Law professor at W&L teaching IP, property, election law and remedies. Husband of @elyons822. Childhood cancer dad.🎗️Pro-public education. All opinions my own.
Chris Seaman
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Delighted to cast my vote for @tomperriello.bsky.social for the Democratic nominee for the 5th District today! Love the convenience of Virginia’s early voting - in and out in under 5 minutes!
I could not devise a better example of how the "color-blind Constitution" fallacy winds up disproportionately harming people of color by disregarding the practical realities of racism. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts.
TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??
Worth remembering “take bribes for clemency” is one of Justice Sotomayor’s examples in the Presidential Immunity dissent that Roberts complained was far-fetched catastrophizing
Chris Seaman
Mark Joseph Stern
The Department of Justice is trying to get the NAACP’s Clean Air Act suit against xAI tossed because it claims the government should be able to block *all* citizen suits it opposes to avoid “Article II” concerns. As today’s “One First” explains, this argument is as scary and alarming as it is novel:
“We propose that state supreme courts amend their rules of professional conduct to impose a uniform ‘hold open’ date for offers until Oct. 1 of students’ 2L year for 2L summer positions.” @marklemley.bsky.social & I have an op-ed in Bloomberg on early recruiting
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
BREAKING: The Supreme Court leaves in place a ruling that severely limits enforcement of Voting Rights Act protections for voters with a disability or an inability to read or write in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota
www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
DOJ's move to toss out a lawsuit against xAI for illegally operating gas-burning turbines to power data centers turns on a dangerous new constitutional claim.
My new theory paper (early draft)
A new reason why concentrated wealth destroys democracy: common ownership
A standalone media owner maximizes profit. A common owner like Musk (who owns X + SpaceX) will run the media firm at a loss to increase the $ of his total portfolio
tinyurl.com/mcekr7cd
Opinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting.
SCOOP: A priest who is close to Trump successfully lobbied him to grant clemency to the fraudster David Gentile.
Gentile privately indicated Father Frank Mann was paid for his help.
EDNY prosecutors opened an investigation into the commutation.
But it was closed by Trump political appointees.
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)
Jake Grumbach
2. Here's my article on the latest blow the Supreme Court has dealt to the Voting Rights Act:
www.npr.org/2026/06/22/n...
Wealth concentration was already way off the rails before Musk became a trillionaire. The wealthiest megabillionaires in the country have basically been doubling their wealth annually in recent years. Feels near impossible to maintain a liberal democracy in this kind of situation.
And the final case, 6-3 (usual split) - SCOTUS says immigration officers can deny admission to lawful permanent residents *without having clear & convincing evidence that the LPR committed a crime that renders them inadmissible* www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Supreme Court has left in place a ruling that strikes down a key tool for enforcing Voting Rights Act protections for voters with a disability or an inability to read or write in seven states.
