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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 4h

Student in office hours just now: "Are you into theater? Because sometimes in class you slip into a thing and I think 'man, this guy's been on stage'" anyway he gets an A

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 5h

Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals reversed a conviction because the trial court excluded mention of the victim's assigned sex at birth, which "misled the jury" by leaving them "with the impression that a male defendant killed a female victim." Absolutely unreal.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 7h

Student emailed me with a question and signed the email by wishing my Dream good luck in the playoff game tonight. The kids are all right.

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 7h

I grew up in Georgia. I went back home to cover two trans candidates making history, and it brought me a lot of joy. I drove from Atlanta, where Bentley Hudgins is running, to Cartersville, where Bella Bautista is making her bid, to get a sense of the difference between their two districts.

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In Georgia, two trans candidates believe voters are ready for them

For Bentley Hudgins, running could mean a historic first in the Georgia House. For Bella Bautista, it starts with giving voters a choice they haven’t had in 16 years.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been honored to know Bentley since they were in undergrad and I was a law student. They're the real deal.

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interACT Advocates @interact.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a MAJOR WIN for intersex & trans people in California! The law prohibits health plans & insurers from discriminating against individuals based on sex, including intersex traits. It ensures they cannot be denied coverage for medically necessary healthcare, including gender-affirming care 💜

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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 01/10/2026

It's called Law School

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm at the point in grading papers where I'm listening to a lot of Crime Mob.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Juuuuuust added this to my slides for class.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's not the point, but I'm cracking up at this line about slam poetry in Judge Hittner's order on Texas's drag ban.

slam poetry (a relatively new competetive and energetic form of performance poetry)

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My class this term is on Zoom in the evenings, so yes I am walking around campus in shorts, sneakers, and a shirt a tie.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

That middle aged man feeling when you just want to stay home and read about maritime disaster >>>>>>>>

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Jamie Fox @whatlawfoxsays.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Add tearing down Taft’s SCOTUS building along with the ballroom. Make justices work out of an office building in Hays, KA

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Idea: stop by the farmer's market before faculty meetings and distribute one (1) tomato per faculty member to throw during the meeting.

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Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Since court orders are all over the place, maybe it justifies all these “narcissism of small differences” in class by class policies too. They have to be able to do things differently and use — or not use — the tools with intentional calibration, in different contexts

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Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The money quote about ABA accreditation

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Any other profs experiencing whiplash where other faculty have different approaches to AI than you do? It's becoming clear to me that my current students habitually used it in R&W I, and they expect to do so in my class, too.

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

law.berkeley.edu

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Only took three years at Stetson, but I finally put some things on my office walls.

static.klipy.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

When i see the words "thought leader" I know I do not have take that person seriously at all

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

sanctions all the way fucking down for the lawyers arguing this utter horseshit

In his answer, Hoskins also raises a potential federal constitutional issue. The Missouri Constitution’s initiative power, the answer states, violates the federal constitution’s guarantee that every state has “a republican form of government.”

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Must read from Gessen on daily life for trans people in Kansas Immigrants and trans people have borne the brunt of Trump 2.0 so far. Don’t look away www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | What’s Happening in Kansas Should Alarm Us All (Gift Article)

Is Kansas just the beginning?

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I have different office hours this semester, so I’m changing my door sign. That means …. you guessed it folks …. I get to use my ✨laminator✨

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What Quinn said. I'm so glad they did the right thing.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is why we're friends, Quinn. This right here.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Washington bar exam fiasco is yet another data point for why this is a ridiculous way to gatekeep the profession. You’re testing other people’s legal judgment and you can’t foresee an issue with bandwidth capacity?!

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

She’s right, and she’s right to say so.

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

To my past, current, and future law students: please know that your accommodations are not a "large advantage." They're a need. Legal education is broken in so many stupid ways. But what we are not going to do is normalize this kind of thinking. Let's go over why. 🧵

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This has also been their approach to attacks on trans folks, to similar and devastating effect.

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marg bar the 4th of july @veronicavontrapp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“We know May Pollard’s story because she was the plaintiff in a lawsuit that was withdrawn because there were no longer enough trans children left in Idaho public schools for lawyers to defend.” How do I just keep moving my limbs like normal in a world like this

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

What a treat to share a panel with inspiring colleagues. I loved the opportunity to present my paper, Gender Affirming Rhetoric, at the LWI (@lwionline.bsky.social ) biennial.

A still of three women and me sitting at a table in a classroom facing the audience. Behind us is a screen showing the opening slide for my presentation titled Gender Affirming Rhetoric.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So excited for LWI’s Biennial Conference in Minneapolis! If you’re there and you see me, come say hi!

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My constant reminder: next Monday, July 13, is the statutory deadline for him to drop out so that he can be replaced on the ballot.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'm thrilled that the 17th Volume of the Journal of Aging Law & Policy has been published. I am so proud of our student editors who compiled a really brilliant volume of scholarship. Check it out! www.stetson.edu/law/agingjou... (and do PLEASE reach out if you're interested in writing for us!)

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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Guys if you don’t like the idea of 3Ls picking which scholarship to publish, I have bad news about law clerks

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

As my research demonstrates, the Court’s language on trans issues has moved hard over the last five years toward the right’s preferred “biological” and “[X]-identifying” framing. It’s devastating for trans students but also essentially forecloses any recognition of intersex rights.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Whelp, I'm going to bottle up this rage and despair and try to do one of the few things I really can: help a trans guy pass the bar and become a lawyer. We're going to stay away from Con Law for this session, though.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

More like Long Wrong Silver i'm so sorry

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Took me a while, but this term did it. I really think Congress should strip jx from SCOTUS and create a rotating supercircuit. This is unsustainable in a free society.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Even/especially when it's expected, it is still so crushing to read the Supreme Court use dehumanizing, disgusting language about you.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The Supreme Court cannot be trusted on LGBT rights. My evergreen call is to LITIGATE TRANS RIGHTS IN THE STATES! Many state constitutions contain more robust protections of equality and explicit rights to privacy. moritzlaw.osu.edu/sites/defaul...

Litigating Trans Rights in the States
QUINN YEARGAIN*

Trans rights are under attack. Across the country, states are banning trans children and adults from gender-affirming care, forcing them into bathrooms and gender-segregated school activities that don’t align with their actual gender, and forcing them to be deadnamed and misgendered in a variety of contexts. While the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to weigh in on whether the Equal Protection Clause prohibits at least some discrimination on the basis of gender identity, trans advocates have been heartened by the Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County and early wins in federal court that have struck many of these restrictions down.

But the failure to challenge these laws with state constitutional claims is a short-sighted strategy. While there are reasonable signs for optimism, whether the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately uphold or strike down these laws remains to be seen. And even if the Court affirms that at least some discrimination on the basis of gender identity is unconstitutional at least some of the time, not all discriminatory laws will be held unconstitutional. Accordingly, regardless of whether the ultimate outcome of federal litigation is success, failure, or something in between, advocates will need another venue to pursue their claims.

Not only are state courts available, but many state constitutions provide litigants with unequivocally stronger claims. While the U.S. Constitution does not contain an Equal Rights Amendment, many states do—and review gender-based discrimination under strict scrutiny. While the scope of privacy rights under the U.S. Constitution is ambiguous after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many state constitutions contain robust privacy protections that have long been more expansive than the federal right to privacy. Most state constitutions also contain many, many more rights than the U.S. Constitution does, providing advocates with more claims still.

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

the Court gets no credit for anything positive it does on birthright citizenship because: • it could've resolved the question in Trump v. CASA, but didn't • it could've issued a unanimous, per curiam opinion instead of indulging the bullshit with oral arguments and months of deliberation

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Me in an article: “Water is wet.” Student law review editor: “Please provide a source.”

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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum has been years in the making — and now, transphobia is threatening to derail the whole thing.

19thnews.org

Anti-trans amendment puts women's history museum on pause

A bill to approve construction of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum was debated in Congress today.

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Emerson Wright @profemersonwright.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

at the intersection of joy and delight!!!

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