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Here are three things that individuals can do now to stand up for democracy:

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Please, legal comminity, do not start running scared. Hold your ground. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

We are in a dangerous time but here are two important facts: 1. Trump's base of support is a minority. 2. That base is going to shrink as his agenda is enacted. The opposition is the majority. No moping allowed. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 63 comments

Keep defending your public services!

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Important piece on the spiraling scope of terrorism designations -- and timely given the Trump administration's designation of 8 drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations."

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

In the latest episode of the Stanford Legal Podcast, Pamela Karlan is joined by Stanford Law School Professor @ssinnar.bsky.social and former DOJ prosecutor Brendan Ballou to discuss Trump’s pardons and the rule of law. Listen to the episode here: law.stanford.edu/stanford-leg...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

"To overcome or even slow the momentum of the forces arrayed against us will require our resolve, and an ecosystem of resistance–litigation, activism, organizing, direct action, communications, political pressure, and our voices raised to speak truth to power." sherrilyn.substack.com/p/democracy-...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I spoke with Pam Karlan and Brendan Ballou (former DOJ) on the implications of the Jan. 6 pardons for political violence, and the connections between state and vigilante violence. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Billionaires are waging war on higher ed and all working people, putting our healthcare, research, education, & jobs at risk. Join us this Thursday at 8pm ET for a National Higher Ed Strategy Call as we coordinate for a nationwide Fight Back. ⏬⏬⏬

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

When Stanford IT staff and a pro-diversity group shared a list of words they encouraged others not to use, it was national news, despite the fact it never represented campus policy. When the government erases any mention, data or research related to words, will it be treated as a free speech issue?

submitted 21 days ago • 70 comments

"Because Congress established USAID as an independent establishment (defined in 5 U.S.C. 104) within the executive branch, the President does not have the authority to abolish it; congressional authorization would be required to abolish, move, or consolidate USAID." --Congressional Research Service

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Students invoke historian Timothy Snyder's warnings about tyranny in urging universities to resist: "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given." stanforddaily.com/2025/01/30/s...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

My op-ed: "Colleges and universities ... seem to be hoping that their muted responses — and affirmative acquiescence — will spare them. ...This sort of acquiescence will not only fail to protect institutions, but will expose all of us to further repression." stanforddaily.com/2025/01/28/f...

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

"...try to get your head around the scale of what was allowed to happen, not for morbid indulgence, but because in the justification for what has been done to Gaza’s children hides the most extreme form of dehumanisation from which all Palestinians suffer." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Read the AAUP's important statement urging universities not to take part in "anticipatory obedience" of new restrictions on academic freedom.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Between all the Trump immigration orders on emergency powers, asylum, refugees, and birthright citizenship, I almost missed the one setting us up for a new "Muslim ban." Agencies have 60 days to decide which countries to include. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

President Trump claimed to end birthright citizenship on the first day of his second term. That executive order is unconstitutional. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 42 days ago • 19 comments

My just published article in U. Chicago Legal Forum on how terrorism charges replicate the severity of historical treason charges, but with few of the constraints: legal-forum.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

It is a sad day for Columbia and us all when a respected scholar is pushed to "retire" because of attacks from within and outside the university. What does academic freedom mean under these conditions? Genuinely asking here, bc these kinds of attacks are not going to end with Katherine Franke

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

48 Dems in the House join a growing number of tech companies, media owners, and universities in deciding to preemptively capitulate to Trump. Disappointed to see California's Josh Harder vote to crack down on immigrants. newrepublic.com/post/189960/...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

With SCOTUS green lighting the ticketing of unhoused people it was clear enforcement would be ugly, but this is remarkably disturbing.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: For over a year, the Israeli government has deliberately denied Palestinians in Gaza the minimum water needed for survival, most likely resulting in thousands of deaths. A calculated policy. An act of genocide. 🧵⤵️ www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

submitted 74 days ago • 8 comments

Historian Annelise Orleck describes her brutal arrest at Dartmouth and the "theater of repression" targeting protests for Palestinian human rights. www.aaup.org/article/mode...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Adeel Mangi, denied a federal judgeship after an Islamophobic and racist smear campaign, calls out the "performative McCarthyism" and "dark-money-funded attacks" of the nominations process -- and the Democratic senators who let it happen.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

More important than ever:

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I wrote about the TikTok case and what, exactly, the government thinks we should be so afraid of. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

Decades-long political pressure to avoid studying or speaking out on Palestine within academia make it harder to fairly resolve Title VI complaints today. My blog post here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/title-v...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments