Shoshana Silverstein

I am forever impressed by my sister’s work, and this essay is no exception. A worthwhile read by Professor @sarasilverstein.bsky.social

#nokings #cincinnati #ohio

Child-drawn sign reading DONT MAKE me GO to LAW SCHOOL

Amazing sign being held by a small child

#nokings #Cincinnati

Someone appears to have gotten their hands on a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign, but they blocked out the par part so it says no king lol

ooh well done

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Sign the Petition Urge Dartmouth College to fight federal government attacks on higher education

If you know Dartmouth alums, please share this petition with them and ask them to sign (it was started before the letter you link to appeared, but I think the relevance is clear):

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Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges.

There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.

David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story? Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.

A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT:      Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers

I gave a talk today to 200 lawyers & judges about how the Nazis brought Germany's once-independent bar to heel in the '30s.

This Trump executive order targeting lawyers came out while I was talking--too late to note to the audience that THEY DID IT LIKE THIS.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The legal profession is actually chock full of public-interest-minded people who have made career choices that helped others but harmed their own career prospects.

I hope lawyers weighing their own next steps will look around and see that.

Do you think you’re safe because you’re a US citizen? What guarantees your citizenship rights? The Constitution, the rule of law, & the institutions that protect them. If the regime breaks that rule of law by deporting non-citizens without trial or due process, defying court order, how safe are you?

“[S]ince Orange’s novel became a mainstay of the Millennium Art curriculum, pass rates for students taking the Advanced Placement literature exam have more than doubled. Last year, 21 out of 26 students earned college credit….The majority of them, said Ouimet, wrote about ‘There There.’”

The History Crisis Is a National Security Problem As universities shed scholars, key learning disappears.

"And precisely because the declines in the liberal arts in general and history in particular have been driven by political trends instead of market forces, they can be reversed by political action and at relatively little cost." @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/10/t...

This Poses an Existential Threat to Criminal Justice Reform States have used this power aggressively since George Floyd’s murder.

My latest @slate.bsky.social, on how red state legislatures want to use their preemption power to gut local crim legal reforms … and some thoughts on why the threat may not (or may! It’s confusing!) be as serious as some (like me!) have suggested.