunch of law clerks for other Justices and said something that always struck me. Souter said that his first Term or two on the Supreme Court was the hardest because he had little background in the kinds of federal law