I am spending my 4th reading up on student loans and #OBBB for the podcast with @mbkplus.bsky.social. Unless I am missing something, law schools will be in serious trouble beginning in 2026-27. Many media outlets are reporting the $200k total cap for professional schools, but the annual cap is $50k

Well this is certainly new

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...

"I’m concerned less enforcement could lead to a boom in crypto fraud similar to what we saw in 2020 to 2022." Gutting the IRS provides particularly powerful opportunities for industries are already difficult to police because of decentralization, pseudonymity, etc www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

Do we think this is continued disagreement over taxpayer data? Harvard's tax-exempt status? Both? Something else? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

From a pedagogical perspective, it would have been great if he had threatened this apx two weeks ago. . . . Revoking tax-exempt status was an inevitable next step. I don't think Trump has a leg to stand on, but the legal battle will be interesting www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Zuckerberg did everything he could to personally lobby Trump to avoid the FTC trial or settlement, thought this would make it go away: $25 million payment $1 million to inauguration 2 trips to Mar a Lago dialed back content moderation …and it didn’t work. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Some choice words on the tariffs. PIIE experts react to Trump’s tariffs announced April 2 www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Data brokers aren't just selling your information anymore—they're spreading false narratives about data deletion services that help consumers minimize collection of their data. Read Scholar-in-Residence Justin Sherman's latest analysis 📰: epic.org/dont-believe... #DataBrokers #DataDeletion

These numbers are stark. Harris voters at 3% help, 94% hurt and Trump voters at 61% help, 19% hurt.

An excerpt from WilmerHale's filing, about a company predecessor. They won't roll over, and this gives me hope.

“they had seen a large increase in clients wanting to set up Swiss-based bank and investment accounts, especially ones that are compliant with US tax rules” I’m writing about wealth taxes & capital flight is a common pushback. Here we see the power of FATCA to negate it. Expatriation though . . .

Authoritarian regimes first target 3 groups: academics, lawyers, and journalists. Columbia & Paul Weiss have made it clear that, in the first two cases, the "elites" can be bought Someone has to forgo $$ to stop the tide abovethelaw.com/2025/03/a-th...

Cool cool. @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com @klobuchar.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov are looking to team up with MAGA to give Donald Trump the power to censor anything he wants on the Internet. Do they not recognize what will happen?

Martin Niemoller: first they came for the socialists... Dem consultants: our polls suggest we should also come for the socialists!!

JOB ALERT: Seeking a recent law school grad to work as a legal fellow from the spring or summer 2025 through August 2026. Help litigate groundbreaking First Amendment cases and contribute to research and public education initiatives. Deadline to apply: 4/3/2025. knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...

As an alum of the college and former fellow at the law school, I sadly agree Universities serve an essential role in society. If Columbia folds, it is completely abandoning that role

The Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025 (ECCA) would use the tax code to privilege nonprofit organizations that give out private K-12 school vouchers over nonprofits working on other issues. www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

Here's a statement from Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter responding to the Trump administration's attempt to fire her.

FTC removes posts critical of big tech from its website

Texas legislators considering a bill that would put all public university course curricula and faculty hiring in the hands of ruling party political appointees and politicians, effectively ending academic freedom.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

Bernie and AOC are coming to Denver for a Fighting Oligarchy rally, Civic Center Park, Friday March 21 — starts at 5pm.

Let them eat birthday cake 🤦‍♀️

"Acting IRS Chief Counsel William Paul has been replaced by Trump ally and lawyer Andrew De Mello, a move that former agency officials say is out of the ordinary." Look for a lot of extraordinary moves at the IRS. This is concerning from a taxpayer data perspective www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

"Begin the process of placing the Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies department under academic receivership for a minimum of five years." This goes beyond policing protest, it's policing thought

The folly of IRS staffing cuts, from Natasha Sarin. DOGE could easily lose all of their purported savings, and more, from gutting the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Buckle up friends

For those of you who asked me if you should file your taxes quickly in case accounts get frozen, apparently the answer is yes

This explainer was a helpful breakdown for me—particularly the jurisdiction question

We can’t wait for Adam to join us at Colorado Law! Everyone should check out his amazing scholarship: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...

Tariffs *facilitate* tax cuts for a very small sliver of very wealthy Americans. At the expense of higher prices for everyone.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

My colleague @stevevladeck.bsky.social points out the contrast between Samual Alito's dissent this morning supporting presidential autonomy from courts and his dissent in 2022 when Biden was president, arguing courts could dictate immigration enforcement. www.stevevladeck.com/p/129-untang...

Apparently not anymore . . .

socialism is very socially acceptable for bankers

Important read. It is absolutely essential that Republicans (not just DOGE) focus on the spending side only. Otherwise, they risk scrutiny of the massive tax cuts for the wealthy that are an/the ultimate goal of this mayhem

So we’re all giving up Amazon for lent, right?

What the people want the Dems to do during the State of the Union: Boycott it en masse & hold a competing event featuring fired federal workers & get real angry about the whole situation What the Dems want to do during the State of the Union: Clap tepidly, make an eww stinky poopoo face once

Crypto is predatory. This administration likes predators

Basically nobody currently making policy for the United States seems to have any concept of how vulnerable global value chains are despite being bashed repeatedly over the head with these lessons for the last five years and it’s absolutely wild.

Atlanta Fed forecasts a -2.8% GDP growth for this quarter. 4 weeks ago it was +3.9%. Trump owns this. bit.ly/3Ddsxim

I am so deeply ashamed. I went to YLS at the same time as JD Vance. How he has become what he has become completely baffles me

Screenshot of Rubio while Trump and Vance berated Zelenskyy

“By the dawn of the 19th century, tuberculosis—or consumption—had killed one in seven of all people that had ever lived.” www.pbs.org/wgbh/america....

CO friends: please call your reps about this! Incredible program is being slashed (limiting services like speech and physical therapy to 4 hours per month total—not nearly enough for many kids) ALL OVER A $4 MILLION BUDGET SHORTFALL. We can do better www.cpr.org/2025/02/27/b...

Women terrify MAGA more than anything else

personal liberties= doing whatever I want regardless of the cost to others free markets=guarding corporate profits and staggering concentrations of economic power regardless of the cost to others they're starting to say the quiet part out loud

With House Republican leadership trying to falsely claim their draconian $880b in #Medicaid cuts is only about curbing fraud, read this essential blog from my colleague Andy Schneider: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/10/t...

Calling this “tax avoidance” doesn’t capture the issue. Propublica’s “true tax rate” was calculated ignoring the realization requirement, which is either a legislative gift or a constitutional mandate, depending on who you speak to. It’s the primary reason founder billionaires maintain low tax rates