Nathan Richardson

@nathanrichardson.bsky.social

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Law prof @JacksonvilleU. Climate, air pollution, energy, & institutions. Dad. Formerly @UofSC Law, @RFF. Believe in a better South. Build houses.

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Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social · 8h

I am listening to the US Secretary of State. He is being asked under what legal authority the United States is authorized to run Venezuela. His replies indicate contempt for the question: he speaks only the language of power. This is where we are.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 19h

cackling at the inevitable dude standing up in row QQ, spilling beer on the nice family in front of him, yelling THAT'S A WALK

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 20h

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 3d

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 5d

Ok, so, no, CLE is not helpful to clients, and it’s an expensive and time-consuming intrusion into every lawyer’s practice. But does it help lawyers stay current on the law? Also no.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

I would read a Tampa Bay Times or Miami Herald response story investigating the best way to spend an afternoon in Florida in which you drink 8 beers and have a $475 budget. 4 guys on a fishing charter? Pedal keg bus through Ybor City or Coconut Grove?

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 5d

I think I'm a linux user now? And not for nerd reasons, but for normie stuff like work and games? Is linux on the desktop finally here?

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to quantum (or Daoist) contracts. The true contract cannot be fully known.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 6d

Emperor Clothing ETF mysteriously not listed

Metro “Epiphany” North @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 6d

Of all the ETF slop, I can’t believe this is the one that can’t get listed.

'Grift' ETF Tied to Washington Access in Trump Era
Hits a Wall
Summary by Bloomberg Al
• Wall Street's ETF machine has been creating riskier products, but the Tuttle Capital Government Grift ETF has been rejected by major exchanges.
• The ETF, which targets firms with ties to Washington powerbrokers, has not received a formal explanation for the rejection from the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, or Cboe.
• Tuttle Capital's CEO, Matt Tuttle, plans to keep the ETF's name and thesis unchanged, and is hoping to list it on the Texas Stock Exchange, which is set to begin trading next year.
By Isabelle Lee
12/29/2025 13:14:31 [BN]
(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street's $13 trillion ETF machine pushed boundaries this year, cranking out ever-riskier products to feed retail traders hooked on yield, leverage and novelty.
But when Connecticut-based Tuttle Capital Management proposed an exchange-traded fund tracking the perceived value of political access, the machine ran into a wall.
The Tuttle Capital Government Grift ETF - ticker GRFT - is designed to target firms with apparent ties to Washington powerbrokers, from cabinet officials to stock-trading lawmakers. Yet no major exchange has agreed to list it, according to Matt Tuttle, chief executive of Tuttle Capital.
Tuttle said the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Inc. and Cboe Global Markets Inc. offered no formal explanation. He received cursory phone calls, he said, that conveyed little more than a no.
GRFT's registration became effective with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in the fourth quarter - according to a filing. While that status should allow the fund to proceed, it reflects a procedural milestone rather than an active regulatory endorsement, according to Bloomberg Intelligence's James Seyffart.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 6d

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later

Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

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Metro “Epiphany” North @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 6d

Of all the ETF slop, I can’t believe this is the one that can’t get listed.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 6d

Flashlight marketing has gotten out of control.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 6d

There's space for a "i'm pro-masking because I know the air pollution science, you're pro-masking for cultural reasons, we are not the same" take but a) that's not what Jon is doing and b) just because there's space doesn't mean you should use it.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 6d

don't want to get super deep on Jon Stewart mask discourse but one of the main takeaways from 9/11 first responder fallout was that more people should be wearing more respiratory PPE more often than they think they should.

it's disappointing to see him culture punching over it.

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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 6d

My new article with @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, titled "Loper Bright's Disingenuity," has been published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. We argue that, even as the Loper Bright decision claimed to overrule Chevron, it preserved Chevron's core.

pennlawreview.com/2025/12/23/l...

Loper Bright prompted a tidal wave of reaction throughout the legal community when the Supreme Court announced it was overruling Chevron, the most frequently cited Court decision in administrative law. But Loper Bright cannot mean what it says. This article identifies three respects in which the majority opinion’s claim to have overruled Chevron distorts the real substance of the Court’s logic. First, we apply Loper Bright’s framework to the facts of Chevron and show that it would have produced the same outcome—if nothing else, an exceedingly curious result if Chevron were indeed overturned. Second, even as applied to other cases, the Loper Bright framework does not truly depart from the Chevron framework. Chevron’s premise was that Congress had delegated the authority to interpret an ambiguous statutory term in an agency’s enabling statute to the agency. Loper Bright may eschew the word “deference” but without changing the underlying analysis. We show that this kind of wordplay is of little value in making institutional decisions about the allocation of authority. Finally, the very craft of the Loper Bright opinion betrays the perils of the exercise that Loper Bright demands of reviewing courts. Loper Bright instructs judges to identify the “best reading” of administrative statutes, suggesting that an even-handed exercise in recovering semantic meaning can identify extant lines of authority in the administrative state. But the decision rests on an interpretation of the Administrative Procedure Act that is itself selective and slipshod. Ultimately, Loper Bright’s formalist rhetoric turns out to mask what is going on under the hood. When judges substitute their views of what is “best” for those of agencies, arguments about statutory meaning can quickly succumb to choices about policy. Avoiding such an outcome, of course, was one of Chevron’s core aims.

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Nathanael 🧦 Roy @sporkredfox.bsky.social · 7d

Broke: Donald Trump is not barred from higher office by the constitution
Woke: SCOTUS and Congress failed to uphold the constitutional ban on Trump to hold office
Bespoke: The People failed to uphold the constitutional ban on Trump to hold office

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 11d

Some credit. Student will miss out on a few points I give for citing authority, and a modest chunk for writing and following exam rules. But they'd get most of the substantive points.

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Julian Davis Mortenson @jdmortenson.bsky.social · 11d

this @jadler1969.bsky.social post is a great summary of the Frost-Eason paper’s findings

reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 12d

Maybe the real numbers were higher but the police are incompetent or corrupt, and aren't reporting the data. Only private detectives can get justice!

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 12d

When this happens to you it is technically known as Collateral Kavanaugh Estoppel

arrests in Illinois. The State and the Government disagree about whether the immigration officers have violated the Constitution in making certain immigration stops and arrests. The basic constitutional rules governing that dispute are longstanding and clear: The Fourth Amendment requires that immigration stops must be based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence, stops must be brief, arrests must be based on probable cause, and officers must not employ excessive force.
Moreover, the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity. Cf. When v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 813(1996) ("[T]he Constitution prohibits selective enforcement of the law based on considerations such as race"). This application does not require us to delve into the parties' underlying dispute and to determine Whether any particular immigration encounter or series of encounters in Illinois has violated those basic constitutional principles.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 12d

Kavanaugh stops what he's doing, is all about to ruin, the image and the style that you're used to.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 12d

How did hard boiled private detectives make a living in 1940s San Francisco with only 28 killings a year? Even if every one of them were a rich heiress or a tycoon caught in a love triangle, that's not many cases!

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 12d

It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs!

It's mostly just the US that's being left behind

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 12d

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 12d

I suppose lawyers hired by a company represent employees in criminal proceedings where both the corp and the employee could be liable all the time. Of course employee should get their own lawyer but consent to corp representation is, I think, not uncommon.

Nathan Richardson @nathanrichardson.bsky.social · 12d

Professional responsibility faculty colleagues, is it unethical to negotiate terms in a plea deal for a client that specifically shield your own criminal activity? Is it a conflict to represent your co-conspirator?