What we want and what we need Has been confused

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

If true—and this is a big IF—this is a win for civil society groups

My former colleague @raskin.house.gov to AG Pam Bondi: “You’ve turned the people’s Department of Justice into Trump’s instrument of revenge. Trump orders up prosecutions like pizza and you deliver every time.”

Absolutely bizarre behavior

Love being back in my office @bulaw.bsky.social

My former colleague @raskin.house.gov to AG Pam Bondi: “You’ve turned the people’s Department of Justice into Trump’s instrument of revenge. Trump orders up prosecutions like pizza and you deliver every time.”

The correct decision by our fellow citizens

The correct decision by our fellow citizens

Racial justice acts represent citizen repudiation of Supreme Court rulings like McCleskey v. Kemp, which insulate criminal justice systems from racial discrimination challenges.

“Tsai argues that a public defender movement ought to be revived; racial justice acts need public support; and a lot of work can be done to end the death penalty.”

Racial justice acts represent citizen repudiation of Supreme Court rulings like McCleskey v. Kemp, which insulate criminal justice systems from racial discrimination challenges.

“Tsai argues that a public defender movement ought to be revived; racial justice acts need public support; and a lot of work can be done to end the death penalty.”

D.A. Joe Briley put some 40 people on Georgia's death row. Steve Bright and Southern Center for Human Rights showed how Briley exploited the unequal justice system to do so, manufacturing all-white juries and defeating overmatched court-appointed lawyers. #DemandTheImpossible

Love being back in my office @bulaw.bsky.social

It’s a Seahawks celebration 💙💚🏈

Best Seahawks D of my lifetime

D.A. Joe Briley put some 40 people on Georgia's death row. Steve Bright and Southern Center for Human Rights showed how Briley exploited the unequal justice system to do so, manufacturing all-white juries and defeating overmatched court-appointed lawyers. #DemandTheImpossible

This is a populist message and alternative to MAGA that can form the basis of constitutional renewal

This is a populist message and alternative to MAGA that can form the basis of constitutional renewal

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

Now in print: essays on caste from the 2025 Constitutional Law Roundtable (“The Schmooze”): bit.ly/4akuBmS

The rest of the essays are here: www.marylandlawreview.org/issues/volum...

Judges won’t save democracy

First time I’ve had a book shouted out at a commencement. @demandtimpossible.bsky.social @uconnlaw.bsky.social @bulaw.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

In print: “Becoming Steve Bright,” 113 Kentucky L.J. 213 (2025). This essay once represented the first chapter of @demandtimpossible.bsky.social. It focuses on Bright’s years at UK, his role in the protests following the Kent State massacre, and the litigation challenging emergency measures.

Jia Lynn Yang: “From the start of Trump’s first term, the president’s immigration agenda was always about more than the border. It was a project to rewrite who can be considered American.”

Jia Lynn Yang: “From the start of Trump’s first term, the president’s immigration agenda was always about more than the border. It was a project to rewrite who can be considered American.”

First time I’ve had a book shouted out at a commencement. @demandtimpossible.bsky.social @uconnlaw.bsky.social @bulaw.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

The war has been brought home. @kathleenbelew.bsky.social

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

The war has been brought home. @kathleenbelew.bsky.social

My Uber just slammed into a parked car as it pulled up. Should I get in?

lmao

lmao

In print: “Becoming Steve Bright,” 113 Kentucky L.J. 213 (2025). This essay once represented the first chapter of @demandtimpossible.bsky.social. It focuses on Bright’s years at UK, his role in the protests following the Kent State massacre, and the litigation challenging emergency measures.

Reading your skeets aloud to Pie

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on “autocratic backfire”:

Reading your skeets aloud to Pie

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social on “autocratic backfire”:

When they came for the immigrants

Minneapolis

“Legal interpretation takes place on a field of pain and death.” —Robert Cover

Minneapolis