Big win for WLP, and a reminder of the importance of state courts and state constitutions. PA, by statute, broadly prohibits Medicaid payments for abortion. That was just thrown out as a violation of PA's Equal Rights Amendment and PA Constitution's equal protection clause.

This is a big deal! So happy for @womenslawproject.bsky.social, @dsc250.bsky.social, PA abortion providers, and all the people across the commonwealth of Pennsylvania who may benefit for this ruling!

We cannot become numb to this, even with the other, more chaotic military news. This is serial murder — incessant extrajudicial killings — even if they do it every day and tweet about it. Those who don't enjoy Roberts immunity should be prosecuted.

this is where I am.

This NYT story is extraordinary. Very rare to get such insight about SCOTUS workings so (relatively) soon. Read it.

The AMOC collapsing could be among the worst news ever, but you wouldn't know it from our collective thoughts and actions right now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.

💯 PFAS are no good.

Now that Millennials are starting to call the shots, I guess we'll see more fun data like this 😁

This was intense. Glad CNN did this investigation.

Get over your racism to fight declining birthrates and increasing labor demands in limited sectors challenge for nations. Some will get with the program, other nations will double down on their racism and xenophobia.

Boasberg again runs into a Trump-majority DC Circuit panel that moves to block him from investigating possible contempt of court around the CECOT deportations. A majority of the DC Circuit previously suggested that contempt likely occurred, so this case is not remotely over yet.

Boasberg is currently one of my heroes, because long after the news cycle has moved on, he continues to work doggedly to enforce a measure of justice for something profoundly evil

Judge Boasberg investigating criminal contempt in 2028

Ugh. Devastating. So disappointing for the rule of law. Any one think this can go en banc?

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.

So happy to hear about the shadow EEOC! Hope the media gives them more attention over time, because this is the first I'd heard of them...

Gossip as governance and the actions that victims in the legal academy must take to protect themselves otherwise and the dynamics surrounding those choices that I write about, can be seen in other contexts, like in what's coming out abt Eric #Swalwell right now. 1/x papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In a first for the U.S. grid, renewables generated more power than gas across a whole month.

Absolutely horrifying. ICE continues to terrorize and shoot innocent people.

I'm glad someone said this. Had the same thought upon seeing the headline the other day.

Brutal.

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

A new analysis of federal records reveals ICE detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children in just the first 7 months of Trump's second term. 🧵

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

Cecilia Wang, National Legal Director of the ACLU, on DOJ saying they're not asking the Supreme Court to overrule Wong Kim Ark: "That is a fatal concession" fuck em up Cecilia

ACLU's Cecilia Wang, who is arguing in the Supreme Court against Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship, is the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. Norman Wong, the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, is outside the court. Ancestors are watching.

Good morning. Birthright citizenship is very clearly the law and foundational (if insufficient) for equality in this country, but racists want it not to be so. That’s all.

Today at the Supreme Court: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

This “good for the goose good for the gander” stuff literally never works. I predict this will pay zero dividends for trans rights in red states, all while making blue states less safe for trans kids.

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1/X Chiles is out today: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p.... The immediate consequence is to hold that the 1st Amd prevents CO (& other states) from prohibiting talk-based conversion therapy with LGBTQ minors. This is alone is bad and harmful. But the broader reasoning is even more troubling. A 🧵:

Powerful words from J. Jackson in today's #SCOTUS conversion therapy case: "Before now, licensed medical professionals had to adhere to standards when treating patients ... Today, the Court turns its back on that tradition. And, to be completely frank, no one knows what will happen now."

How can therapy be regulated as an evidence based therapeutic intervention if therapists have a First Amendment right to say anything to any client? If therapy can't be regulated as a therapeutic intervention, why would insurance pay for it any more than it pays for newspaper subscriptions?

“States can’t ban conversion therapy but they can ban trans healthcare. They can’t regulate ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ but they can ban abortion. The plain text of the Constitution just happens to align with the GOP political platform. Do not dare suggest we’re doing politics.” —The Supreme Court

I don’t relish this. But, if law profs try to sell the Supreme Court a historical fantasy and change a constitutional rule for 340 million people, which if adopted, destroys the entire constitutional order. Honesty must yield to niceties. We have a higher calling. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Folks in DE/PA/NJ/etc, if you're looking for a great conversation on human dignity in current times, come to Delaware Law School's Dignity Law Symposium - The Role of the State in Protecting Human Dignity - on Friday April 10! succeed.widener.edu/register/?id...

"And, though I believe the court will not side with Trump, any possibility that the justices are even considering doing so will be an extremely alarming sign for the United States and its future, as well as the stability of the world in which we exist."

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We're looking for a program director for Salus Populi, which trains judges and lawyers about the social determinants of health and their relationship to the judicial system. JD required. Spread the word! Salus Populi Program Director Position - northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

In law school I wasn't the hugest fan of federalism (it seemed unnecessarily burdensome and the source of so many legal frictions!), but I have been converted and am now a federalism believer.

Honored and excited to announce that Gossip is forthcoming in volume 115 of the Georgetown Law Journal! What a great home for this piece!

Now the bill is 100% terrible instead of 150% terrible, but still a relief!

One of the first, but certainly not the last, to fatally underestimate both Trump and the precarity of the entire American political system. In a different era, or with a different president, his careful and measured special counsel work would have been more than enough.

RIP Robert Mueller, he was preceded in death by the Rule of Law.