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Jon Michaels
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UCLA Law Prof
EXPERTISE: ConLaw; NatSec; Admin Law; Prez Power; Pol Violence
BOOKS:Vigilante Dem’y; Constitutional Coup
SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=499289
UCLA: https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jon-d-michaels
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Solidarity with all the newbee Admin Law profs.
Tony soprano screenshot (not actual scene from show), wherein an imprisoned Tony is quoted as saying "It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came in too late for that and I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. the best is over"
August 29, 2023 at 8:47 PM
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Yesterday, I drove around the city looking for burlap sacks for our sandbags.

I couldn't locate any sacks but did manage to find... the year 2002.
poster sign advertising concert by Ice Cube, Ashanti and Ja Rule
August 20, 2023 at 9:01 PM
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Missed this earlier so also big congrats to LSU Law and their new dean, Alena Allen. Two awesome deans from YLS class of '03

https://law.lsu.edu/news/2023/06/30/louisiana-born-alena-allen-returns-home-to-begin-appointment-as-lsu-law-dean-on-july-1/
August 9, 2023 at 9:33 PM
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Congrats to the Univ. of Illinois College of Law community on their excellent new dean! https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/581351890
Sharpe named dean of U. of I. College of Law
Jamelle Sharpe has been named the 14th dean of the College of Law, pending approval by the U. of I. Board of Trustees.
news.illinois.edu
August 9, 2023 at 5:51 AM
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Sam Alito at the Court's next conference (hopefully wearing a shirt)
Screenshot from Godfather II of Hyman Roth telling Michael Corleone that their combined syndicate is "bigger than US Steel"
July 28, 2023 at 7:09 PM
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Dean Tolson is 100% right
Screen shot of Dean Tolson on Twitter responding to those effusively celebrating the Moore decision. “The Court rejected an extreme rule that would be terrible for American democracy, but that is what they are supposed to do. Moore is a status quo decision that still invites a level of mischief, the extent of which remains to be seen. It is not Baker or Reynolds. It’s…fine”
June 28, 2023 at 6:21 PM
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Just a beautiful tribute to Daniel Ellsberg by David Shribman http://pge.libercus.net//.pf/showstory/202306250026/3
Screenshot highlighting a passage from David Shribman's obituary of Daniel Ellsberg. The highlighted passage reads: "The Pentagon Papers were America’s version of the Gilgamesh epic and Middlemarch, works seldom read but carrying vast implications anyway. Perhaps a better example is Don Quixote, for Mr. Ellsberg was tilting at the greatest windmills of modern civilization: the American presidency and the Pentagon. He was Cervantes with a relentless sense of certainty."
June 26, 2023 at 6:26 PM