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Still going. Listen in. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Very important

Read this.

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

NEW: I obtained a copy of the email that Skadden executive partner Jeremy London sent to employees of the law firm earlier today. The email details the “agreement” Skadden reached with Trump to avoid being targeted by an executive order.

DC Bar members — the upcoming Bar election is one you NEED to vote in. Pam Bondi’s brother? Is running? For President of the DC Bar? The levels to this nightmare. Voting opens April 15. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

a cage full of shaved men in bunks stacked up to the ceiling is the modern day death camp. they are invoking the cruelty, the sadism, the AESTHETICS of Nazism and turning it against young Latino men. it is disgusting and it offends me in my deepest self.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

A year in a family’s life after a denied abortion. The secret life of the AP3 militia. The toll of fentanyl on teens. These are just some of the stories our reporters investigated this year. Explore our most-read stories of 2024: propub.li/3BLb93B

It is finally here! Eighty years ago, Felix Cohen crafted the first "bible" of Federal Indian Law. I long dreamed of contributing to a rare revision. Today that dream is realized: 100 pages marrying constitutional law with Indian law (mostly structural, also rights), clarifying both.

I taught a large 1L contracts course at Harvard this year that had 5 or fewer Black and Latino students. It was jarring and uncomfortable and totally unnecessary. The UC's have been dealing with an AA ban for years and still create diverse classes. HLS can do better. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

Repeatedly disproportionally selected by peers to speak and represent the student body at commencement holding down leadership positions across campus all over the website and yet the admissions office said.. 3 percent

Appalled. And heartbroken. That’s all I can muster for now. I’ll be circling back once I’ve collected myself and my thoughts. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...