Jody Freeman

Trump’s Move to Kill the Clean Air Act’s Climate Authority, Forever Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins · 08/06/2025 · 1h 9m

Got an hour? Sharing this fairly nerdy & somewhat depressing but also very fun podcast ep on the Trump EPA proposal to end federal climate rules - a cross-over ep from Shift Key & CleanLaw, with me, Jesse Jenkins & Rob Meyer of HeatMap News!
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Contributor: Trump's EPA proposes to end the U.S. fight against climate change How much damage will Americans suffer as climate-denial politics masquerade as good policy?

Sharing my piece out today on the Trump administration proposal to rescind the scientific "endangerment finding" and surrender EPA's role fighting climate change. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

The Trump EPA is planning to eliminate ALL federal climate rules by reversing the scientific finding that climate pollution harms people. By their calculation, our powerplants & cars emit too small a share of global emissions to warrant doing anything. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they publicly criticized Trump's environmental policies Suspended EPA employees signed a letter accusing the Trump administration of weakening environmental protections and disregarding science.

This just in from the Department of Thin Skin.

EPA employees placed on leave for criticizing the administration.

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💰 The full text of the budget is here and worth scrolling through 👇 | Jody Freeman 💰 The full text of the budget is here and worth scrolling through 👇 https://lnkd.in/gHhbsS4q 💰 It includes billions of dollars in additional funding for ICE, a build-out of detention centers, and ...

The Budget Congress passed nearly triples ICE's budget to build out detention centers (including for
families) & more
- a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system. A super-charged internal police force is concerning. My post on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

♦️ Below is a terrific graphic from the NYT that captures the federal research grants at Harvard that have been terminated by the administration. | Jody Freeman ♦️ Below is a terrific graphic from the NYT that captures the federal research grants at Harvard that have been terminated by the administration. ♦️ They include research on cancer, stroke, heart dis...

Hugely important research on cancer, opioid addiction, heart disease, children's health & more being cancelled as punishment to Harvard. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

💢 Some people have asked, so I am passing on information about the rules that apply to ICE immigration raids and detention. | Jody Freeman 💢 Some people have asked, so I am passing on information about the rules that apply to ICE immigration raids and detention. 💢 Although I teach administrative law and due process, immigration law isn...

Here's a convenient source explaining rules governing what ICE can & can't do during raids, vehicle stops, in public & at homes. Enforcing them is a different matter.
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♦️ Following up on earlier note I posted, about the administration's chilling threat to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship. | Jody Freeman ♦️ Following up on earlier note I posted, about the administration's chilling threat to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship. There is a DOJ Memo directing lawyers in the civil division...

In a DOJ memo, the administration has threatened to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship relying on a broadly worded statute used against communists in the McCarthy era & asserting power to do so for what sounds like virtually any reason.
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The EPA has proposed to eliminate climate rules for coal-fired power.

Its rationale? American power plants don't contribute significantly enough to climate change to warrant regulation.

Expect a torrent of comments arguing that this can't withstand scientific, economic & legal scrutiny.

Only saying where people threw rocks, set cars alight etc, it's appropriate for local law enforcement to handle. No need for Guard let alone Marines. For 1st Amendment. For peaceful protest. For restraint. Against violence.

"The protests in Los Angeles fall far short of rebellion," district court judge Breyer wrote, in ruling that the president did not meet the legal test for mobilizing the National Guard. Worth a read: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's terrifying to think that because ICE officials are not identifying themselves or following normal law enforcement protocol, now anyone can impersonate them and do horrifying things: just dress up in camo, put on a mask, jump out of a van and take people away. How does this make us safer?

👋 Hello from Los Angeles where there is no rebellion or invasion. Dodger game last night, Farmer's Market this morning. Thanks to local law enforcement for handling small # of numbskulls causing violence among overwhelmingly peaceful protests. Not occupied, don't need liberation. Thanks anyway!

3 points on the administration's punishment of Harvard: 1. Groundbreaking research benefits all Americans, makes us stronger 2. No government of either party should try to micromanage our private universities or businesses.
3. The extreme measures aren't reasonable, fair law enforcement.

Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants | Jody Freeman More climate news from the Trump administration: ✳️ EPA is reportedly planning to completely eliminate any greenhouse gas limits for power plants which produce about 25% of US total greenhouse gas e...

Climate news: here's my take on the expected proposal from EPA to remove all limits on climate pollution from power plants, which produce 25% of US GHGs. It has no basis in science or logic & will run into trouble in the courts but the point seems to be performative
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Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants

Climate News: EPA's plans to rescind all GHG limits for power plants based on an eyebrow-raising argument that they aren't significant as a share of global emissions. If true it's headed for legal trouble. Even conservative lawyers w deep EPA experience are dubious: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...

To all my foreign students & the world: I'm sorry this administration is taking its rage out on you. In the most nakedly vengeful move yet to punish a private university that it cannot bring to heel, Trump's DHS has barred Harvard from enrolling foreign students. Shameful, petty & un-American.

Congress just voted to block California from setting its own vehicle pollution standards - a major setback for public health & cutting climate-warming gases. Sad. It's part of the great unraveling of environmental progress that this administration & this Congress has set in motion with a vengeance.

Stephen Miller saying the administration is "actively considering" suspending habeas corpus - the right to challenge government detention - is "factually and legally nuts" as Steve Vladeck explains. https://open.substack.com/pub/stevevladeck/p/148-suspending-habeas-corpus?r=6o6dh&utm_medium=ios

Canada Election 2025 Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Prime Minister CBC/Radio Canada, the national broadcaster, projected a win for the Liberal Party in an extraordinary election that was dominated by President Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty and its economy.

🇨🇦And Congratulations Donald Trump!

You managed to take an almost certain Conservative Party victory in Canada and turn it into a Liberal Party win!🎁

May Mark Carney be the man for the moment - the man the Great White North needs. 🌂🌪️

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Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency (Gift Article) A diverse group of legal scholars flashes red warning lights about the future of America.

A sober summary of the Trump
Admin's lawlessness based on input from many law professors across the political
spectrum. Despite ideological differences there's broad consensus that the Trump admin is a threat to basic American rights, the rule of law and democracy.
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🥊 Harvard is clearly playing to win in lawsuit against the Trump administration for its punitive actions after the university refused to comply with its unlawful demands.

HU has hired formidable legal talent.

Let's just say, not bringing a knife to a gun fight.

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Why I'm having the best weekend in 3 mths:
💥Judge Wilkinson's historic opinion in Abrego Garcia case saying administration's overreach shocks the conscience.
💥Lisa Murkowski admitting "We are all afraid" out loud.
💥SCOTUS blocking further Venezuelan deportations to check brazen noncompliance.

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Oh! Then...never mind.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Trump moves to quickly slash federal regulations, target state and corporate climate efforts President Trump ordered 400 federal agencies to scour for regulations to repeal, and to do so without public notice or comment.

Sharing interview I did on public radio on the Trump admin's public health, climate & environmental rollbacks and its general lawlessness. If you have time & interest, give it a listen. Sober but not entirely bleak!

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This is the actual Supreme Court order directing the administration to "facilitate" the return of Abrego Garcia. Whatever facilitate
might fairly mean, the intent is clear. Stephen Miller's characterization - that it vindicates the administration & so Garcia can be left to rot - was
heinous.

As this administration tries to bend law firms,
universities & media to their will & refuses
to follow the law, let's stay focused on those abusing power & not turn on each other. Stanford & Yale
are supporting Harvard's stand. Unions are speaking out on returning Abrego Garcia. Build coalitions!

The Promise of American Higher Education No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

The cover story for Trump's attack on universities is antisemitism but it's a ruse.

🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚

🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional.

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Helping the U.S. fight addiction, cancer, other afflictions — Harvard Gazette Heres's a snapshot of recent research backed by the partnership between government agencies and higher education.

Harvard like other universities is doing research that benefits millions, in partnership with the private sector and
with federal $ - to fight cancer, diabetes, opioid addiction, Alzheimer's & more. Trump has frozen $2B in support for this kind of work. Madness. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Proud of Harvard for standing up. “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber