Marty Lederman

Marty Lederman

@martylederman.bsky.social

Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; former DOJ/OLC attorney

21,863 Followers 356 Following 1,919 Posts Joined Oct 2023
5 hours ago

Wizards showing typical class by triple-teaming him to prevent him from passing Kobe. But he's at 83 and counting.

6 0 0 0
6 hours ago

Um ... Bam Adebayo has 77 points with three minutes remaining. Not a typo.

14 0 2 0
10 hours ago

More importantly, the Trump Administration hasn't even offered any argument that this isn't a war in the constitutional sense--because there is no plausible argument to that effect, even by the standards of this administration. It's patently unconstitutional, and no one seems to care.

18 5 0 0
18 hours ago

Agreed. Although there probably *are* issues, as well, concerning which targeted officials and buildings they're deeming not to be "civilian."

5 1 0 0
1 day ago

I have a different view related to Sturgeon's Law: 90% of legal scholarship is crap, because 90% of everything is crap, and that's ok! You don't get 100% good anything; the soil that produces a Shakespeare has to have a lot of fertilizer.

18 2 3 0
2 days ago
Preview
The Many Ways in Which the Caribbean Strike was Unlawful Legal expert on domestic authority and law most relevant to the US strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat

Pete Hegseth just said on 60 Minutes that "we never target civilians." If only. It's the signal strategy of his DoD--a deviation from decades of sacrosanct norms and laws. Hegseth even boasts about targeting civilian boats in the Caribbean.
@justsecurity.org

www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-...

49 17 1 2
2 days ago
The Crisis of Appropriations Law Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law.  Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principles, approv

Never say never, but I'm fairly confident you'd be hard-pressed to find a better and more important legal article in the second Trump Administration than this one by @sbagen.bsky.social.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

59 18 0 2
3 days ago
YouTube
Margaret Glaspy - The Book Of Love (Feat. Madison Cunningham) (Magnetic Fields Cover) YouTube video by MargaretGlaspyVEVO

Glaspy--another sublime cover: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEk2...

5 0 1 0
3 days ago
Preview
War Child Records on Instagram: "‘The Book of Love’ by @oliviarodrigo Filmed by children in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine & Yemen. Taken from the new collaborative album ‘HELP(2)’ - out now. All proceeds f... 26K likes, 351 comments - warchildrecords on March 6, 2026: "‘The Book of Love’ by @oliviarodrigo Filmed by children in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine & Yemen. Taken from the new collaborative album ‘HELP(2...

She can do no wrong. A gorgeous Magnetic Fields cover (!) (reminiscent of Margaret Glaspy's, which I'll link below) to help raise $$ for children devastated by war. And the video, footage filmed by children in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Yemen ... hope against hope.

www.instagram.com/reels/DVjA6_...

15 6 1 0
4 days ago

Very illuminating and important piece, though I wish they would have focused more on the JCPOA as being the proper offramp--and Trump/Netanyahu's unconscionable scuttling of it.

10 3 0 0
4 days ago

Wow, there's a *lot* to chew on here. Thanks for the tip.

1 0 0 0
5 days ago

I assume that's not what they have in mind here -- instead, they're thinking the Senate will confirm him by the end of the month for the office itself.

1 0 0 0
6 days ago

The government has stopped collecting the tariffs, in accord with the Court ruling. But the question now is about refunds of tariffs already collected, about which the Court said bupkis.

11 0 1 0
6 days ago

"binding" in what sense? The SCOTUS decision doesn't address refunds, let alone for nonparties.

6 0 2 0
6 days ago

The order itself requires Customs to "liquidate all entries" without regard to IEEPA duties, but at the hearing the judge said unequivocally that "I want to make it clear to the Customs Service that they have to refund any money that was unlawfully collected." [4]

671 89 5 20
6 days ago

Yup--I just listened to the hearing, and the Judge took the parties by surprise by indicating he'd issue such a judgment. USG counsel asked for some time to brief the merits and the judge responded: "There are no merits." [3]

744 109 10 38
6 days ago
Preview
Application/Motion for Preliminary Injunction – #3 in Atmus Filtration, Inc. v. United States (Ct. Intl. Trade, 1:26-cv-01259) – CourtListener.com Application/Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction. Responses due by 3/20/2026. Filed by Thomas G. Wallrich of Cozen O'Conner on behalf of Atmus Filtration, Inc.(Wallrich, T...

... even though the plaintiff sought relief only for itself (see proposed order below).

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

274 18 3 1
6 days ago

If I'm reading this correctly, the CIT judge in this post-Learning Resources claim for a tariff refund just purported to issue universal relief on the ground that he's the only judge who'd adjudicate such claims, ... [1].

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

458 82 5 28
6 days ago

Yes, that would be a “crucial problem.”
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

37 8 0 0
6 days ago
Post image

I am co-hosting an incredible event on AI & Music with Georgetown University's Music Sustainability Initiative on April 10-11, 2026. A full rundown of the event is available on the site (linked in the flyer below), and you can register (for free!) there as well.

4 1 1 0
6 days ago

... that the dicta in Myers--repudiated unanimously nine years later, even by those who signed on, and again by Rehnquist, et al.--is precedent, or worthy of respect. So why the attention? [2]

0 0 0 0
6 days ago

Why *is* everyone bothering with this guy now (other than, of course, Robert Post, who had good reason to do so)? For example, no one (by which I include CJ Roberts) actually believes ... [1]

0 0 1 0
6 days ago

Tafteta

0 0 0 0
6 days ago
Preview
Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

An important piece showing that losses in court haven’t stopped Trump from seizing Congress’s spending power and targeting dissenters and “blue states.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

219 126 5 7
6 days ago

In case anyone’s still interested in the tariffs/IEEPA case …

13 4 0 0
1 week ago

And it's an anti-semitic trope at that! So they're now furiously trying to retract. Comeuppance.

1 0 0 0
1 week ago

Either the SG didn’t tell the WH before refusing to approve appeal in the law firm cases (almost unthinkable), or he did and then capitulated after Trump changed his mind last night. Either way, it’s difficult to imagine him retaining credibility and respect in his building or with the Court. Yikes.

63 9 4 3
1 week ago

Is it possible that Sauer decided not to authorize appeal without telling the WH? Seems very, very unlikely. But what other explanation is there?

1 0 2 0
1 week ago

Is it possible that Sauer decided not to authorize appeal without telling the WH? Seems very, very unlikely. But what other explanation is there?

1 0 0 0
1 week ago

Is it possible that Sauer decided not to authorize appeal without telling the WH? Seems very, very unlikely. But what other explanation is there?

16 1 4 0