Announcing our latest resource: Our Life Sentences Dashboard, a comprehensive, interactive platform bringing together decades of national data on life imprisonment in the U.S. This data collection was led by Ashley Nellis, PhD, @au-spa.bsky.social. Learn more: wcsj.law.duke.edu/news/new-res....

Joseph Blocher and I write about the Justices and rulings in the face of factual findings on adjudicative facts below (and no finding they were clearly erroneous). This isn't, title Slate chose aside, a problem in just one case or one Justice's opinion, unfortunately. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Reviewing Joseph Blocher & Brandon L. Garrett, Applying History as Law: The Role of Historical Facts in Implementing Constitutional Doctrine, 104 Tex. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (Jan. 16, 2025).

PolitiFact - Trump seeks to end cashless bail. What is it and which states might be affected? www.politifact.com/article/2025...

Sorry to hear of Mr. House's passing. His case was an inspiration to me when I worked on Barry's case. Take a few to read about how frustrating it all is in this piece by @radleybalko.bsky.social radleybalko.substack.com/p/paul-house...

Live facial recognition technology should be very concerning to people. This is just the beginning. boltsmag.org/new-orleans-...

"What we found is providing those due process protections actually help them and reduce crime. Fewer people in jail and less crime -- both good things happened. It was not zero sum at all." Check out @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social chatting with @profmmurray.bsky.social on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social!

Loved being a listener for Imani & Melissa’s break down of legal news, and for Melissa’s discussion w/Brandon Garrett on Due Process. I got to speak w/my colleague Richard Primus about his new book THE OLDEST CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION, which you can check out here: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

NEW: Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.bsky.social joins Melissa to talk legal news. Then Brandon Garrett @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social on his book DEFENDING DUE PROCESS And Richard Primus @richardprimus.bsky.social joins Leah to talk his book OLDEST CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION crooked.com/podcast/how-...

Check out "Defending Due Process," with questions for reading groups, and many other wonderful books, in our Duke summer faculty reads: alumni.duke.edu/summer-readi...

It is going to be connected to a real-time crime center giving police a huge network of linked surveillance cams (CCTV, body cams, stores, apartments, and Ring). Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

From our faculty director @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social!

Habeas corpus 101 www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

A discussion of @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social's "Defending Due Process" was held @pjudicialchile.bsky.social on Tuesday, May 14th. If you missed out on it, you can take a look at how it went and browse some fantastic photos here: www.pjud.cl/prensa-y-com...

When Gary Hudson's car got towed, he couldn’t afford to pay the >$300 in fees. He asked if he could at least get into the car to collect his things. But the company "would not budge, period," he said. "So I can’t get my work equipment, and you expect me to make money to pay you?” W/ @ctmirror.org

"[Habeas corpus] has played a crucial role in many emergencies and wars during our history. And courts have consistently emphasized that habeas provides its strongest protections when the executive seeks to detain people without a trial." - @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social. time.com/7284743/what...

NEW: The 8th Cir concludes that the federal law barring those convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence does not facially violate the Second Amendment, declining to foreclose the possibility of future as-applied challenges. cases.justia.com/federal/appe...

Thanks to the always interesting Bookworm for featuring Defending Due Process: lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...

The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely caused "excruciating conscious pain and suffering."

How many 100,000s of cases are affected nationally? And why isn’t the manufacturer obligated to audit the dna kits affected? www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...

My video VIPER mugshot being taken at the dept of psychology, U Birmingham - thanks to Heather Flowe and colleagues for having me talk about Defending Due Process

A new journal article from @dukelaw.bsky.social Professor @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social and William and Mary Law Professor @adamgershowitz.bsky.social digs into inconsistencies behind courts rejecting Brady claims (which require share all material and favorable evidence with the defense):

SUNDAY @ 5PM: I'll be at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass., to talk with @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social about his new book, "Defending Due Process." Seems like... an important time to talk about defending due process. www.portersquarebooks.com/event/be-cha...

Important discussion of all of the ways migrants are being denied basic due process, with quotes from Michael Klarman, myself, and others #DefendingDueProcess www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

Boston friends - I hope some of you can join me on Sunday, at 5 pm, at Porter Square Books, with Matt Segal of the Mass ACLU, to talk about Defending Due Process

Reposting this piece on systematic errors and due process … it feels relevant still. reason.com/volokh/2025/...

New data suggest that firearms examiners make more conservative decisions when they know they're being studied, raising further questions about error rates derived from black box studies... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Fourth Circuit just *denied* the government’s application to stay Judge Xinis’s order, so this mess (entirely of the government’s making) is now squarely in the Supreme Court’s lap. Here’s the Fourth Circuit ruling—in which even Judge Wilkinson concurred: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

It's official, the Trump administration has halted or dropped enforcement against over 100 corporations. These corporate pardons are further proof the president’s true base is billionaire executives and corporate elites. www.citizen.org/news/enforce...

"[A]n independent judiciary with the authority to finally interpret a written constitution . . . is one of the crown jewels of our system of government today . . . [T]he independence of the federal judiciary is essential to its proper functioning and must be retained." - Chief Justice Rehnquist

A new paper with @adamgershowitz.bsky.social exploring a crucial doctrinal slice of our Brady Database papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Commentary: Pretrial discovery improves public safety www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

Thinking a lot lately about Justice (Robert) Jackson's dissenting opinion in Mezei, especially its discussion of the importance of due process even (if not especially) for those the government claims are "dangerous": tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

And an interview (the first ever podcast by) Ian Mackenzie about Defending Due Process open.substack.com/pub/adjudica...

Thanks so much to Ian Mackenzie for this in-depth review - just published - of “Defending Due Process” www.slaw.ca/2025/03/14/d...

It was such a pleasure and honor to discuss my new book, Defending Due Process, with Jim Coleman, @dukelaw.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/AHM4JiY...

So excited about this!

This short piece from Joseph Blocher, Darrell Miller & me on the Second Amendment casebook we’ve written tries to identify why it’s such an interesting & important area of constitutional law right now. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Excellent story about all the questions South Carolina refuses to answer about its upcoming execution by firing squad: www.npr.org/2025/03/04/n...

I can't wait to talk about "Defending Due Process" with Bill Marshall and Eisha Jain UNC Law today at noon

"These are [prosecutors'] errors, after all...No one says, ‘Oh, wow, they’re really going the extra mile at Boeing when they’re trying to figure out why planes crashed.’ No, this is actually their job.” [email protected] today in @injusticewatch.org on prosecutor accountability.

Judging Fingerprint #Evidence This paper reviews all state and #federal cases discussing the admissibility of fingerprint experts in written opinions. Author: @brandonlgarrett.bsky.social Read more: http://spkl.io/63327foUix#Evidence#federal#LawSky