Maggie Wittlin

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Associate Professor at Fordham Law. Evidence, law teaching, crosswords, jokes.

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The one thing I'll note about the immunity case is that J Alito, joined by CJ Roberts, wrote about the importance and power of limiting instructions just 10 days ago. Today, limiting instructions are good enough for individual defendants but not for protecting the Presidency.

*Record scratch* *Freeze frame* “Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation…”

wtf?

Casually following yesterday's Stephen Sondheim auction at Doyle was a delight. It became very clear very quickly I wasn't going to be able to buy anything, but it's fun to see people with too much money and just the right amount of nerdy enthusiasm:

This is a post-storm light appreciation post.

Have we so quickly forgotten the .com-stock lode?

“Bitcoin: Made in America” has to be the #1 most brain dead talking point ever uttered.

Yes, that’s French they’re speaking. But these children aren’t French: they’re American.

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I sat in the smoking section of a restaurant.

We’re excited too, Shirley! (This post is exclusively for law profs looking at their phones right now.)

On first pass, this looks like easily the best thing Eric Adams has done as mayor: www.nyc.gov/office-of-th...

Mayor Adams Launcheswww.nyc.gov NYC Mayor Eric Adams today launched “Ur In Luck,” a new effort to expand New Yorkers’ access to public restrooms across all five boroughs...

oh no my wife is getting a flag ready

Saw an Amazon ad last night about their warehouse in Fall River: "good for employees, good for Fall River." I love picturing this decision-making process: "We should put it in a town that wouldn't mind being heavily featured in our ad. Like, maybe one currently best known for hatchet murders...."

oh no

Can’t even have a normal conversation with Joey Lawrence anymore, because of Whoa.

Can’t even get regular salmon anymore, because of wok.

Another extraordinary Evidence Summer Workshop in the books! Great ideas, great conversation, great people. Thanks to Ed Cheng for lead organizing and @alexnunn.bsky.social and Julia Simon-Kerr for co-organizing. #ESW

I absolutely cannot see the aurora in NYC, so here’s a very pretty sunset over the Central Park reservoir in January 2021.

I did not previously know that Balenciaga made a handbag that looks like a Lay's Potato Chip bag. Dilution by burnishment? @lexlanham.bsky.social

I appreciate hearing from the other side.

6 miss the 125th St. Fairway. 2 miss Splash Bar. 3 miss CBGB. One said they miss Veselka, even though it’s still there.

view of the world from ninth avenue.jpg

The real question here is whether any of the jurors have committed plagiarism.

They say “all news is local.” But some news is more local than other news. www.westsiderag.com/2024/04/16/u...

UWS' Absolute Bagels Line Changes Directionwww.westsiderag.com One Upper West Sider expressed worries that the new line direction would make the in-store experience at Absolute Bagels less efficient.

Who needs fancy eclipse-viewing equipment when you have binoculars, black jeans, and the streets of New York?

*youth con law prof voice* you know what else has penumbras?

But President Tetlow, the ChatBot said I could!

The nyc chatbot is perfect

Rumor has it that The Great @gppasco.bsky.social has won the ACPT! Congrats to the best in the biz!!

Unclear why you all are experiencing some collective hallucination about an earthquake while I didn’t feel a dang thing, but I will get to the bottom of this psychological phenomenon!

#Blessed to be working at a coffee shop that is playing Cowboy Carter.

When there's a bigoted Republican campaign against a nominee, that should *harden* Democratic support. I am appalled that these Senators are caving, instead.

Disgraceful www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Third US Senate Democrat to vote against Muslim judicial nominee Mangiwww.reuters.com Adeel Mangi's chances of winning confirmation in the U.S. Senate to become the nation's first Muslim federal appeals court judge have been diminished after Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada became the latest Democrat to publicly announce she would vote against him.

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I would ask any Democrat considering voting against this nominee this question: What vision of America do you actually believe in, if not the one exemplified by the life and work of a man like Adeel Mangi? www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/o...

Opinion | The Islamophobic Smear Campaign Dividing Democratswww.nytimes.com Adeel Mangi was a judicial shoo-in for Biden. Will Democrats defend him?

It is shameful that any Democrat would cave to the baseless, discriminatory attacks against this excellent nominee.

A Biden nominee to the Third Circuit who would be the first Muslim-American to serve on any federal appeals court doesn’t have the votes to be confirmed among Democrats in the Senate, it appears. www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/p...

At least journalism's "kill notification" is direct. When a court gets notified that a party has died, the filing has the delightfully passive-aggressive name, "Suggestion of Death."

Not my wheelhouse but maybe "kill notification" is not the best phrase for those notices...