On brand-I’m spending my last hours before the Rapture at the Maryland Parole Commission

This Thursday I’ll be in conversation w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social about her work on decriminalizing domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social’s domestic violence symposium. If you’re a journalist interested in reporting on DV, & getting funding to do so from USC, register & attend! ⤵️

Super excited to be moderating a panel w/ @leighgoodmark.bsky.social on the criminalization of domestic violence at @chjreportinghealth.bsky.social's Domestic Violence Symposium on 9/25. The event is free & attendance is required if you want to apply for a USC grant to support reporting on DV in CA

Associate Dean @leighgoodmark.bsky.social featured in the @knowablemag.bsky.social article "Can a strategy shift reduce intimate partner violence?"

Bittersweet when someone who never should have been charged, let alone spent more than a decade in prison, is released. Though she should not have been in, Alexis Martin is out. #FreeThemAll www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Maryland Carey Law Professor @mgraber1.bsky.social in today's New York Times: “The Roberts court’s pro-Trump series of decisions creates reason for thinking that you might lose, even as every professor in your law school tells you the law is on your side.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

Gee, who would have guessed? 🙄

Israel is starving Gaza's people. American funding and weapons are supporting this genocide. It's a moral horror of unfathomable scope. indivisible.org/resource/ong...

3 home. So many more to go. #FreeThemAll

Paper files were better. No matter how hard I try, I

Imagine a world in which we actually tried to address why people use violence rather than sending them to places where they are likely to experience trauma and that exacerbate the risks of future violence? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Female law profs: the phantom "law school isn't fair" guy added on this week--he told someone he would feel better if she would walk on his face. Has anyone else heard this one? Trying to figure out if it's human or chatbot.

If you missed the Council on Criminal Justice webinar on Policing Domestic Violence, it's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMSG.... Yes, I screwed up-Gabby Petito wasn't arrested, just removed from the scene-but the point about the failure of primary aggressor determinations stands.

A new season of "Love After Lockup" is premiering on AMC/WeTV on August 1. Formerly incarcerated people should not be a storyline for other people's entertainment and corporations' profits. Tell AMC/WeTV to stop profiting from incarceration here: campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/ai...

Not to be a Bobby Buzzkill but the set of anti-DV policies that Zohran is recommending have been up and running in much of the First World for a while and are getting good results. NY should adapt this approach to our own particular circumstances. www.newyorker.com/news/persons...

Prosecutors don’t keep us safer either.

When what I'm reading to write an article about how incarceration is sexual violence is less depressing than the news, you know we're in really bad shape.

Innocence Project New Orleans recently posted a job for an attorney position to focus on their new Women's Justice Initiative, which will tackle post-conviction cases of women's unjust incarceration in Louisiana. I would apply myself if I didn't already have the best job in the world.

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Guess what I learned today? The great state of Maryland was the first state to hold a person subjected to abuse liable for failing to protect a child from their partner's abuse. 🤦#TheMoreYouKnow #NotSoBlue

Journalist: "You want some batterers to go to jail, don't you? Abolition feminists don't actually want to abolish the prison system, right?" Me: "It's right there in the name." 🤦‍♀️ And yes, I sent her to @prisonculture.bsky.social's New York Times op-ed...

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

Fuck cancer. Fuck prison. And fuck for-profit prison “health care” providers.

I have resigned as Executive Director of the Skadden Foundation. This moment in history calls on us to provide more and better support for public interest lawyers. I look forward to finding other ways to contribute to their vital work.

A momentary respite from doomscrolling. Breathe in. Watch the turtle walk on the beach. Breathe out. Repeat.

The “feminism isn’t fair” guy has moved from texting to calling. Here’s today’s number. I’m sure he changes it frequently.

I experienced a moment of pure joy this morning: at the end of my walk under this glorious sky, the best walking song ever-It’s Raining Men-came on to end my walk. I danced the last few steps. Everything is terrible, but I can’t let them steal my joy. I need that energy to keep going.

Could not be more excited for my dear friend, the brilliant writer @kwanetaharris.bsky.social. Please go to her website and follow her here.

PSA-the guy who was texting female law professors to complain that law schools were anti-male and that feminism had won seems to be back. I deleted the first text before screenshotting-here’s the follow up.

Call the police for help, get arrested--in the US and in the UK. Police don't keep victims of intimate partner violence safe. #ImperfectVictims www.opendemocracy.net/en/domestic-...

The Trump Administration is using domestic violence as a smoke screen to justify kidnapping Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Hoping anti-violence organizations in Maryland and across the country will join me in making this point. marylandmatters.org/2025/04/25/t...

Anti-violence community, now is the time to say loudly and emphatically: the fact that Jennifer Vasquez Sura sought a protective order against Kilmar Abrego Garcia does not justify deporting him without due process to a country where his life is in danger and to a prison that is a torture factory.

People watching in LAX and I just realized I’m never gonna see a celeb in the Southwest terminal.

I feel 100% sure that the Os would not go.

Today, most members of the Maryland Carey Law faculty sent a letter to our students “reaffirming our commitment to the rule of law…and upholding the precepts of a fair and impartial legal system.” Proud to be part of this faculty and this place.

I appreciated the opportunity to speak with @mddailyrecord.bsky.social about the impact of racially discriminatory and abusive policing in Baltimore’s Black communities. @profmpinard.bsky.social @leighgoodmark.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

This is bringing me so much joy tonight. Thank you, @penguinsagainstdt.bsky.social

You might think that in a "blue" (debatable) state like Maryland, incarcerated trans people would be treated with dignity and respect and have their safety guaranteed. You would be wrong. Thanks to @madycast.com and @tomatoslayers.bsky.social covering this issue.

Why don't undocumented victims of violence call the police? Because they get deported. Police don't keep us safer.

Marylanders: The criminal legal system ignores that our clients were victims before they were offenders. The Second Look Act would give our incarcerated clients a chance to show judges that they are not violent or dangerous. Please urge your Senator to vote yes: marylandmatters.org/2025/03/31/s...

Georgia folks: this bill could make an enormous difference for criminalized survivors. Please tell your legislators to pass the Georgia Survivor Justice Act: apnews.com/article/dome...

As a Skadden Fellow, I could not be more dismayed to hear that Skadden’s pre-capitulation might affect the fellow selection process. For those unfamiliar with it, the Skadden Fellowship provides lawyers to those who would otherwise have no access to justice.

If you're in Baltimore tomorrow and want to talk reproductive freedoms, please join us. Sara Ainsworth of @ifwhenhow.bsky.social and I will be talking about our paper on introducing evidence of intimate partner violence in self-managed abortion prosecutions post-Dobbs.

Mandatory arrest laws in domestic violence cases are ineffective, unnecessary, and lead to the arrests of survivors of violence, even in places where police are told to determine who the primary aggressor is. It's long past time to repeal them. calmatters.org/commentary/2...