Recent Bluessky Posts- Small tidbit in the story about Galliano fiasco at the Met: Met has a titular board of about *100* members, most of whom are treated under the mushroom principle--not consulted about much and not even invited to the Met Gala! I guess their main job is to write checks. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/s... September 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Crim: Alma Magaña, Counseling at the Edge of Decisional Autonomy, JOTWELL (September 3, 2026) (reviewing Marisol Orihuela, The Lawyer's Quandary: Client-Centered Lawyering in the Treatment Paradigm, 102 N.C. L. Rev. 1655 (2024)), crim.jotwell.com/counseling-a.... September 3, 2026 Jotwell
- A powerful message by three distinguished former Coast Guard officers with several decades of experience. On the one year anniversary of U.S. boat strikes. America’s War on Drug Smugglers at Sea Is Unlawful—and It Is Failing Must Read www.justsecurity.org/155570/ameri... September 3, 2026 Ryan Goodman
- Is this why they need the shock gloves? To zap the interfering election judges and poll watchers? September 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- After all, your implicit premise is Congress used to work somewhat better and modulo Unitary Exec & Chadha, it's still more or less the same Constitution. September 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
Author Archives: Michael Froomkin
Phenomenal
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#WeRobot2017
We Robot is happening today and tomorrow. Although I founded the WE Robot conference, for the first time I am not able to attend, and indeed had to withdraw a paper I felt pretty good about. Fortunately the live stream is very good. The papers are great, as usual, but it feels so very weird to be only a remote participant, especially with so many familiar faces on camera and also familiar voices off-camera. As a viewer from a distance, on the one hand I’m delighted that the conference has momentum and a life of its own. On the other hand, I would have loved to be there, especially as it’s taking place at Yale. A lot of a great conference is the hallways, and that of course you don’t get from remote participation, not even Twitter.
See you next year!
Posted in Robots, Talks & Conferences
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She Does it Again
Someone serious really needs to run against Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle.
Prosecutors say no crime was committed in scalding death of Miami inmate:
The corrections officers who locked a schizophrenic man in a shower for nearly two hours — a shower that some inmates say was used as a means to punish unruly prisoners with blistering hot water — committed no crime, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle announced Friday.
The state attorney’s two-year investigation into the June 23, 2012, death of Darren Rainey at Dade Correctional Institution concluded that the officers — Sgt. John Fan Fan, Cornelius Thompson, Ronald Clarke and Edwina Williams — did not act with premeditation, malice, recklessness, ill-will, hatred or evil intent when they herded Rainey into the shower.
Uh-huh.
(Note the Friday afternoon dump to minimize news coverage.)
Update: The local New Times pulls no punches, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami’s Top Prosecutor, Is a Disgrace.
Posted in Law: Criminal Law, Miami
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IRL (R-27) Says No
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Must be Reform
A friend writes,
Gathered with some friends last night to read the Megillah. This year we replaced the name of the villain Haman with “Donald” as we spun our groggers. Most satisfying.
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Zero (0) South Florida Congresspersons are Having Town Halls This Week
That’s according to the Town Hall Project, which reports
There are no events within 75 miles of your zip, the closest one is 118 miles away.
That would be Brian Mast (Republican, FL-18). Good on him. Shame on the rest of them.
Posted in Politics: FL-18, Politics: FL-25/FL-27, The Resistance
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