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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

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Well this is a pretty huge problem. …and also exactly why privacy folks been warning against normalizing facial recognition in govt the whole time

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Vietnam Abolishes Death Penalty for Embezzlement and Other Crimes www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/w...

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An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed. A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades. boltsmag.org/chris-d...

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One reason I did the "turn all my decision making over to AI" story last year is that I was curious what's it going to do to us as we turn more of our day-to-day thinking over to gen AI chatbots. This study is small but doesn't bode well: time.com/7295195/ai-c...

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SCOTUS's ruling in Skrmetti will push many legal fights about transgender rights to the states -- including whether state constitutions provide additional protections. Read about how state courts have addressed these questions to date. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

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Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 11 days ago • 128 comments

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

submitted 12 days ago • 729 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

submitted 12 days ago • 100 comments

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to "return control of the California National Guard" to CA Gov. Newsom, finding that Trump's order taking control was illegal because it did not follow the required procedure. The order is stayed until noon Friday. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

This absolutely unhinged exchange is a lawyer for the Texas AG's office arguing that it's totally fine for there to be bugs crawling around in prison food. Amazing stuff.

submitted 18 days ago • 43 comments

NEW: We filed an emergency brief asking the Supreme Court to prevent the execution of Anthony Wainwright tonight. The Florida Supreme Court refused to let Anthony file a petition to stop his execution and failed to let him choose his counsel.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

This might be some of my best writing, but I’m sure that feeling will disappear when I start editing it.

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New from 404 Media: Delta, United, American etc don't want you to know they sold your flight data to DHS. The country's airlines sell bulk names and flight itineraries to DHS to be searched without a warrant. Contract tells DHS to not reveal where this data came from www.404media.co/airlines-don...

submitted 19 days ago • 83 comments

This looks so good.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote 2,726 words today and some of them might even be really good.

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Notable 4th Amendment rulings in this 5th Circuit opinion today. Most importantly: People have a reasonable expectation of privacy in stored online contents—here, the contents of a Dropbox account. (Per Oldham, J., w/Richman & Ramirez) 🧵 storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/05/... #N

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

At a recent doctor’s appointment, I was handed a consent form authorizing AI use to compile notes. There was no space to accept or reject that tool, such as a check box. I ended up writing it in manually.

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Tennessee governor denies reprieve, ensuring executions by lethal injection amid legal challenge. www.lpm.org/news/2025-05... @lpm.org @wpln.bsky.social @catherinejsweeney.bsky.social @kelleyjhenry.bsky.social @stacyrector.bsky.social #OscarSmith #deathpenalty

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of Venezuelan migrants last month in its rushed effort to expel them to El Salvador in the middle of the night (which SCOTUS blocked). Alito and Thomas dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 44 days ago • 247 comments

This would be a terrible mistake. The failure to turn over evidence is a serious contributor to wrongful convictions.

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Lawmakers seek investigation into South Carolina’s firing squad execution. apnews.com/article/firi... @apnews.com @jscollins.bsky.social @scadeathpenalty.bsky.social #MikalMahdi #deathpenalty

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After finishing grading and other tasks, I was finally able to give "Secrets of the Killing State" by @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social my undivided attention. This book is spectacularly good. The writing is outstanding. It's accessible for a general audience, but works for an academic one too.

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Law students and recent grads! Thinking about clerking? Don’t overlook state courts. State Court Report has a new resource w/ info and deadlines for 95 state supreme court justices. Check it out! @statecourtreport.bsky.social statecourtreport.org/state-judici...

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Legal Theory Bookworm: "Secrets of the Killing State" by Lain, buff.ly/74xctD9 - The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection by Corinna Barrett Lain.

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BREAKING: Justice David Souter has died

submitted 51 days ago • 14 comments

I was helping 10yo study US History and asked him what the first three words of the Constitution are. He hesitated and my husband said, “Hey, you guys.”

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None of this is surprising.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

10yo just interviewed me about lawyers and got a lesson in the fun of attorney-client privilege and the duty of candor.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely not.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Why build trust and intimacy in a relationship through communication and respect when you can buy paranoia and surveillance?

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1--BREAKING: A Louisiana judge nullifies the murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, found guilty in 1998 of killing his former girlfriend's 23-month-old daughter. From @veritenews.org @propublica.org veritenews.org/2025/04/25/j...

submitted 65 days ago • 13 comments

I’m trying to decide if it’s worth getting “Misbehaving” by Amy Leigh & Baby Billy in my head in order to prank my husband by making it my alarm tone.

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Hi everyone! Book release date for Secrets of the Killing State is TOMORROW! 🎉 I’ll post book store events here—first up is Possible Futures in New Haven on Sunday at 4pm. So excited! Pls repost to help spread the word. TY! 😉 events.infonewhaven.com/events/book-...

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For folks new to the issue, here's the Brief filed by leading Class Action & Habeas Professors explaining that DOJ's insistence that habeas cases can't get class action treatment is wrong. We scoured the earth, there's not a single appellate case supporting DOJ. drive.google.com/file/d/1lWId...

submitted 71 days ago • 7 comments

1. In a landmark ruling, a federal judge has blocked the passport ban for transgender Americans... government ban likely violates equal protection, and is made with animus. Though the ruling only applies to plaintiffs, it is expected expand in coming weeks. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 72 days ago • 25 comments

A great Op-Ed by @cbseaman.bsky.social on the Department of Education & students with disabilities.

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EXCLUSIVE: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

submitted 72 days ago • 128 comments

The opinion by Judge Wilkinson for the Fourth Circuit denying the government’s most recent request for a stay or mandamus against Judge Xinis’s rulings in the Abrego García case is especially powerful when you consider it was written by … Judge Wilkinson: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 73 days ago • 60 comments

I am delighted to announce that, as of July 1, I will officially be promoted to Associate Professor of Law! I am fortunate to have had an outstanding support committee during the process and the support of my wonderful colleagues.

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JUST IN: The 37 death row inmates whose sentences Joe Biden commuted to life in prison have filed suit against Trump, saying his executive order forcing them into "oppressive" prison conditions is unconstitutional. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Virginia courts are increasingly embracing independent interpretations of their state's constitution. VA Court of Appeals Judge Lisa Lorish has a fascinating new @statecourtreport.bsky.social piece discussing the challenging interpretive questions to come. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

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A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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