English prof ('01-'06), student @UTexasLaw ('06-'09), appellate lawyer ('09-‘23), visiting law prof @UKCollegeofLaw ('23-present) • he/him • all the disclaimers
Lexington, KY
Joined June 2010
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Jason P. Steed retweeted
Pennies, plane crashes, and constitutional crises abound as Washington enters its Dark MAGA era. Antonia Hitchens chronicles month one of Donald Trump’s second term.
nyer.cm/HbuFckB
Jason P. Steed retweeted
A month after Trump’s inauguration, the honeymoon is over, @Yair_Rosenberg writes: “With every policy he implements and offhand remark he makes, Trump is falsifying the imaginary versions of himself that inspired many of his supporters.”
Read more: theatln.tc/C1BtNGZt
Jason P. Steed retweeted
Post-election, legal fights over the future of voting in America press ahead: Advocacy groups petition the full 5th Circuit to reconsider a panel's holding that it's unlawful for states to accept mail ballots after election day as a general rule.
Prev: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Jason P. Steed retweeted
"Petropoulos says that the smell of rotting corpses permeates the entire Gaza Strip. It emanates from the rubble, under which people were buried, and dogs run around with human remains in their mouths." haaretz.com/israel-news/2024…
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Utah considers allowing law grads to choose apprenticeship rather than bar exam. ow.ly/jqC250U2xSC #barexam #legaleducation
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“To be a fascist and to call someone else a fascist requires a cunning that is natural to Trump,” @TimothyDSnyder writes. “The magic lies in the daring it takes to declare a weaker group to be part of an overwhelming conspiracy.” nyer.cm/03vuWrK
A rapist. Dishonest. Corrupt. Hateful. Racist. A convicted fraudster. Twice impeached.
A fascist.
I am sad for our country. And disappointed & bewildered that so many of the people I know & love would support this criminal & what he represents.
The next 4yrs won’t be good.
Jason P. Steed retweeted
Things like this—as well as the tangible benefits from many of Biden’s achievements—raise the question of how much technocratic solutions to improve people’s material conditions actually matter in an age of populist nationalism.
Jason P. Steed retweeted
Federal judge rejects RNC challenge to absentee ballots in Georgia @SteveGarrisonPC courthousenews.com/federal-j…
Jason P. Steed retweeted
RESULT: Pamela Goodwine wins Kentucky's supreme court race.
Goodwine was the candidate backed by Dems in this nonpartisan race; she defeats the candidate backed by conservatives. (This was not statewide.)
Retiring justice was conservative, so this takes the court a step left.
Jason P. Steed retweeted
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says the state is "on track to to break turnout records" today.
"Michiganders are already voting in record numbers."
"We've seen 3.3 million citizens vote before 7 a.m. today even hit."
Jason P. Steed retweeted
The day before the election, a bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys general puts out a statement calling for a “peaceful transfer of power” + condemning “any acts of violence.”
Notably absent: Texas AG Ken Paxton, along with AGs in Indiana and Montana.
naag.org/press-releases/atto…
Jason P. Steed retweeted
This is a very useful document for keeping track of the circuits’ practices on livestreaming. #AppellateTwitter
Fix the Court's Kit Beyer reports that all 14 federal appeals courts (13 CoAs + #SCOTUS) are still livestreaming their oral arguments, 4.5 yrs after COVID forced many to go live for the first time.
Details here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets….
Jason P. Steed retweeted
It's all going to come down to ... Omaha? My dispatch from Nebraska's "blue dot," which could give Harris a 270th electoral vote, help hand Democrats the House, and perhaps even determine the Senate majority too: theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
