BCR

No longer a law student, not yet a lawyer: the lowest of worms; Xenophon fan.

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@ToughSf My favorite question: Why did they put an escalator in a moon base? Ahhh I can fight a space monkey but I can't lift 30 pounds up a flight of stairs ahhhh

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@Michael_ofBurgh An excellent take.

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

Walking to my car last year, I'd read the flyers plastered on the lamppost outside the federal courthouse in Utah. I feel affection for our nation of zealots, of conspiracy theorists, of sovereign citizens, of pro se litigants. God bless America, cradle of the best and the worst.

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

happy july fourth: massive shoutout to all religious weirdos, literally what this country is about. all freaks and genuinely strange people, this is the zone God has laid forth for us: the bizarre of spirit, the mad, the scholars, the naked, in this wildness called north america

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@d08890 Could be worse. Watching Next Generation with my family. Hopefully I'll beat my fever/cough before I'm supposed to leave for my honeymoon tomorrow night.

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@d08890 Kyrie eleison

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@JJ_McCullough It's a bit like referring to America as "the republic." It's an abstract epithet that points to the nature of the shared project. And it evokes an affection for the familiar.

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@JJ_McCullough I can't speak for Pennsylvanians, but people in Massachusetts certainly do, particularly lawyers and gov't workers. It's (a) legally correct and (b) a neat piece of local flavor that evokes the preamble of the Mass. constitution (the oldest written constitution in the world!).

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@gwenpaltrow11 Let the subaltern speak, Kap

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

Self-evident but politically incorrect fact: mathematical Platonism is true for \mathbb{R}; structuralism is true for \mathbb{C}.

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

My fiancée? Did you mean my lame duck girlfriend?

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@Michael_ofBurgh Do not so slander Minnesota.

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

@lieberman_evan @kappakirkland He is right

[Ross Douthat @Douthat60]

Interesting new paper on a somewhat obscure topic:
https://t.co/PjaCAvIhQ9

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

JD? Is that his name or is he the Jill Biden of having taken the LSAT?

[Robert McNees @mcnees]

A thread about the value of the fine structure constant in Quantum Electrodynamics. (1/137)

[William Baude @WilliamBaude]

Many of the things the Court (rightly) says about Chevron -- lacking basis in the statute or its backdrops; repeatedly revised by the Court; could be fixed by Congress but it's ultimately the Court's job to fix its own mistakes -- could also be said of qualified immunity.

[Carissa Byrne Hessick @CBHessick]

Not-so-hot take:
Barrett has the better statutory analysis, but the majority is still correct that the government's interpretation of the obstruction statute is too broad.
Let me explain . . .

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

The people on the left who demand we stop populating and the people on the right who demand we keep living unsustainably share the same crazy, modern, western view of what good lives consist in.

[BCR @Eryx1machus]

Set aside the empirical question for a moment. I find it so bizarrely myopic to think that what makes a life worth living are the particular material luxuries of the post-WWII US, as if a child's growing up without bananas or chocolate is equivalent to their "[being] molested." https://t.co/D4sThT0JGu