Brian Knight

Senior Counsel @adflegal. Tweets are mine alone.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

@timhwang @phutrick Couldn’t we just get T-800s instead? Fighting killer robots in a bombed-out waste sounds better than life being one long faculty meeting.

[UChicago Law Review @UChiLRev]

Professor Lakier lauds NRA v. Vullo's embrace of a categorical First Amendment rule against informal censorship, exploring the muddled landscape from which the decision emerged, the significance of its intervention, and its profound implications.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

@RMLLowe Mr. Ed, the show about the talking horse and his “owner” Wilbur.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

(I’m sure there is a catch, but for now)

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

As the calendar soon turns from May to June — marking the start of meteorological summer — it won’t feel particularly summerlike in the East.

An extensive marine heat wave and potential super El Niño will bring unseasonably mild temperatures. https://t.co/iTcZWdJ7HR

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

Congratulations to @RegentLaw on the hiring of @HesterPeirce! (And vice versa!) Hester is one of the smartest, kindest, and most thoughtful people I know, a fantastic boss, and a devoted servant of Christ. This is a wonderful match.

[Eleanor Terrett @EleanorTerrett]

🚨NEW: SEC Commissioner and head of the Crypto Task Force @HesterPeirce will join Virginia’s Regent University Law School as an Associate Professor in November, according to a university press release circulated today, signaling her tenure at the agency is nearing an end.

In the new role, Peirce, also known as “Crypto Mom,” will teach subjects including securities regulation, financial markets, digital assets and public policy.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

Coke Zero is what you drink if you like Coke. Diet Coke is what you drink if you like Diet Coke.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Coke vs. Pepsi was once the big soda debate. Now there’s a Coca-Cola civil war. 🔗 https://t.co/qK2SmVn3X9

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

@WildBillNC1978 @RonDeSantis Sheetz chicken bitez are great, even if the forced "z" is a bit cringe (or "criznge" I guess).

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

It's true you know

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

Is assuming Rousseau was wrong about everything a useful heuristic?

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

@JamesBroughel @joeljmiller Footnotes are clearly superior. As you say, online it doesn't matter, but in hardcopy a footnote is infinitely more usable.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

missed this earlier. dear @patio11 with a characteristically-excellent reported history of SPLC's advocacy to shut its enemies out of public commercial life

somehow nothing here surprised me but it's still breathtaking seeing the 2016-2022 behind-the-scenes laid bare

do read it

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

I don't remember who (Will Durant?) argued that Greek philosophy shifted after the Macedonian and then Roman conquest away from a focus on the external, especially how to govern a polis, to the internal because self governance was stripped away.

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

Stoicism is popular because apathy is the sickness of our age and stoicism glorifies it. Stoicism is cope for living in a dying society. Stoicism is managed decline. You need to become anti-stoic. You need to become so passionate it’s self-destructive.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

Sometimes there is no substitute for old school barbecue chicken

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

In the center of Nahwa there is an apartment building that is loyal to Oman, but Apartment 3C is loyal to the UAE, except the room of a teenage son who is feeling rebellious and is loyal to Oman.

[MENA Visuals @menavisualss]

🇴🇲 🇦🇪 Madha and Nahwa: A "Border Within a Border" (Oman - UAE)

💡 In the very heart of Madha, an Omani territory completely surrounded by United Arab Emirates land, lies a tiny village called Nahwa, which belongs to the UAE. In other words, you leave the UAE to enter Oman, only to step back into UAE territory while still inside Oman. The origin of this strange situation dates back to tribal loyalties in the 1930s; while the people of Madha chose to remain loyal to the Sultan of Oman, the village of Nahwa within Madha decided to stay with the Emirate of Sharjah, resulting in this 'border within a border' map. Today, it is possible to pass freely between these matryoshka borders without any passport control.

[Alliance Defending Freedom @ADFLegal]

WATCH: "We've won 17 cases at the Supreme Court since 2011. The SPLC slings mud. You decide who the serious organization is here."

ADF's @Jeremy_Tedesco spoke with @FoxNews this morning discussing the SPLC indictment.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

@tphillips @bradford_hardin @politico Well, we haven’t even discussed the constitutionality of those actions. It is possible the president would need control of those if they are executive as well.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

@tphillips @bradford_hardin @politico I agree we won’t agree. The constitution makes no provision for a president being unable to control Art. 2 functions.

[Brian Knight @brianrknight]

@tphillips @bradford_hardin @politico Independence for regulators may be desirable as a policy matter (debatable) but as a constitutional matter the President needs sufficient control over who executes executive power.