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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

A lot of people find intermediate scrutiny mysterious, but it’s just three consubstantial First Amendment doctrines that are fully distinct yet indivisibly one.

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Our Hen House @ourhenhouse.org · 26/12/2024

Essential listening for animal advocates and legal professionals: @marisul.bsky.social dissects Florida's cultivated meat ban with @paulmsherman.bsky.social . A detailed examination of how constitutional law can advance animal protection through food innovation. ourhenhouse.org/alp115

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My kid asked me why they were called polka dots, and this is legitimately crazy.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It's a great podcast. Full of insight.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Make the knight corner-y, game’s getting ornery.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

“Great” in the sense of “as a person.” I’m just okay at chess.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Finishing up a 50+ page legal brief and thinking about the time I dropped an undergraduate class because it had a 15-page term paper.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

We offered! The Articles of Confederation gave Canada a free admission, but they evidently declined.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I think everyone goes through this as they develop. Is it a problem of patience? Something I struggle with is getting a superior position and then assuming that now it must be time to “do something,” when just maintaining the pressure would have eventually left my opponent with no good moves.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I haven’t reviewed the game yet, but what’s the view on Gukesh playing the exchange variation? Is he scared of Ding’s French prep? Seems risky to play a drawish line with White when Ding has an extra game with White.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

John Stossel did a segment on Florida's ban on cultivated meat. @ij.org is challenging the law in court. It's remarkable how candid the cattlemen's lobbyist is that the law is about protecting ranchers, not consumers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kse...

youtube.com

States Ban Lab-Grown Meat: How that limits our freedom and harms animals.

YouTube video by John Stossel

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm guessing the odds are about 99% that this guy watched this morning's game. But I'm proud to say that I played just like Ding.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

All I want is for my pieces to coordinate as well as Ding Liren’s Horsey Hook.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

And, of course, one should read IJ’s amicus brief on the other side (written by yours truly), explaining why this is an extremely straightforward case and the Fifth Circuit’s ruling is obviously wrong.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Anyways, cases like this always attract a few wacky briefs as well. One of the amicus briefs is about how Alfred Kinsey destroyed America. I leave finding that one as an exercise for the reader.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If these amicus briefs have a target, it’s influencing concurrences/dissents. Alito may write separately about why the Fifth Circuit should hold that strict scrutiny is satisfied, citing these briefs. Thomas may write separately about why tiers of scrutiny should be abandoned, citing history briefs.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The correct outcome is for the court to declare the correct standard of review (strict scrutiny). Although the Court could also hold that the law is likely to fail strict scrutiny, it’s more likely to remand for the Fifth Circuit to apply the correct standard.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The Court granted review on a narrow question: Was the Fifth Circuit correct that Texas’s law gets the lowest level of judicial scrutiny, rather than the highest. Overwhelmingly, the briefs supporting Texas are about why the law is a good idea. That may be! But that’s not what the court is deciding.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yesterday the Supreme Court received a whopping 27 amicus briefs supporting Texas’s age-verification law for online pornography. I think it speaks to the weakness of the government’s argument that so few address the actual legal issue in the case. www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

supremecourt.gov

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Excellent example of the Shankland Question: What happens if I do it anyway? From 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners, #777.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’ve just learned that the games in the upcoming chess world championship start at 4:00 a.m. ET. Gonna be a long tournament for Americans who want to avoid spoilers

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

It’s such a beautiful, instructive game. And I’ve won a ton of blitz games against people who play the Philidor but have apparently never studied it.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

from time to time, IJ hosts “master classes,” where we can teach our colleagues something we know a lot about unrelated to work. Next month I’m doing one on chess and will be going over the Opera Game move by move.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I strongly encourage everyone to go into settings, my saved feeds, and then unpin “discover.” Like Twitter’s “For You” feed, it thrives on polarization and collective outrage. That’s unhealthy even if you agree with the sentiments. Use this platform in healthier ways than the last one.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Thought better of this and will still restrict myself to mild oaths.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Since nobody actually follows me here, maybe I'll start using swears.

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Paul Sherman @paulmsherman.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

I agree, but have still stopped using the phrase. Using it correctly confuses some readers, while using it incorrectly annoys others.

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