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Can we please remember that John Adams literally represented the Redcoats who did the Boston Massacre. Like, if you’re going to wave the goddamn flag and say that lawyers ought not to represent clients you disagree with or who are allegedly guilty, then you’re just confused about American lawyers.

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We should all be terrified to live in an America where legal residents can be detained, held at gunpoint, or deported because of the color of their skin or because the President disagrees with their views.

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New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants social media for "a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles).” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 147 comments

Just staggering levels of corruption in Elon Musk's government. Donald Trump pardons crypto fraudster Trevor Milton in exchange for a bribe. His legal team in doing so included the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/t... apnews.com/article/niko...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

For those playing at home (including law students weighing their future or businesses looking for lawyers not afraid of a fight), I think our current tally is: 🗽 Perkins, Covington, Jenner, WilmerHale, Cooley, Williams & Con, Munger, Quinn 🐑 PW, Skadden 👿 Sullivan, K&E, Wachtell

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👊🇺🇸🔥

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When President Trump signed an order attacking Perkins Coie, the law firm did what its rivals have not—it fought back

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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

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Jason Stanley: “It’s not going to affect me, but no noncitizen professor at my institution can speak about politics ever again. Half my colleagues are not U.S. citizens. They can never speak about politics again.” www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...

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#forensics abcnews.go.com/US/la-county... @gethrees.bsky.social

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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

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Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 4 days ago • 309 comments

What's amazing and horrifying about what the law firms are doing is there's not any possible rhetorical cover for them—Trump's explicit position is "I will break law firms that advocate the opposite side from me on anything" and they're lining up to accept those terms www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Horrifying.

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We need to stop calling this “deporting.” Deport means to expel a foreigner — typically back to their home country. These people have been imprisoned indefinitely by the US in a foreign land with no process or access to justice of any kind.

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Lest there be any doubt that this case against Dr. Margaret Carpenter is ending up at SCOTUS, I don't there should be anymore. The first of what is likely to be many cross-border conflicts about abortion: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

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If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

submitted 2 days ago • 2784 comments

It can happen here

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A pleasure to speak with @sciencenews.bsky.social about the 23andMe collapse. 15 million people's most intimate genetic information is about to change hands, and we still lack adequate safeguards. After 20+ years, we need federal oversight that truly protects genetic privacy and personal data.

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Ditto not wearing a name & badge number.

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I salute the many Deans who signed this statement. At the same time, as a law professor I am embarrassed by the unwillingness of so many others, especially most of those at the top of the usual ranking lists, to join what strikes me as roughly the bare minimum of what should be collectively said.

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Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

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Thank god Goldberg is a patriot because a lesser person would have sold this information to our enemies for millions of dollars & retired to a life of luxury on a beach somewhere as US soldiers got ambushed.

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On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.

submitted 3 days ago • 319 comments

VERY glad the NYT named the firms who were allegedly going to exploit Paul Weiss being targeted by the admin - and were trying to poach partners (and with them, likely clients): Sullivan & Cromwell Kirkland & Ellis Wachtell

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 149 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 3 days 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 3 days 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.

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

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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.

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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...

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

submitted 4 days ago • 3713 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 4 days ago • 124 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...

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

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