Profile avatar
kitjohnson.bsky.social
Law professor @ou.edu. Immigration and despair with a smile.
4,184 posts 341 followers 251 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

FWIW, my take on the Trump v. CASA decision. lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/...

We are looking for a Constitutional Law chair @uofoklahomalaw.bsky.social. Happy to answer any questions about Norman (love it!) and OU (love it!). #boomersooner apply.interfolio.com/168669

What is the International Court of Trade? @profericejohnson.bsky.social has a video on that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHbW...

Surreal to be in California and on the phone w the fam while the tornado sirens go off. Be safe Oklahoma!

Came home from brunch to find my sister’s dog stealthily absconding with vol 1 of Kurzban’s. Can’t blame her for wanting to further her understanding of #immigration.

Super fun audio book kept me entertained for 10+ hrs and 700+ miles across 4 states today. Highly recommend. Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton

Hours and hours til my flight so naturally I went thrifting in Columbus. Found this gem. Technically Witcher cosplay but it’ll make it into my teaching wardrobe.

Ugh. Exhausted at conference and got a rare Diet Coke from vending machine only to have it feature the name of my middle school bully. Fuck you Nathan wherever you are in the world.

Accidentally uber-ed to an assisted living facility instead of the conference hotel. 🤦‍♀️

Law students and recent grads! Thinking about clerking? Don’t overlook state courts. State Court Report has a new resource w/ info and deadlines for 95 state supreme court justices. Check it out! @statecourtreport.bsky.social statecourtreport.org/state-judici...

student evaluations are a terrible metric except when the students say nice things about me

HELP: papers report that migrants are being charged with a misdemeanor for "entering military property in violation of an Army security regulation under Title 50." Quote from @washingtonpost.com. But I cannot find the regulation itself. Can anyone point me to it?

Congratulations to the @uofoklahomalaw.bsky.social Class of 2025!

A fired fed talking about DOGE, quoted by @marcfisher.bsky.social: "They did no assessment of what works. They didn’t ... find out what made the most sense to cut. They’ve damaged agencies so badly that now they can say it’s not working. Maybe that’s what they wanted all along.” wapo.st/3RVdlKt 🎁

Put together nearly all of my old piano sheet music to donate to OU school of music and... I can't believe that pages like this ever meant something to me? I can't even read it anymore let alone believe I once could play it!

I have a pair of pants from the brand MOTEL. When I wear them, I end up singing Pitbull all day long.

Mistaken #immigration raid terrorizes #Oklahoma family. Leaves them without phones, laptops, cash even though they weren't the ones named on the search warrant! kfor.com/news/local/w...

My dyslexic self just spotted the best Easter candy.

Felicitations to all who celebrate the perfection of today.

When my insomnia has me up in the wee hours only to cross paths with my son whose insomnia hasn't yet let him go to sleep. #genetics

Sitting in my home office drafting multiple choice questions

Super excited to be in Oregon to speak with fellow crimmigration scholars about our works in progress! @realesttheorist.bsky.social is the best host!

Junk journaling

#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Big thanks to the law review @ualrbowenlaw.bsky.social for an amazing symposium on Friday.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

For people who aren’t depressed enough already.

Excited to be at Cal Western today for its symposium on How Labor & Employment Laws Work in Today’s Global Economy.

A reminder from our friend Alexander Hamilton (Federalist 84): “[T]he subjecting of men to punishment for things which, when they were done, were breaches of no law . . . [has] been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.”

My new email signature 👊🇺🇸🔥

Lash: Lynch v. Clarke, the only pre-CW case deciding citizenship status of a child of non-citizen parents wasn't important New York Daily Herald: IMPORTANT DECISION. A CHILD BORN IN THIS COUNTRY TO ALIEN PARENTS IS A CITIZEN. EXCEPTION FOR AMBASSADORS' CHILREN. www.newspapers.com/image/329290...

writing on noncitizen eldercare now. My fav eldercare quote comes from a comment to WaPo oped: "No one really wants to think about elder care unless they've struggled with it themselves - and once they have gone through it, they are (trust me) absolutely frantic to never think about it again."

"The bar has been entrusted with anxious responsibilities. All the interests of man that are comprised under the constitutional guarantees given to life, liberty and property are in the professional keeping of lawyers." - Justice Felix Frankfurter. That was the theory. Now is the test.

WH memo to AG/DHS about lawyers & fraud has an entire paragraph devoted to #immigration attorneys who (they say) "frequently coach clients to conceal their past or lie." And we wonder why students with #immigration summer gigs are worried. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Read this thread to get up to date.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

It is an extremely dark moment for lawyers, the rule of law, and the country.