Joe Dunman

@joedunman.bsky.social

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Asst. Prof at Louisville Law (torts, writing, religion, employment)
Former: Managing Attorney @ Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, prof @ Morehead State, and lawyer for KY plaintiffs in Obergefell v Hodges.
I like heavy music. Mistakes are my own.

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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.

Bluesky tonight, on July 4, is a giant UK parliamentary elections stan account.

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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They got us all mad today on purpose with the theocratic fascist op-ed guy who it turns out votes too.

All ragebait nonsense all the time. Need those precious clicks and hateful comments. Number must go up!

The ragebait clickthrough engagement machine running smoothly as ever.

The New York Times found it appropriate to publish this drivel on Independence Day just one week after the Supreme Court ruled that Republican presidents are above the law.

Don’t forget it’s now SCOTUS offseason so we’ll get to watch certain justices make public appearances and act all indignant that anyone dares to criticize their mere umpiring.

Shout out to this thunderstorm for keeping the fireworks at bay.

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I think we could all use a bit of pick-me-up right about now, so seeing as it's July 3rd, why don't we once again reflect on one of the greatest white supremacist self-owns in military history:

Adam’s excellent post below elaborates on points I made briefly in a speech at a law school Constitution Day event last year. Closing the pressure release valve of democracy has only one inevitable result. medium.com/i-taught-the...

ICYMI, I wrote about the terrible trap the Republicans have set up for this country. itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...

Domestic Tranquility and the Warriors of Peacemedium.com The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution says “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice…

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But it's a vicious cycle, because the fact that this place is dominated by earnest humorless liberals means that even political jokes don't land. This weekend, for instance, I jokingly asked if anyone had any takes about Biden dropping out, and someone SENT ME MULTIPLE LINKS. Like, Jesus Christ!

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Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

This is all from an intellectual movement that for decades denounced Griswold, Roe, and a dozen other cases as impermissibly unrestrained and untethered to constitutional text. But judges only go too far when they expand individual rights, you know.

Frantically googling how to escape an AALS listserv but all it tells me to do is eat glue.

For some reason my Karl Llewellyn meme hasn’t taken off despite being absolute fire

The real ones know

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3. Reducing university teaching and research to artificial "conservative" and "liberal" categories only presents a parody of what being a professor involves. It misinforms the public about higher education when accurate and constructive information is most needed. 3/3

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Very Very Common Mike Dunford

I was having trouble with the link, and CourtListener won't take the document via RECAP for technical reasons, so I've reposted it here: northwestern-lolsuit.tiiny.site

Northwestern U Law School lolsuitnorthwestern-lolsuit.tiiny.site Northwestern U Law School lolsuit

A civil rights plaintiff claiming to be at risk of a future injury based on a vague and unprovable theory of causation that is directly refuted by comparable peers listed by name in the complaint should be screened at the door by responsible plaintiff’s counsel.

So does this mean they were not asked permission to be so named?

Damnit @kevinmkruse.bsky.social it was a rhetorical question.

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surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.

Google says its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers that underpin its AI efforts (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Millions of people are overdue on their federal student loans, with their accounts delinquent, in default or still on pause, according to the latest data. The reasons borrowers aren’t paying are varied, and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.

Nearly Half of Student Loan Borrowers Are Not Yet Paying Their Monthly Billwww.nytimes.com Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.

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Great essay on the lessons of the Book of Job for a world on fire. The affirmative voluntarism reminds me of @jacobtlevy.bsky.social idea of justice in Babylon

Hope this helps a little

A Religious Fable That Confounded Scholars for Millennia Finally Makes Sense Right Nowslate.com The story is perfect for our harrowing times. But we’ve been reading it all wrong.

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Somewhere soon, at a right wing law school event near you 🗣️: "I would prefer that the president not liquidate members of his cabinet in cold blood for disagreeing with him as a matter of policy, but as a legal matter...."

Justice Jackson: the next time a President wants to fire his attorney general, he has options.

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Dictator (n) dik-tay-tor; One who rules a people without the constraint of law and with the support of the supposed ministers of that law.

There is no militant left in this country because there are too many rhetorical questions on the internet to dunk on. Just not enough time to do both.

I think it’s worth noting that Biden “issued a blistering attack” (debatable) on a SCOTUS decision declaring HIM to be immune from prosecution. This is, if they were so motivated, a tremendous gift to the Democrats they could use to totally seize power. Instead they’re denouncing it.

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to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited

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"Today’s Supreme Court has just recreated one of the most despicable cases in English history, a case that signified the apex of absolutism in British history and was repudiated by a revolution for the damage it caused."

My article for @newrepublic “The Supreme Court has effectively ruled that 250 years of U.S. history under a republic is enough.” newrepublic.com/article/1833...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a Kingnewrepublic.com The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.