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Stats @redsoxstats.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Red Sox in the 2000s 14 years with Ortiz as primary DH 45 playoff wins, 3.2 per season 5 years with Martinez as primary DH 17 playoff wins, 3.4 per season 8 years with neither of the two as primary DH 2 playoff wins, 0.25 per season

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New York City book tour stop?

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The presumption of regularity is all anyone's talking about these days. From me in @justsecurity.org: what it all means for litigants.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 01/09/2026

Why the erosion of the presumption of regularity presents significant opportunities to those challenging the Trump administration’s agenda in court, from Governing for Impact's Jordan Ascher. www.justsecurity.org/155321/presu...

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What the Presumption of Regularity’s Erosion Means for Challenges to Executive Action

The erosion of the presumption of regularity presents opportunities to those challenging the Trump administration’s agenda in court.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 27/08/2026

With news that Ratko Mladić, Bosnian-Serb general dubbed the ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ has died at 84 while serving life sentence in The Hague. Reupping 2017 essay by @alexgwhiting.bsky.social The Long Arm of Justice: Ratko Mladić’s Conviction Should Keep Perpetrators of Atrocities Awake at Night

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The Long Arm of Justice: Ratko Mladić's Conviction Should Keep Perpetrators of Atrocities Awake at Night

Today Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb General, was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and was...

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A helmet could very well do a lot to protect you if you are hit by a driver. I don't think that's a remotely controversial point.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Helmets goes in both columns.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 26/08/2026

Boy, I think it's a bad idea to get mad at the Mayor for demonstrating good behavior. This reads like a cartoon of an annoying urbanist. Nobody's going to be persuaded by it who doesn't already agree and some people will get pushed away because of how obnoxious it is. Useless!

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

@bridgetdooling.bsky.social Genuinely good example of the limitations of a human in the loop.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There will soon be great demand for "rustic" higher education experiences. Like no-computer liberal arts colleges. Who wants to found one with me?

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

To my knowledge, this is the first federal case substantively assessing the government's use of AI to make a decision. It will be an important precedent for the next one.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This feels like the kind of thing that 1Ls are admonished does *not* constitute originalism.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Those who criticize the Supreme Court's formalistic approach to separation of powers don't acknowledge that it regularly exercises legislative power.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It's living constitutionalism, but not even *good* living constitutionalism!

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Originalism is when a modern-day, uncited presumption about what the framers would have wanted suffices to override the plain original public meaning of the text.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Originalism is when a modern-day, uncited presumption about what the framers would have wanted suffices to override the plain original public meaning of the text.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I don't think it helps "an originalist's" case that illegal immigration was "largely unknown" in 1868. By the way, are there any other issues that the framers didn't anticipate? Presumably Justice Kavanaugh would be sympathetic to state efforts to regulate those matters.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Kavanaugh's separate opinion in Barbara can only be described as a paean to living constitutionalism. I expect I'll see similar arguments in his Dobbs and Bruen dissents.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I thought these guys had a principled commitment to history and tradition. What gives?

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

One vote away from Dred Scott II.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Citizenship Clause is the rare constitutional provision that's clear on its face. Why do we need to begin with pages upon pages about the common law?

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A dictum, wrapped in a false premise, inside a revisionist history.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

You have been headed off at the pass.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

How can the TPS case and SFFA both be right? If there is any non-race-based reason to admit an applicant to Harvard, doesn't that mean, under TPS, that race was not a motivating factor?

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Among other things, Schlossberg here holds himself out as a lawyer. Does he actually have a law license?

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"Real New Yorker" is a genre of "New Yorker" not of "native New Yorker."

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It is a difference, and the term "New Yorker" extends beyond "native New Yorker."

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New York City missed the chance to name the Williamsburg Bridge after Rollins during his lifetime. A huge missed opportunity.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The idea that the Supreme Court is the only body with final say over constitutional meaning is a prison of the mind.

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Note the telling omission of "wrote his own speeches."

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I picked one at random. Click on the first hyperlink in this piece: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/o...

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is a situation where not being a lawyer is actually helpful for seeing the situation clearly.

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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

@j-p-a.bsky.social with his latest installment of work on AI in rulemaking 👇

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

LLMs can, in a single exchange, produce incredibly sophisticated and utterly baffling responses. I have a new essay in the Harvard Journal on Legislation's Markup blog working through how agencies might responsibly use LLMs in the rulemaking process. journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/2026/04/...

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Some First Principles on Large Language Model Capabilities and Federal Rulemaking – Harvard Journal on Legislation

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

That’s wonderful. Connelly has “it.”

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Jordan Ascher @j-p-a.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Bridget offers a useful corrective to the buzzwordification of how we talk about government—and, if we're not careful, how we actually govern. "We can likely make great progress in regulatory policy by letting algorithms into our loop, not the other way around."

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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Tara Aida notes that APA § 553 has a background assumption that human intelligence runs administrative processes. "If agencies over-rely on AI to carry out these procedural tasks, they threaten to undermine § 553’s goal of improving the quality of final rules." www.yalejreg.com/nc/ticking-t...

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Ticking the Boxes: AI and the Notice-and-Comment Process, by Tara Aida - Yale Journal on Regulation

[T]o the extent that § 553 attempts to create a process that can improve the substance of regulations, it does so with specifically human intelligence in mind. If agencies over-rely on AI to carry ou...

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