David S. Cohen

My new book with @carolejoffe.bsky.social -- After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe But Not Abortion -- comes out in just over a week. Pre-order now from your favorite booksellers, like Bookshop.org! bookshop.org/p/books/afte...

That's totally fine. For someone with a different job. Which I'm also totally fine with for him.

"Is the Viability Line Necessary to Win Back Abortion Rights? An Empirical Study" is now on SSRN & forthcoming in the Emory Law Journal. It interrogates the normative & strategic justifications for the viability limit, finding both lacking. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Infrastructure week maybe?

Catastrophic risk. $80B in losses. But please, value us more than any company before. Capitalism makes so much sense!

Life. Is. So. Hard. Sad Mark.

the reason why this is shocking to some people and isn't shocking to most people who know what they're talking about is that there's a cohort of people that understand that conservativism is a form of hierarchism that requires categorization and control,

This article is infuriating. This thread is perfect.

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

Putting AI to its highest and best use by asking it to spit out three generic adjectives about a 10 year old. America #1!!!!

with a B - most people don’t know that

I figured I’d experiment this year and try AI for my NFL survivor league picks. Result? Worst survivor year ever for me. By far.

Who needs scholars and experts when we have AI?!?!

Every time I have to use Teams (which, thankfully, is rarely), I'm like "what the fuck is going on here?" and "where the fuck do I find things?" Worthless product.

This case will lose.

Who are the snowflakes, exactly? 🙄

Oh, Canada…

Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

Nothing beats a "Florida man" story.

This part of constitutional law is so idiotic. Can't wait for saner heads to eventually prevail and overrule this bullshit.

Agree with this wholeheartedly. This goes for law professor scholarship too.

Kagan, 2010: "We are all originalists." Kagan, 2026: "The whole project of originalism is kind of misconceived, and it’s not a very good match with the Constitution we have." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

And once again, as always, anytime Thomas and Alito dissent, it's a good day for America.

Well this is quite a shock (to me)!

Love this idea and article!

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

Oh please please please. This will be such sweet fun.

New report shows what has been true for a long time -- pregnancy criminalization is a story of punitive approaches to substance abuse disorder. Less so, but significantly so, a story of punishing people for pregnancy loss. What is a miniscule part of the story is abortion. That's super low risk.

The actual president of the United States: Roger Marshall had to sue his patients for medical debt, but it’s not like he’s some scheming Jew or something. The ADL:

An effective Chief Justice would make sure something like this could never happen. Alas…

At some point, schools are just going to have to stare SCOTUS in the eyes and say "you know what? no." And don't tell me this is lawless. The current SCOTUS has left the rule of law in the dust, contorting the 14A into a parody of what it means. Defying them IS standing up for the rule of law.

So the only question is whether the Chief writes the majority opinion or Alito does. We know the outcome.

I experimented this year, and I can tell you that, based on this small sample size, AI is total crap at NFL survivor pools.

The “every accusation is a confession” thing is maybe overstated but when it comes to Republicans and “sharia” it is unquestionably the case that the people trying to impose their religion on others through the legal system in the US are not Muslims bsky.app/profile/qasi...

My wish for everyone I know is that they are better at their job than Sean Mannion.

No idea what the purported reason for this is, but it is extremely troubling.

I already watched one documentary about Elizabeth Holmes. Why would I waste another three hours of my life watching yet another about this fraudster?

Katie Zacharia was practicing law the right way. by Ezra Klein

Broken clocks and all that.

Now Nick Siriani next!

Talking about Alito's opinion in Dobbs in class today, a student had the best line about him. She said, "Has he ever talked to a woman before?!"

BRETT KAVANAUGH: "Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?" Just saying... if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN'T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that's just me.

Bullshit. If he wins in three weeks by more than 5%, he will absolutely run for President. And if he wins by 10%, we should anoint him the nominee on the spot.

The least imaginative sports organization on the planet.

Is J.D. Vance in the Epstein files? He sure sounds creepy.