Angelo Petrigh

Hm, was this spacing accidental, haha

Amazing insight on the current moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

When Liuzzo acquired this knowledge, when she got Woke, she was transfigured into a traitor to her race and a menace to The Homeland. For being a menace, for being Woke, she was killed—as was Renee Good. (As was Alex Pretti.) But revelations have their blessings, too. In this case, a life, however brief, that is clean, and does not depend on the oppression and debasement of others. The revelation of deep human ties, a belief that we are all equally chosen, doomed Liuzzo, Good, and Pretti, as revelation so often does. But it also immortalized them.

Ta-Nehisi on Minnesota, and Culture War as war www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Beginning with Empire attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean have been widely condemned for violating international law. Yet much of this criticism, by focusing narrowly on the Trump…

Crucial intervention from @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir

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It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

I'm glad cooler heads prevailed.

But the gulf state billionaires couldn't care less about Palestine.

A Letter to Columbia <i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA </i>’24<i>. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detaine...

Must-read: ‘Letter to Columbia’ written from political prisoner Mahmoud Khalil. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Huh, I was there 2 days ago and most of the graffiti was gone. I'm guessing they clean it and it gets retagged periodically, heh.

The Feminist Law Professor Who Wants to Stop Arresting People for Domestic Violence For years, Leigh Goodmark was convinced that the way to keep women safe was through arrests and prosecutions. Now she’s pushing for the opposite.

It took me 28 years to go from carceral feminist to abolitionist. @saaarah.bsky.social tells that story here.

Discovery Reform: Why It Matters, and Who Wants to Kill It Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to tweak reforms made five years ago. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."

Governor Kathy Hochul and prosecutors say they want to "streamline" reforms passed five years ago to ensure fair and speedy criminal court proceedings. A close reading of their proposals reveals their effort to gut the legislation known as "Kalief's Law."
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The Hidden War Fueling the New York Prison Guard Strike - Inquest The deadly labor action can best be understood in the context of white supremacy and class struggle.

“Prisons were transformed into a wedge that encouraged white guards to see their class mobility as tied to the criminalization of the racialized poor.” —Orisanmi Burton, author of ‘Tip of the Spear’ ( @ucpress.bsky.social ), on the deadly NY prison guard strike.

Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.

Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal.

This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.

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We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good.

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LPE friends, big announcement! 🔥🔥 This Sept, the first annual LPE conference, launching a new LPE Association! Been working hard on this, with an amazing crowd of LPE fac and groups - more here: law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau....

Oh no! Hope things get moving again soon. As a regular Amtraker this is always my worry.

Can never forget how much of what we’re going to see in the next four years was road-tested and normalized by the last four years.

a fantastic piece by @jpygold.bsky.social about how powerful universities like Harvard are laundering Republicans’ bad-faith talking points to look like good-faith concerns and harming their own mission in the process

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Both here: www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...

My latest is out in BU Law Rev. It argues that the tension inherent in counseling clients as a defender is a testament to the power of the counseling space and urges ways to turn that contradiction into a strength. Check it out and the thoughtful response from @ahoagfordjour.bsky.social

Check out my response, "Client Counseling in Post-Conviction," in @bulaw.bsky.social's Law Review, Vol. 104, engaging with @apetrigh.bsky.social's article "Counseling Oppression." www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...

Really grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts I've been noodling over about client counseling.

Decarceral Counseling | Angelo Petrigh | INQUEST Defense lawyers should be open to advising their clients about systemic oppression, laying bare the ways that mass incarceration ensnares.

How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration?

Former public defender @apetrigh.bsky.social of @bulaw.bsky.social offers insights. https://inquest.org/decarceral-counseling/

No More Pretrial Punishment | Justine Olderman | INQUEST In my many years as a public defender, I accepted the legal rationales for pretrial detention. But I can’t anymore.

A enduring myth about pretrial detention is that it’s necessary to ensure a person’s return to court or prevent harm to the community. But as longtime public defender Justine Olderman shows, the real purpose of jailing people ahead of trial is punishment.

As such, pretrial detention must be ended.

Universal Public Defense, forthcoming HarvardCRCL, vol. 60 (2025). It asks how mandated UPD, where everyone is req’d to receive a state funded defender regardless of income, might change the criminal adjudication system. Comments & feedback welcome: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thanks for this Maybell! I'm also tagging a starter pack account that tracks these so it can add it: @skypacks.bsky.social

Always read Daniel Harawa, *especially* on the Second Amendment.

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