Anthony Sanders
@ijsanders.bsky.social
Center for Judicial Engagement @IJ. Host of the Short Circuit podcast. Read my book "Baby Ninth Amendments"! https://press.umich.edu//12676756 Opinions = mine.
This is terrible advice. Land was super cheap (for reasons we don't need to get into). There was no better time to buy! #14thCenturyRealEstste.com
I would say this was a time-traveler making a pretty good joke, except that 1379 in Yorkshire is literally one of the worst places/times I would choose to go back to.
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is terrible advice. Land was super cheap (for reasons we don't need to get into). There was no better time to buy! #14thCenturyRealEstste.com
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America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
America has long feared it would suffer the same fate as the Roman republic, but never quite truly appreciated how utterly absurd Roman elites had become by the time of the late republic.
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Below the line of the 1st page of Professor Dan Burk's last article, just published posthumously by the UC Irvine Law Review.
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Below the line of the 1st page of Professor Dan Burk's last article, just published posthumously by the UC Irvine Law Review.
It’s crazy how different contemporary U.S. law review citation standards are from other areas/locations/periods. Example: a book from 1982 I just finished. Basically about scandals involving barristers & judges. Chock full of quotes, anecdotes, specific facts. Guess how many footnotes? 1/4
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s crazy how different contemporary U.S. law review citation standards are from other areas/locations/periods. Example: a book from 1982 I just finished. Basically about scandals involving barristers & judges. Chock full of quotes, anecdotes, specific facts. Guess how many footnotes? 1/4
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I love (c).
Entertaining myself with the definition of 'pet' being inserted by the Renters Rights Act 2025.
Probably should add:
'(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise'
to cover most cats
Probably should add:
'(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise'
to cover most cats
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I love (c).
Yes, this is all about Fannie, Freddie, etc. subsidizing 50 year mortgages. They shouldn't be doing that with any mortgages already.
If 50-year mortgages really served borrowers’ and lenders’ needs well under American conditions, you would have already seen serious attempts to develop them as a voluntary market product.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Yes, this is all about Fannie, Freddie, etc. subsidizing 50 year mortgages. They shouldn't be doing that with any mortgages already.
This is very teenage but ... in my defense I was a teenager.
Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Fell in love with Classics because of it.
Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Fell in love with Classics because of it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is very teenage but ... in my defense I was a teenager.
Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Fell in love with Classics because of it.
Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Fell in love with Classics because of it.
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If you're in the Twin Cities, the northern lights are really visible within the city.
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If you're in the Twin Cities, the northern lights are really visible within the city.
Looking forward to speaking on this CLE panel about the Rule of Law this Thursday 11/13 at MN Law. If you're a MN attorney who needs CLE, well ... you shouldn't have to (b/c CLE requirements are dumb). But! I promise it'll be interesting & feel free to come.
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Defending the Rule of Law in Modern Democracy | University of Minnesota Law School
In this CLE, panelists will examine the contemporary challenges to the rule of law and democratic norms, focusing on the legal and ethical responsibilities of lawyers to defend these foundational prin...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Looking forward to speaking on this CLE panel about the Rule of Law this Thursday 11/13 at MN Law. If you're a MN attorney who needs CLE, well ... you shouldn't have to (b/c CLE requirements are dumb). But! I promise it'll be interesting & feel free to come.
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That time that the Supreme Court of the United States made the uncontroversial proposition that Parliament can pass bills of attainder & cited for authority . . . Edward Gibbon's autobiography? From Farrington v. Tenn. (1877).
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
That time that the Supreme Court of the United States made the uncontroversial proposition that Parliament can pass bills of attainder & cited for authority . . . Edward Gibbon's autobiography? From Farrington v. Tenn. (1877).
Has anyone written on how state courts addressed constitutional issues during the Confederacy? I'm reading state court cases from that time and the confederate ones are nervously like "well, the Confederate Constitution says X, and it's the law now. Well for the moment anyway."
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Has anyone written on how state courts addressed constitutional issues during the Confederacy? I'm reading state court cases from that time and the confederate ones are nervously like "well, the Confederate Constitution says X, and it's the law now. Well for the moment anyway."
You're right, no one bothered to tell the Court. Must be time to fire the Solicitor General, I guess.
The president seems to have been briefed on how the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS went:
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You're right, no one bothered to tell the Court. Must be time to fire the Solicitor General, I guess.
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Our Latest Newsletter: Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts.
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Non-condensing furnaces, drag shows, and master accounts. - Institute for Justice
Friends, Indiana law requires prosecutors to produce detailed reports documenting how they use civil forfeiture. But we did a little sleuthing, and whoo boy, it […]
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November 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Our Latest Podcast: Government Fails Rational Basis Test for Once.
With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!
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With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!
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November 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Our Latest Podcast: Government Fails Rational Basis Test for Once.
With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!
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With Arif Panju & Michael Pena!
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First Upton Sinclair, then Donald Trump. A perfect horseshoe.
Trump says he’s told DOJ to investigate the meatpacking companies, which he blames for high prices.
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
First Upton Sinclair, then Donald Trump. A perfect horseshoe.
Carolene Products Footnote 4 is wrong. That's the tweet.
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Carolene Products Footnote 4 is wrong. That's the tweet.
At the @brennancenter.org @northwesternlaw.bsky.social conference on state constitutions. @mawaldman.bsky.social tells an OG story about how he was in the room where it happened when Justice Brennan gave a state constitutions lecture at NYU.
November 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
At the @brennancenter.org @northwesternlaw.bsky.social conference on state constitutions. @mawaldman.bsky.social tells an OG story about how he was in the room where it happened when Justice Brennan gave a state constitutions lecture at NYU.
Some voters have no clue how economics works and vote for Mamdani. Other voters have no clue how economics works and vote for Trump. It's a horseshoe of ignorance.
Trump responds to a three-time Trump voter who is upset that prices haven't gone down:
“I think of groceries. It's an old-fashioned word, but it's a beautiful word. Beef, we have to get down, but we've got prices way down.”
“I think of groceries. It's an old-fashioned word, but it's a beautiful word. Beef, we have to get down, but we've got prices way down.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Some voters have no clue how economics works and vote for Mamdani. Other voters have no clue how economics works and vote for Trump. It's a horseshoe of ignorance.
We live in an age of strange bedfellows.
Alito (kind of?) breaking the fourth fall - "Mr. Katyal, did you ever think your legacy as a constitutional lawyer would be reviving the nondelegation doctrine"?
November 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
We live in an age of strange bedfellows.
I'm not sure if the de facto corporation doctrine will work here.
In USA v Comey, "for the avoidance of doubt," AG Pam Bondi purports to retroactively appoint Halligan under a different statute and to "ratify" her grand jury presentation & signature on the indictment—a month after the statute of limitation ran out.
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I'm not sure if the de facto corporation doctrine will work here.
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In the 2000s, a proto-YIMBY bill would have prevented Texas localities from mandating HOAs in new subdivisions.
From Beyond Privateopia
From Beyond Privateopia
November 3, 2025 at 1:46 AM
In the 2000s, a proto-YIMBY bill would have prevented Texas localities from mandating HOAs in new subdivisions.
From Beyond Privateopia
From Beyond Privateopia
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Our Latest Podcast: Is Sharing Your Password a Federal Crime?
With Sam Gedge & Michael Soyfer!
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With Sam Gedge & Michael Soyfer!
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October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Our Latest Podcast: Is Sharing Your Password a Federal Crime?
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This is the first year our kids are too old/too cool to have costumes and I'm starting to realize I may not be ready for it.
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is the first year our kids are too old/too cool to have costumes and I'm starting to realize I may not be ready for it.
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Lawgeeks, there's an important part in here where the Court rejects the school district's argument that because social media is so pervasive it should be considered on-campus speech.
Held: nope, that would let schools regulate virtually all student speech online wherever made and whatever about.
Held: nope, that would let schools regulate virtually all student speech online wherever made and whatever about.
![The District argues that “[s]ocial media has changed the boundaries of the
schoolhouse gates.” Appellee Br. at 43. We are cognizant that speech on social
media is inherently different than private speech. A post on social media speaks
to a much larger audience than a remark to a private or limited audience. It
therefore carries both a greater risk of transmission to the school environment—
and greater power to disrupt the school environment, including by harming other
students. But we cannot accept the contention that in today’s world, a social media
post made off-campus is equivalent to speech on campus. That is because Mahanoy
explicitly addresses social media and maintained a distinction between on- and
off-campus speech, treating the social media posts at issue there as off-campus
speech. See Mahanoy, 594 U.S. at 189 (holding that three features of off-campus
speech “diminish the strength of the unique educational characteristics that might
call for special First Amendment leeway”). For better or worse, social media is a
primary method of communication for students today, and allowing schools to](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreicwdn4tnqgu6ggj5avzceewlghlrvc6ddp7s2lr27oae2xr6fh6ve@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Lawgeeks, there's an important part in here where the Court rejects the school district's argument that because social media is so pervasive it should be considered on-campus speech.
Held: nope, that would let schools regulate virtually all student speech online wherever made and whatever about.
Held: nope, that would let schools regulate virtually all student speech online wherever made and whatever about.
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This is nowhere close to being true.
Two @ij.org clients are citizens who were arrested & @propublica.org found 168 more.
Plus, we have witness statements from others who--like most of the citizens caught up by Noem's tactics--didn't have their arrests recorded so they didn't make the news.
Two @ij.org clients are citizens who were arrested & @propublica.org found 168 more.
Plus, we have witness statements from others who--like most of the citizens caught up by Noem's tactics--didn't have their arrests recorded so they didn't make the news.
Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is nowhere close to being true.
Two @ij.org clients are citizens who were arrested & @propublica.org found 168 more.
Plus, we have witness statements from others who--like most of the citizens caught up by Noem's tactics--didn't have their arrests recorded so they didn't make the news.
Two @ij.org clients are citizens who were arrested & @propublica.org found 168 more.
Plus, we have witness statements from others who--like most of the citizens caught up by Noem's tactics--didn't have their arrests recorded so they didn't make the news.