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Fulfilling fears and expectations from a few weeks ago, all the volunteer contributing authors of the sixth National Climate Assessment have been removed from their roles.

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Congratulations to @elliemargolis.bsky.social!!! ✍️ ⌨️🖊️ 🧑‍⚖️ 👏🙌🎉🎊

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There's been credible info of intent to delete National Science Foundation (NSF) awards from Research.gov databases during planned downtime, so I grabbed all awards from 1960 to present and uploaded them to a free and open research repository. Please share! dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

WHAT COMES NEXT? This should go off like a nuclear bomb in the AEA litigation. It means (1) that ICE Is not complying with the SCOTUS order in JGG, (2) that DOJ is not accurately representing the admin's behavior in court; 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

Beautiful, heartwarming 🧵

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fwiw, book-readers today might be more familiar w the concept of oligarchy than at any time since the Jacksonian era books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

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ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

I mean, grain of salt and everything, but book-readers today might be more familiar w the concept of oligarchy than at any time since the Jacksonian era books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Devastating if not unexpected. But maybe, like, speak out a bit more forcefully when you’re forced to pick between resigning or running your agency into the ground?

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A few thoughts on Judge Kollar-Kotelly's 120 page opinion preliminarily enjoining some key parts of President Trump's executive order on elections and election administration. Over at ELB, @traviscrum.bsky.social will be blogging on it here: electionlawblog.org?p=149610) /1

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

None of this is a surprise, but it is horrifying. Bondi is trying to bring the full weight of the government down on trans people.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Very glad to see @temple.edu President John Fry among the signers of this important letter.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 6 days ago • 754 comments

Whose streets? Our streets! Including Pennsylvania Avenue today.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Helping someone edit their resume as they leave a 15 stretch helping the federal govt be better and just smdh what a stupid awful waste this is

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

In his recent lecture, legal historian Michael Klarman gave the best overall assessment of where things stand that I've heard. 🧵1/20 For those who don't have time to watch, here's a long thread with some key highlights: youtu.be/0kyMzV26ofY?...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Just for a moment I wondered if Brooks might’ve studied w Postone when he was a history undergrad at U Chicago. But alas no, a missed connection…

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Urging faculty and staff at Wisconsin to sign this.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

For circuit court judges in their early 50s hungry to get promoted, non-sequitur concurrences demonstrating fealty take on the fierce urgency of now.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

What could go wrong

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 235 comments

One thing that this saga and Trump's comments during it have made fairly clear is that as far as immigration is concerned — and possibly well beyond it — Stephen Miller is the president.

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

Context: The Trump administration is trying to use a procedural issue (the scope of the injunctions) to put the policy into effect across 99% of the country. It’s not formally asking the Court to uphold the executive order, but the relief it’s seeking would produce the same practical result.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

A couple thoughts on this: 1. It violates the law. In 1998, Congress explicitly provided that the President could not, directly or indirectly, request that the IRS start or end an audit or other investigation of a taxpayer. www.taxnotes.com/research/fed... 1/

submitted 12 days ago • 69 comments

Stand by for my new article “I’m a Loser Baby: Lawless Lawsuits and the Lackey Lawyers Who Lose Them”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes law and society folks talk about winning by losing a lawsuit, or losing by winning a settlement. Here the (lack of) strategy seems to set up a situation of just plain ol losing by losing. At least, one hopes.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Just a reminder how classic what we're seeing is: 1. redefine a group as a threat to civilization 2. reduce legal protections that they enjoy 3. abuse, threaten, harm, and/or relocate them 4. dismiss/ignore concerns about abuses and harms from the process 5. repeat steps 2-4, escalating each time

submitted 12 days ago • 118 comments

Lest you believe this is about the elite ivies, $20 million dollars in federal grants and funding have been cut across UC Irvine. This is about attacking economic mobility, destroying free thought, & creating fungible, powerless workers for the oligarchic bosses. Our kids’ futures are at risk.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

We saved PBS from Trump in 2017, and now here we are again

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submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The idea that the US government should tell @humanrightshls.bsky.social what cases & causes they can take is execrable. As a former student and fellow I can say the whole point of the Int’l Human Rights Clinic @hls.harvard.edu is to hold governments to account.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

seems important to emphasize to yourself & repeat: this is real, this has actually happened. it is all unfolding now very quickly

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

On the face of it this is absurd, skimming through old profile photos and, what, Anthony isn't always wearing the same clothes? But the real substance is it's an openly homophobic insult. That's what Randy is indulging here and he knows it, smirking at how he can imply the slur by all but saying it.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments