Niko Bowie
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https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/nikolas-bowie/
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Jerry Chen
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bluesky branding refresh unveiled
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Lauren Miller
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Let's not forget that the only reason we're not talking about Boston
@mayorwu.boston.gov
's victory tonight is because she won her preliminary election so decisively that her billionaire heir opponent dropped out. ✊
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Boston mayor Michelle Wu officially claims second term, cementing dominance in city - The Boston Globe
Mayor Michelle Wu ran unopposed, presiding unchallenged over Boston politics after a year in which it seemed her true political opposition was President Trump.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/metro/michelle-wu-second-term-election-national-figure/
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“No Kings” is a great message, but it’s sort of incredible how many things Trump is doing that the English deposed their king for trying to do
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Apt that the East Wing housed the Office of Legislative Affairs
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No Kings in Boston
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“If the justices gut a key provision of the law, there could be a potential windfall for Republicans in Congress. . . . An analysis by The New York Times estimated that the loss . . . could place the House in Republican control for a generation.”
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Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/politics/democrats-republicans-voting-rights.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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One of the most embarrassing opinions in recent Supreme Court history was Clarence Thomas insisting that when the post-slavery Congress protected “freedmen” they were protecting a “formally race-neutral category”
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Joey Fishkin
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Honestly, this entire opinion is just jaw-dropping. The first postings I saw on Bluesky were about the first page, which is lovely in its own right and exemplifies one of the less-well-explored roles of a judge in a democracy: to explain what is going on legally to non-lawyers. There's way more.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
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Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"
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AAUP
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BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:
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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69784731/261/american-association-of-university-professors-v-rubio/
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Our little AAUP chapter went 2/2 vs. Trump! Noem and Rubio…misused the sweeping powers of their offices to target non-citizen pro-Palestinians for deportation primarily on account of their 1st Am protected political speech. They did so in order to strike fear into similarly situated non-citizens…
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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Entered: 09/30/2025)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69784731/261/american-association-of-university-professors-v-rubio/
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Ironically, the print version of this oped switched the second column with the third column
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Gal Beckerman’s The Quiet Before was a critique of Twitter when it came out in 2022. But it now reads like a defense of Bluesky and why “bubbles” are so valuable for incubating ideas.
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We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”
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Veena Dubal
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AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!!
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Ilya Marritz
2 months ago
the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf stunning reporting from
@hilaryburns.bsky.social
@talkopan.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
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A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. - The Boston Globe
Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/metro/trump-harvard-doj-lawyer-antisemitism-hitler/
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Josh Chafetz
3 months ago
1/2 Trump should absolutely not be able to fire Lisa Cook. But this is because he should not be able to fire anyone with statutory tenure protections.
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jamelle
3 months ago
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
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“We have committed our professional lives to learning and free inquiry, working together with students to advance truth for the collective benefit of society. Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.”
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Harvard faculty won’t cave to Trump demands - The Boston Globe
Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/14/opinion/harvard-trump-faculty-trustees/?s_campaign=8315:varf
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Trump’s attacks on Harvard are flagrantly illegal. If he’s so willing to defy the restrictions of federal law, it’s beyond me why he’d respect the restrictions of a “legal settlement.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
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Congress passed the Respect for Marriage Act in 2022 anticipating this sort of move. Its cosponsors should be out there explaining why we need more laws like it.
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Harvard: “We’re suing you for unconstitutionally retaliating against us.” Trump lawyers: “This demands retaliation!”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
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Corinne Blalock
3 months ago
the weaponization of course evaluations in the Brown University deal takes the consumerist model of higher education to new heights. not only is your job contingent on it, but make any of your students uncomfortable and you’ll be investigated by the government
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NYT: "N.Y.C. Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say" Same article: "A federal ban on assault rifles ended in 2004."
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N.Y.C. Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/nyregion/new-york-gun-laws-shooting.html
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One of the ICE agents who arrested Brad Lander was wearing a t-shirt that literally said "rogue."
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑
5 months ago
Just infuriating, devastating, horrifying. Trans kids deserve a world worthy of them, not this vile transphobic cruelty.
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Move to hold the agents who assaulted a sitting senator in contempt of Congress. Call for articles of impeachment against Noem. Stop working on crypto legislation. Demonstrate the stakes of what is happening in LA with your actions.
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Democracy Docket
5 months ago
California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.
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In the spirit of this great oped, journalists (inc. Goldberg) must recognize that one of Trump’s patterns is: 1. Do something wildly illegal 2. Identify the name of a law 3. Proceed to ignore every limit in that law The pattern is tricking papers into writing “Trump is invoking a rarely used law.”
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Happy fifth anniversary to this tweet from a century ago
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LPE Blog
6 months ago
Cool paper alert:
@rickhasen.bsky.social
has recently posted a new paper, Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy.
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Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy
The collapse of campaign finance regulation in the United States has facilitated a path toward oligarchic power redistribution. Americans did not adopt the curr
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5229707
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In the lawsuit, the university accused the Trump administration of exerting “clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students.”
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This illustrates how the Supreme Court facilitates presidential authoritarianism. By declining to enforce federal laws that bind the president—except for laws it likes—it invites presidents to challenge legal boundaries. Our democracy needs a court that enforces federal law, not one that defies it.
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“International students are essential members of the Harvard community. As teachers at Harvard, we have made a moral commitment to educate these students from the day they accepted their offer of admission to the day they receive their degrees. That commitment has not changed, and cannot change.”
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Dan Farbman
6 months ago
The suggestion that it was the observation that law and politics are intertwined that got us “here” is precisely backwards. Rather, the persistent fiction that law is somehow apolitical has been a permission structure for folks to launder their politics through the mystique of law.
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Ironically, the federal government has historically gotten away with deporting people without jury trials precisely because they’ve said it isn’t a “punishment” for Sixth Amendment purposes
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There’s already an article that makes this precise point!
michiganlawreview.org/journal/the-...
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I finally got to say “longtime listener, first time caller” with my favorite program.
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Harvard professor gives perspective on the Trump administration clash with university
What does the clash between Harvard and the Trump administration look like from the perspective of its faculty? NPR's Michel Martin akss Harvard Law School professor Nikolas Bowie.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5365978/harvard-professor-gives-perspective-on-the-trump-administration-clash-with-university
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All universities right now need to be making this case to the public why universities and our scientific research matters. But let’s promote our humanities and social sciences too!
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BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.
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Adil Haque
7 months ago
The United States government arrested Rumeysa Ozturk for writing an op-ed, then defamed her with outright lies. I encourage you to read and share the sworn affidavits linked below by the faculty and students who know her best. She must be freed immediately.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Marisa Kabas
7 months ago
this photo of a charred haggadah (the book jews use at the passover seder) from governor shapiro’s house breaks my heart.
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The LPE Project
7 months ago
As pro-Palestine students & faculty around the country are increasingly being tarred with accusations of terrorism, universities must protect their community members, as well as their missions, by refusing to operate on the basis of fear
lpeproject.org/blog/free-sp...
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A Call To Defend Free Speech From Weaponized Allegations of Terrorism Ties
When students, staff, or faculty are accused of being associated or "aligned" with terrorist organizations, universities may be pressed to take immediate and harsh action, if only to quell media…
https://lpeproject.org/blog/free-speech-weaponized-allegations/
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Our chapter filed that suit last month.
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The New York Times
7 months ago
Two groups representing Harvard professors sued the Trump administration on Friday, saying that its threat to cut billions in federal funding for the university violates free speech and other First Amendment rights.
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Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Federal Funds
The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/us/politics/harvard-professors-trump-lawsuit-funding.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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“Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important. But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics."
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Harvard AAUP Sues Trump Administration To Stop $9 Billion Review of Harvard’s Federal Funding | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration on Friday to end its ongoing review of the University’s federal funding, alleging the review was ...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/12/aaup-lawsuit-funding-review/
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"I didn't travel 5,000 miles all the way from Pakistan just to be afraid of walking five feet out of my door," said Abdullah Shahid Sial, co-president of the Harvard Undergraduate Association. "I didn't come to the school to sit in class and remain silent."
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Amid crackdown on elite universities, Cambridge protesters to urge Harvard not to concede to Trump demands - The Boston Globe
Cambridge officials, residents, and members of the Harvard community are expected to brave the cold and rain Saturday for a noon rally on the Cambridge Common calling on Harvard leadership to push bac...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/12/metro/harvard-protest-trump-cambridge/
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