So, this is the “Democrats’ Shutdown” when the GOP controls both houses of Congress and can’t govern unless it’s unilateral, dictatorial exercises of executive power? Got it.

#FireproofingTheFDA Panel 2: FDA, Politics, and Public Health (1) @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social (2) @pzettler.bsky.social @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social (3) Lewis Grossman @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social (4) Joseph Daval @portalresearch.org Moderator: @teneille.bsky.social @sjquinney.bsky.social

I wrote an op-ed with some amazing local Utahns: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

The pandering to bigots at all levels is remarkable—installing them as heads of news rooms—we live in a time of unprincipled cowards, racing to the bottom.

LABS hosted a provocative and engaging talk today by Romina Boccia from CATO on the role of Medicare and SS on the enormous national debt. These are crucial benefit programs, but the way they’re funded is not sustainable—and I enjoyed hearing Romina speak frankly (and expertly!) about that.

This is exactly the attitude that prevents some of you from becoming the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

I can't believe that nobody is talking about the optics of a bunch of mostly white, mostly male Republicans locking this woman up and refusing her freedom to walk out the door without a police escort to make sure she complies.

why are this doorknobs dressed in jungle camo to go to a goddamn home depot. it's just the stupidity of it all. dressed up like the brotherhood of steel in fallout 4 for fucks sake. but instead of an apocalyptic wasteland it's a fucking home depot

HIPAA has exceptions for warrantless law enforcement access to your private medical records. This Biden reg kept the police (say, in Texas) from accessing private records from other states where abortion is legal (like Colorado).

Habeas corpus is the body of knowledge Alito references when he wants to make shit up

Does she really not know? Or is this a sound-bite manufactured for OAN and Fox News to use out of context (which I believe is often the point of lots of odd-seeming-to-normies GOP comments at hearings). Bc this is one of the MOST egregiously wrong statements abt law I’ve ever seen. Maybe THE most.

Monstrous. The word for Israel's actions is monstrous.

The whole administration is one giant conspiracy to scam U.S. taxpayers Trump’s new vaccine research initiative will directly benefit NIH’s new principal deputy director, Matthew Memoli, who awards himself $500,000,000 for in-house vaccine research Reports @katherinejwu.com @theatlantic.com

Since Trump took office, his family has made $2.9 billion in crypto. Again, this is a level of corruption so cartoonish, so obvious & on the surface, that it seems to have stunned everyone to silence.

Excellent, well-written opinion by Judge Wilkinson – a judge who is basically the opposite of a "judicial activist," nonetheless telling the Executive Branch to get fucked

Which SCOTUS can make clear in any of these cases, if 5 of them are appalled at all this, which I suspect and hope is true. Just say that defiance of court orders and all that flows from that are not official acts. One could get a lot clearer about what that means, but just that would be great.

The IRS permits the cult Church of Scientology (that permits slavery, harassment, brainwashing and assault) to have tax exempt status, but is threatening HARVARD. Up is down. apple.news/AksTjBipuQxa...

Don’t be the callous Senator, but also don’t be those enabling staffers who just looked down in the face of their boss’s cruelty.

@sjquinney.bsky.social LABS is hosting a fantastic symposium today on the practical implications for MDs and their counsel in a post-Dobbs world. Thanks to Holland & Hart, the Health Law Section of the Utah bar, and our Center for Health Ethics, Arts and Humanities for co-sponsoring with us!

“Now, those samples — and the genetic data they yielded — have become the bankrupt company’s most marketable asset, and the prospect of the sensitive information being put up for auction has sparked anxieties among customers” finance.yahoo.com/news/bankrup...

The fact that immigrants are being illegally expelled from the US for protesting these war crimes is about as morally corrupt as it gets: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Proud to be on this great panel to talk about the g2i problem - I'll be talking about producing better group/framework evidence through systematic reviews. With @teneille.bsky.social et al at www.gironaevidenceweek.com

Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

Worried about physicians being asked to serve as law enforcement? Check out a recent article I wrote questioning this growing trend: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

@sjquinney.bsky.social and LABS are hosting a fabulous lineup 3/28 to discuss the post-Dobbs legal landscape for repro care. CME and CLE provided—registration now open! www.law.utah.edu/event/naviga...

Please join us for our signature Leary lecture by Sanjukta Paul —Mar 4 at SJQ: www.law.utah.edu/event/the-59...

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

ALSO - responding to a call to help lawyers displaced by the nuttiness at DOJ - @ksvesq.bsky.social (Karen Vladeck, Managing Partner at Risepoint Search Partners), has offered to help - THANK YOU KAREN!!!: bsky.app/profile/ksve...

When people are trying to determine whether someone is negligent – a notion that might be thought to involve a purely objective standard – they actually use mental state information @teneille.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article! 🚨 People are more likely to approve of warrantless searches of genetic databases if the outcome seems justified (e.g., search led to a conviction, or was being used in a murder as opposed to theft case—revealing their utilitarian thinking about privacy): academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...

“Democrats need to be able to say, you know, it’s not an asylum seeker trying to raise your rent. It’s hedge funds just buying up neighborhoods, jacking up the rent and being deregulated by the Republicans.”

My new paper: I dive into Fourth Amendment history and find the original public meaning of "unreasonable searches." But applying that original meaning in modern circumstances would be normatively awful, and courts should reject it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Congrats 🥳 to Ruhan Nagra on her recent pub, exploring how the relocation of marginalized communities in the face of climate change can both help and harm them—and how community-centered process can resolve this paradox: scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol74/is...

How do we form memories in the real world and what can that tell us about memory loss and our sense of ourselves? Excited to work with the big scientific 🧠 dreamers on this one. Congrats to @brainscout.bsky.social for getting the $$ to produce what will be a spectacular neuro-show.

Excited to be part of this symposium! @teneille.bsky.social @leahfowler.bsky.social @dorfmandoron.bsky.social

My essay: Abortion and the Extremism of Bright Line Rules has been published--a bit painful to read in light of recent events in Texas, but let me know what you think: northwesternlawreview.org/articles/abo...

How do jurors infer mental states? In an amicus brief filed w SCOTUS today, a bunch of evidence scholars and I argue that jurors ought to be able to hear from experts, who can provide reliable group data to help contextualize the circumstantial evidence. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...

“Censorship is always the instrument of the weak. Yes, it wields power, but it confesses that matters are already out of the control of those who use it.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Medical emergencies are something that can develop gradually and then all-at-once. They aren’t black and white events that can be defined by statute. We are seeing the atrocity play out in Texas when courts and politicians trump docs in deciding when one occurs. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“I think it’s the clearest message you could have possibly received from an anti-abortion state that they never meant the medical exemption to mean anything at all.” www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

It’s appalling and ironic that the TX SCT made an “institutional competence” argument to defer to the legislature, ignoring the institutional competence of medical experts, making *medical* decisions about *medical* emergencies: www.txcourts.gov/media/145764...