Rachel Rosenbloom

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Let's say it again:

1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off.

2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off.

It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.

terrific essay by feminist historian Joan Scott on attacks on free inquiry in the time of her father and now: “this time around, the stakes feel even higher”

I am excited that this special issue of the @ajil.bsky.social —on reparations in international law—is now out! 1/

These numbers represent staggering shares of federal law enforcement agents, being shifted from criminal law enforcement to minor civil immigration offenses www.cato.org/blog/ice-has...

Key phrase here is "and only us"

This was the core of Dred Scott, that the founders meant the word citizen to only mean white settlers.

And 14th Amendment birthright citizenship clause was an explicit repudiation of that, that all born here have an equal claim on what it means to be an American

There's that part in 1231 where they get to decide to ignore a designation if they determine it prejudices the United States, which they would undoubtedly say because they're sociopaths.

Without free expression there is no university. I present, Indiana Former University: www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

What is going on at Columbia? Ellen Shrecker, esteemed historian of McCarthyism and higher ed, and Nina Berman, documentary photographer extraordinaire, answer clearly.

AAUP v Rubio, day 3. knightcolumbia.org/content/dhs-...

my entire timeline is trans people struggling with suicidal ideation and panic attacks next to cis people talking about other things besides the ruling that says banning our health care is legal

a microcosm of trans life in america

"Constitutional Sheriff" of Brevard County, FL, Wayne Ivey, threatens to kill anti-ICE demonstrators.

Historian here this is how abolitionists dealt with slave catchers in northern states. #Resist

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The Ninth Circuit is hearing oral argument tomorrow in the challenge to Trump's unconstitutional birthright citizenship order. Read our amicus brief supporting the challenge on behalf of an ideologically diverse group of legal scholars: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/s...

FBI shows up at Charlottesville public defender's home unannounced after ICE raid The day before the Memorial Day weekend, FBI agents arrived at the homes of Charlottesville-area lawyers to question them about an ICE raid in the city in April.

FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders *at their homes*. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

They All Have Names We are parents, educators, teachers, healthcare workers, students, faith leaders, community members and taxpayers. We remember the Palestinians killed in Gaza with our tax dollars and say #StopArmingI...

We are parents, teachers, healthcare workers, educators, students, faith leaders, community members and taxpayers. We remember the Palestinians killed in Gaza with our tax dollars and say #StopArmingIsrael #StopStarvingGaza #FundCareNotGenocide

Join us: www.youtube.com/@TheyAllHave...

The Supreme Court denied cert today in a complicated and controversial case involving federal Indian law, Apache Stronghold. This case, brought by a nonprofit and not a Native nation, focused closely on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (rights) over the treaty violations (power).

In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

The law professors who are arguing against birthright citizenship in the US are reinventing a common law decision from 1677 about allegiance and aliens that was pivotal for creating a common law of slavery in England’s empire.
— a logic recreated in Dred Scot.
— rejected by 14th amendment.

Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang

Tulsi Gabbard's Chief of Staff told a top intelligence analyst to rewrite a report to claim that Venezuela' government directed Tren de Aragua to commit crimes in the U.S. -

so the report would support using the Alien Enemies Act to avoid due process.

🎁 Article

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

Something to keep your eye on after the birthright citizenship arguments: 2 other cases before SCOTUS- 1 involving humanitarian parole & another involving TPS- where the govt is asking SCOTUS to let it deport up to 1 million people w/o going through the proper legal process. 🧵

6. After the Latham & Watkins team identified the source as potential additional support for Ms. Chen’s testimony, I asked Claude.ai to provide a properly formatted legal citation for that source using the link to the correct article. Unfortunately, although providing the correct publication title, publication year, and link to the provided source, the returned citation included an inaccurate title and incorrect authors. Our manual citation check did not catch that error. Our citation check also missed additional wording errors introduced in the citations during the formatting process using Claude.ai. These wording errors are: (1) that the correct title of the source in footnote 2 of Ms. Chen’s declaration is Computing Necessary Sample Size, not, as listed in footnote 2, Sample Size Estimation, and (2) the author/preparer of the third source cited in footnote 3 is “Windward Environmental LLC”, not “Lower Windward Environmental LLC.” Again, we apologize for these citation errors.

Oh, sweet merciful fire, two notes:

(1) Even Latham & Watkins, ya'll.

(2) The lawyer defending an AI company for using stolen IP to train their AI/LLM used the company's AI/LLM to cite check her brief, which hallucinated results.

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

If you can no longer demonstrate citizenship through a birth certificate, this impacts *all* children born in the United States, not just ones covered by the birthright citizenship EO as I outline here
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

And in forthcoming Jacob Hamburger piece that I'll link below
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Another Reason Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order is Unlawful Authors discuss the birthright citizenship statute and who Congress in the 1940s and 1950s intended to cover.

Another Reason Trump’s #BirthrightCitizenship Order is Unlawful

By Professors Kristin A. Collins, Gerald Neuman and @rosenbloom.bsky.social

"The EO is unlawful for another reason that has received far less public attention: it violates the federal birthright citizenship statute."

#SCOTUS

Reminder - birthright citizenship is upheld by constitutional AND statutory law.

Grateful to @rosenbloom.bsky.social, Gerald Neuman, and Kristin Collins for filing this excellent amicus brief on the statutory grounds. Check it out when you have the chance. 🗃️⬇️