My excellent House representative Josh Riley talking about what's going on in Washington and all that he's trying to do for our district. Go Josh! @reprileyny.bsky.social

Justice Alito & co killed the Voting Rights Act by combining two dubious moves: 1) they mischaracterized the Rucho justiciability holding as validating political gerrymandering; 2) they treated racially polarized voting as unrelated to the racist appeals and policies of the modern Republican Party.👇

literally a video of the AG confirming a selective prosecution. defense is going to have a pretty easy time with this.

More reason to fear that your data will be used against you.

What a weekend to be a college president in upstate NY

House: 390–33 Senate: 98–0 President: 1–0 Supreme Court: 3–6 Total: 492–39 Result: Unconstitutional

We are thrilled to have you join us! Welcome to @cornelllaw.bsky.social Katherine!!

Wrote a piece for @slate.com on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA slate.com/news-and-pol...

Congratulations Angela! www.udel.edu/academics/co...

I have no view on whether it would be an electorally successful platform. But “hardball in the service of democratic norms” seems to me to be the morally correct platform for Dems.

Yesterday a federal district judge in DC blocked Trump's plan to eliminate bike lanes at the National Mall. On the blog, I explain that the blocked plan is part of the admin's war on bicycles and all things environment-friendly as too "woke." But high gas prices will undercut his pro-car policies. 👇

The racism never stops with him. Truly disgusting.

Outrageous attack on science, something our nation has excelled at.

A jury should hear this case! Let the people evaluate the evidence and decide whether the tax leak merits compensation. From WaPo: Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks

“democracy has a right to approach the sanctuary of the courts when a special interest has corruptly found sanctuary there” Theodore Roosevelt

Check out the decline in student visas.

Alarming!

Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF?? www.nature.com/articles/d41... Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with @fabbs.org Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Slaughtering our golden goose: massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a gut punch to our nation's leadership in science. Please call your representatives in Congress!

I wrote this article to explain in plain English what is happening with the proposed 2027 NSF budget & why so many social psychologists are alarmed. THE GOOD NEWS: Congress has not finalized this yet. We have time to change Republican politicians’ minds. www.linkedin.com/pulse/saving...

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

I am very worried about this part of the Trump administration's legacy.

Good one in NYC.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

Trump 2.0 in a nutshell.

No ICE. No wars. No Kings.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

The regime is counting on your exhaustion. 😮‍💨 Your neighbors are counting on your presence. 🤝 3,000+ events this Saturday. Choose your side. March 28. #NoKings2026

Look what arrived today! Congratulations to Matthew Erie and Ching-Fu Lin. I have a chapter on lay participation in Asia; there have been some fascinating developments!

Grand juries made up of ordinary Americans refusing to indict the innocent. The lawyers and judges quietly fighting this regime with everything they’ve got. Our courage and our resistance is contagious.

Dr Jenna Norton is describing at the People's SOTU the problems at NIH about serious problems with scientific research at NIH. Fewer grants, cancellations of existing research that wastes research dollars already expended. Devastating! The USA is squandering its scientific leadership.

I wrote on the shameful situation re: the recession of a deanship to Emily Suski at the University of Arkansas Law. What was the reason? Prof. Suski signed an amicus brief supporting trans rights. The Arkansas legislators admitted that was it! Horrible outcome. ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

We've been getting a lot of submissions by folks excited by juries resisting the federal government, and monitor much bemoaning by MAGA folks that this constitutes jury nullification, but the vast majority of such cases are being thrown out by juries over weak evidence or lies.

Disastrous.

When a democracy is restored after an interlude of criminal looting like this, it is perfectly justified in seizing back the proceeds and prosecuting the looters, regardless of what they have done to make it “legal” on paper.

BREAKING: DHS has run out of funding and is shut down. GOP lawmakers refused to negotiate reforms to stop ICE from killing people in broad daylight, locking up kids, & making our communities less safe. Lawmakers should not fund the agency until ICE is reined in.

Great story! Happy Valentine's Day to the journalists at MPR.

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.

Wealth inequality has set the stage for our current political condition. The billionaires stay in power by dividing the groups who might otherwise unite and oust them from power. The race baiting, xenophobia, homophobia, and faux religious pandering is all part of the strategy. We shall overcome.

It's one thing to get a "no true bill." It's quite another to get *shut out* in the grand jury.

Good background on the climate science chapter that was removed from the federal Judicial Center manual of scientific evidence for judges: Climate Change Is Erased From a Manual for Federal Judges www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...

For years I've argued that the "ham sandwich" critique is wrong and that the discipline of having to go through the grand jury to obtain an indictment still acts as an important check on prosecutorial power. Grand juries under the Trump regime continue to prove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Jeanine Pirro tried to jail six Democratic Congress members for accurately stating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. She will forever be a person who has done that and must always be viewed through that prism.

Long live the grand jury.

Today, it was a grand jury of anonymous American citizens who upheld the rule of law and determined this case should not proceed. Hopefully, this ends this politicized investigation for good.

Apparently you are allowed to remind troops to follow lawful orders: www.ms.now/news/grand-j...