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Secondat 🇺🇦
@secondat7.bsky.social
EU, UK and US law, economics, politics & history. Member of the Church of the Oxford Comma. Also: sarcasm. Follow if that's your thing. Usual disclaimers apply.
The Federalist Society seems so scared of losing Justice Thomas that their cronies now have to shower him with a personality cult, the golden shower of all golden showers!
December 23, 2023 at 7:29 PM
Do any jurists here know the source of the phrase "juridiction of idiosyncracy" quoted by Ed Meese in his 1985 Brutus speech? He only attributes it to "one commentator."

justice.gov/sites/default/…, see page 3.

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December 18, 2023 at 8:23 PM
I remember having a conversation with a conservative, very religious (evangelical) former American school friend some time after the 2016 election. He genuinely believed that "Hillary is as bad a Trump." I mean, that was his mental state. 1/2
December 15, 2023 at 5:17 PM
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The Statue of Liberty before it was transported to America - France, 1886.
December 13, 2023 at 2:11 PM
Wut? This is incredible! These things were not available for free until now?!
December 12, 2023 at 6:47 PM
Bit shocking to realise what inequality means in practice at international level. Belgium, population 11 million, has a bigger GDP than Egypt, population 120 million (IMF figures).
December 11, 2023 at 1:47 PM
@stevepeers.bsky.social good to see you here!
December 10, 2023 at 8:29 PM
Want to play along? List a band named after:

1. a county or borough: The Notting Hillbillies
2. a city: Berlin
3. a country: Japan
4. a continent: America (just so the yanks use their grey matter)

Tag last 5 people you interacted with on Twitter on a follow-message.
December 9, 2023 at 7:09 PM
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December 8, 2023 at 1:51 PM
One of the best things about Bsky is that I'm finding back really great posters who left X, like @kevinmkruse.bsky.social. 🙂
December 8, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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Costa’s hummingbird drinking from an ocotillo. 🪶🌿
December 8, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Hello @jameeljaffer.bsky.social. What would you recommend as the 1 or 2 best books you are aware of about the history and politics of the birther movement that alleged BHO was not a NBC? It's to do background research for a writing project. Thank you.
December 8, 2023 at 3:45 PM
Alright, alright... this week's préviens really whetted my appetite so I'll pay but is that mug really worth $175?!

@kenwhite.bsky.social
December 8, 2023 at 6:56 AM
These things really are magical. A whole library in my pocket! 😊
December 5, 2023 at 4:11 PM
Really discouraging statistics for points 2 & 3...
December 5, 2023 at 10:00 AM

Name this awful musical group (original idea: @ReallyAmerican1, Twitter). I'll start:

The Flounder Sisters
Spite Girls
The Bungles
All Faints
BLT
Death's Child
December 5, 2023 at 8:49 AM
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Please, please encourage your fellow law professors to join Blue-sky. If they did, I'd depart from musk territory with htriple haste.
December 4, 2023 at 7:58 PM
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I’m really excited to be heading back to my alma mater (Amherst) on Thursday for a public lecture about #SCOTUS — and how to fix what’s wrong with it:
December 4, 2023 at 7:57 PM
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December 1, 2023 at 9:53 PM
December 3, 2023 at 7:50 PM
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@scoremywordle.bsky.social
December 3, 2023 at 9:52 AM
I heard Ralph Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music (orchestral version) live for the 1st time today. It sent shivers down my spine. Beautiful music!

youtu.be/s9aTMRCb5zc
Serenade to Music (orchestral Version)
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December 2, 2023 at 10:23 PM
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December 2, 2023 at 6:55 PM
December 1, 2023 at 9:53 PM
Any reason that would make this unconstitutional/unlawful? IMO it can be implemented in a way that doesn't tie participation in the lottery to an individual ballot, at most to "some voter who voted in precinct X."

youtube.com/shorts/yDg97...

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@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social?
December 1, 2023 at 7:25 PM