”shedding”?

I was confused by this cite, but thought I was misremembering this part of Crim Pro 1 (in my defense it’s been fifteen years). Turns out I’m not the only one who needs a refresher…

This is critically important. Democrats need to pass it if they retake Congress. Trump will veto it. So pass it again. Campaign on it. Given current polling, corruption of the FBI, and the brutality of ICE and BP, there’s no better time to say, “Federal police are not above the law.”

Finish him!

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Wherever Walter Cronkite is, he still has the capacity to cast a hex

Happy holidays from the other side of the world.

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

Read @greenwell.bsky.social! www.harpercollins.com/products/bad...

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

Hard not to see this as an extension of Trump's legal assault on higher education. Not like the FBI exactly covered itself in glory here.

Always a privilege to work alongside such great folks on important 1A issues. Thanks to LDF for litigating this vital case.

No shame in hating on her; I’ve been doing it since college and “Columbia Unbecoming” over twenty years ago.

My last story of the year: an update on the woman who fell in love with ChatGPT. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/t...

Happy holidays!

“The restrictions on immigration judges’ free speech rights are unconstitutional, and it’s intolerable that this prior restraint is still in place,” said Ramya Krishnan, a lawyer for the group and a senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Here's what I told @NPR about the TikTok deal, expected to close on Jan. 22nd, 2026. Still worried about the effect on freedom of speech in the U.S. www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

Hi Senator, excuse me for jumping in, but... while I agree with you that this is really damaging, I couldn't help but notice YOU VOTED FOR THE FREAKING BILL THAT GAVE TRUMP THIS POWER (which some of us warned you not to do). www.senate.gov/legislative/...

“Digital fentanyl” 🫠😵‍💫😒

BREAKING: Man suspected in the shooting at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, AP source says.

A year ago @anupamchander.bsky.social and I and many others were dealing with the late December grant of cert in the TikTok case. I don’t think any of us anticipated the twists that this issue has taken since then.

I wish the Senator’s Dem colleagues would heed this. Eliminating 230 would be catastrophic.

Today, @azohra.bsky.social and Madiha Tahir argue that recent criticism of the Trump administration's bombings in the Caribbean risks repeating a familiar mistake: debating how the United States wages war while leaving unquestioned why it wages it at all.

I had drinks with my colleagues tonight and they were asking for Christmas movie recommendations. I said “Elf” and “The Holdovers” and they responded “… no we meant like Hallmark movies.”

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

I’m not a narcissist but I would believe you if you told me that this entire thing has been engineered specifically to drive me, a professor at a public university in Texas who teaches First Amendment and writes about AI, out of my mind

“Civil rights and civil liberties only for real Americans” demonstrating a really… interesting view of what civil rights and civil liberties are for.

Breaking: Trump has sued the BBC for defamation in federal court in Miami, seeking $5 billion in damages. Story to come in the @washingtonpost.com.

What has happened since the Court upheld the TikTok ban makes a mockery of the gvt’s claims that TikTok was an urgent national security risk—and of the court that deferred to those claims Wrote w @jameeljaffer.bsky.social abt why TikTok should haunt the Court www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Steve has a characteristically cogent and measured response to the “‘Annie Hall’ critique.” Mine is shorter: why would anyone choose in this moment to stand up for *this* Supreme Court? It is no vice to be perennially dissatisfied by its lawless actions.

So sad. Devastated. I think about “There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and ‘Driving Miss Daisy.’” all the time. youtu.be/qx1Rua92Zno

Andrew was my Books editor for a time in college and I’m a big fan of his fiction; looking forward to this.

“Nobody Wants This” not just a Netflix show

@techpolicypress.bsky.social asked me to comment on the White House's EO to block state AI laws. Shorter: its focus on interstate commerce, "truthful AI," & innovation are a flop. The President is not as powerful as he pretends. Enlisting DoJ & FTC won't help; they are bound by law.

The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.

As childhood morphs into adolescence, the boundless optimism parents offer transforms into horizons for young adults to conquer. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Inverse version of “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”

I was in high school when this happened, and truly did not have any inkling that I would become a lawyer (much less a law prof), but do remember thinking how bizarre this was.

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...

Taken: Your Children’s Health and Safety.

Maybe this new blog can respond, in one of its first posts, to the argument that the term “interim docket” is a deliberately misleading attempt to minimize the (very permanent) doctrinal and real-world consequences of #SCOTUS’s rulings on emergency applications? www.stevevladeck.com/p/177-the-no...

Let’s never forget how we got Judge Bove; the Republicans confirmed him to a seat open because enough spineless Democrats refused to support Adeel Mangi (nominated by Biden), due to scurrilous and unfounded accusations that reeked of Islamophobia.

NEW: Judge Emil Bove Faces Ethics Complaint for Attending Trump Rally 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

Mandatory social media disclosure and surveillance “has not proven effective at finding terrorists and other bad guys,” EFF’s Sophia Cope told @NYTimes.com. “But it has chilled the free speech and invaded the privacy of innocent travelers” and Americans, too. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/...

Because I’m in Spain, I posted this in the middle of the night, U.S.-time, so … ICYMI, a 🧵 on Congress.

I don’t write the headlines but I do like this one (post-Slaughter argument roundtable for @nytimes.com with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...