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Nancy Gertner

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Retired federal judge, Harvard law School Professor of Practice 2011-2014, currently part time teaching sentencing, law and neuroscience, writer (opeds, books), occasional CNN and MSNBC commentator, regular WGBH Jim and Margery show, wife, mom, grandmom.

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Portland Judge’s Vital Lesson: Deference Is Not Blind Obedience Judges can’t defer to determinations “untethered to facts.”

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07.10.2025 02:36 — 👍 151    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 1
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No apology necessary Being right on the law means never having to say you're sorry.

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12.09.2025 18:30 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Wonderful note!! You are?

29.08.2025 00:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The hard-won hope of the long defeat A mindset for a dark time

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28.08.2025 14:30 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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The rich and powerful go unpunished: Julie K. Brown on the scale of the Epstein scandal "These victims feel betrayed once again, by the DOJ and by our government officials who, they believe, are still covering up for wealthy and powerful men."

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01.08.2025 22:41 — 👍 69    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 0
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170. DOJ's (Ridiculous) Misconduct Complaint Against Chief Judge Boasberg DOJ's complaint that Chief Judge Boasberg engaged in "misconduct" would be laughably stupid if it didn't reflect such a transparently obvious and dangerous attempt to delegitimize the federal courts.

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29.07.2025 20:38 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Furkan Gözükara on X: "This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important https://t.co/ZnSEpPvusb" / X This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important https://t.co/ZnSEpPvusb

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27.07.2025 21:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I served on the federal bench. Emil Bove is unfit to be a judge. - The Boston Globe Bove won’t follow the law. He will follow the president.

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22.07.2025 21:55 — 👍 35    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal Judges Are Begging Us to Pay Attention A Data-Driven Analysis of nearly 300 Federal Cases Reveals Judges Quoting Kafka and Warning of Democracy in Peril

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08.06.2025 23:00 — 👍 18    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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She's in ICE detention. From 1,500 miles away, his piano lulls her to sleep. Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE detention for 3 months. She is one of a growing number of non-criminal immigrants detained by ICE.

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07.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Bondi‘s quote about Abrego Garcia? “He now will meet the full force of American justice.” Well, that’s good. Because he already has met the full force of American injustice!

06.06.2025 23:38 — 👍 468    🔁 80    💬 14    📌 3
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Big Law Has Won Three Cases. But Trump Is Ahead in the Long Game Opinion: Deans Erwin Chemerinsky and David Faigman, and retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner say that Big Law's quick court wins don't erase Trump's damage to the profession, underscoring that law firm...

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06.06.2025 13:30 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tragic History of Neoliberalism Don’t buy revisionist attempts to rehabilitate it. Instead, push for a bold progressive populism.

The Tragic History of Neoliberalism
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02.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Land of Hope and Dreams
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams

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16.05.2025 01:20 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Trump Is Defunding Public Safety Across-the-board cuts at DOJ are endangering American lives—and exposing the hypocrisy of an administration that claims to care.

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15.05.2025 04:41 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Cruelty and Intimidation are the Goals The prosecution of Judge Hannah Dugan had nothing to do with ICE enforcement and everything to do with intimidation

Cruelty and Intimidation are the Goals
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28.04.2025 22:01 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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The Disappeared Deported. Disappeared. Dehumanized.

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23.04.2025 22:47 — 👍 33    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Former Trump Staff Members Liken His Actions to Those of ‘Royal Despot’ In an open letter, prominent Republicans criticized President Trump for using his power to punish two former administration officials who criticized him.

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21.04.2025 00:02 — 👍 32    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 0
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Trump Discriminating Against Blue States Sets Up Historic Crisis Opinion: Judge Nancy Gertner, David L. Faigman, and Erwin Chemerinsky warn Donald Trump targeting his enemies in blue states could lead to conflicts between the federal government and states not seen ...

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14.04.2025 13:54 — 👍 20    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

09.04.2025 13:25 — 👍 40    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews Antisemitism is real. But the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend.

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07.04.2025 13:41 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.

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30.03.2025 15:14 — 👍 54    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it

29.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 62    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

The White House has gone after another leading law firm. This time Paul Weiss. I cannot overstate how dangerous this is—and how urgent for the private bar to respond with solidarity to this assault on the legal profession and rule of law.

15.03.2025 03:33 — 👍 663    🔁 153    💬 12    📌 5
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Antisemitism on American Campuses? Reflections on Recent Developments at Columbia University The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to e...

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12.03.2025 01:39 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 0

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14.02.2025 16:03 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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The ABA supports the rule of law It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...

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11.02.2025 01:43 — 👍 164    🔁 53    💬 5    📌 2
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Trying To Undo A Coup, In The Courts Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 02/08/2025 · 56m

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09.02.2025 19:48 — 👍 34    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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Of course it’s a coup (audio) Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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09.02.2025 19:22 — 👍 41    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda Perception is reality.

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09.02.2025 19:20 — 👍 28    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 3

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