A snapshot of a SCOTUS October 1938 term docket, for the people who love legal history, archival work, and/or what my kids call old timey handwriting. ✒️

Vladeck: “I guess I fail to see how one can be a fair-weather formalist.”

Great quote in a great little exchange on the current Court.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

Now reading Jennifer Gorton's /Citizen Reporters: SS McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America/ and came across a reference to Miss Tarbell's 1887 article on women inventors. @design-law.bsky.social and others may enjoy! (pp 355-357) www.google.com/books/editio...

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Charlie Cale, yesssss.

I've started explicitly addressing some of what's described in this article as I go on my merry way, institution to institution insisting that we can and must continue to teach writing. There's two main risks. Both are real. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Read and follow @cbhessick.bsky.social to learn how proliferating plea bargains damaged our criminal justice system and why they should not be used to prohibit any exoneration claims.

And read and follow @robertmannbooks.com, too.

I haven't heard her name at all today so thank you, Sally Ride, for going first and being the inspiration for my (and so many others') big childhood dreams.
science.nasa.gov/people/sally...

I was not prepared for this Urban Cowboy to White Lotus pipeline.

"Because of your book program sending me Michie’s West Virginia Code Annotated, I was able to litigate an amended sentence order from life without parole to eligibility for parole after serving 15 years. In other words, you helped save my life. Thank you."

So many bad things happening at once, but we should not ignore the resurgence of the death penalty and the consequences of allegedly pro-life politicians using it as a bullet point on their thug agendas. Thank you @bolts.bsky.social for the work.

A new piece from Illinois Law's Lesley Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto highlighting the bad news on the TJAG firings last week.

verdict.justia.com/2025/03/04/l...

UPDATE: Books going to prisons again in TN! Thanks to everyone for pushing them in the right direction and to @appalachianpbp.bsky.social for the work they do to improve lives. 📚

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Silence and confusion. Neither of which serve higher ed employees or students.

Please, please support prison book projects like @appalachianpbp.bsky.social. And encourage more reading for everyone. 📚 www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...

My first post here is a dip into nostalgia for Willie (and Waylon and the boys) with this lovely reminder about longevity and preaching love from @bittersouth.bsky.social.