Steve Sanders
@SteveSSanders
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Law prof, Indiana U Maurer School of Law. Con law, family law, LGBT issues, civil rights/liberties, journalism, higher ed, academic freedom.
Bloomington, IN
Joined December 2008
You can keep making oracular pronouncements or you could write legal analysis. Why is Marbury's distinction between the executive's political acts and "duties assigned by law" -- with the latter being judicially examinable -- "inapposite"?
@thenewdigest Perfect example of the relevant confusion here - including the inapposite cite to Marbury:
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Some Harvard law professor needs to go back and re-read Marbury v Madison. A declaration this broad and vague just makes him look foolish. Judges can't second-guess policy judgments; they can intervene when some part of the Executive is violating a law or invading legal rights.
Judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a violation of the separation of powers.
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RT @Vermeullarmine: Judicial interference with legitimate acts of state, especially the internal functioning of a co-equal branch, is a vio…
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Quinn Buckner is Pam Whitten's chief cheerleader and most important protector. I'm sure that good people at the IU Foundation are chafing that Whitten stuck them with this bill so a wealthy trustee could fly in luxury to his well-compensated job.
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This tells you all you need to know about why Trump wanted this drunken goon for SecDef.
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The most narcissistic and tone-deaf thing about panel discussions is the audience member who stands up and says, in essence, "I wasn't invited to be on the panel, but my views are so important that I'm going to take up Q&A time and drone on with my own statement."
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Honored to be part of this panel this coming Wednesday evening sponsored by the U of Wisconsin's Human Rights Program.
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3/3 Finally, the existence or not of plagiarism is not a legal question, and thus it's hard to see how a law firm is competent to decide whether such allegations have "merit." Let's see their report. (IU cites the report but will hide behind "attorney client privilege.")
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2/3 What Whitten did in black and white violates rules IU publishes for its own students.
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1/3 IU flack @mark_bode can go Trumpy and insist that you believe him rather than your own eyes, but what Whitten did is clearly and demonstrably plagiarism as academics understand the term.
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The woman lives in a place called Lilly House, built by the same family as the Lilly Endowment, and she still can’t spell it correctly.
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RT @freecapusa: Pamela Whitten’s plagiarism scandal and pattern of failed leadership—faculty no-confidence votes, protests, and disregard f…
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IU's president, once again demonstrating her "transformative" leadership. According to the pattern of plagiarism Whitten committed is called "the crafty coverup."
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I am paying good money for a subscription to @themotleyfool and so far all it’s gotten me is tons of awful spam trying to sell me more things.
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George Romney? It’s a tragedy he didn’t give one to Liz Cheney. She’s far more deserving than some of the celebs and hacks who’ve been honored in the past.
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@Cookunity customer service is just awful. They screw up account credits and ignore emails. Sent an email Thursday about a problem and still no response.
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The “deliberative materials” exception to the state open records act is a vast loophole that agencies can exploit, as IU does. The state supreme court should narrow it.
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Andrea Mitchell has had a distinguished career, but it’s really painful to listen to her stammering and rambling these days. Thank goodness her retirement is imminent. @mitchellreports
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I recently spoke on a panel at the Federalist Society national lawyers' conference on issues surrounding transgender rights. Here's the full video of the panel. My remarks begin at 28:55.
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