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Managing editor @lpeblog.bsky.social. Freelance academic editor.
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Today, Jade Craig explains how recent Supreme Court decisions threaten to undermine administrative efforts to achieve housing justice, including the mandate to affirmatively further fair housing and a loan program that provides affordable rural rental housing to disadvantaged families.

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There are thousands of residents who are supposed to start in less than a month in hospitals across the US who cannot enter the country. There is going to be a major staffing crisis across the country but especially in rural and urban hospitals than rely on international medical graduates. #MedSky

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Excellent post by Jade Craig on how the Supreme Court's sabotage of the administrative state in Loper Bright now threatens fair housing @lpeblog.bsky.social @lpeproject.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/housing...

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"West Virginia v. EPA demonstrated the doctrinal weapon, Biden v. Nebraska expanded the pool of potential plaintiffs, Loper Bright freed courts from deference to agencies’, and Corner Post widened the time frame for challenges" Jonathan Glater discusses the dangerous brew of recent doctrinal moves.

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Week in review: @danfarbman.bsky.social on abolitionist lessons for the present crisis, along with a round-up of some of the best new LPE and LPE-adjacent scholarship 📝 🎉 Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web in the thread 👇

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Just heart-breaking levels of cruelty by our government, for no reason other than the cruelty itself

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As always, solid gold and ton heavy.

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Extremely, extremely bad

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My favorite print from this series is back in stock: two star-crossed utility poles in Wayne County, Michigan.

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Six things that actually paved the way for Trump and his assault on the rule of law: (1) Partisan realignment by education: lpeproject.org/blog/the-pol... (2) The urban-rural political divide: lpeproject.org/blog/the-pol... (3) Deregulation's impact on inequality: lpeproject.org/blog/regulat...

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Justice Taney’s infamous Dred Scott line that black Americans had “no rights the white man was bound to respect” represents a dismally consistent thru line in our politics as applied to marginalized groups. But it’s also a fundamentally brutal and losing position. lpeproject.org/blog/outrage...

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Great stuff that cuts through the simplistic “courts won’t save us”/“yay rule of law” discourse. Legal resistance to injustice is essential, but won’t be effective without the democratic power of a political movement behind it—and it should be used to build movement power.

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Wrote this thing in which I look backwards to the 1850s to try to explain why the very worst stuff that's happening should make us outraged, but also that outrage and optimism are closer cousins than you might expect.

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"lawyers leveraged state habeas proceedings, appeals, and anything else they could to slow down the proceedings and build political support for people in custody... These efforts were surprisingly effective. In fact, nearly 40% of all people caught in the dragnet of the law ended up free"

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Week in review: @salome.bsky.social on data governance and techno-authoritarians, Kelly Grotke on the foundations of the current higher ed crisis, and @isaackamola.bsky.social on the role of dark money in the campus speech wars. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web in the thread 👇

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As @marissaesque.bsky.social has explained, the federal government has long hired Black Americans at significantly higher rates than private employers; by cutting these jobs, the Trump Administration is seeking to entrench a Black American underclass. lpeproject.org/blog/racial-...

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"As DOGE trammels informational protections, it not only gains access to informational power to enact Trump’s agenda, but also undermines the conditions for future information sharing on which good governance depends." @salome.bsky.social on what the right understands about governance

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"More than two dozen of the schools that signed the Chicago Principles also saw the mass arrests of students protesting the war in Gaza last spring, including at Columbia (217 students), CUNY (173), Emory (28), UNC-Chapel Hill (36), University of Texas (136), and Washington University (100)."

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LPE Blog vs. NYT, Round 1, FIGHT: lpeproject.org/blog/the-ant...

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As all the hepcats would tell you, if you want to know where cutting-edge legal scholarship is heading, read the Blog.

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Hi—I didn’t get the job that’s soon replacing my job at UChicago so am currently looking for leads. I have 16 years experience teaching college courses & have edited/indexed 55 academic books since 2020. I would love to not have to uproot my life again at 43 so esp open to steady work in the area

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Book review 📚 Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life https://go.nature.com/43bMgYK

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"STEM looks like a productive source of revenue, while humanistic study represents political risk and financial expense. Which would a university run like a business be more likely to invest in and nurture? If that question seems easy to answer, then the very idea of a university is at serious risk"

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I'm David Seligman. I’m running for CO Attorney General. This campaign is about reclaiming our power from the billionaires who have stolen it from us, from working families. We will fight. And we will win. Because we love our country the core promise it made to us: The law belongs to us.

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Put this post on the top of your reading list. 🍿👍🏻 Terrific discussion of university leadership/directors/trustees and the widespread failure to prioritize fiduciary duty to endowment beneficiaries over endowment returns and profit ventures. @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/reckoni...

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For whatever their limitations and ignorance about how agencies operate, Elon Musk and the DOGE minions understand the importance of control over data flows to modern governance. lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

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i've been sitting here silently, trying to describe the feeling of reading a journalist whose beat is "people and power" and "accountability" saying something like this. so far I've come up with "your car mechanic telling you to fill up your gas tank with antifreeze"

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"DOGE understands that he who controls the data infrastructure holds the keys to the government. Want to stop, or even claw back a federal payment you don’t like? You can do that. Exclude undocumented immigrants from financial life? Easy. Want to track union opposition? Done."

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For @lpeblog.bsky.social , I wrote about DOGE, techno-authoritarians, and how all governance is information governance lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

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It's not corrupt unless Trump utters "I'm doing it corruptly" while performing the action.

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The fact that an investigative reporter at the NYT covering Trump believes "corruption requires explicit quid pro quo" reveals just how much the Supreme Court has warped our basic understanding of this term. It also shows a stunning lack of independent judgment and historical understanding.

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MUST READ: "Techno-authoritarians know that it is not enough for them to amass their own informational power. To achieve their goals, they must also sabotage the informational basis for accountability & for administrative expertise and capacity." @salome.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

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This is a terrific and extremely important post by @salome.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

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Week in review: @nicholashandler.bsky.social on the importance of federal labor unions and Ava Liu on Universal Basic Income and the politics of automation. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web in the thread 👇

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"Reframing international trade law as a way of scaling up capitalist sabotage helps us understand with some precision what is old and what is new in Trump’s tariff policies" Don't miss @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social on Veblen, state-coordinated economic sabotage, and the end of trade law as we know it.

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Today, Ava Liu argues that by portraying technological unemployment as inevitable rather than socially determined, Universal Basic Income proposals often obscure the critical role that power structures and market dynamics play in shaping technological innovation and deployment.

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Today, @nicholashandler.bsky.social explains the double role of civil servant unions — serving as a check on presidential abuses of power, while also expanding state capacity and thus enabling presidents to turn campaign promises into reality.

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They don't want us to have nice things. That's it.

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Fascinating post. Full of readings for later

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"Bargaining might limit the President’s ability to micromanage (and manipulate) the lower reaches of the federal bureaucracy. But in exchange, the protections and autonomy provided by enforceable labor agreements allow the President to recruit skilled workers to work for the executive branch."

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Hostility toward federal labor unions is a pretty good indicator that a presidential administration is not interested in serious governance lpeproject.org/blog/federal...

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I’ve got a new post up at the @lpeblog.bsky.social making the legal and political case for defending civil servant labor unions.

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