BREAKING: The case against Donald Trump in Georgia is officially dead. The prosecutor who took it over recently has moved to drop it – and Judge McAfee has granted the motion. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

NEWS: A federal appeals court pane upholds the $1 million sanction against Trump and Habba for a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, Comey, et al. "Many of Trump’s and Habba’s legal arguments were indeed frivolous," Judge Pryor wrote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Cameron MCGown Currie tosses out separate criminal charges against Comey and Letitia James www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

BREAKING: Comey case dismissed without prejudice. Halligan invalidly appointed, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you want to address the lack of civility in air travel, start by addressing how the GOP and this administration has normalized incivility in every day communications and political discourse.

While this panel's ruling is nonbinding, if the administration doesn't abide by it, it will arguably provide strong support for a lawsuit against TAMU.

"A Texas A&M University appeals panel has unanimously ruled that the school was “not justified” when it fired a lecturer who had been accused of teaching a course that recognized more than two genders... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Lot of Saturday morning quarterbacking happening now, and it seems clear Trump sought to use his meeting with Mamdani in part to try to co-opt the affordability agenda and boost his own support in a moment where his numbers are in freefalll.

Alito grants admin stay blocking district court decision in LULAC v. Abbott that had blocked TX gerrymander

Trump welcoming Mamdani and being photographed together in front of FDR's portrait is driving the MAGA universe insane.

Mamdani warmly welcomed and repeatedly praised by Trump at the White House on the same day MTG resigns was definitely not on my 2025 bingo card.

Trump also just posted these photos to Truth Social, including the one with Mamdani standing next to a portrait of FDR. Trump mentioned Mamdani asked if he could have his picture taken there. "It's an amazing portrait in the cabinet room," Trump said. "So he's a big fan of the New Deal, I guess..."

Breaking: Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign in January.

The GOP goes crazy over democratic socialists because they genuinely are afraid when opposing candidates actually propose real solutions to problems facing working people

you know what? good advice.

Mamdani just demonstrated in this press conference that if he was actually eligible, he would be a formidable presidential candidate.

Mamdani has succeeded in getting the President to repeatedly praise his affordability agenda.

The district courtroom really is one of the last spaces left in American public life where there’s a serious possibility that a strategy built on the denial of reality just won‘t fly.

BREAKING: After the Seventh Circuit (three GOP appointees) issued a stay Wednesday of the preliminary injunction in the Chicago protesters/press case, concluding that Judge Ellis's order is "overbroad," Judge Ellis (Obama apptee) issues a 233-page opinion explaining her preliminary injunction.

Wow "[Ed] Martin is also believed to have shared sensitive grand jury information about the James case with at least one unauthorized individual as well as worked with another person from outside the federal government to examine potential evidence in the Schiff and James probes."

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that Trump's DC troop deployment is likely illegal — both as to D.C. National Guard and and out-of-state National Guard units — granting DC's request to block the use of the troops in this way. The preliminary injunction is stayed until Dec. 11.

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

The new CDC webpage on Autism and Vaccines. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

Ken Burns' The American Revolution is extraordinary on so many levels, backed by meticulous research and offering a level of nuance, detail, perspectives from historians and other experts, and including a wide range of voices, accounts, and perspectives rare in historical documentaries or works.

The Surveillance State. apnews.com/article/immi...

Victory in our New York VRA case against Newburgh! The Court of Appeals unanimously held that the town lacks capacity to facially challenge the statute. So our case continues to trial, and the dilution of the town's minority voters' influence may still be fixed. www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decis...

Excited to see that two of my forthcoming articles, "Constitutional Structure and Election Law," and "Voids of Constitutional Law" are listed in the top 10 in SSRN's Top Downloads list for the Election Law & Voting Rights eJournal. @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/topten/...

Broader reaction to the decision in LULAC v. Abbott blocking the TX gerrymander underscores the importance of the Prop 50 campaign which elevated the salience and stakes of partisan gerrymandering. Voters are paying closer attention to these cases and connecting the dots to the electoral impacts.

Criminal practitioners don’t astonish easily. This is astonishing.

The never ending flood of horrific policy actions continues... "Taken together, four proposed new rules could clear the way for more oil drilling, logging and mining in critical habitats for endangered species across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/c...

An FBI agent-in-training filed a lawsuit after he was handed a letter signed by the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, saying that he was being “summarily dismissed” because of “political signage.” The only thing that could be, he quickly realized, was a rainbow pride flag that had hung near his desk.

“A federal judge ordered some public school districts in Texas on Tuesday to remove Ten Commandment displays from their classroom walls by next month, a victory for families who had argued that the posters infringed on their religious freedom.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.

MARIST: new generic midterm ballot. @maristpoll.bsky.social maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/a-look...

There was a kind of trigger in the original draft of Prop 50, but it is no longer in there. It references Texas redistricting but it does not depend on it. Here's the full text: vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2025/special...

Our conclusion:

What an irony it would be if Republicans, by initiating this unnecessary and unprecedented mid-decade redistricting war, ended up costing themselves the House.

Update as of 10:55 AM: Federal agents have left the Territorial/Hampden location. Mayor Carter and I are on site. We have heard reports of several individuals that have been taken by the federal government. At least one person was arrested.

Self-Accommodation, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., is now published! It's part of a wonderful University of California Health Humanities Press collection, “Legal Determinants of Health: From Incarceration to Accessibility,” edited by Brian Dolan and Juliet McMullin.

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

I’m pleased that my Georgia Law Review article is now out! I did a content analysis of every state constitutional amendment from 1960 to the present that altered any criminal procedure protection—which revealed how few states even *tried* to ratify the Warren Court’s criminal procedure holdings.

Thank you to @lsolum.bsky.social for listing my forthcoming article, Voids of Constitutional Law, as "highly recommended." SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... legaltheoryblog.com/2025/11/10/m...

JUST IN: A federal judge has thrown out DOJ’s lawsuit to compel NY to aid in immigration arrests at state courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mate on Constitutional Voids Manoj Mate (University at Buffalo Law School) has posted Voids of Constitutional Law (forthcoming, 59 LOYOLA OF LOS ANGELES LAW REVIEW _ (2026)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Although the U.S. Constitution has long been held out as a model for a particular type of…

If you haven't seen it, highly recommend Episode 1 of Ken Burns "The American Revolution," look forward to the second episode tonight.

FEMA head resigns.

Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years. Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024. It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.

So much of Fareed Zakaria's GPS program is nothing more than poorly supported and incomplete broad claims and generalizations followed by selectively interviewing wealthy elites and people who agree with him like Bill Maher.

"Under President Trump, an agency intended to keep Americans safe has diverted resources from combating child abuse, trafficking and terrorism." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...