@johnblume.bsky.social
Law Professor at Cornell Law School and Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project
And an excellenet @jamellebouie.net column on the consequences of Trump's public opinion quagmire. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
23.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 74 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 3
On this day in 1898, a mob of as many as 1,000 white people waged a violent campaign to suppress African American voting in Phoenix, South Carolina, that left at least nine Black people dead. No one was ever held accountable.
09.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 60 🔁 51 💬 2 📌 8Grifter recognize grifter
17.10.2025 22:27 — 👍 90 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
Supreme Court granted cert
I have no fucking idea what Ilan is even talking about here, or even whether he's tracking the litigation. The issue is whether POTUS complied with a statutory delegation of power under 10 USC 12406, to nationalize the fed guard. His lawyers aren't even arguing commander in chief power.
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I agree. Even though selective and/or vindictive prosecution claims are notoriously difficult for defendants to prove, the evidence here is about as strong as it gets.
26.09.2025 00:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
not to be One Of Those Types but the sitting president made up a total nonsense story about the Unabomber yesterday—and kind of praised Kaczynski–and it barely made a ripple in the news cycle gizmodo.com/trump-shares...
16.07.2025 21:34 — 👍 74 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0
Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp.
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
Trump and Elon made massive cuts to all US weather tracking and warning systems in the spring of 2025.
05.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 4460 🔁 1526 💬 210 📌 82
On this day in 1933, a white mob broke into a jail cell in South Carolina, lynched Norris Dendy, a Black man, and left his body in a churchyard.
04.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 59 🔁 38 💬 4 📌 2there's a culture of fear in the median ranks of media to report and comment on this because journalists believe it would jeopardize their chances of working at the new york times
04.07.2025 14:22 — 👍 105 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 5
On this day in 1822, Denmark Vesey, a Black carpenter, was executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning to emancipate enslaved people.
02.07.2025 13:00 — 👍 67 🔁 56 💬 3 📌 5Cannot emphasize enough that, if you dislike doing the things academics do (reading, writing, developing and expressing opinions about things you've read) enough to try to make a chatbot do them for you, there are lots of actual humans who would be happy to take that unpleasant job off your hands
01.07.2025 19:44 — 👍 1022 🔁 210 💬 3 📌 8I think a critical posture towards the role of judges vis-a-vis law schools is a generational project that needs to happen.
21.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
TACO isn’t just about tariffs, alas www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
17.06.2025 12:32 — 👍 145 🔁 34 💬 14 📌 8
On this day in 1944, George Stinney Jr., a 90-pound, 14-year-old boy, was executed in the electric chair in Columbia, South Carolina. He remains the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century.
16.06.2025 13:00 — 👍 76 🔁 44 💬 4 📌 4Your torts exam writes itself. I am here to tell you there are elephant cases!
04.06.2025 17:31 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0I agree with Josh’s take on the title.
02.06.2025 20:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If the person reading it doesn't immediately get the Arendt reference, it's gonna come across as highly offensive.
And if they do get the Arendt reference, it'll depend on their take on Arendt ...
On Memorial Day, I remember & honor America's fallen warriors--as well as Humphrey's Executor (which upheld independent agencies), the rule that lower courts can't anticipatorily overrule SCOTUS precedents, and constitutional democracy, all of which the Court undermined last week in the Wilcox case.
26.05.2025 13:34 — 👍 27 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Just utter lawlessness from the Trump Administration, with no goal other than to punish institutions for refusing to bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
22.05.2025 17:59 — 👍 1643 🔁 477 💬 65 📌 76
Today’s bonus issue of “One First” takes a closer look at Judge Ho’s galling concurring opinion on remand in the A.A.R.P. Alien Enemies Act case—which accused #SCOTUS of showing “disrespect” to the district judge and President Trump by … protecting due process:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-152-...
On this day in 1740, South Carolina barred enslaved Black people from learning to read, earning money, and gathering, and authorized white enslavers to whip and kill them for being "rebellious."
10.05.2025 13:00 — 👍 68 🔁 52 💬 4 📌 5Here's the long form:
bsky.app/profile/stev...
One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.
It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.
The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
Cornell, MIT, CalTech, Princeton, Michigan and the U of R joined in on this one
It challenges the DOE indirect rate cap under the APA, among other arguments
Filed today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
