Curious about the legal & scientific claims behind EPA's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" that underpins all US climate rules? Check out our latest CleanLaw ep, where I discuss with my colleague Richard Lazarus + Sol Hsiang of Stanford's Doerr School. eelp.law.harvard.edu/what-science...

Got an hour? Sharing this fairly nerdy & somewhat depressing but also very fun podcast ep on the Trump EPA proposal to end federal climate rules - a cross-over ep from Shift Key & CleanLaw, with me, Jesse Jenkins & Rob Meyer of HeatMap News! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Sharing my piece out today on the Trump administration proposal to rescind the scientific "endangerment finding" and surrender EPA's role fighting climate change. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The Trump EPA is planning to eliminate ALL federal climate rules by reversing the scientific finding that climate pollution harms people. By their calculation, our powerplants & cars emit too small a share of global emissions to warrant doing anything. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

This just in from the Department of Thin Skin. EPA employees placed on leave for criticizing the administration. www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-env...

The Budget Congress passed nearly triples ICE's budget to build out detention centers (including for families) & more - a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system. A super-charged internal police force is concerning. My post on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

Hugely important research on cancer, opioid addiction, heart disease, children's health & more being cancelled as punishment to Harvard. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

Here's a convenient source explaining rules governing what ICE can & can't do during raids, vehicle stops, in public & at homes. Enforcing them is a different matter. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

In a DOJ memo, the administration has threatened to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship relying on a broadly worded statute used against communists in the McCarthy era & asserting power to do so for what sounds like virtually any reason. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

The EPA has proposed to eliminate climate rules for coal-fired power. Its rationale? American power plants don't contribute significantly enough to climate change to warrant regulation. Expect a torrent of comments arguing that this can't withstand scientific, economic & legal scrutiny.

"The protests in Los Angeles fall far short of rebellion," district court judge Breyer wrote, in ruling that the president did not meet the legal test for mobilizing the National Guard. Worth a read: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's terrifying to think that because ICE officials are not identifying themselves or following normal law enforcement protocol, now anyone can impersonate them and do horrifying things: just dress up in camo, put on a mask, jump out of a van and take people away. How does this make us safer?

👋 Hello from Los Angeles where there is no rebellion or invasion. Dodger game last night, Farmer's Market this morning. Thanks to local law enforcement for handling small # of numbskulls causing violence among overwhelmingly peaceful protests. Not occupied, don't need liberation. Thanks anyway!

3 points on the administration's punishment of Harvard: 1. Groundbreaking research benefits all Americans, makes us stronger 2. No government of either party should try to micromanage our private universities or businesses. 3. The extreme measures aren't reasonable, fair law enforcement.

Climate news: here's my take on the expected proposal from EPA to remove all limits on climate pollution from power plants, which produce 25% of US GHGs. It has no basis in science or logic & will run into trouble in the courts but the point seems to be performative www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

Climate News: EPA's plans to rescind all GHG limits for power plants based on an eyebrow-raising argument that they aren't significant as a share of global emissions. If true it's headed for legal trouble. Even conservative lawyers w deep EPA experience are dubious: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...

To all my foreign students & the world: I'm sorry this administration is taking its rage out on you. In the most nakedly vengeful move yet to punish a private university that it cannot bring to heel, Trump's DHS has barred Harvard from enrolling foreign students. Shameful, petty & un-American.

Congress just voted to block California from setting its own vehicle pollution standards - a major setback for public health & cutting climate-warming gases. Sad. It's part of the great unraveling of environmental progress that this administration & this Congress has set in motion with a vengeance.

Stephen Miller saying the administration is "actively considering" suspending habeas corpus - the right to challenge government detention - is "factually and legally nuts" as Steve Vladeck explains. https://open.substack.com/pub/stevevladeck/p/148-suspending-habeas-corpus?r=6o6dh&utm_medium=ios

🇨🇦And Congratulations Donald Trump! You managed to take an almost certain Conservative Party victory in Canada and turn it into a Liberal Party win!🎁 May Mark Carney be the man for the moment - the man the Great White North needs. 🌂🌪️ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

A sober summary of the Trump Admin's lawlessness based on input from many law professors across the political spectrum. Despite ideological differences there's broad consensus that the Trump admin is a threat to basic American rights, the rule of law and democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

🥊 Harvard is clearly playing to win in lawsuit against the Trump administration for its punitive actions after the university refused to comply with its unlawful demands. HU has hired formidable legal talent. Let's just say, not bringing a knife to a gun fight. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

Why I'm having the best weekend in 3 mths: 💥Judge Wilkinson's historic opinion in Abrego Garcia case saying administration's overreach shocks the conscience. 💥Lisa Murkowski admitting "We are all afraid" out loud. 💥SCOTUS blocking further Venezuelan deportations to check brazen noncompliance.

Oh! Then...never mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Sharing interview I did on public radio on the Trump admin's public health, climate & environmental rollbacks and its general lawlessness. If you have time & interest, give it a listen. Sober but not entirely bleak! www.alleghenyfront.org/trump-moves-...

This is the actual Supreme Court order directing the administration to "facilitate" the return of Abrego Garcia. Whatever facilitate might fairly mean, the intent is clear. Stephen Miller's characterization - that it vindicates the administration & so Garcia can be left to rot - was heinous.

As this administration tries to bend law firms, universities & media to their will & refuses to follow the law, let's stay focused on those abusing power & not turn on each other. Stanford & Yale are supporting Harvard's stand. Unions are speaking out on returning Abrego Garcia. Build coalitions!

The cover story for Trump's attack on universities is antisemitism but it's a ruse. 🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚 🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

Harvard like other universities is doing research that benefits millions, in partnership with the private sector and with federal $ - to fight cancer, diabetes, opioid addiction, Alzheimer's & more. Trump has frozen $2B in support for this kind of work. Madness. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Proud of Harvard for standing up. “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber

Sharing my thoughts on Oval Office meeting where Trump & admin officials mock Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported man, and taunt the courts. Nonsense they can't return him. Inhumane. Elected officials, religious leaders, everyone must stand up. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

Trump is now dispensing with the Administrative Procedure Act. New executive order directs agencies to repeal regulations, skipping legal process requiring notice & comment, whenever Trump declares rule "facially unlawful." Ignoring Congress & usurping courts www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

Woke up to this truly crazy executive order on shower head water pressure and...laughed. Just announces no need to follow the law when rescinding a rule. APA meaningless. Amazing. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

"We should all be be very very afraid." That's the title of an essay by Larry Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, two leading constitutional law scholars, on Trump's astonishing theory that the US Govt can deport anyone, for any reason & courts can't do anything about it. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

My overview of Trump's BEAUTIFUL CLEAN COAL agenda in four exec orders issued this week. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

Sharing my longer LinkedIn take on Trump's order directing agencies to sunset all energy related regulations after 5 years. Not clear it's lawful, how it would work & totally confusing for business. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

Woo-boy. Four executive orders about coal and the power sector. Do they actually do anything? A quick look:

Even if you are not a liberal and don't read Huff Post this article is a good summary of what leading scholars of democracy are saying about this moment, comparing Trump's actions to other autocrats around the world: www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

So much attention on the poor penguins that got tariffed. 🐧 But what about remote Svalbard in Norway? This is a place Rs & Ds would equally love! Mandatory guns & passports (you must carry both), a literal ban on dying there + polar bears! Why punish Svalbard? www.lifeinnorway.net/svalbard-fac...

Thank you to law firms and retired judges standing up for rule of law! 500+ firms & 300+ retired judges signed a brief supporting Perkins Coie in its challenge to Trump's attacks on the firm & the legal profession. thehill.com/regulation/c...

Things that might happen I am rooting for: *After the WI and FLA election results vulnerable R members of Congress realize Elon isn't magic & Trump is an anchor *R mayors and governors realize recession = BAD for them *folks realize the Trump tariff policy could decimate their 401Ks 🤞🤞🤞

He inherited a stable economy & is bent on wrecking it; is blithely gutting agencies that Americans depend on for services & benefits; sent law enforcement to use hyper-aggressive tactics in student arrests to inspire fear; deported people to a brutal foreign prison camp with no hearing. Day 72!

Well, this didn't do the trick. Susan Crawford won the Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin.

@karaswisher.bsky.social I'm a big fan. But Pivot discussion re law firm attacks was too thin. This is a wholesale assault on the rule of law: punish lawyers inside & outside govt + intimidate judges. Anyone who can challenge him. If firms submit for business reasons the whole system is at risk.

Does anyone believe this is ICE's only mistake? So predictable, tragic and shameful. And so avoidable if they had only respected due process. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A very welcome urgent call from one brave law firm to others: "Lawyers and big firms: For God’s sake, stand up for the legal profession, and for the Constitution. Defend the oath you took when you became officers of the court." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

A post worth reading on how to fight democratic backsliding - from my friend Scott Cummings. Explains the playbook Trump is following by attacking lawyers, judges and legal institutions and how to resist. verfassungsblog.de/stopping-aut...

Lawyers are fighting back! Very good to see Paul Clement, superstar conservative lawyer, step up to represent Wilmer Hale against Trump. Hope this opens the floodgates of resistance. Good for him. And good for Perkins Coie & Jenner, and the firms representing them. abovethelaw.com/2025/03/wilm...

The hits on law firms keep coming as Trump targets one after the other with unlawful & vindictive exec orders pulling security clearances & canceling gov't contracts. Latest target Wilmer Hale. It's not too late for collective action. Firms & their clients need to know that otherwise it won't stop.

Not a surprise but disappointing if you worry, as a shareholder, about whether companies are assessing & disclosing the financial risks of climate change: the SEC has announced that it won't defend its Biden era climate disclosure rule. www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...