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@eric@ericpuryear.com And fundamentally, in a common law system, decisional law is typically a court’s balancing of the parties’ competing interests and rights. Given that for the vast majority of the common law system’s existence, certain kinds of folks had more rights than others, it’s not surprising that those biases are baked in. Stare decisis has, as a virtue, that the law is predictable. It’s worse vice is that it makes the law predictably regressive.

@e_urq@journa.host This is incredibly true. I’m the leader of a large professional organization. We have a listserv. We enacted a “no politics” rule. We have one, very vocal conservative member who skirts the line as much as he can. When he crosses it, I end up sending confidential warning letters to him and the eight or nine people who jump in to argue with him.

And then he complains he’s the only one getting punished.

@hewittlaw@mastodon.social I’ve recently started working on using more conversational language and tone in my briefing. My partners (who are younger than me!!!) keep making it more formal.

@chuckwendig@mastodon.social Unlike Matthew Bird, I’m fond of gin. Glad you liked the CapRock.

I’m in the Governor’s selfie!

@hewittlaw@mastodon.social I think the most important thing is making your briefing and motions practice easy for the judge to understand.

@ErinInTheMorn@mstdn.social Oklahoma legislators think 15 year-olds brains are developed enough to justify prison sentences of up to 20 years. And at 18 a person can be executed by the state. But 18 year-olds can’t *choose* to get medical care they need (and which only affects them) when they choose to get it because their brains aren’t sufficiently developed?!?

@manateacake@toot.community George Santos deserves to be in a Comedy.

@Kaminara@mastodon.lol Happy birthday!

@Ask_aubry@mas.to The Bible is actually quite clear on what Nate needs to do.

The prescribed response is a half-Oedipus (the plucking out of one’s own eyeball).

@AdamParkhomenko@mstdn.social Kevin Hearne (@kevinhearne@ohai.social) is the author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, a really great urban fantasy series…. He’s also the co-author of Kill the Farm Boy, which is a devastatingly funny take on classic fantasy tropes.

I don’t know who Kevin Hern is.

@Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social *best Count von Count voice* “Ten! Ten humiliating defeats! Ah ha ha ha!”

@questauthority@mastodon.social Best representative for a party that worships the Confederacy.