'The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.'

People with disagreements should confront each other without expecting common ground to emerge. It is naive to believe we can always reach compromise positions. This negates the power of ideas and the strength of belief. Respectful mutual interrogation would be healthier.

Through all the bluster and legal arguments abortions have hit a ten year high, over 1 million.

Your yearly reminder that 'prophecy' and 'prophesy' are different words.

Brava Emily!

Sam Francis and Kevin Phillips were darkly prophetic.

Attentive students of the right from Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 & Nate Hochman to Jeet Heer , Jacob Heilbrunn , & Damon Linker may find Francis’s take on Phillips at Modern Age of interest: modernagejournal.com/what-comes-aft…

'Contrary to the expectations of most contemporary philosophers, morality emerges as a key influence on judgments of legal validity.'

It was great to welcome Chief Justice Muñiz to FSU PC and listen to his talk. He touched on professionalism and the role of the judiciary as a service focused institution.

Tonight, we celebrate the worst night of the year: Daylight Savings Night.

For the record, I was terrible at logic games, but they should be kept in the LSAT. You play a logic game every time you read a statute or apply the FRCP/FRE.

NOW ON SSRN: 'General Law and the Fourteenth Amendment,' with William Baude & Jud Campbell, forthcoming in Stanford Law Review.

We advance a new theory of Privileges or Immunities, arguing that the Clause secured fundamental rights already existing at general law:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Not a great sign when your hotel gives you free ear plugs.

Remember when Congress couldn’t agree on a deal to save the expanded child tax credit?

Last Friday, the Supreme Court took on another case, Relentless v. Department of Commerce, that centers on the question of whether to overturn the 1984 landmark decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. Both cases are scheduled for oral argument in January.

The Supreme Court has granted review on Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce and set it for argument in tandem with Loper Bright (i.e., together with but not consolidated for a single argument). Which we finally know is in January.

This is the way.

I have lots of thoughts about global affairs. I tweet or publish them as a citizen and a philosopher. But as a dean, it isn't my job to weigh in with my students on current affairs unless they are somehow disrupting the work of the college I oversee.

An important Election Law case comes before the Supreme Court today; it could signal the first crack in the status quo test over racial gerrymandering. Here's an explainer:

The South Carolina congressional map in dispute was dismissed by a federal court in 2020. The court cited…

Oral arguments on the Governor's suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell have been set for December.

'...textualists have reason to object to both the substantive and linguistic conceptions of the major questions doctrine that are currently on offer...[the] doctrine can be reformulated into a new substantive canon that textualists need not be 'wary' of embracing.'

The Supreme Court returns today to consider two cases, Murray v. UBS and Great Lakes Insurance v. Raiders Retreat. Here's a breakdown:

Trevor Murray sued his previous employer, UBS Securities. He alleges that he was dismissed after revealing he was pressured to alter his…