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The Department of Defense has confirmed that U.S. Marines detained a civilian—reportedly an Army veteran who crossed a yellow tape boundary on his way to an office of the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is an apparent violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. 1/16 www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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Yup. Credibility comes only from reps.

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BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I was really excited to read this--on wtf is happening, legally, with the Library of Congress--and that was before I learned from it that @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social once defended the National Zoo's giant pandas. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bure...

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Yes. It’s watching something that a lot of people had to say yes to who absolutely knew they should say no.

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The entire board of the Fulbright program reportedly resigned today after accusing the Trump administration of illegal interference www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

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YT live event tomorrow at 11 on law and policy implications of Trump’s use of the military in countering protests in LA, @justsecurity.org @rcls-nyu.bsky.social

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for the curious: • his name is Tigger • he invaded this shop and will not leave • the florist described him as "a boxer" because this little man simply wants to scrap

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Volunteer a bit of your time to help Free Law Project build an open citator. Lawyers, law profs, law librarians are all welcome.

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Another milestone of Hurricane Helene recovery is expected later this month as the agency in charge of Chimney Rock State Park announced its reopening on June 27. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...

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Feels like the right moment to re-up my research, which demonstrates that successful federal governance in the United States has always relied upon negotiation with state leadership: muse.jhu.edu/pub/275/arti...

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She's not #onhere but I'm watching Eloise Pasachoff talk about impoundments and she is simply the GOAT.

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Just about to talk with some GAO analysts about a project they're working on and I'm so excited. What a DORK!! I love my job.

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I've spent much of my career studying the legal institution known as "the posse comitatus" as well as "The Posse Comitatus Act." Here's a quick thread. Cites at the end. Posse comitatus is Latin for "power of the county," or temporarily deputized people obligated to assist law enforcers.

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Apparently a reconstituted ACIP will be ready to meet on June 25. In normal times, identifying new members is a months-long process, with add’l steps to comply with the ‘balanced membership’ requirements of FACA. More details in this 2024 ACIP filing - gsa-geo.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#t0000...

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JUST IN: A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administraiton's rush to send federal employee data to DOGE was a "breach of law and trust" that violated the Privacy Act and cybersecurity protections. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19

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I was off social media for a few yrs, but decided that it's time to come back after last night. I'm an asst. prof. at Uni of Houston Law Center and before that was an attorney at DoD OGC, where my portfolio included domestic military deployments. This continues to be a core part of my research.

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There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

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Can’t be if you’re always on tilt.

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It’s hard to express exactly what I’m trying to get at, but it’s something like even when the forces of law lose against a specific Trump outrage, Trump’s resources are stretched and he’s weakened. This is a long fight we’re in and Trump’s power isn’t limitless.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Not every time you pick up an instrument is a concert, not every meal you cook is a formal dinner, not every story you write is supposed to be a performance, either. Most of the flavor is in the practice. Make a mess today

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In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

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WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

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Today, I opposed the OPM's proposed "Schedule P/C" rule that kills due process rights for thousands of federal employees. Instead of emphasizing empirically the harm this rule will cause (see great insights from @donmoyn.bsky.social), I focused more on legal and constitutional grounds. (1/2)

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Today in the @missouriindependent.com I shared how new Medicaid red tape imposed by Republicans will kick over 10 million people off their healthcare, including more than 180,000 people in Missouri ‼️ missouriindependent.com/2025/06/06/r...

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Yeah I think we need a new hat color for DOGE. Black hat suggests competence. We need something that connotes how extremely unsuited they are to their task.

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I think this… above everything else.. is the clearest differentiator between DOGE and people at USDS/DDS/18F & other #civictech orgs. Civic technologists care deeply about the missions of the agencies where they’re placed - mostly because career civil servants care deeply about their missions.

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A DOGEr with no government or contracting experience used an LLM to identify contracts for cancelation — or “munching,” in his terms — at the VA. It did not go well. We have the scoop: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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We are so pleased to announce our 2025 #HealthLaw Scholars: ⭐️ @benjaminabarsky.bsky.social ⭐️ Alicia Gilbert ⭐️ @davidasimon.bsky.social @nusl.bsky.social ⭐️ @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social #HLPC25 @slulaw.bsky.social See you in St. Louis in September!

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Me in response to an email from a student saying she’s using her Leg-Reg tools of statutory interpretation at her summer job:

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"The starve-the-government mentality behind DOGE and the federal hiring freeze was simple: Just start turning things off and, if anything breaks, go back and fix it. Sometimes, however, things don’t break right away—they just get steadily worse and less reliable." www.thebulwark.com/p/dear-democ...

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Few are as good as Casey at explaining Congress clearly: “To most people, congressional procedure is little more than Washington process-speak. But the rules matter, because they shape what government does and how it does it.” I’d add they also contribute to our authoritarian crisis moment…

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