Will Bode
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But I think one easy takeaway, this is against interest for us as law professors, I think one easy takeaway is maybe you could replace law clerks with the AI. Because the role of the law clerks, apparently, as young law students, would be the people who are actually nitpicky about the legal details.
But I think one easy takeaway, this is against interest for us as law professors, I think one easy takeaway is maybe you could replace law clerks with the AI. Because the role of the law clerks, apparently, as young law students, would be the people who are actually nitpicky about the legal details.
So the judge has a strong intuition the case should come out some way, and the law clerks say, I know, I know, but, you know, the precedents say this. And apparently the AI can do that just as well. And then if we want judges to sometimes ignore the law for some reason, maybe they can still do that.
So the judge has a strong intuition the case should come out some way, and the law clerks say, I know, I know, but, you know, the precedents say this. And apparently the AI can do that just as well. And then if we want judges to sometimes ignore the law for some reason, maybe they can still do that.
No, because they're trying to start to replicate this kind of like โ it's like a mock war crimes hypo. So it doesn't โ they try to sort of replicate the things that have already been done. Oh, it's international law? Yeah. Well, that's totally different. Isn't that fake law? Yeah. I think there was a treaty or something.
No, because they're trying to start to replicate this kind of like โ it's like a mock war crimes hypo. So it doesn't โ they try to sort of replicate the things that have already been done. Oh, it's international law? Yeah. Well, that's totally different. Isn't that fake law? Yeah. I think there was a treaty or something.
The problem is they ran this experiment on a group of judges who all gathered at Harvard for a day-long conference, and they got them to do this at the break. After the cocktail hour? I think at lunch. But then the judges, the judicial conference, basically all decided this was terrible and judges should not cooperate with this anymore because who knows what else the experiments would reveal.
The problem is they ran this experiment on a group of judges who all gathered at Harvard for a day-long conference, and they got them to do this at the break. After the cocktail hour? I think at lunch. But then the judges, the judicial conference, basically all decided this was terrible and judges should not cooperate with this anymore because who knows what else the experiments would reveal.
So you can't do any more experiments like this. We only have the one to work with.
So you can't do any more experiments like this. We only have the one to work with.
Eight days? It's the eighth day of the Trump administration. Although in dog years, that's โ or in constitutional years, it feels like it's been a lot longer. Yeah. All grant spending is paused right now.
Eight days? It's the eighth day of the Trump administration. Although in dog years, that's โ or in constitutional years, it feels like it's been a lot longer. Yeah. All grant spending is paused right now.
Well, but if the university needs to allocate enough of the money to keep the science labs open, they might. That would be a problem. They might shutter us. Okay.
Well, but if the university needs to allocate enough of the money to keep the science labs open, they might. That would be a problem. They might shutter us. Okay.
We are already getting some nationwide universal relief. You know, so the Trump administration last week issued an order redefining citizenship to eliminate birthright citizenship for people who are not children of those who are not lawfully present or even who are just on visas rather than permanent residence.
We are already getting some nationwide universal relief. You know, so the Trump administration last week issued an order redefining citizenship to eliminate birthright citizenship for people who are not children of those who are not lawfully present or even who are just on visas rather than permanent residence.
There's already been a universal nationwide temporary restraining order by a judge in Washington state. So I assume it's a matter of Weeks before that's at the Supreme Court, if the Ninth Circuit doesn't do something about it.
There's already been a universal nationwide temporary restraining order by a judge in Washington state. So I assume it's a matter of Weeks before that's at the Supreme Court, if the Ninth Circuit doesn't do something about it.
Okay. So there's the current on the TRO, which is 14 days. My guess is they'll wait for the preliminary injunction. And then my guess is they'll go to the Ninth Circuit first, and that'll be fast. So I would give it February 27th.
Okay. So there's the current on the TRO, which is 14 days. My guess is they'll wait for the preliminary injunction. And then my guess is they'll go to the Ninth Circuit first, and that'll be fast. So I would give it February 27th.