maryannefranks.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 18 hours ago • 102 comments

I respect FIRE’s legal advocacy but reporters really need to stop using FIRE’s rankings unless you truly believe that campus speech is most free in southern states that have banned ideas and concepts from being taught in the classroom

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

When they fire the Chair of the Joint Chiefs and the Chief of the Navy next week, they’ll use words like DEI. The left will chalk it up to racism and sexism. But that’s only part of it. Mostly they just want people who they believe will carry out illegal or unethical orders.

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 1 day ago • 3388 comments

I'm no expert but it seems to me that the best way to neutralize this is to go public with it, and even better to do so as a group. Also, doing so would transform you from complicit coward to courageous constitutionalist.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

First Amendment: How we distinguish between speech that should be protected vs. promoted? Legal scholars Mary Anne Franks + Jacob Mchangama in conversation with Lawfare’s Ben Wittes about this fundamental democratic value. @lawfare.bsky.social @maryannefranks.bsky.social @knightfdn.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 7 days ago • 1909 comments

With college / no college the biggest D / R predictor even for stem or biz students, yes I think the Rs intend to smash universities across the board until they either turn off the 'indoctrinate' switch GOP imagines they have, or until kids just stop going to college

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

"Leavitt might as well have turned the microphone over to Big Brother to let him say, 'We have always been at war with Eurasia.'"

submitted 7 days ago • 100 comments

BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.

submitted 7 days ago • 865 comments

Three combat tours in Iraq. Two Bronze Stars. Clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh. Does not roll over for dictators, no matter what party they claim to represent.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is how it's done. "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Do they have to be quite so obvious about the “a woman correcting you is worse than a man abusing you” thing

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Thanks so much for reading and sharing!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

submitted 8 days ago • 3235 comments

It’s crucial in this utterly lawless and corrupt administration that we recognize the people who acted with integrity and remember, forever, those who did not.

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

Pleased to see that the SHIELD Act, the federal bill prohibiting nonconsensual distribution of intimate images (NDII) that is based on the model statute I wrote for @cybercivilrights.bsky.social over a decade ago, has just been reintroduced in the Senate: www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Appreciate the citation to my June 2024 Congressional testimony rejecting Republican attempts to characterize criticism and counterspeech as censorship

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 9 days ago • 892 comments

Just... watch it www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9E...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Video of my January Georgetown debate with Lila Rose of Live Action about the legality of state-enforced birth is now available www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_X...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

It has never been about "merit": "Trump’s war on D.E.I. is a war on the civil rights era itself, an attempt to turn back the clock on equal rights," writes @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

The 8th grader who led this protest and her classmates are patriots and role models for the rest of us. Hegseth’s visit to U.S. base in Germany met with student walkout www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law is holding a hearing at 10 ET on “Reining in the Administrative State”: judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac... I’m the minority witness. My testimony offers some thoughts about reining in the real executive branch abuses we’re currently seeing.

submitted 10 days ago • 70 comments

This whole thread.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Some of us already have! From my 2024 book Fearless Speech:

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to see this from the @abaesq.bsky.social.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

A lot of racists are desperate for an excuse to explain their own mediocrity

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

I got death threats for writing about heavy metal bands that happened to have women in them. These wealthy politicians need to grow up

submitted 12 days ago • 114 comments

Truly, we are at a moment when we need organizations — the ABA, ALI, law firms, law schools — speaking out. As Judge Coughenour said, “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?” It’s time for the lawyers.

submitted 12 days ago • 48 comments

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we instantly recognize in other contexts.

submitted 13 days ago • 409 comments

MAGA morality: Put thousands of federal employees on leave, cut aid that sustains countless lives, demonize your opponents, and then enjoy the suffering of your enemies. But then - when one DOGE worker is fired for vicious racism -say, "Where's the grace and mercy in this country?"

submitted 13 days ago • 49 comments

Hey, everyone. Let's share Rose's website as far and often as possible. Her name was scrubbed from NASA's website thanks to orders to erase women in STEM. Rose fought through poverty and homelessness, and every time I look at the moon, I think of her. www.rosedf.space/explore

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

In the absence of social media enabling them to find each other, form a movement, and seize political power, we'd recognize much of the far-right as just profoundly psychologically and emotionally unwell people, the way we can see that Kanye's Nazism is part of his acute mental illnesses.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Confirming what @marisakabas.bsky.social had earlier today: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received an order this week from DOJ, its primary funder: remove references to trans people in its public materials, in accordance to Trump's anti-trans EO. NCMEC is complying.

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

There is no act of censorship more explicit than literally banning words. The Trump administration is requiring federal agencies to remove all references to “gender,” “diversity” and “inclusion” from federal documents.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

With @biblioracle.bsky.social and fellows at @aaup.bsky.social CDAF we're publishing a new newsletter "Academic Freedom on the Line." The latest issue examines "Obeying in Advance Edition." @donmoyn.bsky.social @maryannefranks.bsky.social @timcain.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/academic...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

1/DOJ doesn't publicly acknowledge criminal referrals or opening cases. It doesn't shill for "news" sources as in "sent only to X." It doesn't comment on how it conducts investigations. And, the fawning talk about Musk shows that Martin knows who the real power in this administration is.

submitted 14 days ago • 57 comments

If you are a member of the DC Bar and would like to file a complaint against Acting DC Attorney Ed Martin for violating Rules 3.1 and 3.8 of the DC Rules of Professional Conduct, you can do so here: www.dcbar.org/attorney-dis...

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

The majority of NCMEC's budget - the funds it uses to find missing children and report child exploitation - comes from federal funding. The Trump administration is threatening to take it all away unless the organization censors all references to the existence of LGBTQI+ kids.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 15 days ago • 6591 comments

Three Democrats are saying Ro Khanna was given a heads-up about the vote to subpoena Elon Musk, and accusing him of intentionally missing the vote in the House Oversight Committee. (Khanna, who has ties to Musk, has said he was unaware.) www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 15 days ago • 128 comments

I find this so ugly and pernicious. These two aren't pursuing principled, independent scholarship. They're racing to build intellectual scaffolding for Trump's lawless order by skimming the history books and cherry-picking quotes out of context. The most intellectually bankrupt form of originalism.

submitted 15 days ago • 81 comments

This is actually breathtaking. A post by the CEO of X, owned by an unhinged oligarch who routinely calls for his critics to be jailed and currently leading a violent assault against US democracy, extolling the virtues of free speech & X's commitment to "preserving free speech around the world."

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

GW Law is excited to share that the 𝗚𝗪 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘄 & 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 (𝗚𝗪𝗖𝗟𝗧) is now on Bluesky! We’re a hub for scholarship and innovation in Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Privacy & Technology (PT) Law, led by Professors Robert Brauneis, @daniel-solove.bsky.social, and Associate Dean John Whealan

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment