Enclosed pies are - such as the hostess fruit pies, mcdonalds apple pies, various similar sweet or savory products over the centuries.

We made it illegal to build neighborhoods like this and wonder why people don’t like the look of new apartment buildings

This is fair.

Also, as a disabled person: allow me a special FUCK YOU to defining "compulsive usage" via the "substantially limits one or more major life activities" definition in the ADA, because FUCK YOU--

And it doesn't create a private right of action or enable bounty challenges, which should be the absolute fucking bare minimum but is sadly uncommon. It also carves out an exception that you do NOT have to stop minors from accessing harm reduction information, which, yay.

It also has a supremacy and preclusion clause (section 10) preventing states from passing laws that involve the same kind of thing, which would put an end to the "50 states, 50 very slightly different rules and regulations", which would be a good thing!

Anyway, this is, believe it or not, a *very slightly* better law than previous iterations of KOSA, in that it limits what sites have to restrict minors from accessing much more sharply to *only* things defined by references to other parts of USC and not wide (contradictory) chunks of vague content.

...y'all, am I hallucinating or does section 9 (especially (a)(3) and all of (c)) completely invalidate everything else in the other sections, lol

I see that we have added the time limit restrictions that states have been trying to the next iteration of this terrible unconstitutional idea!

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When I get back from my honeymoon, I'll write a short blog post for a public audience. (In case you really don't want to trudge through 67 pages of historical legal analysis.) If I am fortunate, @donmoyn.bsky.social will agree to let me post it on his fabulous blog.

The paper is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review. I’m still in the editing window, so I’d be grateful for any comments or feedback. Thanks for engaging with this work. 12/12

As a policy matter, I don't love the potential legal implications of the article. But in this moment, it feels essential to identify where the guardrails are weakest and to build political momentum toward repairing them. This Article is one attempt at identifying those weak points. 11/12

The first draft of the paper (most of which now appears as Part II) feels almost quaint today. The rapid evolution of the civil service during the Trump administration has forced me to constantly rewrite this project more than any other I've worked on. Every week, the paper feels outdated. 10/12

The puzzle: Political scientists document all the ways presidents shape the workforce, while (some) legal scholars tend to view the civil service as overly insulated. So what are the legal mechanisms (if any) actually enabling the sorts of presidential control political scientists observe? 9/12