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Adam Davidson

@sonofdavid.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor at UChicago Law. Researching police, prisons, abolition, and the 13th amendment. Views, for better or worse, are my own. Things I wrote: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAu… Background by Oscar Joyo

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Adam Davidson @sonofdavid.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The thing about being very much of this country, but also writing about it from a critical perspective, is that I spend most of my time hoping that I’m wrong. Unfortunately…

A quote from Procedural Losses and the Pyrrhic Victory of Abolishing Qualified Immunity, 99 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1459 (2022), that reads in relevant part, “In 2018, Chief Justice Roberts (in)famously responded to a statement by
then-President Trump about an “Obama judge” ruling against him by
stating, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or
Clinton judges.”203 Both early empirical studies and observations of Trump
appointees’ jurisprudence increasingly suggest that the Chief Justice was
wrong. In fact, judges appointed by President Trump seem to be, as a class,
different—more conservative, more activist, and less willing to be
constrained by the informal bounds of judicial procedure—from even those
judges appointed by other Republican presidents.”

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Adam Davidson @sonofdavid.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

TikTok wins the sucking up to Trump contest. They shut Americans out when they didn’t have to, which let them make an ad for him that got blasted to 170 million people and thank him when they let people back in, and the real ban still started. Byte Dance apps are currently banned on the App Store.

A screen shot from the Apple App Store with the words “TikTok and other ByteDance apps are not available in the country or region you’re in” and a link that says “Learn More”

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