This is the clearest articulation of what is happening to entire domains of research for no reason except anti-intellectualism: “It took us a long time to create the institution and put a lot of work into that, but it's vastly, vastly easier to destroy an institution than to create it,” Marks said

Madison not only thought noncitizens had constitutional rights, he wrote that deportation was such a severe punishment that the federal government had no power to do it absent a war or jury trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment

“the task before us is to remake the very social relations from which these fundamental problems emerge“

Parent advocates have been fighting school pushout since the first school desegregation order went into effect. This early history can teach us so much today. I’ve been thinking about writing this article since litigating desegregation cases at @legaldefensefund.bsky.social and it’s finally out!

🎯 "The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."

If tomorrow they made being undocumented a felony, it wouldn’t justify any of this. Things that are harmless or even good can be criminalized.

The right figured out long ago that if you contest something it is then contestable.

This has been a labor of love! Read on to learn about the new, democratic, membership-based structure. Join as a member — and come to our first annual conference in Richmond in Feb! 😊

at a certain point we will move beyond the "war crimes" debate, since there is no war, and into a "murder" debate that asks not just whether these are individual murders but whether they are widespread & systematic attacks on civilians and thus constitute crimes against humanity.

Millions without credit scores face a catch-22: you need credit to build credit, but can't get credit without a score. @georgetownlaw.bsky.social's Nakita Cuttino proposes a solution: eliminate "unscored" status by presuming creditworthiness. Read more here: michiganlawreview.org/journal/pres...

I cover what people *are* doing (their work is harder than mine, but my work is not easy). From the last 12 months: newrepublic.com/article/1988... newrepublic.com/article/1946... newrepublic.com/article/1917... newrepublic.com/article/1916... newrepublic.com/article/1895...

Okay, so this exists now! 😬 Inside, you'll find: the IWW, Tom Mooney, the First Red Scare, labor juries, the ILD, the Gastonia Strike, Angelo Herndon, Euel Lee, Scottsboro, riots at the Supreme Court, Charles Hamilton Houston, Pauli Murray, the Worker's Defense League, FDR using a racial slur . . .

“wreckage is not an inert substance“

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.

What's going with habeas and ICE kidnappings is a perfect example of what I mean when I say courts won't save us. Recently, ICE/the BIA made up a rule, saying nearly everyone ICE kidnaps is subject to "mandatory detention" (ie, no bail/bond). 282 out of 288 of judges to hear habeas cases disagree.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.

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Have to say, it makes you think given that Germany really was in catastrophic economic straits. Whereas we are... not that, in all reality. Almost as if superstructures of racial/class domination could be used to sustain a fascist and reactionary regime for years despite materialist fundamentals.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

“Mamdani shows how new constituencies are born from taking political risks and made through probing investigation and performative interaction.“

One way to explain why prisons are so big & bad in the US is that weak feds didn't create a post-68 (de)industrial policy, so unregulatable, austere states built racist solutions to structural problems. Now the racist solutions are pursued by fully funded, unregulatable federal cops and prisons.

What are three policy proposals that you heard from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social during his campaign & where do you currently live? [I want to see something/ I allowed QP on this]

you ever think about how this guy is a professor in good standing in elite colleges

University of Toronto law professor David Dyzenhaus, says that Harvard Law professor Adrien Vermeule “moved away from just being interested in [Carl] Schmitt,” a former Nazi scholar, “to actually embracing all dimensions of Schmitt’s theory: both the political dimension & the legal dimension…” 1/

Come out on 11/6 in SF to listen to the preliminary injunction hearing in AAUP v Trump! Show the federal courts that we stand up for academic freedom and will not capitulate! WE are the UC!

People like to repeat the lies that Occupy accomplished nothing but it’s not true. It reduced the shame of medical & student loan debt to a public that had largely bought the idea that Millennials were ingrates to the previous generations. It set a precedent for uprisings against police brutality.

The women married to fascists are usually also fascists. They weren't "tricked" into being with these people. They chose them.

probably a good time for a south asian critical race theorist to write on the sort of ladder pulling we see here

Developed an old roll of film that had one single frame from the 2024 UCLA encampment and man idk if there's a more vindicated group from the last few years than the student protestors, pretty much every single issue they dealt with has since been deployed at scale

“Stop conferring symmetry where there is none. Stop calling capture “jurisprudence.” Stop laundering tyranny as “the [ #SCOTUS] decisions.” Name shadowcasters, not the shadows. Then act as if the govt belongs to the people who live under it—because if we don’t, it never will.” @mikepod.bsky.social 🔥

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

"You want a movement, I hear. We all do. But the question is never “will somebody do something?” They are. We are. Our job is to notice, and to ensure that none of our flames burn out." Also our job is to join in, where we can, how we can, with what we have. open.substack.com/pub/thewhite...

DAILY MEMO: After No Kings Protests, Feds Wreak Havoc in Santa Ana and O.C. Today's video is too long for BSKY, so you'll have to find it here, apologies. lataco.com/daily-memo-a...

“By cloaking naked power in the trappings of the law, the Trump administration channels objections to its behavior into sterile disputes about who has the best lawyers. The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes.”

On resistance to immigration enforcement and the perils of legalism “many people are acting and thinking in new and significant ways, that it is important to try to understand accurately, that I think the left has important responsibilities here that I think are not being sufficiently attended to“

Today I wrote in @lpeblog.bsky.social with Amna Akbar & @sameer-ashar.bsky.social about how legal scholars & teachers might act in solidarity with movements in this moment, in the face of fascism: lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Appreciate thinking with @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social & Amna Akbar again, inspired by resistance movements confronting incipient fascism across terrains of struggle lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Now on @ssrn.bsky.social, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. “Alas,” I think Akhil Amar’s new book, “Born Equal,” is not a success and I explain why at great length. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“At the heart of everything Kent did was his unwavering commitment to protecting and uplifting immigrant workers.” www.latimes.com/business/sto...

In a response essay invited by Ohio State Law Journal, co-author Michael Nunn @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social '24 and I address labor activism that embraces bold new organizing models amid political polarization, steep corrosion of the rule of law, and open antagonism toward LGBTQIA+ communities. /1

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... At the very least, read her closing argument:

Another win for the people: Gavin Newsom signed AB288! The law states that if the NLRB fails to respond to petitions to vindicate the rights of workers, then the CA Public Employment Relations Board can take up the matter - this is particularly important for ULPs! legiscan.com/CA/text/AB28...

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

wrote about a great writer thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-horton

Thrilled that HLPP is hosting Risk and Resistance on Oct 3! Honored to celebrate @azizaahmed.bsky.social’s groundbreaking book and so grateful to our amazing co-sponsors, speakers, and panelists who will make this such an inspiring event. #RiskandResistance #healthlaw

this is the kafala system.

and the Pulitzer Prize for sophistry goes to …

Last night the 14th Amendment Center had a terrific opening session on birthright citizenship w/ historians @marthasjones and @kate.masur.TONIGHT is Part Two. With an extraordinary line-up of scholars & advocates. It’s not too late to register. howard.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @aaldef.bsky.social