Joey Fishkin

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Law prof @ UCLA. New here.

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@joshtpm.bsky.social has a good post about the NYTimes' crusade to push Biden to quit. This is serious. The Times had less to work with when they made Hillary's emails the main story of the 2016 campaign, leading to Trump's election. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/times...

Times Gonna Timestalkingpointsmemo.com Whatever else happens in the coming days with the presidential election, the...

SCOTUS to Presidents this week: Govern through notice-and-comment rulemaking? Courts will oversee your every move. Govern through expert agency adjudication? Nah, we'll oversee that in court. Govern by personally using official powers to commit crimes? Woah—THAT we couldn't possibly review... 🤨

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"My opponent is threatening that if he defeats me, he'll come after me in revenge. If he invents charges against me, I'll have my day in court, and I'll beat them. I won't take this un-American dodge that the president is above the law. I challenge him to do the same: face the charges & the jury."

I find the Biden campaign's messaging about today's decision frustrating. The point should not be "this doesn't change the tacts" etc. Instead: Trump installed a dangerous Supreme Court around him who are deliberately enabling his past and future crimes. Make the court part of the election.

Tell me we are descending into oligarchy without saying the word oligarchy. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/30/u... When this article seems unremarkable, then we’re really in the thick of it…

Want to Be Trump’s Running Mate? Make Sure He Knows About Your Donors.www.nytimes.com Vice-presidential hopefuls are posturing as part of a bid to highlight their ties to the rich.

I haven't seen enough written yet about how stage-managed this year's June SCOTUS rollout has been. They saved multiple blockbuster 6-3 radical departures from all precedent and common sense for the Friday after the debate, when there's lots of news, and they can assume the media can't cover it all.

Putting six lawyers in charge of all the scientific work of a modern regulatory state will be a gas. Which gas, who knows!

Well, I was wrong. I thought the Republican majority on the Court would push a disastrous EMTALA ruling until after tonight’s debate. Turns out I was not cynical enough. They found a way to push it past the entire November election.

In 1895, the Supreme Court made a terrible mistake and invalidated the income tax. Americans overturned this with the 16th Amendment. But one SCOTUS justice is laying the groundwork to repeat the same mistake again! @mjsdc.bsky.social has the story in a great Slate piece— slate.com/news-and-pol...

This Clarence Thomas Dissent Reveals His Favorite Tactic for Constitutional Mayhemslate.com Justice Clarence Thomas is a master at the art of bogus history.

Some great reporting here by the incomparable Moe Tkacik. Why exactly is the rent too damn high? Well… prospect.org/infrastructu...

How an ‘Algorithm’ Turned Apartment Pools Greenprospect.org RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.

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I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡

Crypto-mining accounts for 2% of all U.S. electricity usage. (Bitcoin alone consumes the same amount of energy as the entire state of Utah.)

Crypto Mining Consumes a Mind-Boggling 2% of U.S. Electricityheatmap.news Bitcoin alone consumes roughly the same amount of energy as Utah.

Hi everyone, just joined here literally 30 seconds ago. Tried Threads, now I'm here. I'm a law prof at UCLA. Here's a first post: Can you distinguish real Supreme Court justices doing “history-and-tradition” from parody? It's time for a Rahimi pop quiz! 👀 balkin.blogspot.com/2024/06/its-...

Balkinization: It’s Time for a Rahimi Pop Quiz!balkin.blogspot.com A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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