Lori Cox Han, PhD

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I have come to the conclusion very few people actually understand the First Amendment in a serious way.

Why am I not surprised…

Not every day you meet the iconic comedian behind the world's most famous joke

First, SCOTUS issued a sweeping grant of immunity to a president who committed unprecedented crimes in office

Now they have prevented courts from stopping this administration's open and routine violations of the law

Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

Commentary: Forget tariffs — GOP proposals on student loans will crack the economy

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Hey NY Times--

It is still a "fringe theory" -- every court has rejected it.

There is still a "broad consensus" -- John Eastman is a disgraced lawyer under indictment.

The only thing that has changed is the Times.

SoCal folks, this is your final reminder that I will be speaking at Chapman University tomorrow at 4pm if that is something that interests you! I do lots of Q&A so bring your talky hat

This is a particularly bad day for MLB TV to have an outage.

Again, today would be an excellent day for Ivy League, Big Ten, & all the other chancellors & university presidents to start speaking loudly & collectively against the all-out existential crisis that this assault on US higher ed represents. The silence is deafening.

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I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

Donald Trump stood in front of Congress tonight and reinforced what we already knew: He’s a corrupt megalomaniac lunatic who is running our country to the ground. These are not normal times. Everything is not fine. We are in crisis.

Proud to add my name to this letter.

drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share.
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Political scientists' statement on recent events Please use this form to add your signature to the following statement. Note that we are only soliciting signatures from individuals with PhDs in political science. We, the undersigned, are political ...

Proud to have signed and to be in such great company.

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I love all my friends saying things like, “I wish I could make a career off being petty and making diss tracks” after the halftime show, and I’m out here like, “Have you considered academia?”

While university presidents are huddling w/ teams of communications consultants and lawyers, carefully crafting statements to respond to the attack on science, the Trump administration is making massive, rapid-fire moves. An asymmetrical battlefield, where consequences only flow one way.

Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

This.

How the f**k do you update a presidency textbook in the middle of all this? Asking for a friend…

High crimes and misdemeanors redux Less than two weeks into his new administration, and Mr. Trump is not testing the limits of presidential powers, he is abusing them.

If Congress had a constitutional spine, Donald Trump would face strong charges of impeachable abuses of power. As matters stand today, that check on executive power has been temporarily rendered impotent.
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We can’t let a mega rich dude shut down the main foreign aid program created and funded by Congress just because he doesn’t like it and has our president by the balls
www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

How every political scientist who studies American government feels right now.

Couldn’t agree more. So many things are a 5-alarm fire right now. The word “unconstitutional” doesn’t even begin to cover what has happened in the last two weeks.

Now that I am officially on sabbatical, wading carefully into the new place since I really miss the community of the old place before Elon Musk destroyed it.