Thank you! I appreciate it. Right now Iโm just doing the dishes and thinking of all the other things I wish Iโd said, too. So I really appreciate it.
16.09.2025 00:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@wcreeley.bsky.social
I defend freedom of expression as Legal Director for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Here for civil liberties. Opinions my own.
Thank you! I appreciate it. Right now Iโm just doing the dishes and thinking of all the other things I wish Iโd said, too. So I really appreciate it.
16.09.2025 00:34 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Big win. Proud of our tireless, tenacious
@thefireorg.bsky.social team โ and very grateful for our brave plaintiffs.
JUST FILED: Today FIRE submitted a โfriend of the courtโ brief in defense of Harvard against the Trump administrationโs illegal and hostile takeover attempt of the university.
09.06.2025 17:46 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Coming up at the top of the hour! I had a great time talking with Dylan. Thanks for having me!
31.05.2025 13:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0FIRE is looking for students, faculty, student organizations, and institutions of higher learning who are affected by the administrationโs threat to deport non-citizens for protected speech. Help us fight back โฌ๏ธ
09.05.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0#BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Tufts student Rรผmeysa รztรผrk, who faces deportation for writing an op-ed critical of Israel.
No one in America โ citizen or not โ should fear the governmentโs wrath for speaking their mind.
Fuck, no.
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Un-American and wrong.
09.05.2025 19:44 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0bringing an end to the moral panic that gripped the nation and its officials. Similar themes were sounded during the McCarthy period in the 1950s when thousands of non-citizens were targeted for deportation due to their political views. Ellen Schrecker, Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations During the McCarthy Era, Vol. 60 Sci. & Soc'y 393 (1996). Again, the fever passed, but not before Justice Jackson was moved to dissent in U.S. ex rel. Knauff v. Shaughnessy, 338 U.S. 537, 317 (1950), writing in a habeas case concerning the exclusion of a German war bride: Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name. The menace to the security of this country, be it great as it may, from this girl's admission is as nothing compared to the menace to free institutions inherent in procedures of this pattern. Justice Minton's majority decision is not much remembered. The wheel of history has come around again, but as before these times of excess will pass. In the meantime, this case-like Colyer and Knauff-is extraordinary in the sense that it calls upon the ancient remedy of habeas to address a persistent modern wrong.
"The wheel of history has come around again, but as before these times of excess will pass. In the meantime, this caseโlike Colyer and Knauffโis extraordinary in the sense that it calls upon the ancient remedy of habeas to address a persistent modern wrong."
30.04.2025 16:28 โ ๐ 172 ๐ 34 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The court also considers the extraordinary setting of this case and others like it. Legal residents-not charged with crimes or misconduct-are being arrested and threatened with deportation for stating their views on the political issues of the day. Our nation has seen times like this before, especially during the Red Scare and Palmer Raids of 1919-1920 that led to the deportation of hundreds of people suspected of anarchist or communist views. In Colyer v. Skeffington, 265 F. 17 (1920), Judge Anderson of the District of Massachusetts granted habeas relief to multiple immigrants detained for their political beliefs. His decision was instrumental in bringing an end to the moral panic that gripped the nation and its officials. Similar themes were sounded during the McCarthy period in the 1950s when thousands of non-citizens were targeted for deportation due to their political views. Ellen Schrecker, Immigration and Internal Security: Political Deportations During the McCarthy Era, Vol. 60 Sci. & Soc'y 393 (1996).
"Our nation has seen times like this before, especially during the Red Scare and Palmer Raids of 1919โ1920 that led to the deportation of hundreds of people suspected of anarchist or communist views."
30.04.2025 16:27 โ ๐ 218 ๐ 47 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3CONCLUSION Petitioner's Motion for Release (Doc. 19) is GRANTED. The court orders the release of Mohsen Madawi on his personal recognizance during the pendency of this habeas proceeding. His release is subject to the following conditions: That he reside in Vermont; That he is permitted to travel to New York State for educational purposes or to meet with his lawyers or as otherwise ordered by the court; That he attend all court hearings in this case in person unless excused by order of the court. 28 2:25-cv-00389-gwc Document 54 Filed 04/30/25 Page 29 of 29 Mahdawi v. Trump, et al. Dated at Burlington, in the District of Vermont, this 30th day of April, 2025. Case No. 2:25-CV-389 Geoffrey W. Crawford, Judge United States District Court
READ NOW: A VT federal judge orders Mohsen Mahdawi released during habeas proceedings.
"Legal residentsโnot charged with crimes or misconductโare being arrested and threatened with deportation for stating their views on the political issues of the day."
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NEW: Judge Sessions DENIES the govtโs request to keep Rรผmeysa รztรผrk in Louisiana as it appeals the courtโs jurisdiction and reiterates that ICE must transfer her to Vermont by May 1. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
24.04.2025 19:04 โ ๐ 8536 ๐ 1970 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 69Please let this pathetic walkback be a lesson to everyone tempted to capitulate
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Talked about why Khalil's detention should concern every American last night on CBC.
I was born and raised in Buffalo. I love our northern neighbors. When Canadians have reason to worry about visiting the United States, things have gone terribly wrong.
youtu.be/MZDbb5D-uKM?...
My students often ask whether thereโs any point in being in law school anymore, especially as they witness the rule of law being systematically eroded. That question breaks my heart. Itโs also why I urge them, emphatically to stay and fight.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
VICTORY! Today, a federal judge granted a student groupโs motion for a preliminary injunction, preventing Texas A&M officials from blocking a First Amendment-protected student drag show on its College Station campus.
www.thefire.org/news/victory...
Proud of my FIRE team โ particularly @jtmorristx.bsky.social and @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social โ for securing this result.
24.03.2025 14:01 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
โThe more people who come forward to defend the Constitution, the greater their chances of success will be.โ
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
You'd never know it, but there is actually a constitutional provision that gives universities, law firms, and media orgs the *right* to say no to the president when he demands that they prostrate themselves before him.
21.03.2025 11:53 โ ๐ 2418 ๐ 593 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 11Paul Weiss hasnโt confirmed any of this. I *really* hope thatโs because this is wishful thinking on Trumpโs part. I canโt imagine that Paul Weissโs lawyers would agree to this.
20.03.2025 23:54 โ ๐ 68 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0Even if it somehow turns out that Paul Weiss (like Mexico?) only agreed to do stuff they otherwise would have done just to get out from under the Executive Order, firms must fight the very basis of the EO & its attack on the integrity of the legal professions rather than look for an easy way out.
20.03.2025 23:56 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Coalition of civil liberties orgs led by @thefireorg.bsky.social files amicus brief rebuking the U.S. government for detaining Mahmoud Khalil for his free speech, pointing out the unfettered authority Rubio claims has already been declared unconstitutionally vague: www.thefire.org/news/fire-an...
20.03.2025 15:06 โ ๐ 166 ๐ 46 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Glad to be on file here, and grateful for the hard work of my colleagues to make it happen. www.thefire.org/news/fire-an...
20.03.2025 14:45 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1โI think whatโs perhaps most dangerous about this moment is that, given the rhetoric coming out of the administration today, folks across the country are going to think twice before they criticise the government, whether itโs the US government or Israeli government" - @wcreeley.bsky.social
11.03.2025 13:23 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Also Happy 61st to New York Times v. Sullivan. May it live to see 62 (and so on)
09.03.2025 19:03 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Happy Shuttlesworth Day
09.03.2025 19:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0