Corporate money has influenced immigration policymaking for decades. But what’s in it for big business? In the fight over the future of America’s immigration system, it’s worth keeping an eye on the actions and motivations of corporations. theflaw.org/articles/imm...

really hoping this is true and that HU is standing firm: President Alan M. Garber "told faculty that a deal with the Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the University is considering a $500 million settlement" www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

The @aaup.org submitted a letter to @cuny.edu leadership supporting the academic freedom & constitutional rights of Prof Ramzi Kassem in response to the outrageous suggestion by Rep. Stefanik that he be disciplined for representing Mahmoud Khalil. Read it here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-le...

Me on the factually misleading and analytically ridiculous misconduct complaint DOJ has filed against Chief Judge Boasberg—and the dangerousness of DOJ so openly trying to undermine public confidence in the only institution that has been even partially effective at checking the Trump administration:

The DOJ is investigating faculty for passing a nonbinding resolution in support of University President and diversity. Just another escalation in the authoritarian attack on academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Yeah, we still use the term McCarthyism even though the scale and nature of his impact is a shadow of what is happening right now. It shows just how the US struggles to find appropriate reference points for what is happening now.

Well who could have predicted that this would happen? www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

I said what I said: "Professors are considering leaving Columbia because of the settlement, said Jacoby and Dixon-Román. 'It’s very demoralizing to teach in a university that’s, from my perspective, acceding to authoritarian demands,' Jacoby said." www.chronicle.com/article/colu...

Beginning March 2024, the Harvard Education Review worked on a special issue designed to promote “scholarly conversation on education and Palestine amid repression, occupation, and genocide.” In June the Harvard Education Publishing Group cancelled the issue. 🎓🚫 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Judge Burroughs asked lawyer for Trump administration how it could make such “ad hoc decisions” when “there’s no documentation, no procedure” justifying the funding cuts. “The consequences for that in terms of constitutional law are staggering,” Burroughs said. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/21/m...

Judge Burroughs to Trump lawyer re Trump administration: They're claiming to be “protecting Jews and upholding American values while, on the other hand, taking steps that are very antithetical to those interests.” 🫡 www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"His passing leaves a hole in our community that cannot be filled.” A remarkable scholar, teacher, mentor, and human being. RIP hls.harvard.edu/today/rememb...

"These decisions are habitually made behind closed doors with little student consultation, transparency, and acknowledgment until the damage is already done. Our administration counts on us not noticing. And not caring." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Since day 1 of the new administration, President Trump said he would round up alleged gang members to address the opioid crisis. Will it? No, we argue in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social; public health is being used as a pretext to expand presidential power and ultimately damage public health.

Maybe it's time to stop saying that Harvard is "standing up" to Trump. They're compromising core values behind closed doors, while avoiding faculty, students, and public explanation. Caving to authoritarian demands quietly and in darkness is still capitulation. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Something’s off. Harvard is negotiating with & caving to Trump over the University’s core commitments (eg👇) Why? On what grounds? At what costs? To what end? On all of that, President Garber is briefing & consulting alumni. Yet, he refuses to speak with the faculty. 🤨 newrepublic.com/post/197824/...

This would be an extremely bad idea. It will not satisfy them. It will acknowledge that they are right about something. It will empower them. Literally nothing that anyone should do, should be oriented towards placating this administration.

Take that Alito! Well done, Judge Laplante!

Spent the last hour reading Justice Jackson’s dissent in Trump v. Casa and: 😮 and 🤩 it's heartening to read a Supreme Court opinion that gets it, makes clear what’s at stake with this authoritarian president, and dares to call out her colleagues' horsesh*t. btw, imo, SS and EK should have joined.

To be clear, fear of a "threat" to academic is itself a loss of academic freedom. 85% of Harvard faculty now see government pressure as a major fear; more than half say Trump’s actions have already chilled their speech. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Yesterday, Harvard quietly scrubbed DEI offices and websites, removing centers for women, LGBTQ students, and students of color. DEI was never enough, but dismantling rather than strengthening those efforts and offices now is an outrage. More than ever: Veritas. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If Harvard loses its accreditation, I'd wager most people would still want to study there. The real loser would be accreditation -- which would come to be seen as politicized

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

They're baaaack! Harvard now faces the threat of losing its accreditation -- another transparently pretextual deployment of “antisemitism” by an authoritarian bully intent on co-opting the institutions that check his power and activate his intellectual insecurity. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

She has begun looking at interests, and motives, and connections. She’s begun to point behind the curtain at what “collegiality” obscures.

Justice Jackson has begun looking at patterns, and noticing what types of parties tend to win, and which tend to lose. She has noticed procedural discrepancies.

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

“Imagine whole bookshelves, seminars, workshops and trainings that teach aspiring tech entrepreneurs techniques like these. Imagine hundreds of engineers whose job every day is to invent new ways to keep you hooked.” Our latest -- a great story reported by Gauri Sood:👇 theflaw.org/articles/the...

Proud to be AAUP Member and of this important case. A couple of quick reactions to first day of trial below. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Nothing that any university has done has "helped make it a White House target". Universities are targets bc they are *always* targeted by authoritarian regimes, and anything would have been a pretext. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

“The law is on our side. The truth is on our side. Even the ever-elusive court of public opinion is on our side. And so long as we maintain our moral clarity, history too will be on our side." Harvard - Stand up to Tyrants! Stand up for Independence! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

THREAD. Congress just took away healthcare from millions of people, science funding is being gutted, and most people have no real sense of specific ways society will suffer, but this “health and science” reporter at the New York Times is doing this:

“I think the only reason that we are not all outraged constantly is that it has become normalized to see that type of misleading messaging everywhere....But that doesn’t make it okay, it just means that we are used to it.” theflaw.org/articles/big...

"Given Congress’s abdication of its constitutional role, courts remain the best immediate vehicle for combatting Trump’s excesses. With Friday’s ruling, the Court is stripping its own power, & at the worst possible moment." All the more reason for lawyers to fight www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

As usual, the students get it: "Without our international students, Harvard is not Harvard. But without academic freedom, Harvard can no longer call itself a university." "we simply have to fight and to show solidarity, across both the country and our campus." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Not a settlement, a shakedown. Not negotiations, extortion. Not a business decision, bribery. If this were happening in any other country in the world, we would see it more clearly for what it is.

I flagged this in April and have been howling it into the void. Trump wants Black & Latino incarcerated U.S. citizens sent to CECOT in El Salvador, Congo, South Sudan. These are the “homegrown” Trump talked about with the Salvadoran PM. Please. Take this seriously. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

98% of Harvard faculty surveyed support standing up to Trump -- and an overwhelming percentage strongly disagree with his particular demands. To Harvard Administration: Don't be a Columbia, UPenn, Indiana U, or Murkowski. Do the right thing while you still can! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Working on a theory that liberal law professors are notably credulous when it comes to Amy Coney Barrett opinions because they assume that, on some level, surely a fellow law professor can be trusted to Do Law, Not Politics in good faith

law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen

Ryan’s statement makes clear that the fed government had threatened to withhold unrelated university funding & student visas in order to coerce his resignation All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

Me: oh my god. The court! The world! Brady: Yeah, but scalloped landscaping bricks!

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

The first opinion out of the Supreme Court today is so bad I almost don't want to talk about it. In Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court has just ruled that universal injunctions against the administration likely exceed lower court authority. What that means is that broad scale injunctions to stop

She can take care of herself, but the condescending language directed toward Justice Jackson in the majority opinions in Casa today and Medina yesterday is really striking.

“A deal might allow us to return to our research for a while, but without basic democratic rights, we will leave ourselves, our students, and future scholars vulnerable to once-unthinkable restrictions on what they can research, publish, teach, and say.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...