Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.

Also a win for Virginia when our industry accountability law takes effect July 1. @helmerva.bsky.social

Effective focused deterrence strategy: congratulations Max Kapustin & colleagues!

Makes you think.

My coauthor Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich presenting our analysis of lay participation in legal decision making in Asia.

Lay participation in Asia! Session@ LSA 2026

LSA2026 - hearing the amazing Barbara O'Brien talking about challenges of empirical research of the California Racial Justice Act & its innovative Batson reform.

Same with Judge Kaplan, who oversaw both trials

1. This is huge. Kat Abughazaleh, Andre Martin, Michael Rabbitt, Cat Sharp, Brian Straw, and Jocelyn Walsh fought a fascist prosecution and won 2. This should not be over. We should know everything about what happened and people should lose more than their jobs evanstonnow.com/feds-to-dism...

Outrageous misconduct. As a scholar of the jury, it infuriates me that prosecutors would monkey around with our citizen grand jurors.

Whoa!! I want to see these transcripts if they are so shocking to the judge.

72 years ago today, the Supreme Court decided Brown v Board Education which the Court really never enforced. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and lower court judges did most of the work. The Roberts Court in Parents Involved and SFFA v Harvard shattered its promise and lied about what it actually said.

There’s not a shred of legal analysis in the Standards Committee’s memorandum: the rationale is simply “Trump’s Education Department will come after us if we don’t capitulate.” If the ABA is unwilling to stand up for multiracial democracy, the ABA shouldn’t exist.

Well, would ya look at that! NSF is going to send >10% of its current budget to industry (read: tech start ups) instead of universities…it’s as if the admin is trying to dismantle our basic science mechanism and use it as a start up fund for private companies 💁🏻‍♀️ www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/...

Addressing the political right's critique of higher ed is a sucker's game because the critique is insincere. Might there be room to reason with their billionaire backers who send their children to elite institutions? No, argues Prof Buchanan. They share the poisonous agenda of the office holders. 👇

Democracy can return

Black Americans had more voting protections in Aug 1965 when Voting Rights Act was signed then today. Lesson is progress is not permanent. We must keep fighting to move our nation forward because the right will never give up on their goals. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/former-con...

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!