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WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥

submitted 12 hours ago • 92 comments

THREAD The latest EO against [one of my very favorite clients] Jenner & Block is just another wake up call that this administration is not going to stop their endless bullying of law firms based on personal vendettas.

submitted 16 hours ago • 12 comments

As Trump slams Jenner for “undermin[ing] justice” in its pro bono practice, keep in mind that Jenner — like Perkins and Covington — is representing plaintiffs challenging some of Trump’s executive orders. This is straight-up retaliation.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

So after Paul Weiss makes a deal, they come for Jenner. No sane person thinks it will stop there. Three choices: fight now, fight later from a weaker position, or give up and let them do whatever they want. No other options.

submitted 16 hours ago • 43 comments

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

A little story about buying & selling genetic data in light of 23andMe's impending bankruptcy. (Also told, I must say, in my book, Inside the Cell.) In the late 1990s, the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation -- a nonprofit aimed at genetic research -- solicited DNA samples from volunteers.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Laughing at how seriously it was impressed upon me never to use any comms other than my gov issued phone — on which I couldn’t even download basic apps — as a low level nobody in the White House with zero exposure to seriously classified info. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

submitted 1 day ago • 3697 comments

Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.

submitted 1 day ago • 126 comments

“More generally, endowment resources are highly concentrated in a very limited set of institutions. While there are about 2600 four-year colleges in the United States, half of all endowment dollars are held by 20 institutions”— yet Trump’s cuts hurt research at all institutions.

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This is absolute madness. There is no way to read this and conclude anything other than that the US is already deep in the throes of a constitutional crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

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Former Columbia provost Jonathan Cole-"Columbia’s leaders have weakened...our leadership among the greatest educational institutions in the world...If we don’t resist collectively by all legal means...we are apt to see the destruction of our most revered institutions” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

"If the legal community — all of its self-appointed leaders — do not call out Trump’s disdain for the rule of law and actions to destroy it, Trump will keep escalating his attacks and eventually these BigLaw firms will be saving themselves for nothing. What is a law firm if there is no law?"

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Is Homan saying that ideally the US government would just kill people arbitrarily & in cold blood? Is that supposed to be reassuring?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Due process is the very complicated idea that your rights are not determined by the whims of guys like this

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

The whole point is not just the state disappearing whoever they want, it's you being in the habit of accepting the state choosing whom to disappear, without question. It's submission to the state. Same as with Gitmo after 9/11. The state's judgment must not be questioned.

submitted 2 days ago • 256 comments

THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers. (This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at [email protected], or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24) 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 106 comments

Exciting opportunity to join the litigation team @myconstitution.bsky.social as Sr Appellate Counsel or Appellate Counsel, depending on experience. Primary responsibility: research & draft amicus briefs for SCOTUS & lower fed court filings. Details: www.theusconstitution.org/appellate-co...

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submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

“I’m doing good things,” I tell myself as I delete the military service of a dead woman. “I’m still a good person.”

submitted 3 days ago • 584 comments

MORE OF THIS PLEASE

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 4 days ago • 341 comments

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

submitted 3 days ago • 339 comments

NEW: President Trump's pledge to deport millions of immigrants has pulled thousands of federal agents and investigators away from investigating drug trafficking, sexual abuse and many other types of crimes. www.reuters.com/world/us/tho...

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

Law firms, get your shit together, pool resources, and fight this. Otherwise, it's never going to stop.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

submitted 4 days ago • 3536 comments

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

submitted 4 days ago • 559 comments

Truly the smallest man who ever lived. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

submitted 4 days ago • 1349 comments

Trump and his allies have long said they were targeting immigrants in the country illegally. But in fact they are also targeting legal immigrants, tourists and academics on the basis of their speech and opinions. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 65 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

submitted 5 days ago • 509 comments

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

submitted 7 days ago • 199 comments

The City Bar calls on Congress to preserve the international Legal Order that our nation has adhered to for eight decades under both Republican and Democratic leadership: bit.ly/41FDsdW

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

That is not how court orders work. If YOU are subject to the court's jurisdiction you need to obey the order even if you aren't in the country at the moment. There's no "i went to international waters so now I can violate the order" exception.

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 10 days ago • 777 comments

"First They Came for Columbia" "We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us." Me and Levitsky in the Harvard Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments