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...

Thank you members of the grand jury!! Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence has long been an excellent, balanced resource for judges. So now: Let's keep information about science from judges? What an outrageous and counterproductive idea!

Monday's exhortation to big law to work on immigration cases; she explains that's a way to redeem themselves from appeasement. Thanks Rachel!

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If he does this, and isn't impeached and removed, it's a Rubicon moment where we are no longer a republic. Sorry, I don't care how much Republicans like his policies or fear his wrath, you can't just let a president cut checks to himself from the Treasury.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

New publication & open access; comparing in person and virtual movk juries. www.apa.org/news/press/r...

Thank you Alexi!

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Important to know about: False Posts and Altered Images Distort Views of Minnesota Shooting www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...

🧵I am struck by the near-disappearance from our political vernacular of the few-bad-apples trope. Law-and-order types used to routinely dismiss particular instances of excessive police force as the work of just a few bad apples (ignoring the proverbial wisdom about the bunch). Now not so much. 1/

That is not to say that the few-bad-apples excuse was always invoked in the past. For as long as there have been instances of police brutality, there have been people blaming the victims and excusing the perpetrators. But we now seem to have turned a corner. 2/

The Trump administration's immediate rush to vilify ICE's victims and fully exculpate the federal officer perpetrators, regardless of contrary irrefutable video evidence, bespeaks a NO-bad-apples mentality. Or, more directly, ICE brutality is never an aberration. It's the policy. 3/ End of 🧵

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Thank you for this statement.

A firsthand account by a doctor who tried to help.

The state of Minnesota and its statewide law enforcement agency are asserting themselves against ICE and the federal government over investigating Alex Pretti’s killing. Apparently learned from the aftermath of ICE killing Renee Good and the federal cover-up. More ready this time.

The jury is made for this. Government crimes. Difficulty trusting officials. The people must decide.

Judge Katherine Menendez's preliminary injunction could have taken down the temperature significantly, and provided a modicum of accountability for the ongoing lawlessness of federal officers. But the judges of the 8th Circuit entered an "administrative stay" less than 72 hours ago.

@schumer.senate.gov you are my senator; do something!

When will it be enough for you, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? When will you be moved? You should be standing in the streets of Minneapolis. You should be shouting from the rooftops. What a pathetic pair of cowards.

STOP ASKING *THE PUBLIC* TO REMAIN CALM. You're talking to the wrong people. Demand that ICE and CBP stop murdering residents and then demand that they leave the city immediately.

CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

25 below zero. This crowd!

Invitation to the city of Philadelphia to make this right!

Censoring America's history of slavery is a betrayal of our nation's principles. Living up to the ideals America was founded on demands being honest about our history — the good and the bad. My full statement on Trump's censorship at Independence Hall: