"Lin’s decision also creates a potential opening for other researchers seeking to challenge their grant terminations after an August U.S. Supreme Court decision seemingly made that process harder." Pay close attention to this move, it's useful! Congrats to UCLA faculty! laist.com/news/educati...

Emory Law is conducting an open-rank lateral search for a Business Law professor! faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs/151442/...

Infant mortality in the USA

Big ups to all the #skystorians with new books reviewed in this month's AHR - @hollyguise.bsky.social too! academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

Job. Great place to live.

@katiefallow.bsky.social of @knightcolumbia.org on @washingtonpost.com: Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material. Gift link: wapo.st/4nCO854

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OMG, you need to stop what you're doing and watch this right now. A Dutch vision of M*GAfied Disney! 🤣

Wow, check out this thread of incidents involving the White House's new communications tactic -- demanding that reporters reveal their expert sources (on law, policy, etc.) before publication so the WH can discredit the sources based on political donations.

The American Society for Legal History has $$$ for your creative ideas! 9/19 deadline. aslh.net/award/projec...

While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Is the press starting to rise to the challenge? Is it too late? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

2/ And in case you thought this is just about non-state actor groups: "Nations that harbored such groups would also be covered." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Forever Wars? "The broadly worded proposal, which would grant sprawling authority to Mr. Trump for five years to use American military force in a drug trafficking war, has set off alarm bells in some quarters of the executive branch and on Capitol Hill." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Penn Law Review symposium issue on the uses and misuses of history in constitutional law is out!

Wonderful news. Legal historian Maeve Marcus conducted eight oral history interviews with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg between 1995 & 2004. Transcripts are now online. Includes an index! Hat tip @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social 🗃 dcchs.org/judges/ginsb...

Charitable orgs: please stop relying on Google forms and Google anything. It undermines donors' ability to upgrade our own online security when the organizations we love stick with Google.

This. I told a student group that I declined their debate invitation but that I would love to read something together and have a conversation. The response: crickets. Let's stop debating and try to talk with each other instead.

The @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social has an excellent round-up of legal history news here: follow.it/mail?t=jrreu...

Congratulations to @juliaioffe.bsky.social whose book Motherland has been longlisted for the National Book Award! @nationalbook.bsky.social Bookshop.org US share.google/U2hcdMGMj1KF...

Ouch!

Congratulations to my @emorylaw.bsky.social colleague Deepa Das Acevedo on her new book The War on Tenure. www.cambridge.org/us/universit... Zoom in for the 9/26 book launch:

Congratulations to @briannarosen.bsky.social on the upcoming publication of Perpetual War and International Law: Enduring Legacies of the War on Terror. My contribution: How Law, History, and Culture Enabled Perpetual War. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Why I teach Constitutional History. (NOT the originalism kind.)

The American Historical Review seeks submissions for a special issue illustrating a range of methodological approaches to archival silence developed by scholars of early history. Submit your proposal by September 16, 2025 for consideration: oxford.ly/3VFV5GB @historians.org

In this post, I describe why the Pentagon's plan to use JAG officers as immigration judges is dangerous and illegal. It also highlights a broader constitutional flaw in our immigration law system: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

AI missed the point of my essay An Uncountable Casualty. 🙄 The specific uncountable casualty in the essay was my brother. (Stumbled upon the AI take while looking for an online version: lithub.com/what-statist...).

I'm glad Ezra Klein wrote this, and he's totally right on the path forward. Because of his positioning as an establishment-friendly centrist liberal, maybe Dem leaders will listen, which would be great.

No Donald, Chicago is not your war zone

This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

“When we understand that ‘wartime’ is an argument, rather than an inevitable feature of our world, then we can see that it need not cause us to suspend our principles. Our times do not determine our actions, they do not absolve us from judgment.”

Trump would have to be the stupidest person in the world to fuck with this march. Completely peaceful. Permitted. Thousands of profoundly regular people This is the platonic peaceful protest. Take note of the people who demonize it: these people openly despise our first amendment

DC is not having it

The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House

A lot of Palestinian flags here. Demands to end the genocide. A link between the two causes

Please?

What really makes this country great

As you can clearly see from these pictures, everyone here in DC today is obviously a paid member of Antifa and/or a 90 year old hippie

Hello from Washington DC, where hundreds of people and what seems like an unreasonable amount of police are assembling for the We Are All DC March This is the first pre-planned, DC-focused protest since the occupation began. Let's see how this goes 🧵

This is not a thorny issue. This is not fraught. It is extrajudicial killing. It is the killing of civilians under any standard of law. He killed them on the basis of his-say so that they are drug smugglers, mere criminals. It was premeditated. And he's saying he's going to do it again and again.

I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.

To the admin's credit, it did submit a 48 hour report as required by Section 4(a)(1) of the WPR—as the attack was an introduction of US forces into hostilities. 60-day WPR clock for withdrawal of US forces is now ticking. (Below from @justsecurity.org.) 8/n www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...

3/3 "In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run." reporting by Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Alan Feuer, @charliesavage.bsky.social, @ewong.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

2/3 "The former official also said it was unusual to have 11 people manning a vessel that could easily be crewed by two or three, especially since traffickers are always trying to maximize the amount of cargo space devoted to carrying drugs, not human beings."

1/3 Just so we are all clear on this. Based on what this former official "who has years of direct experience in fighting drug cartels" told the Times. The order to blow up the Venezuelan boat may have instead killed migrants who were being smuggled. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...