In this new @bostonglobe.com article, I argue Massachusetts should reject rent control (a terrible counterproductive policy) and instead address housing shortages by ending exclusionary zoning: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/o...

1. Pacific Legal Foundation today published a Call for Papers on the Colorblind Constitution: pacificlegal.org/call-for-pap...

Keeping the Voodsmas spirit alive! Huge thanks @thebookstoregal.bsky.social
@stigsbrowne.bsky.social
@alisonsomin.bsky.social
@purpleplatypup.bsky.social
@married2thelob.bsky.social
@kazurcher.bsky.social
@thegoldenratio4.bsky.social, Ashley, Liz, Debbie and Bridget for the gorgeous cards!

Ramaswamy “seems to think that halving the number of bureaucrats will halve the number of forms that need to be filled out.” But it’s conceivable instead that halving the number of FDA employees processing approvals “would mean that approving new drugs would be delayed twice as long.”

A regal and noble countenance

My window is so full of Voodmas Joy! Thank you @alisonsomin.bsky.social and @ozcarmel.bsky.social (those sticks are amazing Carmel, I love them!!!)
Voods must be very pleased with himself for inspiring so much happiness around the world. 💜🌲🐾

Thinking of @mattgertz.bsky.social today🙏🤣

Just a reminder that public insurers like UK’s NHS *also* make choices about what drugs and procedures to cover on which life and death hinge. If you think that these choices somehow disappear with MFA, then you are addicted to magical thinking. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Curious about what civil rights enforcement will look like in the next administration? If yes, I have a Fed Soc webinar for you! Details at link: fedsoc.org/events/the-f...

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night (except the majority opinion in Noel Canning)!!

Happy start of Desk Drawer Hand Lotion/Lip Gloss season to all who celebrate.

Camp form just asked me if my child has been exposed to any communicable diseases in the last three months, and my pedantic lawyer brain is overheating over here.

(She is a human who ventures out into society regularly? Like, yes, of course she's been exposed to communicable diseases?)

Deeply crushed by all the retailers from whom I bought a poke bowl or a latte in 2018 who didn't send me a $5 coupon for my birthday month today. Y'all are dead to me.

1. Interested in writing a research paper on the emerging topic of rulemaking through adjudication? Pacific Legal Foundation and I may have an opportunity for you!

"It took two minutes, 120 seconds, for someone who never met me to determine I can't take care of my daughter," said Juan Boatright.
reason.com/2024/11/18/a...

Supreme Court's oral argument calendar for December just dropped. Features Purdue Pharma bankruptcy dispute on Dec 4

There's an Ayn Rand short story about a movie star who goes incognito as an extra to prove she could achieve the same level of success if she had to start all over again. That must be what it's like to have 50k followers on Twitter and then start an account here.

Hello world.

Whom should I follow for interesting law, policy, and/or golden retriever takes?