Fascinating takings clause petition granted today by the Supreme Court. No amicus briefs, no relists, counsel without any SCOTUS arguments to date, interesting issue. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

So exhausting..

🌱 Native Nations in the Energy Transition Join us Oct 2, 2025 | 2–5 pm ET at GW Law (DC) or online 💡Engage with Tribal energy & resource experts 💡Learn how to support Tribes Hosted by @rff.org #SMU @uarizona.bsky.social Thanks to @sloanfoundation.bsky.social 🔗 Register: www.rff.org/events/all-e...

Promises made, promises delivered! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Really enjoying this free speech presidency.

Today in the @jewishinsider.com: A person who blamed "Jewish dollars" for funding "Marxist culture" and decried Jewish control of Hollywood, nonprofits, and the media, to be remembered as bulwark against antisemitism.

As grim as this story may be, there's still much to be inspired by. Look no further than this attorney for the children, who rushed to the airport to stop the planes. She stood near the tarmac, warning any officials she saw that they’d be complicit in violating a court order if the planes took off.

Gorgeous post-sunset walk yesterday in Iowa City. On Iowa River, with UIowa’s Hancher Auditorium in the background. #SundaySunset

Law school faculty entrance and parking lot evening wildlife thread. A single night's photos. We begin with one of our regular visitors

o noe the tiny dinosaurs are going to eat the car!

Mood.

After the Age of Dinosaurs is open this week! Here’s a 🧵 about our weird, trippy show about the weird, trippy recovery period after the end-Cretaceous extinction.

My thoughts on important new @pewresearch.org report on "How States and Cities Decimated Americans' Lowest-Cost Housing Option": reason.com/volokh/2025/...

I guess everybody['s political career] dies. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

"Plaintiff must address whether the constant filing of lawsuits to protect Grumpy Cat exceeds the value of the Grumpy Cat trademark itself, and thus whether it is a prudent use of societal resources." 👀

74 years ago today, Iowa (mostly) united to fight racism against a Native veteran. I wrote about it here www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinio...

More retirement news: Conservative Wisconsin justice Rebecca Bradley will NOT seek reelection next spring. Liberals (as you all know now) have a 4-3 majority on this high-stakes supreme court. This is their shot to go up 5-2, in April.

I think this is the first time I’ve heard a federal judge say “Huzzah!” during a hearing I like it. I’m pro-“huzzah!”

If anyone wants cool-funny-political shirts, my BIL made this awesome store for his designs. His actual day job is as a musician (@gangstagrass.bsky.social) & he only gets a few dollars from these but I wanted to share bc they're really nice shirts. advanced-entropy-labs.dashery.com/products/756...

COMING UP: Judge Charles Breyer is set to preside over a bench trial in Newsom v. Trump The suit, brought by Governor Gavin Newsom, challenges Trump’s use of federal military forces to enforce immigration in California. I plan to live-post for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️🧵

3/ "A member of the public, appreciating that the Maxwell grand jury materials do not contribute anything to public knowledge, might conclude that the Government’s motion for their unsealing was aimed not at 'transparency' but at diversion—aimed not at full disclosure but at the illusion of such."

This week on Amicus: A fascinating conversation about the meaning of the Constitution as understood by Native nations in 1789—and whether squeezing their perspectives into an “originalist” framework risks legitimizing the government-led atrocities that followed. slate.com/podcasts/ami...

If you were a bad foreign actor trying to destroy the long-standing institutions that make America a world leader, stirring deep racial resentment and conspiracy theories about universities be smart

ok one more beat on the Vance speech because this is just beyond anything. “I visited the construction site for a presidential library dedicated to a rabid colonizer and we got lucky enough to see a buffalo and aren’t settlers great for creating civilization”

My entry for the August law review submission cycle. #LawProf #AcademicSky

Why does it matter who owns America's farms? @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social (@unlcollegeoflaw.bsky.social) and @jamesftierney.bsky.social (@chicagokentlaw.bsky.social) join @busscholarship.bsky.social to discuss their article "Trading Acres." 1/2

Sad to see what’s happened to the ADL under Greenblatt. Very well reported story here by @noahshachtman.bsky.social . As for the quote, I don’t think the analogy works unless the idea is that one should put on their own mask whilst throwing others’ out of reach. nymag.com/intelligence...

A name we should all familiarize ourselves with over the next 4 weeks: CATELIN DREY DREY is the Dem running to flip Iowa State Senate District 1 in a Special Election on August 26th. This is a flippable seat, and the article below sets the table nicely. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/07/01/p...

So trees are pretty good. But we have gone very hard on “Trees store carbon! Plant trees!” when there are many other plants that store carbon as well. Consider…the prairie.

There’s a famous chart from the Conservation Research Institute, which demonstrates this. GAZE UPON THESE ROOTS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.

Coverage of this new development, via @law360.bsky.social: www.law360.com/ip/articles/...

Here's the Muscogee Supreme Court's opinion holding #Freedmen are constitutionally entitled to citizenship: www.mcnnc.com/wp-content/u...

This is huge. apnews.com/article/musc...

The buffalo are being driven off and the Native people depicted here will be forced onto reservations with little compensation for their land. That is what is going on here.

This is illegal. The #FHA says that HUD "shall" investigate all complaints & only dismiss when "no reasonable cause exists to believe that a discriminatory housing practice has occurred." 42 USC 3610. Not wanting to enforce fair housing law isn't a reason. www.propublica.org/article/trum...?

John Gast's "American Progress"--now on the official account of the Department of Homeland Security. Constitutionalism is more than text, especially in domains like expansion, dispossession, and borders (where there isn't much text)--it is also ideas about "nature," values, principles, and ideology.

Flagged words I included in grants to study cancer and Alzheimer's targets back when I was a structural biologist: expression, polarization, trans, exclusion, diverse, identity, vulnerable population, bias, barrier, systemic, disability, trauma

Paper 2 in progress. Paper 1: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

One of these is not like the others and it represents a dangerous new expansion in Trump's tariff adventures, meddling in internal criminal matters in other countries.

Interested in global history in the contexts of migration, diaspora, and empire? See the Glusksman Irish Diaspora Series, an initiative by @gihnyu.bsky.social that I have the pleasure of editing for @nyupress.bsky.social: nyupress.org/search-resul...

At noon my weather app said maybe rain at 3 am, dry until then. So I biked to school and now this is outside my window. I know weather is changeable, but I can’t help thinking this is the fault of #DOGE & the cuts to the #WeatherService & #NOAA

It's publication day for "Marital Privilege," by my phenomenal Penn Carey Law colleague @serenamayeri.bsky.social! If you are interested in marriage, non-marital intimate relationships, family law, inequality, 20th c. legal history, law & social movements -- this book is a must-read! #LegalHistory

The new federal budget wants to eliminate bird banding funding, the one thing that allows scientists to track the health and population of birds across the country. Birders, rise up! By @rheisman.bsky.social therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

First off, there are four lovely pillars at the corners of a bridge which show variations on the timeless and universal theme of Embracing A Fish Person. “Now, Fish Person, we battle!”

Somewhere behind the scenes of the Oslo Natural History Museum is an exhibit designer with a lot of old taxidermy and a VISION.

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

🎶 And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free 🎶

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...