Reposted by Marcia McCormickBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17htheonion.comNation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned ImmediatelyWASHINGTON—Affirming the importance of traditions like Columbus Day to other Americans, the nation’s 573 federally recognized Indian nations released a joint statement Monday confirming they don’t nee... 463424566
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Oof. Is it a good or bad sign that many of the leaves have fallen off this 100+-year-old lilac bush because of the heat, but it's got one scraggly little bloom? In October? In the northern hemisphere? 010
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I would amend this to say *require* instead of encourage. Everything is impossibly upside down. 011
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Spam calls are getting surprisingly literary. One I got today: I don't make these calls. That's not me being important; it's just not my job. I sign loan accounts and go home. I'm making this one. It's very audiobook earnest. 000
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These are all state law claims, but the state statues have language similar to the Comstock Act. Hence (and maybe for other reasons) the threatened RICO. Jonathan Mitchell isn't on the complaint but he might as well be 000
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone. 15494160
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are so many reasons to be embarrassed by Eric Schmitt and his staff, but here it seems both that they started from the premise he was in Atlanta and reasoned backwards from there and also that they assumed people only go to NBA games, and only men's. 031
Reposted by Marcia McCormickBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/20261/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵 27958
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am not sure what is up with Kevin right now. He seems overcome by melancholy. 130
Reposted by Marcia McCormickMatt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this is what true fascism looks like, running deep cover in a policy proposal so impossibly boring to read that hardly anyone notices that your primary goal is quite simply to regulate your friends and dynamite the administrative state into oblivion 28422
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is why this was a question on my Con Law II exam post Skrmetti. 000
Reposted by Marcia McCormick🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 124123775269
Reposted by Marcia McCormickRoger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 24/09/2026There are no words for how angry this story makes me. Academic freedom is dead in Texas public universities.newyorker.comThe Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus ScandalStudents and faculty across the country were punished for their actions in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name. 24513
Reposted by Marcia McCormickEriq Gardner @eriqgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Does Paramount support the decision by CNN, MSNow and Politico to challenge the Trump ban in court? Do they even stand behind CBS News’ own statement that “No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting”? I asked. They wouldn’t comment. 022
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oh. So we're heading for a Depression depression. 010
Reposted by Marcia McCormickConnor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Writing is fun. You endure hours of excruciating pain and self-doubt. But in the end, you’ve created something. And then you get to hate that thing. 916927
Reposted by Marcia McCormickChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This Missouri case is a perfect nesting doll of the consequences of the SCOTUS approach to its docket. 127464
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Kevin was having trouble committing this morning. But he feels better after some breakfast. 000
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026That should have been "and where is it." I have also taught it as an example of how slippery legal analysis can be depending on the court's goal. That was in sexuality and the law. 010
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What's your goal it where is it situated in the arc of your class? In Con Law II, I used it to show how important pinpointing the classification is and had a discussion about the Court's framing of the facts. 110
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026static.klipy.comBsg Battlestar GalacticaAlt: Bsg Battlestar Galactica--a clip showing Boomer asking "what the frak is that supposed to mean?" Boomer, on the series, discovered she was a cylon, which is a kind of organic and mechanical robot. 031
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026The thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue. 633235760
Reposted by Marcia McCormickChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026UPDATE: The intervenors, People Not Politicians, have filed their opposition to Hoskins's request before Judge Clark for an order blocking the Missouri Supreme Court from holding him (Hoskins) in contempt: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1113235
Reposted by Marcia McCormickChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026UPDATE: Dueling rulings cause chaos over Missouri maps, as case returns to the U.S. Supreme Court Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins faces a contempt hearing at the Missouri Supreme Court, as the U.S. Supreme Court gets a new request to stop the chaos. Law Dork:lawdork.comDueling rulings cause chaos over Missouri mapsMissouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins faces a contempt hearing at the Missouri Supreme Court, as the U.S. Supreme Court gets a new request to stop the chaos. 1112139
Reposted by Marcia McCormickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...vimeo.comPower to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther... 39807277
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026Got my American statutory database up and running with multiple layers. It has vector embedding for semantic search, 8gram shingles for statutory diffusion, and FTS5 for exact searches. 20k+ volumes over 400 years of state and local statutes. This is one of the coolest things I've ever done. 620818
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/08/2026Anti cross dressing ordinances over time in the US. What's remarkable is how much of this nucleated around St Louis and the Mississippi River in the mid 19th century. There's a story there to find. 2043072
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Kevin has moved on to the next activity. 170
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Meet Kevin, our local wildlife buddy. He makes my kids mad because "he just sits around the house doing nothing, and that's our job." He does literally sit on every ledge of our house he can find, preferably close to a window. 3202
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Playground logic strikes again. If-you-love-it-so-much-why-don't-you-marry-it-ass reasoning . . . . 030
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I have been really shocked at the number of scholar friends who write in at least adjacent areas who have never heard these arguments when I describe them in conversation. 130
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026You know this is a vague memory based on the swine flu mass vaccinations in the 1970s . . . There is no way this man has ever taken a child to the doctor. 120
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026He is not actually at that Nova, for what it's worth, but a school in Lisbon. 270
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 02/08/2026He used to be my colleague, but left SLU in about 2018. I am not sure why he is suddenly trolling. 110
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I am so sorry to hear this, Sarah. Sending lots of good thoughts. 010
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Things like genocide and even lesser evils happen bc the sociopaths at the top give ordinary people a permission structure. They have a “moral code,” but it only applies to a select group of people. Those not in that group are beyond the realm of human or moral obligation. 2/ 10967172
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026One thing I learned from SEALS is that wheeling out frozen treats in addition at that time is even better. 110
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Nancy Levit and Allen Rostron collect this information and distribute it annually through SSRN. The usually try to share widely through a variety of routes. Here is the link: urldefense.com/v3/__http://...urldefense.comInformation for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & JournalsThe following are two charts useful for the law review/journal article submission process. The first chart contains information gathered from the journals' webs 230
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is a lot like the comment on one of my course evaluations for Employment Discrimination that there was too much of a focus in the class on employment discrimination. 020
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/07/2026I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!lgbtqlegislation.comLGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking ProjectTwo decades of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, documented bill by bill — 10,000+ bills tracked across every state and Congress by the LegiAlerts team. 151071384
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is a really nuanced and careful way of talking about the harm and violation of stealthing and the blunt instrument that criminal law is. It gave me a lot to think about and some good things to add to my unit on sexual violence the next time I teach criminal law or sexuality and the law. 020
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Our seminars require presentations, multiple drafts of the paper, and for students to do peer review of each others' papers. I think heavier weighting of the presentation and peer feedback--especially if that can be done in hard copy or a difficult-to-substitute-with-ai way--could work. 3120