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27.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 4
📣 We're hiring again! This time for a 1-year fellowship starting Fall 2026. Please share with your networks! www.alilockwood.com/2026-fellows...
27.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 6 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 4Good.
27.02.2026 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As expected, the ACLU has sued over Kansas SB 244 (the drivers license/bathroom bounty hunter bill). Petition linked here; motion for TRO also filed, and hopefully the court moves quickly. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...
27.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0remind yourself of the parts of you that you may have put on a shelf for a while while you did the whole career/young kids thing. they're still in there, and they get to come out again in your 40s.
26.02.2026 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
He lost that fight in the courts; then got the legislature to pass this SB8-style bounty hunter scheme.
The AG's solicitor general, who ran point for the prior drivers license litigation, was just nominated by Trump for a vacancy on the US District Ct for Kansas.
A reminder that the cruelty is the point. That was on full display when the AG argued in prior litigation that the previously-passed so-called "women's bill of rights" prevented trans Kansans from having IDs that matched their gender identity.
26.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Glad you're covering this. We should connect about potential amicus opportunities for the (inevitable) litigation to come. bsky.app/profile/shar...
26.02.2026 14:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ve got stories. And a court record’s worth of receipts.
26.02.2026 03:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anyway, talk to folks on the ground in KS. The context (and evidence) from the prior litigation is important here.
Organizers fought this bill with less than 24 hours notice, and no opportunity to give meaningful public testimony. That was intentional.
Some seriously shady stuff, top to bottom.
The constitutionality of his position wasn’t fully tested (for procedural and statutory interpretation reasons I’m happy to explain) but with the enactment of SB 244 the constitutional questions will be front and center. And likely as a matter of state constitutional law, too.
26.02.2026 03:28 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Important to note: in that litigation the AG could not come up with *any* evidence that justified his position that the state needed drivers licenses to reflect sec assigned at birth for “safety” reasons.
Like, we’re talking no rational basis to be found.
Oh look Kansas is making headlines again.
TL/DR: There’s a years long history behind that letter re: drivers licenses being revoked for trans folks.
Including litigation (that the attorney general LOST). Which was why he urged the legislature to intro SB 244 and rush it thru in a gut and go.
Today one of my best friends from law school happened to be on my campus and he got to come say hi to me for a bit and he happened to meet a bunch of my current and former students and it was just the most wholesome feel good full circle moment. I can't really explain why but it felt awesome!
25.02.2026 21:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CC @maybell.bsky.social, relevant to your recent work.
24.02.2026 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This was basically a plot point in last night’s episode of Industry
Also I’m sorry :(
Grateful to @jaredmcclain.bsky.social for talking about this case on the @ij.org podcast. He highlights the subject of my next academic article, which I touch on in prior work: the equitable relief paradox. Injunctions w/ too few details are too vague; w/ too many details violate federalism.
20.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I've been thinking a lot about this lately too. The in-your-faceness of it all gave courts cover to at least *try* to reign in these policing tactics. When they're done under the guise of having RS, no matter how flimsy, courts just sort of go 🤷♀️
20.02.2026 14:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0can't wait to read this!!
20.02.2026 14:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great new project, run by my former colleagues at DOJ Civil Rights Division who have since left and are now tracking this current administration's reversals on civil rights enforcement efforts across a host of issues. Check it out! redlinecivilrights.org/about/
19.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0congrats, friend! glad the vortex spit you out in a good place 😉
19.02.2026 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In her Case Comment, Prof. @sharonbrett analyzes Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in the recent Supreme Court case Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, highlighting the distinctions undermining his reliance on City of Los Angeles v. Lyons and his skepticism of the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment claims.
17.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My essay on the Kavanaugh concurrence in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo is now live with the @nyulawreview.bsky.social online. Many thanks to the incredible editors who helped bring this piece to completion (rage-writing it in one week meant we did a lot of work on it post-acceptance!).
17.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 59 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1
I feel this esp. necessary when you use AI to draft portions of your article. People do this w/o acknowledging; I find that disturbing.
If you believe in it as a tool, why would you be hesitant to disclose its use? (I don’t use it but ppl who feel they shouldn’t have to disclose confuse me.)
Yes. In the same way I disclose when an RA helps, I think this should be obligatory.
Especially when schools give $$ for article placement/output - not disclosing gives the false impression you’re more productive on your own as compared to your peers.
Yayy!!! Congrats!
09.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0(and co-authors!) 😉
09.02.2026 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0congrats, michael!
09.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lawrence friends: I’ll have some of my work for sale at the Souper Bowl this weekend! Come buy one of my bowls and support the arts center and arts education!
04.02.2026 01:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0you can always count on us!
03.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0warrants and oranges, imho. sumo oranges are elite and i will pay a premium for them without any guilt. dont @ me.
03.02.2026 15:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0