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I hope we honored his memory. And I hope telling his story ensures that the injustice inflicted on him is not repeated. ❤️

This was a team effort with extraordinary work by @korematsuctr.bsky.social, and co-counsel @aaldef.bsky.social, and @ccrcj.bsky.social. Rock stars, each and every one of them.

As we note in the Introduction, “Amici are deeply familiar with the importance of citizenship. Their families and communities have personally experienced . . . the agonizing doubts and insecurities imposed when the foundations of citizenship—thought secure—are undermined.”

I am beyond proud to be a part of the team that drafted this amicus for the Korematsu Ctr & other nonprofits/race & law ctrs in the birthright citizenship case. In it, we tell the stories of the concrete harms when the government has stripped citizenship in the past and the retroactive risks now.

you think this is a one-off? don’t be deluded. we are firmly in the zone of lawlessness & impunity. repression at home and aggression abroad. and a sleeping congress.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

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@jrabrams.bsky.social changed my law teaching for the better with this book. Highly recommend.

Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash

1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

The fact that many Democratic Senators are profoundly trapped in an unreal matrix of DC-media assumptions is a disaster on an epic scale. But it’s also an opportunity.

You have to wait years to primary most Senators, but you can fight to change those assumptions now.

Let me explain…

much of this stems from a gross misunderstanding of writing as “the act of sitting down to write”. writing is the 10,000 other things that you do before you sit down. it is light cast through a window hitting the far wall, it is the memory of that time you saw that one bird, it is the act of living

Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide? "It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

AAUP-UC-Trump Lawsuit -- Uploaded by Jaweed Kaleem of the Los Angeles Times

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration.

It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

The fate of the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship still hangs in the balance.

Let’s get educated.

UC workers, alums, community members, please send Governor Newsom and your state legislators encouraging them to sue the federal government like Harvard did and release the feds' demand letter so Californians know what is at stake.

It takes 2 minutes: actionnetwork.org/letters/uc-s...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Competency and Restoration Reimagined from Practice to Possibility: Level Setting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining th... Competency and Restoration Reimagined from Practice to Possibility This three-part webinar series will provide insight and recommendations on how to make improvements in competency to stand trial sys...

I’m thrilled to be part of this webinar series on competence to stand trial, co-hosted by @nacdl.org and @statecourts.bsky.social. Our first session on Wednesday (11a PST) lays out the current state of play across the U.S. Join us!

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My fearless colleague David Kaye, speaking truth to power.

Friendly reminder that things don’t go back to normal if he kicks the bucket. They could even get worse! And even when they lose an election there’s years, decades, generations of repair and remaking to be done.

also, responses matter—social opprobrium at institutions that caved helped push other institutions to stand up, and institutions that stood up made it more difficult for others to cave

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So very proud to have my name on this excellent letter. Huge thanks to my UC colleagues who took the laboring oar in putting it together.

Harvard faculty won’t cave to Trump demands - The Boston Globe Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.

“We have committed our professional lives to learning and free inquiry, working together with students to advance truth for the collective benefit of society. Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.”

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

“You think I showed up with ChatGPT? . . .Dickinson? Obsessed. David Foster Wallace built a temple of footnotes in my name. I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.”

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here. The real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.

Democracies collapse not just through force, but through the naïve self-confidence of elites. What should alarm us isn’t that strongmen follow similar playbooks, but that our elites do too. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.

A reminder that our profession is not just big firms, and that countless lawyers are stepping up in this critical moment. GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...

a woman wearing a mask stands on a red carpet in front of a street Alt: woman filming workout video as military coup happens in the background.

Video of me teaching legal research and writing in the fall.

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