That's @fishkin.bsky.social (a must-follow on this site)

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund. Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.

Good News that sounds like bad news: The District of Hawaii just found the FDA's 2023 mifepristone REMS modification unlawful and arbitrary & capricious! It's good news b/c the case was brought by medical orgs & docs arguing that FDA failed to justify why it kept strict & unnecessary REMS elements.

1. This will be a forced labor camp; 2. Utah is already planning to make it easier to commit people to it.

I see we’ve entered the “don’t worry, we have a magical Obamacare alternative” stage of the debate www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...

It took over 4 years, but the paper is finally published. In this study, we developed novel methods drawn from #LegalEpidemiology to map addiction #stigma in California law. This #interdisciplinary work was conceptually and methodologically difficult!⤵️ #PaperSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky 1/

Curious what the 4th Circuit's opinion in GenBioPro v. Raynes means for state mifepristone regulation? Check out my new piece with @pzettler.bsky.social & Lewis Grossman in JAMA. We argue that preemption arguments are not dead, even though the court upheld WVA's abortion ban. 1/2

I am just thrilled to have my new article Third-Party Accommodations officially out @michlawreview.bsky.social! The MLR editors were a pleasure to work with and sharing the same volume as @kovarsky.bsky.social & Daniel Fryer is the cherry on top. Read it: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol124/i...

Interesting. Wisc PP gave up its “essential community provider" designation and no longer fits the definition of “prohibited entity” and can continue to see Medicaid patients

The destruction of #ACIP and its critical role in advising on the use of vaccines in the United States continues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy. UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California: Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.

Not only is it harmful, dishonest & unethical, in many cases it may also be illegal, as Craig Konnoth argues here: www.uclalawreview.org/11626-2/

“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’” I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵

New publication from me: Henry T. Greely, Depopulation Hysteria, U.C. Davis On Line Law Review, 59:117-136 (Oct. 2025). I argue that the increasing drumbeat of concern about falling human populations is somewhat exaggerated but also threatens women's rights. lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/59/...

Amazing sign being held by a small child

Wow - California's public insulin will be on the market in Jan! Big milestone for public pharma efforts. Could help millions of diabetics, esp if they can build a more public supply chain too. We describe why public pharma is important in this paper ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“The declaration cites pressures on the county’s already-overcrowded detention centers as a result of an estimated 200% increase in daily arrests made by a state-federal partnership that has brought hundreds of outside law enforcement personnel, including the Tennessee National Guard, to the city.”

Nobody can know everything, let alone everything by their own research. We always rely on experts to navigate our complex world. The question is whether we pick credentialed and experienced people or internet demagogues and grifters.

Litigation continues, but the impact across the country is here. (In a cheeky move, the Trump DOJ tried to stop litigation on the basis of the federal shutdown but the district court had none of that)

Wow. NHANES js incredibly for population health surveillance, and is nationally representative as well. What a loss.

“Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.”

Reshma Ramachandran “said the sequence of events is the antithesis of how the FDA is supposed to function. “What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that’ …That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.”

“It seems like they just took a sledgehammer to the agency versus a scalpel,” said @drdebhoury.bsky.social. She believes the unRIFed jobs may have been reinstated after public outcry. HHS did not provide documentation of an error by press time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

John Thune is nervous. He just spread a bunch of lies on @pbsnewshour but I noticed one thing in particular: He reassured the audience that the underlying structure of ACA would be intact. He's lying. But I don't think I've heard a Republican make a promise about ACA like that before. Have you?

Thread. In short, after 15 years, t he ACA has joined Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as a bedrock law of the land they have to pretend to care about. They’re still trying to gut it of course, but they can no longer pretend it’s a temporary anomaly.

The first Law Dork oral argument report of the new Supreme Court term is a doozy: Chiles v. Salazar, over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

Please to share the final, citable version of my latest article, The Existential Challenge to the Administrative State, forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal. Written mostly before Trump's second term, the paper critiques and responds to the case law that has enabled the current conflagration.

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

Note that the Trump administration is illegally depriving food banks of supplies *after* they and their cronies in Congress slashed SNAP by $186 billion. Objectively a pro-hunger administration. www.urban.org/urban-wire/s...

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

Thrilled that HLPP is hosting Risk and Resistance on Oct 3! Honored to celebrate @azizaahmed.bsky.social’s groundbreaking book and so grateful to our amazing co-sponsors, speakers, and panelists who will make this such an inspiring event. #RiskandResistance #healthlaw

Obviously there are institutions—eg Liberty University—that will find these demands relatively easy to absorb and consistent with their mission. Everyone else's job right now is to convince the UVAs and Dartmouths of the world that if they go along, they are Liberty University.

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

You can read @nicholasbednar.bsky.social's explainer here. Key thing to remember, shutdowns have never triggered mass layoffs before. Instead, this is a government that likes to fire employees looking for an excuse to do more of it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/redu...

Planned Parenthood is ending services to Arizona Medicaid patients in the face of new federal funding restrictions that start on Wednesday, report @azmirror.com and @statesnewsroom.com

NEW: TX is asking NY courts to declare NY's reproductive health care shield law unconstitutional in an attempt to enforce its abortion ban across state lines. @law.ucla.edu's @lindsaywiley.bsky.social lays out a legal case for why NY (and other shield states) can and should reject such overreach.

“Is it that the Chief Justice doesn’t accept that the Court is losing credibility on a daily basis; that he thinks the Court doesn’t need that credibility in order to fulfill its intended role in our constitutional system; or that he doesn’t care?” Me on John Roberts as his Court turns 20 today:

New from me in @statecourtreport.org @brennancenter.org: Because Texas’s default judgment against Dr. Carpenter aims to punish her for the protection of public morality & future pregnant patients, embryos & fetuses, NY courts aren’t obligated to recognize it. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...

RFK Jr. just hired Mark Blaxill, one of the original anti-vaxxers, to work for the CDC. via @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/r...

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. stated that the $50B Rural Health Transformation Fund is the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health. That is untrue - Medicaid has been, to the tune of roughly $180B per year. Read why the RHTF won't help (with @aorris.bsky.social): www.cbpp.org/blog/rural-h...

There is a paucity of good evidence suggesting that these interventions reduce substantially the risks of neuropathology that attend participation in a collision sport like American tackle football. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

I really appreciate how Dr. Glaucomflecken has become all of medicine and public health's emotional support ophthalmologist. I sat through 16 hours of ACIP meetings last week. If I do not laugh, I will cry.

After taking Civ Pro and Admin Law with her, I feel compelled to share that Kagan is also fully capable of killing with a smile and wounding with her eyes.

Someone’s been a bit mopey about the young adults in the family moving away for work and school while the older adults in the family take turns going on business trips