NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Happy Constitution Day! Let's celebrate while we still have one

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Great piece. It’s not just NYPD. Your Data Will Be Used Against You They’re Watching You www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Welp I know what quote I'll be putting on the screen when we talk about the role of race in Terry stops

If you have already or will successfully defend a legal psychology dissertation in 2025, apply for the @ap-ls.org Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026! More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation

It's Carpenter day in Crim Pro!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

Just a reminder we're currently open for registration! Stipends still available!

"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search." unreal quote 😭

Anyone care to guess how long my family lasted into the school year before someone got sick?

Middle kid starts kindergarten soon so I promised him & my oldest I'd hang out with them all week & do all the fun things we didn't have time for this summer. I have a whole list of class prep, edits, cites etc I need to do, but I have a feeling I'm not going to regret this. Thankful I can do this!

Nebraska Law is hosting a junior scholars conference for Big Ten schools on Oct 27 & 28! We are excited to welcome scholars with fewer than 10 years of teaching. Lincoln in the fall is a fun place & even better: $500 travel stipends for presenters! Register now: law.unl.edu/big-ten-earl...

This... will not end well www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I've been interested in expectations of privacy for awhile, so the dialogue around the whole Coldplay KissCam thing is wild to me. I'm trying to imagine a criminal defendant arguing a reasonable expectation of privacy in what they did at a concert with thousands of people apnews.com/article/cold...

While boarding my flight, and Gen-Zer called me "queen." This is good, yes?

Yum

Yiiiiiikes

When DHS Secretary Noem suggests "liberating" populations from their elected officials, and you're polite enough to only ask a question rather than shouting "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????" and you're still taken down to the ground. @padilla.senate.gov

So, the budget bill that passed the House would likely cripple access to law school, medical school, and other unfunded graduate school opportunities by eliminating Grad Plus loans. Students would be forced to use high-interest private loans that lack public service repayment.

Clearly the Iowa SCT didn't read my article: scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol93/i...

My eye is twitching.

🚨New article alert! Led by law student Ashtaan. Although success for youth on probation is often measured via recidivism, the goal of the JJS is rehabilitation. Are youths’ risks and needs actually being addressed while under court supervision? If so, for whom?🧵 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CN3BZ...

Grade a paper, eat a reese's egg. Grade a paper, eat a reese's egg. My dentist is going to love me.

Of all the policies I can think of that would encourage people to have children, "menstrual cycle classes" does not crack the top 100

Once again, I was left to wonder: was Pete Hegseth signal chatting military attack plans to everyone but me?? Am I the one that’s insecure, or is it his communication practices that are insecure?

What is the state of open science in the field of psychology and law? Data from Fessinger, McAuliff, and @anthonyperillo.bsky.social at the link below. It’s open access (free to read) from @lhb-apls.bsky.social @apajournals.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

"There's a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond... I'm here despite his speech, I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." -Cory Booker as he eclipses Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in US history.

One of my awesome colleagues here at W&L, Professor Catherine Smith, has helped to organize a webinar scheduled for April 9 for lawyers interested in law teaching. Registration link here: udenver.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My amazing colleagues & students at Nebraska Law have published the inaugural issue of the Nebraska Journal on Advancing Justice, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. I'm inspired by their hard work & thankful to be at an institution that seeks to advance justice. njaj.unl.edu/volume-archi...

My article, Rethinking the Automobile Exception, is now out with the Univ. of Cincinnati Law Review! This was such a fun article to write about a concept that has infuriated me since law school, and the editors at Cincinnati were wonderful! scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/

Day 3 of #APLS2025 brings some exciting sessions outside the typical psych-law umbrella: closing plenary on using research to improve corrections, psych of tax-payers, and civil justice. And then I am going to sleep.

Day 2 of #APLS2025 - trust, trust, and more trust! Plus a session on research & training centers featuring a presentation by the always amazing Eve Brank on my former home, Center on Children, Families & the Law. Ending the day with my personal fave at APLS - the Nebraska party. Go big red!

Day 1 of #APLS2025 in the books. Great sessions on bringing the law back to psychology, procedural justice & the police, and effects of electoral college on voter engagement. Thankful to my awesome co-chair for getting us here!

Never have I ever been so thankful for the flu giving me an 8 o'clock bedtime

If you know of anyone thinking about geofence warrants (hello 4th Circuit) i just wrote a short piece on why they violate the Fourth Amendment. #law Everywhere Everything Searches (part of the GW JOLT Symposium). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Magistrate judge in the 5th Circuit, asked to sign off on warrants for routine "tower dumps," declines to do, writing an opinion concluding that all tower dumps are likewise unconstitutional in light of the 5th Circuit's recent geofencing opinion. (Thread) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Supreme Court throws out Richard Glossip's murder conviction, finding that the State failed to correct false testimony: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

#PsychLaw people: who's attending #APLS2025 in March? I'll create a starter pack so attendees can find people here on Bluesky who might be posting from the conference.

As co-chair of a major academic conference that's happening in less than a month... crap.

Suspect signs consent form allowing state police to search her phone. Police extract contents but no charges brought. Later, they share extraction w/law enforcement in another state. CA9: 4A was violated. The copy retained all rights, & this exceeded consent. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op... #N

Once again, I have structured my syllabi so we are discussing the same case in both classes I teach today (mental health law; capital punishment). I feel like I'm cheating at this whole professor thing.

At least there's one good thing in the world to look forward to. deadline.com/2025/02/buff...

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

Today's vibe:

Law-psych friends, just a reminder that registration for #APLS2025 is now open! Travel to PR can be steep & I'm seeing flight prices increase so book now. I have it on good authority this conference will be one of the best ever 🙂 ap-ls.org/conferences for more info!