New bar admission oath just dropped. "If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities, we will find you, we will achieve justice, and we will do so under the constitution and the laws of the United States."

It's silly, but I keep thinking about this skittles thing from the first time around.

They broke his rib, and he apparently took some pain meds and went right back out there.

Not that they would make me an offer anyway, but nobody's submitting to Columbia LR, right?

10-1 Bovino is being sidelined because his public image went from Macho Nazi in Intimidating Trenchcoat to High-Voiced Napoleon. Not manly enough for Trump.

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

CU Boulder paying another six-figure settlement for retaliation for complaining of discrimination. No administrator will suffer any meaningful consequences.

get on that jury "but i have to work" i don't care, get on that jury "but i think courts are stupid" i don't care, get on that jury "but i don't like the police" i don't care, get on that jury "but trials are so boring" i don't care, get on that jury

Law professors are also nominators! And we are uniquely positioned to argue for the people of Minneapolis in fighting back against tyranny and the abuse of law. Do your thing!

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

Can anyone help me with one of those vague "I know I read this somewhere questions"? I know I read somewhere, probably from long ago: Claims that boys do better on, e.g., Kohlberg morality scale b/c of experience negotiating rules/calls in playground sports.

Isn't there an oral argument about commandeering going on right now?

But/and again, they literally can’t kill everyone and people are not afraid of them. Look at the crowds that are still out there. They know they’re on the right side, with one another. That’s an unmatched source of courage.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

Pay CLOSE attention to the wording in any DHS statements. DHS will say "armed suspect" DHS will say "approached officers with a gun" These are copaganda phrases to make it SOUND like the victim was holding or brandishing the weapon. He was not.

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

Kavanaugh home invasions Kavanaugh kiddie detentions Kavanaugh pepper spray torture

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

Very interesting on AI, and the centaur/reverse-centaur analogy is useful. But I found it especially intriguing that the examples were "a car makes you a centaur but an amazon truck makes you a reverse-centaur." The first part of the analogy--"a car makes you a centaur"-- invokes an American ...

There are so many articles I would like to read, but then I click on them and they are podcasts.

How thirsty are law schools are to be relevant even to this SCt? Yale pushes out p.r. about a prof being "cited in Supreme Court case." But what's being touted here is the prof's work being cited in an amicus brief by the prof and others. "Prof Cites Self in Brief That Clerk Accepts for Filing!"

This is from the New Yorker piece on Bari Weiss, but it is screenshotted in a way that implies it's a quotation from Weiss. It isn't. It's from a college classmate describing her:

Prelim thoughts while reading the David French piece today: Good's killing marks an expansion of the prerog state on race/gender/class lines. David Graeber has some interesting remarks somewhere about a shift in the media's willingness to normalize police beating up white (male) college students.

I hope the Minnesota Historical Society has moved that Virginia battle flag to a secure location.

Hey, so, OB-GYN shortages are bad for women. This is exactly what happens when you put moronic, anti-science men in charge of women’s health.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

I am way past having patience for this half-assed shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/o...

There's an editorial fad sweeping academia to rotely substitute "such as" for "like." The result is absurd sentences like this one: “Yet no ancient world emperor could even have imagined powers of surveillance, such as those now enjoyed by any minor dictator or oligarch.”

This should be a national shutdown

This piece is representative of a faction that wants to save the Fed while openly inviting the destruction of every other impediment to executive supremacy. The argument is that nothing the Fed does is "political" because we "all agree" about its goals.

Why are Kristi Noem and young Barack Obama narrating my university's mandatory annual training video on conflicts of interest?

Every person who has ever served at any level of our system inherited a blueprint for who they need to be in this moment to prevent democratic collapse, according to the system’s initial architects. All are either catastrophically misjudging our situation or have consciously abandoned their duties.

So proud of my spouse (non-lawyer, great listener): 25 yrs ago, about an appeal where cops had totally lied but judge found them credible: "but questions of fact are for the trial court to decide." today, about the Halligan order: "but 'binding precedent in this district' isn't a thing, is it?"

Bread and roses

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

I'm really proud of this academic freedom syllabus language that the @aaup.org CDAF fellows developed. Having language like this opens up an opportunity to talk with your students about what academic freedom is (and is not). If you add it to your syllabus this semester let me know how it goes!

"A doctor at the scene attempted to help the woman who was shot, but was kept away by federal agents. When an ambulance finally arrived, it was blocked from reaching her by law-enforcement vehicles, and paramedics had to reach her on foot. The woman has died." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is a law requiring landlords to equip their units with fridges and stoves. In Germany, at least 20 years ago, you had to bring your own kitchen cabinets with you when you rented a place. These are good counterexamples to the claim that capitalism produces efficient outcomes.

Attn: law professors. @lawandsociety.bsky.social in SanFran this year is at a Hilton. It's probably too late to get out of the contract for the meeting itself, but you don't have to stay at the conference hotel!

If this motion gets even a respectful hearing, my head is going to explode the next time I have to teach Twombly and Iqbal.

My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The fascinating thing about this to me is that the metaphor of friendship "markets" adds nothing to the analysis or the advice, and is actually kind of confusing, but we live in neoliberal hell so apparently it's the metaphor for everything.

You can go home, but try not to breathe. We really have decided we'd rather let people die than ever have to hear "N95" again.

THREAD. Every year, I tell the story of Ezell Gilbert. It's the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to him is vital for understanding the current moment we are in.

What is even the point of stocking asparagus if you're going to do this?