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davidallengreen.bsky.social
Commentator on law and policy. Own blog/substack, but also Prospect, FT, elsewhere. Liberal constitutionalist; Villa supporter; sometimes ironic. Birmingham/London, England. (Account deactivated when not used.)
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"It is nearly impossible to tell the difference between an essay by a human writer and one produced by AI" Tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me you don't know what you're talking about...🤦‍♂️ www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/shoul...

submitted 16 minutes ago • 4 comments

call me a crazy leftie but I'm not that jazzed about a trade deal with a fascist, authoritarian, hyper-corporate and completely untrustworthy nation

submitted 39 minutes ago • 8 comments

Round of applause for this social media person

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

“Were you Blur or Oasis?”
 Pulp.
 Welcome back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-27a...

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

You know why European countries are so quiet about the El Salvador situation? Because they started the normalisation of extraterritorial detention of migrants and asylum seekers, often without any due process. The UK’s Rwanda plan. Italy’s attempted plan with Albania. And some still want to do it.

submitted 2 hours ago • 22 comments

Hi, this is Marshal Philippe PĂ©tain. I hope you're as outraged by the Nazis as I am, with their reckless and brazen flouting of the law. Together, we can tell those Nazis that they're not welcome in our democracy! That's why I'm texting you tonight to ask you to chip in $5, $25 or whatever you can.

submitted 7 hours ago • 45 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 6 hours ago • 677 comments

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

So, to recap: The government filed a non-responsive declaration more than an hour past the deadline. I’m gonna take a wild guess and predict that tomorrow’s hearing will be very unpleasant for one Drew Ensign…

submitted 11 hours ago • 104 comments

Congratulations to John Roberts and the Supreme Court majority for severely weakening the judiciary. What a legacy.

submitted 12 hours ago • 110 comments

The law and practice of injunctive relief should be boring.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Republicans in Congress could make all this stop any time they want. Remember that.

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

This cavalier attitude to court orders by the US government will not end well. And you will know what happened to the cavaliers.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

El Salvador is a contractor providing the United States with a paid service. The idea that we couldn’t get anyone they’re holding back with the snap of a finger just by asking is so ludicrous on its face, it seems less like a real excuse and more like a test of how much shit the courts will eat.

submitted 16 hours ago • 131 comments

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

submitted 17 hours ago • 84 comments

In the older days, governments held ceremonies to mark constitutional events. Now Trump holds special events to mark being unconstitutional.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Well the press conference removes any doubt. Trump's all in.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?

submitted 17 hours ago • 1582 comments

Pretty fair summary: an “event to celebrate the Constitutional crisis”.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

Just jealous of anyone able to leave this planet, even for 10 or so minutes.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The most horrendous example of this so far. It's never Putin's fault if you're Donald Trump.

submitted 19 hours ago • 22 comments

MILLER: “A DOJ lawyer, who has since been relieved of duty, a saboteur, a Democrat, put into a filing that this was a mistaken removal. It was not.” Astonishing stuff — DOJ conceded even to SCOTUS that the deportation was “administrative error.” Is Trump’s Solicitor General also a saboteur?

submitted 20 hours ago • 155 comments

“All I wanted for the rest of my days was to smugly walk around Harvard in my lifted-heel cowboy boots while owning the libs and raking in speaker fees from the rubes and it was just lovely and such fun and now you’ve gone and ruined it, absolutely ruined it”

submitted 23 hours ago • 49 comments

This is very good. A fascinating and clear explainer of the Abrego Garcia case and the intensifying constitutional crisis in the U.S. it has brought about.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW A note about injunctions in the context of the Abrego Garcia case What courts can and cannot order - and what those injuncted can and should do By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/a-note-abo... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/04/a-no...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

As an American living in the UK, I keep thinking of @davidallengreen.bsky.social's reminder to us over the years that constitutional law should be boring, because government should hum quietly in the background, not live out Titus Andronicus.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Really would like the US constitutional order to stop exploding and imploding, so to write about UK constitutional matters again again.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

NEW A note about injunctions in the context of the Abrego Garcia case What courts can and cannot order - and what those injuncted can and should do By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/a-note-abo... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/04/a-no...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments