Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
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Rick Scott on @cnn.com: Every president since Truman has gone to war without a war declaration.
It's not a good sign that my work is relevant:
The Gloss of War: Revisiting the Korean War’s Legacy - Michigan Law Review share.google/bd3NyagMfAdL...
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Today's attack on Iran is an attack on the postwar legal order. Yet again, Trump has taken an action that threatens to end an era of historic peace and return us to a world in which might makes right. The cost will be paid in human lives.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
With the outstanding teamwork with Brendan Benedict and Michael Altebrando, @evanbernick.bsky.social & I proudly filed this originalist amicus brief defending birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara:
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.
27.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 2522 🔁 585 💬 29 📌 10We want the holodeck but are getting the Borg
26.02.2026 13:52 — 👍 252 🔁 61 💬 6 📌 1A Democratic president in 2029 needs to willing to reduce the size of the presidency, which presidents are loath to do. In 2022 @qjurecic.bsky.social and @andrewkent.bsky.social wrote a great piece in @lawfaremedia.org on Biden's failure to get that job done. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
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it's a problem if the government tells a private company to change its business or else the government will not only cease working with it, but will also put it on a blacklist that prevents anyone else from working with it
another version state capitalism/taking stakes in private companies
Really excellent analysis of what made Wiseman's work so special, and what it meant that he rejected such documentary clichés as "cinéma vérité" or being a "fly on the wall."
24.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 38 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Thrilled that my article, Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding, is forthcoming in the Stan. L. Rev. @stanlrev.bsky.social. It discusses Black Conventions held during Reconstruction and how these conventions are critical to a proper understanding of the 13, 14, & 15th Amdts.
20.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 351 🔁 79 💬 5 📌 5netflix is seeking regulatory approval to buy warner bros and fighting off a competing bid by friend-of-trump larry ellison's son
21.02.2026 23:24 — 👍 407 🔁 155 💬 23 📌 8Doesn’t get reported often and clearly enough that local law enforcement are getting cash bounties for people they turn over to ICE (at least under 287g partnerships, if not in other ways). The incentives to racially profile and arrest are extremely corrosive
21.02.2026 18:00 — 👍 31 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 1Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.
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An awesome resource for researchers and others just opened this week. obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu/about
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Akhil Amar: “Crucially, nowhere does the text [of the 14th Amend.] use the words “parent,” “parents” or “domicile.” Had it done so, the amendment’s framers and ratifiers would have needed to wrangle over countless complexities, large and small, raised by these words.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...
20.02.2026 12:04 — 👍 100 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1This is the coolest film-programming idea ever!
18.02.2026 23:04 — 👍 181 🔁 20 💬 5 📌 1Now available for free! Please check out this important special issue. Now more than ever, the Civil War era provides us with important lessons for our harrowing current moment
17.02.2026 23:38 — 👍 31 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 1Contemplating the immensity of what Frederick Wiseman brought to documentary filmmaking is too dizzying a task to take on the same day he leaves us. Put it this way: he lived to be 96 while never ceasing to find new ways to see & film & show the world around him in all its complexity. A+ job on life
16.02.2026 23:16 — 👍 203 🔁 46 💬 6 📌 4This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.
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As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
Trump becomes the second consecutive president whose actions a judge slammed as “Orwellian” in an opinion released on a national holiday and reported on by @joshgerstein.bsky.social. Let’s hope this decision fares better on appeal than the last one, which is here:
www.politico.com/news/2023/07...
As a White House ethics lawyer I told staff:
“Be allergic to free stuff” and not to even accept a can of soda from someone with business before the White House.
So how has the story of a UAE royal making a deal worth nearly $200m to the Trump family fallen out of news? www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
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This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Photo of Frederick Douglass, who some say was the most photographed person of the 19th century
Happy birthday to one of the greatest, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, he didn't know his actual birthday, but chose to celebrate it on this day.
Please read his books and essays; please teach your children his story when they are old enough to understand.
NEW: After announcement of end to MN immigration surge, Trump admin slammed by Trump-appointed judge for denying detainees access to lawyers. Feds also drop criminal charges against 2 immigrants over incident Noem called "attempted murder." w/@kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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Habeas corpus actions are the ancient common law writ used to create a legal action to sue for freedom. They were crucial in the early-nineteenth-century efforts to challenge slavery.
This graph showing “habeas cases” suddenly leaping in 2025 —
is terrifying.
dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/
Arne Duncan gets it. I hope the leaders of my university and so many others take this to heart. wapo.st/4qomlXe
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