Your moment of zen

Read this: @austinkocher.com on the migration of the dead

Alito, today: Dobbs didn’t just end due process protection for abortion — it also created a one-off exception to the Supremacy Clause. Federal law always trumps state law, except (checks notes) federal law enhancing access to abortion is void b/c it "undermines” state laws banning it. Good to know

before the world as we know it comes to an end . . . proof of cat

My kid Ari, looking uncharacteristically respectable, in a publicity shot for the play Convention, at the Industry Loft in LA www.instagram.com/convention19... www.conventionplay.com

I was assigned this book three separate times as a Gov major in college, so it's about time they got the attribution right

Here's the brief that Linus Chan, Doug Jensen and I just filed in the birthright citizenship litigation in the Supreme Court on behalf of 216 Members of Congress. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

100 years ago, the “Immigration Bureau” was part of the Labor Dept. In 1919-20, Assistant Sec'y of Labor Louis Post stood alone against anti-“Red" hysteria & blocked thousands of deportations. So J Edgar Hoover smeared him and tried to get him impeached. Post won. Victories are possible

@austinkocher.com asks the right questions at austinkocher.substack.com/p/instead-of...

An anthem for this moment of grief: Charles Yang (last year) singing A Change is Gonna Come. www.facebook.com/watch/?v=959...

“This nation . . . has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln" [1/2]

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

The article quotes me (accurately) saying, “I would be delighted to go before a magistrate (judge) and say, ‘Jesus Christ, he’s plainly lawfully present . . . “ (Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)

The article quotes me (accurately) saying, “I would be delighted to go before a magistrate (judge) and say, ‘Jesus Christ, he’s plainly lawfully present . . . “ (Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)

Bizarro substantive due process world: Justices Alito and Thomas, famed substantive due process maximalists, released a statement today indicating support for the argument that a state’s failure to *require* parental consent for abortions violates the parents’ constitutional rights

It’s good to have someone to help you grade exams

me on the news of the day: www.fox2detroit.com/news/wayne-s.... @waynelawschool.bsky.social

Another day at the office.

Spending all of my time on small efforts to keep the world from going to hell, but . . . kittens!

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

Chag Pesach Sameach to all who celebrate, and remember all Jews are commanded to love and protect the foreigners among us, "for we were foreigners in Egypt."

208 members of Congress sign on to an amicus brief arguing that eliminating birthright citizenship isn’t just unconstitutional, it also violates multiple laws passed by Congress which require and/or acknowledge jus soli. Cc: @evanbernick.bsky.social litigationandresponse.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

I joined 2000+ Jewish professors, staff and students in signing this letter: "We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities." docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Pour one out for Shoko, 2006-2025

BREAKING: 8th Cir has issued an administrative stay in the DACA ACA health coverage case -- DACA beneficiaries are eligible to enroll now during the short window the stay is in effect. DO IT NOW!

Welcome new followers. I’ve been working with my students, who are finishing up their appeal briefs for three migrants seeking asylum here. For now, we do the work before us.

Welcome new followers. I’ve been working with my students, who are finishing up their appeal briefs for three migrants seeking asylum here. For now, we do the work before us.

“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible… to build this fragile thing called democracy.” — Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post

Frederick Douglass, in 1882, on Trump/Vance: “[O]ur Republican friends . . . bow to [the] ignorant notion that every crumb of bread that goes into the mouth of a Chinaman . . . [1/2]

It was fun to see the brilliant (also, married to me) Jessica Litman cited in Justice Barrett’s concurring opinion in Vidal v. Elster today! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p... @jdlitman.bsky.social

This is the best one yet imo. 🪨🍴

A federal court has rejected FL’s entry in the “throw people w/o immigration status & their friends & family in jail” frenzy, enjoining a law making it a felony to transport into FL a noncitizen who hadn't been “inspected” by the federal govt.

Bragging on my kid, on account of this: nohoartsdistrict.com/othello-revi...

I can’t even.

LA folk: Othello, directed by -- and featuring as Iago -- my son Ari Litman-Weinberg, opens on May 10

Word is the White House is OK w/ egregious, damaging changes to US immigration law to get a budget deal. Possible changes include giving the govt power to turn back asylum seekers w/o process, & to deport w/o process anyone in the US who DHS says entered illegally in the past 2 yrs. Take action:

new Here, so an introduction: Law prof, teaching constitutional, immigration and internet law. Ongoing (interminable) book project on people & databases. Amicus briefs for the American immigration lawyers ass’n. Figure skate and play guitar, both badly. Working on my Japanese.