"Interrogating the Facts of the Case" is out! It explores what the interrogation-room origin of the "facts" of criminal opinions might mean for our pedagogical treatment of those cases. Fun to engage with Indiana Law Journal editors and multiple brilliant scholars. tinyurl.com/jrb7724k

This is ugly. But the reason this lady was protesting is even worse. ICE thugs detained two children and their father on their way to school. One child appears to have been beaten in detention, and no one seems to know where the 12-year-old girl is right now. The family had been seeking asylum.

The R Justices own so much of what Trump is doing... (ordering the murder of civilians, directing prosecutions of political opponents, gutting administrative agencies, razing the White House, & treating taxpayer $ and the federal govt as his personal piggy bank.) newrepublic.com/article/2022...

Washington Supreme Court Justice Mungia has an extraordinary opinion condemning "the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric" of SCOTUS opinions about Native people. "We must clearly, loudly, and unequivocally state that was wrong.” www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf...

Noem has trained them well

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.

When the history of this fascist period is written, special attention will be paid to some of our epoch’s most grotesque figures: leaders of liberal nonprofits and think tanks. It’s incredible to see someone, at this moment, put their name on this quote:

Public comment opens today on a proposed FRE 609 reform! The main change would be the addition of “substantially” to the 609(a)(1)(B) balancing. In other words, it aims to make it harder to admit felony convictions against those testifying in their own defense at criminal trials tinyurl.com/2c6mazxd

You can comment on this proposed change; so can your students; and so can those who have been directly impacted by the rule. If you’re looking for ideas on teaching impeachment or more information on the proposal, check out my chapter in the forthcoming book “Critical Evidence.” tinyurl.com/3x8kyen4

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Tomorrow at #SEALS2025 I’ll present my forthcoming article “Interrogating the Facts of the Case,” which examines the risks of erasing the interrogation room from the criminal law classroom (& elsewhere). Come find me and co-participants at 8-10am, Magnolia C. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Brian Kendall was 17 when police accused him of a homicide he insisted he didn’t commit. A Brooklyn DA unit now says he’s “likely innocent.”

RFK Jr just disbanded ACIP, the CDC's independent advisers on vaccines. www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

“Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it,” Trump says while shaking the hand of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts after the State of the Union.

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

If you wish to vote in New York City's mayoral Dem primary in JUNE (=the election that'll pretty much decide the next mayor), you must be registered as a Democrat *BY FRIDAY.* An insanely early deadline bound to leave people vote out. At least make sure you're not one of them if you're interested!

They hate women. That’s it.

In the meantime, over at the State Department, here are the words of the new head of public diplomacy:

The loss of services supported by USAID will affect millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. Here's our statement on how the freeze of US foreign aid assistance will result in humanitarian disaster: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/freez...

Trump last July: These guys are the radical Right - Project 2025 - I don’t know what the hell it is. They read some of the things in that and it’s some pretty extreme stuff. But I don’t know anything about it.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Insurers must spend 80-85% of premiums on care by law. "But big insurers have figured out if they also become health care providers—by buying physician practices, clinics, and pharmacy benefit managers—they can meet that threshold by paying themselves and avoiding payment for their customers’ care."

A very important and grounding piece to read and keep in mind going forward. This time, let’s do better to avoid the collective fatigue and stay focused on the bigger picture.

“I never felt like I fit anywhere. There were some guys that showed me a lot of attention. … I just latched on to them.” prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/11/22/h...

Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans. This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases. www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...

Trump pardoned his son-in-law's daddy, his campaign manager who lied to protect him, his NSA who lied to protect him, his Coffee Boy who lied to protect him, his rat-fucker who lied to protect him, & his former campaign manager who had just helped him launch an insurrection.