David Tanenhaus
@david-tanenhaus.bsky.social
I was a one-Tweet wonder. I write about juvenile law, periodically re-read Nathan Hill’s The Nix, and help prepare meals that are vegan, gluten-free, and corn-free.
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This is Centaur. He was given his very own pool. Still prefers sitting in an old metal bucket. 13/10
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I was like, why did I gain hundreds of followers, and then I saw this
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I was like, why did I gain hundreds of followers, and then I saw this
Excited that the article for the Seattle University Law Review about equal protection and children that Addie Rolnick, Justin Iverson, Danielle Silvestri, and I authored is now available.
“A Plain Denial”: Reclaiming Equal Protection in American Juvenile Law
Juvenile courts are based on the premise that children are different from adults and should therefore be treated differently. Children may be treated more informally by courts, punished for different ...
digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Excited that the article for the Seattle University Law Review about equal protection and children that Addie Rolnick, Justin Iverson, Danielle Silvestri, and I authored is now available.
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
Fair enough.
American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate.
-The Editorial Board
-The Editorial Board
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Fair enough.
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SCOTUS tightens the conditions under which minor witnesses can testify virtually (rather than in-person), a controversial exception to the Confrontation Clause. Requires a specific finding of necessity for the child, not general solicitude for kids' wellbeing. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
![PER CURIAM.
Ordinarily, the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause
“guarantees the defendant a face-to-face meeting with witnesses appearing before the trier of fact.” Coy v. Iowa, 487
U. S. 1012, 1016 (1988). In child-abuse cases, however, that
rule sometimes gives way. Consistent with the Sixth
Amendment, a court may screen a child witness from the
defendant when “necessary to protect [the child] from
trauma that would be caused by testifying in the physical
presence of the defendant, at least where such trauma
would impair the child’s ability to communicate.” Maryland v. Craig, 497 U. S. 836, 857 (1990).
Still, before invoking this procedure, a court must proceed with care. It must “hear evidence” and make a “casespecific” finding of “[t]he requisite . . . necessity.” Id., at
855. Simply pointing to a state statute that authorizes
screening, even one premised on “generalized finding[s]” of
necessity, will not suffice. Coy, 487 U. S., at 1021. Because
the Mississippi Supreme Court departed from these principles, we reverse](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreic5d3pzulmiqz2wergatredxnlqtncxh4xngj7fe4wgq4lk6ouxji@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
SCOTUS tightens the conditions under which minor witnesses can testify virtually (rather than in-person), a controversial exception to the Confrontation Clause. Requires a specific finding of necessity for the child, not general solicitude for kids' wellbeing. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
November 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I'll Stop the World and Felch with You
RFK's grasp of modern english poetry is second to none. I've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time!
by Maureen Dowd
RFK's grasp of modern english poetry is second to none. I've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time!
by Maureen Dowd
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'll Stop the World and Felch with You
RFK's grasp of modern english poetry is second to none. I've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time!
by Maureen Dowd
RFK's grasp of modern english poetry is second to none. I've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time!
by Maureen Dowd
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I found the one exception to my belief that journalists should be paid for their work
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I found the one exception to my belief that journalists should be paid for their work
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big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
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Prosperity is just around the corner
Tim Scott: "Thank god we're less than 60 days away from the beginning of a brand new year. 2026 will be the year of affordability"
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Prosperity is just around the corner
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Extraordinarily honored to receive the American Society for Legal History’s Craig Joyce Medal for service to the Society for my work as editor of @lawandhistrev.bsky.social.
Also this replica premier league trophy with Law and History Review regalia!
#ynwa #upthereds #legalhistory
Also this replica premier league trophy with Law and History Review regalia!
#ynwa #upthereds #legalhistory
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Extraordinarily honored to receive the American Society for Legal History’s Craig Joyce Medal for service to the Society for my work as editor of @lawandhistrev.bsky.social.
Also this replica premier league trophy with Law and History Review regalia!
#ynwa #upthereds #legalhistory
Also this replica premier league trophy with Law and History Review regalia!
#ynwa #upthereds #legalhistory
Truth in advertising.
"Boondoggle Ranch"? C'mon writers, do better.
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Truth in advertising.
See something, say something.
This.
Knowing that they were going to do this, they should have addressed the public on the decision. Made USE of the moment.
Knowing that they were going to do this, they should have addressed the public on the decision. Made USE of the moment.
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
See something, say something.
Let’s not do the numbers.
Aaaaaaaaauuuuuuggggh
HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down
QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?
HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Let’s not do the numbers.
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The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Yep
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yep
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Senate Democrats modeling the Platonic ideal of a cave.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Senate Democrats modeling the Platonic ideal of a cave.
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What the hell are we doing?
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What the hell are we doing?
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Louie's joined the resistance
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Louie's joined the resistance
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My book has a publication date (June 9, 2026)! Follow he link for a 30% discount.
White Power: Policing American Slavery shows how enslavers built a legal & police system and how remnants of the system persisted in American life.
uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power: Policing American Slavery shows how enslavers built a legal & police system and how remnants of the system persisted in American life.
uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power
Beginning in the colonial era and growing through the American Revolution and the Southern plantation system, slaveholders’ violent police regime continued...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My book has a publication date (June 9, 2026)! Follow he link for a 30% discount.
White Power: Policing American Slavery shows how enslavers built a legal & police system and how remnants of the system persisted in American life.
uncpress.org/978146969484...
White Power: Policing American Slavery shows how enslavers built a legal & police system and how remnants of the system persisted in American life.
uncpress.org/978146969484...
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Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich
DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’ — theonion.com/dhs-daycare-...
DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’
WASHINGTON—Reaffirming the Trump administration’s promise to crack down on individuals providing supervision and instruction to youngsters across the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...
theonion.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’ — theonion.com/dhs-daycare-...
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They decided the charge was bologna.
The sandwich guy has been acquitted.
When the jury did not return a quick verdict, it looked like he might be toast.
Turns out they needed to chew on it some more.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
When the jury did not return a quick verdict, it looked like he might be toast.
Turns out they needed to chew on it some more.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
They decided the charge was bologna.