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Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law. Author/Editor of Prisoners and the Law (Thomson/Reuters, 2024); Habeas Corpus Checklists (Thomson/Reuters, 2025). Doing my best to make some good trouble.

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Still Here: Reflections After Fifty Years of Teaching Law - American University Law Review 75 Am. U. L. Rev. 1 (2025).

I'm delighted to share my just-published essay, "Still Here: Reflections After Fifty Years of Teaching Law". Comments welcome!

05.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Delighted to share my most recent contribution to the legal literature: "Criminal Abortion and Citizen's Arrest," published in the Social Justice Issue of the Utah Law Review. Comments welcome!

dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Trump's 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada will suspend the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, *which Trump negotiated in 2018*

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Biden Issues Pre-Emptive Pardons to Guard Against Trump’s Reprisals President Biden, hours before leaving office, used his executive clemency power to protect people targeted for reprisals by his successor, including Mark A. Milley, Anthony S. Fauci and Liz Cheney.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

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Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Sentencing Donald J. Trump is scheduled to face a New York judge on Friday morning after being convicted of 34 felonies. His punishment will be largely symbolic.

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Live Updates: Dominique Pelicot and 50 Others Guilty in Rape Trial That Shook France

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

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Another Federal Judge Reverses Decision To Retire, Ruins Trump’s Plans To Fill His Seat U.S. appeals court judge James Wynn, an Obama appointee, is the third judge to change his mind about retiring since Trump won reelection.

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And in 1938, it was Adolf Hitler

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Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency The president is also pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. The move follows a pardon for his son Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.

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Opinion | Hunter’s pardon isn’t the issue. What matters are pardons for everyone else. Trump’s campaign of revenge must be blocked.
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Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare CEO, Is Fatally Shot in Midtown Manhattan: Live Updates The executive, Brian Thompson, was shot in the chest in what people briefed on the investigations said appeared to be a targeted attack.

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Trump is considering naming Ron DeSantis to lead the Defense Department, as Hegseth's confirmation path seems to be crumbling.

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