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by Michael Froomkin
Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
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Recent Bluessky Posts- That's not what you'd advise your client, is it? Surely the safe course is to be silent? And certainly his legal right. July 30, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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Category Archives: Politics
First Official Clinton Ad of the General Election
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In the Hall of the Mountain Trump
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Trumpalooza III
Previously: DSC Plays Its Trump Card, Clinton Fires 1st General Election Salvo, Clinton Attack: Salvo 2.
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Best Line of the Day?
Brad DeLong channels Cosma Shalizi:
Haven’t you just constructed an enormous and pointless intellectual apparatus involving […], in increasing order of implausibility, speaking intelligent aquatic waterfowl, options pricing, Vulcans, teleportation, Bayesianism, and time-travel just in order to be able to say the obvious thing: “The probability of an HRC victory is uncertain: it might be as low as 0.45 or as high as 0.95, and we will be able to sharpen our estimate as election day comes closer”?
Well, I laughed. Maybe you just had to be there. Or read the whole thing. Note that the order of implausible events is nicely snarky.
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“Harassment”
The NYT’s Nick Corasaniti says this ad from the Arkansas Senate race “could well become a blueprint for how other Democrats — incumbents and challengers alike — attack their Republican opponents by linking them to Donald J. Trump.”
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Clinton Attack: Salvo 2
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