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Recent Bluessky Posts- Jotwell Torts: Anita Bernstein, Male Supremacy as a Products Liability Defect, JOTWELL (June 4, 2026) (reviewing Melissa F. Wasserman, Products Liability in a World Designed for Men, 105 Tex. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2027)), torts.jotwell.com/male-suprema.... June 4, 2026 Jotwell
- May I suggest jotwell.com as a very partial substitute? June 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Lex/Poverty Law: Ezra Rosser, Do Landlord Privacy Rights Trump Voucher Inspections?, JOTWELL (June 3, 2026), lex.jotwell.com/do-landlord-.... June 3, 2026 Jotwell
- Although constitutionally eligible to run for President, Pope Leo XIV is barred by Pope John Paul II's 1980 ruling that priests (and presumably also high-ranking priests) may not run for or hold political office. Otherwise he might win... thehill.com/homenews/adm... June 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- I've gotten to the stage where I'm sometimes too depressed to read them. June 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
Has there ever been a time in history when one branch of government had so much information and power, ostensibly for one purpose, when that information and power wasn’t used for other less palatable purposes? Information and power not subject to checks and balances has always been abused.
And is the ostensible purpose even effective?
What is the point of a constitution and legal system if those are ignored whenever people are afraid? Isn’t one of the purposes of such frameworks to precisely prevent us from giving into knee-jerk emotional responses that fail us later?
Why should we trust an executive branch that has over the decades committed such massive crimes against humanity?