Robert L. Tsai

Now in print: “Reasoning From Injustice,” 30 Mich. J.R. & L. 261 (2026). What else has Judith Shklar, Job, Harriett Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass? @lsolum.bsky.social says “Highly Recommended.”

Bored of Peace?

Bored of Peace?

Appreciate it

Thanks!

Reading up on transverse melitis: 1/3 of those diagnosed with it are able to get back to normal and most improvements happen in the first 6 months. So I’ve had a clock ticking in my head. Beyond that, just get used to suffering in order to get out of the wheelchair and stay out.

How it started (Sept) vs. How it’s going (Feb)

snow on the ground but class goes on

“It’s a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes less an organ of government and more a kind of institutionalized gang.”

Status plus probably protest activities

You’re right of course. But it’s her additional status as a student that permits her to enter the country—and can be used to remove her. Her fundamental humanity doesn’t prevent that.

“It’s a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes less an organ of government and more a kind of institutionalized gang.”

Columbia University’s Acting President Claire Shipman describes the subterfuge by ICE agents to effectuate the warrantless seizure of Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva

Columbia University’s Acting President Claire Shipman describes the subterfuge by ICE agents to effectuate the warrantless seizure of Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva

Outrageous and craven yet no doubt Trump will be tempted

Just a photo of me with my 2024 spring child

Dems need to package these things as part of democratic reform

Outrageous and craven yet no doubt Trump will be tempted

snow on the ground but class goes on

same as it ever was!

Dems need to package these things as part of democratic reform

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Report “finds that ICE and CBP have formally approved contracts for at least a whopping $144 million in weapons, ammunition, and other accessories during Trump’s first year.… concluding that this will ‘build a heavily-armed domestic police force.’”

"What do white supremacists and black nationalists, abolitionists and Confederates, utopian socialists and crafty frontiersmen, embattled Indian tribes and mandarin globalist intellectuals have in common? They all wrote new constitutions, hoping to supersede the document adopted in Philadelphia..."

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Report “finds that ICE and CBP have formally approved contracts for at least a whopping $144 million in weapons, ammunition, and other accessories during Trump’s first year.… concluding that this will ‘build a heavily-armed domestic police force.’”

Alt-Constitution Rewriting the Constitution without Washington's permission

“But approve or disapprove, you shouldn't ignore history's kooks. Chronicles of failure and defeat say as much about a nation's history and identity as success stories do. The ruthless hegemony of the official U.S. Constitution is an important fact about modern America.”

Opinion | John Roberts Sent Trump a Message

True: “For the past year, the Trump administration has trolled the Supreme Court, sending up one emergency application after another to demand temporary relief from adverse lower-court rulings. The administration frequently got what it wanted”

Alt-Constitution Rewriting the Constitution without Washington's permission

“But approve or disapprove, you shouldn't ignore history's kooks. Chronicles of failure and defeat say as much about a nation's history and identity as success stories do. The ruthless hegemony of the official U.S. Constitution is an important fact about modern America.”