Another day, another violation of academic freedom in Texas. This time a university is firing a philosophy professor owing to complaints about an off-campus talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestine conflict...

2. The notion that it is somehow inconsistent to (1) claim that the anti-birthright arguments are meritless and then (2) refute them on the merits is just... wrong. "I can't believe I'm here. These arguments suck. Here's why" is entirely consistent.

I'm excited to share a new resource on SCOTUS from @brennancenter.org's Kohlberg Ctr. The Benchmark is a new hub dedicated to how SCOTUS is functioning as an institution & how it can be reformed. We'll have commentary, explainers, trackers, polling & more. /1 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

I’ll never understand how someone grows up in Santa Monica and becomes this angry at the world.

New law: if you stand up when the seatbelt sign goes off after landing, and you *still* somehow wait until the row immediately before you are already off the plane before slowly pulling your carry-on down from the bin, the people behind you are allowed to immediately beat you to death

Impossible to pick a favorite, but this reminded me of this one theonion.com/clinton-decl...

People are posting their favorite Onion articles and this one got me fired from a job like 20 years ago. 'I will not represent you. I will not defend you. I will allow and even invite any nation to invade and destroy this horrible graveyard of the soul. To hell with all of you, and good riddance.'

This has been a LONG time in works: my paper on how dollar hegemony is a form of international law-making power. It includes a long methodological/theoretical section on why strong versions of the 'law constitutes political economy' aren't convincing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Remember those of us who predicted that “settling” with the Trump regime would offer universities no relief. First Penn, now Cornell. And would you like Czechoslovakia too Mr. Hitler? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

Senate floor debate happening now.

Average immigration detention deaths per month from FY 2010 to FY 2024: 0.69 Average immigration detention deaths per month in FY 2025: 1.75 Average immigration detention deaths per month so far in FY 2026: 4.6 www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

I’m in D.C. again today as several U.S. Citizen families share their stories about their (often violent) arrests by immigration agents In this picture: Anabel Romero of Idaho speaking while her 14YO, 8YO & 6YO listen behind her. All are citizens detained during an FBI-ICE raid in Idaho last year

On the one hand, LOL. On the other, this shouldn't exist in the first place. In a republic, legislators should have to live their lives like ordinary citizens, not have special perks provided by companies. thehill.com/policy/trans...

Holy. Shit. OUP tells me the delay in paperback order today is because the first run already sold out! 🙏 to everyone who bought, I am so grateful. 🥹 The paper will be back in stock mid-April, ebook availability is being fixed. I spent 16 years writing this thing hoping someone, anyone would read.

well this is exciting 🥹 a glowing review of my book, The Originalism Trap, was just published in the Texas Law Review you can read the whole article here texaslawreview.org/in-defense-o... and you can get The Originalism Trap here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

Question for the peanut gallery: the new thing that every pundit says is that "you gotta learn AI." But what does "learn AI" mean? Promoting? That isn't actually that difficult. Setting up a toolchain of agents and API calls? More difficult devops stuff but probably not what they mean. ...?

Donald Trump has done the impossible and made ordinary Americans like TSA

After 2031, eulogy may displace strategy. leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-democr...

"Haitians have always been under attack." "One day you wake up and you're legal. The next day you wake up and you're illegal. Then you wake up again and maybe there's a technicality that makes you legal again. It's hard to keep up." #USA #Haiti #Asylum #Courts #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Just imagine how insanely ICE agents would behave in an international airport with so many people speaking other languages, some of them Black and brown, even!

I don’t even get what the implicit threat of putting ICE In airports is… “If you don’t fund ICE, I’m going to have ICE beat up affluent frequent flyers. HAHAHA!”

you know what every crowded airport needs is a bunch of unemployable armed criminals loitering around

3/ This is not just a commodity price story. Years of research with my collaborators showed that cost shocks don't just pass through markets neutrally—they give dominant corporations cover to hike prices, protect margins, and *increase* profits. We called this sellers' inflation.

American solipsism: when you're shocked to learn that other countries have militaries too

Octavia Butler had all their numbers. This is from the new biography of her, Positive Obsession. By Susana M. Morris. bookshop.org/p/books/posi...

HARVARD UNIVERSITY CALLS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LAWSUIT OVER TREATMENT OF JEWISH STUDENTS 'ANOTHER PRETEXTUAL AND RETALIATORY ACTION' FOR REFUSING TO TURN OVER CONTROL OF THE SCHOOL TO THE GOVERNMENT

Samuel Alito's world

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Context: Clergy access to DHS detainees has been the subject of major protests (remember the pastor photographed on the ground as he was arrested in Illinois? This was *part* of what he was protesting), and even garnered comment from Pope Leo. This is the first sweeping (temporary) win for clergy.

This one story could serve as both a memorial for the rule of law under mass deportation and a conclusive argument for why we should care www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is weaponizing the “public interest” standard against viewpoints he dislikes. Such jawboning violates the First Amendment, due process, and the rule of law. 75+ civil society groups & free speech experts joined us in this coalition letter 🧵 techfreedom.org/fcc-threats-...

ALSO, instead of consulting Adrian Vermeule and Montesquieu to understand the right way to think about a constitutional membership rule in a republic formed on the ashes of slavery, we should consult Frederick Douglass, who fought for that rule. FFS. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

Also, this “thief of time and space” drivel is a confession that he understands that the real function of citizenship is economic opportunity-hoarding, not Virtuous Republican Governance (TM). (Which is at least one thing we share with Athens and Rome.)

Oh fuck Vermeule puts Athens’s name in his christofascist mouth. If he actually knew anything about how Athenian citizenship law worked (hint: start by reading @kataplexis.bsky.social ) he would know that it’s a piss-poor model for actually operating a republic of equals.

We should just recognize this as what it is, a job application

In their defense, HP has not made a single decent product for at least 20 years, at this point I assume its customers are masochists anyway arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Maybe a silver lining of Trump's warmongering stupidity is that it'll finally teach this country (and incidentally the rest of the world) that the U.S. cannot dictate global outcomes on the strength of RAWRRRR BIG NAVY NUKES HIT URG WITH CLUB. Hegemony is unhealthy for everyone including the hegemon

“Instead of intelligence briefings, Trump is watching Stephen Miller say that ‘President Trump has calculated through every permutation and every degree of strategy’ to ‘an overwhelming victory.’ In a dangerous hole of our own making, we will keep on digging.” www.thebulwark.com/p/someone-ne...

A peer-reviewed research published in International Migration Review provides the most comprehensive data on unaccompanied minors in U.S. immigration court in nearly a decade. The findings are deeply troubling. 🧵

Ok this is a mass thanks to everyone who has replied to this thread, fantastic suggestions here. I think I might just compile all of these replies into a handout. 🙏 ❤️

Law professors of bluesky, has anyone ever found a good thing to say when your students ask for advice for doing well on your exam? (True but not quite what they’re looking for answers include: “Learn the material” & “It’s been 26 years since I’ve taken one, try asking upper years for study tips.”)

This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt. The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.

Afroman should do the next superbowl halftime show

I truly do not want to know what Pete Hegseth thinks of his "strike package"

Professor Wurman seems to relish in calling me a bad academic who doesn’t sufficiently extend good faith presumptions and scholarly charity. He also demands I produce evidence in real time. Fairs. So, Ilan Wurman, I’d like you to meet Ilan Wurman.

Trump's economy

It's just so rotten that this Supreme Court awards exponentially stronger First Amendment protections to rich people seeking to bribe candidates through massive donations than to normal people seeking to cast a ballot. Disempowering regular citizens while allowing plutocrats to destroy democracy.

Let's talk about the "you should have just obeyed the law" response to police violence. A study several years ago found that police are the sixth leading cause of death for Black men in the United States. But it is, if you can imagine, worse than that.

A 🧵on how the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social accountability indices help us understand how democratic backsliding is occurring in the United States. tl;dr: in principle, vertical constraints on the president remain strong; in practice, horizontal and diagonal constraints have been greatly weakened.

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