To kick off a series on @lpeblog.bsky.social exploring the perverse use of antidiscrimination law by the Trump admin, I wrote about the radical interpretation the admin has adopted of Title VI and what it means for TItle VI's past & future. lpeproject.org/blog/title-v...

I resent the court for making a fool of my 1L self for filing “Humphrey’s Executor” into the mental folder of “things I will never have to think about after the final exam and/or bar exam”

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

No need to pretend that this is about immigration anymore.

I entered the Biden era making 36k/yr, and left it making 50k because the Biden NLRB let us form a union.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

Stipulating that 100% of this is violence, the physical violence is really frightening. There is no world in which ramming a car, breaking a window and assaulting the driver is necessary. Even if the subject was suspected of a crime, which this guy wasn't. There must be trials when this is all over

“They kept telling me, ’Your husband is unlawfully here,’” [GBLS attorney Leslie] Perlera Gonzalez said. “I told them that I am a U.S. citizen, that I’m an attorney, that the process for him to stay was underway. They kept saying, ‘He’s not lawfully here.’” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

This Is shocking conduct by ICE in Malden, MA www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

Episode #4739258 of "the way the immigration system actually works in America is not even remotely how most Americans think it does, and is approximately a billion times worse in every possible direction"

this is critical to what we mean when we say laws are fake. it’s not that they won’t be enforced, it’s that they’ll be enforced unevenly and vindictively because laws are just manifestations of state power.

Today, @gabrielwinant.bsky.social breaks down the core theoretical divides between Marxism and antitrust—and considers how, despite these differences, the two traditions might inform one another in a constructive give and take.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Transphobia makes a person cruel and stupid and weak, like any mindset premised on refusing to empathize with other people. It is bound at the root to fascism, it is a plutonium-grade toxin for any society, and it has to be defeated.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

BIG NEWS! Today, we amended the @massdems platform to support legislative staff’s right to unionize. Thanks to all the delegates at the State Convention who supported our amendment!

What is the point of asking a child to write an essay if a human being isn't even going to read it? Who is it for?

I wrote a book that I hope helps people think about the relationship between law, science, social movements, &political economy. It tells the story of how feminists transformed the response to AIDS to ensure better access to healthcare. Avail for preorder! www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

I love how the Mass. Board of Bar Overseers gives you a little arts and crafts project when they send you a new bar card.

Happy to see the NLRB General Counsel's office apparently has the excess capacity to take on litigation that really should be left to employers faced with complying with New York's new labor law: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-... . I had been under the impression there was a staffing shortage!

Absolutely. The inverse of this is that the govt and uni admin have determined that Faculty are disorganized and have no solidarity and so there is no credible threat to attacking individual professors regardless of status. They will keep attacking us and our students unless we stand and stop them

The legal basis of tenure is much less protective than many professors believe. The protection of tenure is not primarily the law, but in the credible threat of the rest of the faculty taking action to protect the person. And guess what? Faculties can take action for people without tenure, too!

100%. I'm sure the inboxes of every dep't chair, dean, and university president are currently full of complaints from students who dislike aspects of their classes. Those coming from right-wing students are coupled with threats that the next stop is DOJ.

starting to question whether these conservative judges are acting in good faith

if Rule 11 isn’t for this, I’m not sure what it’s for

The FTC chair complained about the noncompete rule redistributing wealth to workers away from corporate executives as though that were a *bad* thing. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump's FTC just dropped its defense of Lina Khan's ban on noncompete agreements. Noncompetes trap workers in their jobs and prevent them from using their skills to earn higher pay. So much for being the "pro-worker president." https://youtu.be/xtKoXuRxNI8?feature=shared

In 1912, socialists organized a multi-ethnic workforce in Lawrence, Massachusetts in a dramatic challenge against the owners of textile mills (capitalists). Workers chanted: "Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!" Thus it's known as the "Bread & Roses" strike.

All the cancel culture/the left is too woke culture wars are about the staff getting ideas above their station.

usually you have to work harder for evidence admissible in the hague

I am surrounded by completely lawless drivers. Every move drivers in my town makes appears to be guided by “can I do this convenient thing without harm to me” rather than “should I drive according to laws, predictably and safely.” Driving through stop signs, using wrong lanes, passing cyclists, etc.

MA dems removed almost all of the language on trans rights from their platform. all of this from the 2021 platform was stripped

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

NJ students in grades 6-12 will now learn about “the history of organized labor, notable strikes throughout history, unionization drives, and the collective bargaining process and existing legal protections in the workplace.” This is genuinely so important, and so good to see. Jersey strong, baby!!

Amazon “pauses” its delivery fleet that it demands the delivery service providers lease. This right here is why DSPs are not “small business owners” in any actual or legal sense of the term. They—and the drivers—are controlled by Amazon.

I'm periodically reminded that in other countries employers need a reason to fire you and I get angry at the US all over again.

Great piece in the LPE Project Blog on reimagining labor law violations as moral violations. Some additional thoughts on reading: limiting remedies to “make-whole” remedies treats statutory harm like it is private law. Moreover, focusing on the harm to, eg… lpeproject.org/blog/union-b...

I'll say this about the Venezuela boat strikes, I appreciate how many prominent members of the administration are basically stating on the record that they are involved in a criminal conspiracy and should be imprisoned immediately following the collapse of the regime.

Judge Burroughs is spot on here in her order permanently enjoining the Harvard funding terminations. The Court has been abdicating its responsibility to say what the law is in its haste to come to Trump’s rescue on the shadow docket. It’s completely unacceptable.

Havard & AAUP beat back the Trump Admin's efforts to freeze funds at the district court level. When we fight we (have a much better chance of) win(ing) Go @veenadubal.bsky.social!

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.”

District and appellate courts, I think fairly, keep asking the Supreme Court to clarify what they actually mean—i.e. "If the new rule is that the Trump admin can never lose then you have to say that" and the Supreme Court keeps being like "No, you're supposed to just do it without us having to say."

We love to see it!

The right to organize is core to who we are in the Live Free or Die state, and I’m proud to stand with New Hampshire’s nurses as they organize to exercise and protect their fundamental rights.

Until you’ve participated in union contract negotiation it can be hard to conceptualize that an owner or manager would care more about screwing their workers than keeping a business profitable or indeed open at all, but it’s actually not so uncommon!

Spending the morning entering data into Canvas, as Freire would have wanted.

Wouldn’t be a Labor Day without the best union public service announcement ever made (parody or real) youtu.be/_3mw49mk_x0