manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.” I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

As usual Mike Dorf is right on top of things. “Donald Trump's attack on Iran violates both international law and the U.S. Constitution.” www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/02/trum...

Amicus briefs aren't just court filings. The best are compact and compelling reads from leading scholars on the biggest issues of the day... and they're FREE! All of which is to say, check out the latest from @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social on birthright citizenship ⬇️...

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Just got an email through the AALS Evidence listserv from a professor who seems keen on getting other professors to test out his AI grading device (patent pending!), but only after signing an NDA. It's inspiring to see my coauthors continuing their valuable work: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Guava pastries 👅🐷

The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...

“The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there.”

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The US and Israel attack Iran. They sabotage the nuclear deal because, of course, why negotiate peace when you can manufacture a nice little pretext to drop bombs?

Thank you for everything and for the opportunity @vanessazboreak.bsky.social @julawreview.bsky.social I had a wonderful time ❤️⚖️

That’s a wrap! Our 2026 symposium was an incredible day filled with amazing conversation, interesting topics, laughter, and lots of learning. Huge thank you to our presenters, faculty, staff, Law Review members, students, and all else who attended our event. We can’t wait until next year!

Our symposium afternoon session has now begun! A panel full of incredible scholars sharing their knowledge about state constitutions.

It was a pleasure to once again share a symposium with my colleagues Prof. @msmith750.bsky.social and @yeargain.bsky.social , always a privilege to engage with such sharp minds in the ever-growing field of state constitutional law.

Fantastic panel discussion this morning. Just the beginning of a day filled with dialogue about State Constitutional Rights. @nathanrichardson.bsky.social @msmith750.bsky.social @yeargain.bsky.social

Who knew State Constitutions could be so layered and complicated. Thank you, @msmith750.bsky.social

Thank you @carloschevere.bsky.social for you insightful and interesting talk on Human Dignity Beyond Due Process.

Dignity time, at the @julawreview.bsky.social symposium, with @carloschevere.bsky.social, @vanessazboreak.bsky.social, and Patrick Murphree

Our second panel is starting now on human dignity under state constitutions. @vanessazboreak.bsky.social @carloschevere.bsky.social

Kicking off JU Law Review Symposium 2026!!

NEW: Did police violate the law when they arrested Pastor Michael Jennings as he watered his neighbors’ garden while they were out of town? A federal trial court asked the Alabama Supreme Court to weigh in. @splcenter.org's Keisha Stokes-Hough discusses the questions raised by Jennings v. Smith.

Croquette sandwich is always a must in La Carreta at Miami Airport 🐷👅

Why is this a bad idea? Turns out, I've got a whole article on this: insight.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/pslr/vol126/...

Millions of working New Yorkers now have more sick leave & time off. We spoke to 5 Amazon employees about what Local Law 145 means for them. In addition to expanding NYC’s Protected Time Off, we’re launching proactive employer compliance checks with the Department of Consumer & Worker Protection.

Interesting application of First Amendment law to deal with what is traditionally a Fourth Amendment issue: How do deal with the fact that files sought in a warrant for digital evidence are generally just needles in digital haystacks? Stay tuned on this. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is some BS, now in article form! USPS workers withheld this woman's mail for years bc they didn't like that a Black woman was renting property to white people Now the Supreme Court won't let her tort suit move forward bc you can't sue over "lost" mail 🥴 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

Now on SSRN, the draft I've been teasing forever on here: Law and Petro-Masculinity. I would be so grateful for feedback on this piece from the brilliant law and climate communities on Bluesky! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Joining other courts, Wisconsin Supreme Court holds that Google's CSAM scanning program is private action, not state action, under the Fourth Amendment. www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...

As the midterms heat up, state courts are helping shape the future of American democracy. At SCR's new 2026 Election hub, we'll be tracking, explaining, and contextualizing: -The battle over who actually controls elections -What happens after the votes are cast -Electoral maps -Judicial elections

A focus on the US Constitution and federal judges has obscured a longer and more complex history of women serving on state benches—and how state constitutions mattered in their rise. @uflaw.bsky.social's @elizabethdkatz.bsky.social shares the untold story of 150 years of women in state judiciaries.

“Their motivation is to get ahold of our videos and the ability to create AI likenesses.”

Give up work-life balance and devote yourself to me, Jeff Bezos, and at some point you'll be like me--dead inside. #Satire fortune.com/article/bill...

If you’re into fútbol ⚽️ & want an anti-racist team to support, I got you. CEE Europa in Barcelona. They’ve teamed for jerseys with Top Manta, a group that supports immigrants with irregular status. www.timeout.es/barcelona/es... Slogan: We say no to fascism, racism, homophobia, sexism & bullying.

Unsurprisingly has set off a chain reaction of violence throughout Jalisco but hey at least we got content

Katie Wilson, Seattle’s newly elected mayor, has embraced a city-owned startup designed to emulate Vienna’s social housing model, which involves a public developer building housing designed to be permanently affordable.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

UT-Austin is hiring a free speech czar. Among the "preferred qualifications" is experience in law enforcement. What could possibly go wrong?

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

It's so cool that the fbi is basically the make a wish foundation for one podcaster

Federalism can't work under these conditions. State court should be safe for all. And many people — from defendants to victims to other witnesses — need to be able to go to state court without fear that doing so will result in their apprehension by ICE. www.startribune.com/white-house-...

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Videos like this demonstrate how kind I continue to be in my work on generative AI: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I…..didn’t realize that this was going to be a story about me. I thought it was about the Revolution / 250th! I wanted people to know that everyday people coming together to act can result in momentous change… www.wtnh.com/celebrate-25...

"The Capture of the Congressional Intelligence Committees" is forthcoming from the UC Irvine Law Review! It argues that Congress's intelligence oversight committees have become the intelligence community's biggest boosters on Capitol Hill. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Download of the Week: “Birthright Citizenship Re-examined” by Ramsey Michael D. Ramsey (University of San Diego School of Law) has posted Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 2020, I argued in Originalism and Birthright Citizenship that the original meaning of the…

"I think it’s wrong to celebrate the ruling as some kind of turning point in #SCOTUS's relationship with Trump, just as I think it’s wrong to denounce it as a cynical move by justices concerned primarily about the economy as opposed to about fidelity to neutral legal principles." Me on tariffs:

People are being disappeared from Massachusetts jails