wendymariner.bsky.social

Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Join TFAD on February 17 for this special conversation on the ongoing threats to our democratic institutions and the rule of law, and what individuals can do to strengthen our democracy.

⚖️ Register today at tinyurl.com/feb17web.

The ABA House of Delegates is celebrating 90 years. Learn more about the work of the HOD and its impact on the legal profession: https://bit.ly/4q7HwN5

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Wins 2025 hands down

FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."

Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...

@buhealthlaw.bsky.social recently earned a place, and an A+ rating, in the National Jurist preLaw Magazine’s Health Law Honor Roll. This grade ranks BU Law among the top 17 health law programs listed and affirms BU Law’s leadership in the field.

Learn more ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/2025/12/...

Take a look back at the important work of the ABA during 2025. From improving the legal profession to advancing the rule of law, eliminating bias to enhancing diversity, the ABA has continued to make great contributions for the legal profession and community. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48iDLxk

This season of gratitude, we’re thankful for those who continue to uplift justice, equity, and dignity in our communities. Wishing you a peaceful and meaningful Thanksgiving 🦃!

🩺 And the new 4th edition of “Public Health Law” by @wendymariner.bsky.social, George J. Annas, Nicole Huberfeld, and @michaelrulrich.bsky.social (@busph.bsky.social, @bulaw.bsky.socia)

cap-press.com/books/isbn/9...

🍎✨ Shana Tova! 🍯✨ As we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, let’s commit to renewal, justice, and community. May this year bring peace, health, and hope to all. Shana Tova U’Metuka! #RoshHashanah #ShanaTova #JusticeForAll #CivilRights

a man is writing in a notebook with a pen ALT: a man is writing in a notebook with a pen

I woke up in a good mood and a law professor had to ruin it.

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

Opinion | There’s a Darker Reason Trump Is Going After Those Law Firms

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.

🏛️ Check out the ABA's Rapid Response Series highlighted by CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter! 💡Learn more: ambar.org/howthingswork
Sign up for Brian Stelter's newsletter ➡️ ow.ly/5vQu50VTmXC

Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the elegance, agility and effortless natural grace of the penguin.

Hammock hugs are the best hugs.

Opinion | M. Gessen: ‘Trump Is Building a Mafia State’ “Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it.”

This is specifically about universities. It is very important to see how fascists and authoritarians in other countries have attacked them. And to think, as Gessen does here, about constructive responses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Hundreds of law firms, former judges sign onto briefs in support of Perkins Coie Hundreds of law firms and former judges have signed onto friend-of-the-court briefs in support of Perkins Coie as the law firm challenges President Trump’s executive order targeting it.   More…

Lawyers, meanwhile, are figuring it out: Everyone has to hang together, or else they will all hang separately

thehill.com/regulation/c...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Require schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom?

Listen as I read this letter, signed by more than 150 Texas faith leaders, opposing state interference with both education and religion. 

Text of the letter: bit.ly/43xadvg

We support the right of people to advance their interests in courts of law when they have been wronged. We reject the notion that the U.S. government can punish lawyers and law firms who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways. We cannot accept government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice in this manner. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter. And the intimidating words and actions we have heard and seen must end. They are designed to cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession. There are clear choices facing our profession. We can choose to remain silent and allow these acts to continue or we can stand for the rule of law and the values we hold dear. We call upon the entire profession, including lawyers in private practice from Main Street to Wall Street, as well as those in corporations and who serve in elected positions, to speak out against intimidation.

More than 50 bar organizations stand together with the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The

This is simultaneously funny and horrifying.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...