Jamal Greene

*some* foreigners

For me, the best use case for most domestic lounges is the speed with which you can get a relatively balanced, non-fast food hot meal. Which means, somewhat counterintuitively, that lounges are good for quick connections.

Headline: How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left

The exaggeration that drove critics to label minor infractions as a major cultural rot, or students protesting as akin to to Maoism, left then unable to respond to an actual authoritarian movement when it arrived. So they try to salvage their prior work by making bizarre comparisons. e.g. woke right

Part of this is the distortion created by social media. We have lost all sense of prevalence, which we've been misled, often deliberately and spectacularly, into conflating with visibility and virality. This is an existential threat to human problem-solving.

Counties are not equal in population, and one person one vote is a constitutional requirement.

Not sure this is possible in NY for 2026, but either way, it is unfortunately clear that blue legislatures need to gerrymander as ruthlessly as red ones unless and until there is national legislation requiring a uniform process, as there obviously should be.

What the Columbia Settlement Really Means

Characteristically thoughtful analysis of the Columbia agreement from the Knight Institute. I agree with much of it. As they imply, much depends on implementation and interpretation, which is highly uncertain (and no doubt was drafted intentionally to be so).
knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

someone at a white house press briefing should ask why the president consistently refers to his black american critics as “low IQ”

Agree, though I think what we really, desperately need is a movie that runs from Appomattox to the Compromise of 1877. America needs an anti-Birth of a Nation to understand how the heroes of Reconstruction got
sidelined.

I don't see any ideological reason why there can't be a "left" Stephen Miller. There have been many such figures, e.g., in Latin America. I think we should not want such a person because democratic countries should not be governed by lawless pyschopaths.

This child of Flatlands approves. Urban planning and economic development in NYC is wildly reliant on subway infrastructure.

Welp!

I can’t begin to enumerate the ways the Corporation for Public Broadcasting made my life better, literally from my earliest memories until today. This is gut wrenching.

I would characterize this less as a warning against surrender than as an articulation of what, precisely, should not be surrendered.

Cornell Law School Is Hiring a Transactional Clinician Cornell is hiring a transactional clinician to be based in Ithaca in the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic and the Blassberg-Rice Center for Entrepreneurship Law. The appointment will be to the long-term…

Cornell Law School Is Hiring a Transactional Clinician refinblog.com/cornell-law-... via
@refinblog

Maybe feels like a pedantic point, but just trying to clarify the stakes as I see them. The *social* case for fighting depends pretty heavily on a prediction that it won’t result in a successful nuclear strike from the Administration. *That* would lead to total capitulation from others.

I meant something slightly different, which is that a losing fight is also a bad precedent when it comes to encouraging more extortion. A losing fight, like capitulation, is thus a social risk, not just an individual one. . . .

A ? re: “Each academic institution that bends the knee to Trump's extortion campaign increases the risk of extortion against other such institutions.” I think this is true, but it’s also true that the destruction of universities increases the risk of extortion. Is the premise that this won’t happen?

There’s a whole suite of age-old idioms premised on the reliability of the sun returning in the morning.

Multiple credible claims that Bove urged DOJ employees to break the law and ignore the judiciary. And the GOP Senate decided this is not disqualifying because nothing is disqualifying.

I didn’t say “the law,” I said “US law.” If we changed to the English rule in tort (loser pays fees), the tools would become stronger, but US law will have changed. Law is socially constructed, but I wouldn’t call it an abstraction.

Hulk Hogan and the Lawsuit That Changed Journalism and America A few days ago I got in a back and forth with...

There are echoes of the in terrorem strategy Josh emphasizes in almost everything the Administration does, and US law has very weak tools for dealing with it at scale. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/hulk-...

There's a timing issue causing some talking past each other too. (1) const power (cp) derives only from text & is fixed (f) at ratification (r); (2) cp derives from positive law, some of which is unwritten, & is f(r); & (3) cp derives from positive law but isn't f(r) are all different and available.

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical deta...

“An [ICE] attorney expressing racism, xenophobia, and fascist politics would raise questions about their ability to act fairly and impartially in legal proceedings”

ICE prosecutor in Dallas runs white supremacist X account

www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

Closes 8/17

Audra McDonald in Gypsy is as strong an individual performance as I have ever seen in any musical.

Today the Balkinization blog features my reflections at the end of its seven-scholar symposium on my new book The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power. You can find my short essay at the link below.

Many thanks to the participants.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/grat...

The authoritarians have agency. Stop acting like these are acts of God. There is no "fight" between Columbia/Harvard and Trump. Trump is attacking Columbia/Harvard.

(Also, the idea that the procedural violations are equivalent is absurd.)

Columbia Walked a Tightrope on Its Way to a $200 Million Settlement With Trump

Gift link to NYT piece on the Columbia agreement. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/n...

If you’re looking for a place to do it, join @israelispeaceny on Sundays at 5pm in Union Sq – where we cry out for a ceasefire & the return of the hostages, hold up pictures of those killed in Gaza, read the words of hostage families, and pray for an end to starvation & war.