Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

The govt jst invested $1b 2 replace aging Indian Health Services facilities tht have been on a list since 1993. It marks the single largest investment by any admin in updating IHS facilities, but also calls attn. To just how underfunded IHS has been.

New Essay on ICWA compliance and enforcement from leading ICWA appellate litigator, clinical director, law professor, and my mentor @katefort.bsky.social!

Just going to link my latest article here. It contextualizes the birthright citizenship order and the pronatalist movement within the great replacement theory and conservative family policy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I had a wonderful time discussing my work-in-progress (The Indian Child: Somebody's Property, A Nation's Citizen) at the AIL Workshop at Michigan Law today. Engaging this topic with emerging Indian law attorneys and scholars gave me a great deal to think about!

When your plane arrives at Newark Liberty early AND you don’t sit on the tarmac for 30 minutes for some random reason 🤌🏽

Something about high impact litigation: never trust ANYONE’S take on an opinion within minutes of a federal court dropping it. Those opinions can be hundreds of pages long & the case experts have yet to dissect it. People are rushing to deliver a scoop without barely having the facts.

Overall, I agree. But the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship guarantee is very much about reproduction, even if its text doesn’t explicitly mention “parent” or “domicile.” I discuss this in my new article, Reproducing Citizenship: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I’m thrilled to announce that my article, Reproducing Citizenship, is now available in the Georgetown Journal of Gender & the Law! Article here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... More info below 🧵

Thankful that I was able to connect with @jillwieberlens.bsky.social during her visit to Seton Hall Law! Very engaging presentation (and book) on stillbirth and the law.

🚨🚨🚨New article with @jennoliva.bsky.social, forthcoming in @uclalawreview.bsky.social Discourse: Veteran Disability Hierarchies. Now on @ssrn.bsky.social! On disability as mitigation in veterans’ treatment courts and the politics of service-connected compensation: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Is it really denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court so much as doing exactly what state constitutions and courts should be doing: expanding the protections owed to its citizens??

Thrilled that my book chapter, "Mask Shaming: On Private Enforcement and Disability Politics," in print as part of the important @nyupress.bsky.social book Regulating the Body: Autonomy, Control, and the Broken Promise of Equality in American Law, ed. by the legendary Austin Sarat & Susanna Lee! 1/3

So excited to see this list of forthcoming scholarship from my colleagues @setonhall.bsky.social! It’s been a productive year for so many of us, and it’s possible that I even have a few pieces on this list too 💜 law.shu.edu/news/seton-h...

Delighted to be quoted in the important @theguardian.com piece by @aglantz.bsky.social about the very concerning changes in anti-discrimination policies at the VA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So excited for the four new tenure-track colleagues joining us at Seton Hall Law, including two clinicians to lead our Transactional Law and Medical Legal Partnership Clinics and two doctrinal professors to teach in the areas of health & environmental law! law.shu.edu/news/seton-h...

We've discussed this a bunch on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social. SCOTUS's opinion tomorrow will not address the substantive question of whether 14A confers birthright citizenship. It'll address whether and in what circumstances universal injunctions are an appropriate judicial remedy. . . .

What a group, what a conference!! Thanks to Liz and all of the organizers of this year's Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference!

I wrote about Pres. Trump’s attempt to use school discipline as a tool for racial exclusion: thehill.com/opinion/civi...

The conversation around this new Lilo & Stitch movie is killing me. Why would Disney put such a loaded, complicated topic in a kids’ movie?? It was not well thought out.

Between this and the expected NJ Transit strike, it’s beginning to look a lot like a road trip and binge watching tv summer 😩😭 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/u...

New sins just dropped???

My Article, Equity for American Indian Families, is now live in Volume 109 of the Minnesota Law Review! Thanks to the editors for their support and hard work on this rather involved piece. 🧵 minnesotalawreview.org/article/equi...

Early on, I warned people. Constitutional law scholars who haven’t actually studied Indian law shouldn’t be in on this part of the conversation because they don’t get the nuances. If you want to learn more, I rec this piece from Greg Ablavsky & Bethany Berger. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What’s it called when the government knows more than the experts in the field?

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

Child. Trafficking. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...

They told us their plans ahead of time. In those plans, they made comments about countering family separation by sending US citizen children back “home” with their parents. I’m not saying it’s acceptable or that we ignore it. But when they tell you who they are, believe them.

I am so happy for my @setonhall.bsky.social colleague Doron for this amazing opportunity!

Incredibly proud of the Seton Hall Law faculty for publicly taking a stand in these difficult times.

Proud to stand with more than 40 law professors from New Jersey law schools in an op-ed explaining why President Trump's interim appointment for U.S. Attorney is unqualified for the position. www.law.com/njlawjournal...

In true law professor fashion, I walked into the US Supreme Court and asked where I could find Justice Brennan’s portrait. I had to find it on my own. Meanwhile, the statue to colonialism was just right there, front and center. Two Americas 🤣🤣

Yesterday, I visited the US Supreme Court and National Museum of the American Latino with @setonhall.bsky.social’s The Joseph A. Unanue Latino Institute and Seton Hall Law’s LEO Fellows Program. Thanks to my colleague Melanie Perez-Vellios for her work bridging these programs & for the invite!

A little late, but on Thursday, we had the opportunity to celebrate the release of my @setonhall.bsky.social colleague Solangel Maldonado’s book The Architecture of Desire. Thanks to Rebecca Godsil, Serena Mayeri, Ndjuoh MehChu, and Michael Coenen (moderator) for rounding out this discussion!

Though adoption can be the right solution for both pregnant people and those looking to build their families, the for-profit adoption industry essentially extracts children from people in dire circumstances to place with those who can pay the exorbitant fees. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

Thrilled to be on a panel with three brilliant health law scholars @lindsaywiley.bsky.social @christinasho.bsky.social & Sara Rosenbaum! We discussed Section 1557 and the game of tag-of-war between administrations on its implementation @setonhallhealthlaw.bsky.social symposium on the ACA at 15 💪

Arab countries reject Gaza displacement as ethnic cleansing, but Israeli officials say they are working on plans to make it happen, and polls suggest most Israelis are open to the idea.

jewish person here. this is not the way to end antisemitism. full stop. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/n...

A federally funded database helps track long-term, missing-person cases. Yet an NPR investigation finds that even in states legally required to use it, more than 2,000 people haven't been added.

it is truly wild that, as the authors here note, every argument against the plain text reading of the citizenship clause requires twists, turns, contortions and leaps that would make simone biles look like an amateur

"Power is power." --Cersei Lannister

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.

I never expected they would be on the mark, so I can say that RFK has met all of my expectations!

Wow. Hazel Dukes was an institution unto herself. Rest in Peace, Ms. Dukes. gothamist.com/news/hazel-d...

What we aren't reckoning with is that his constituents undoubtedly, with their full chests, believe that he is talking about "those who don't deserve it, unlike us who totally deserve it." Until we get to the root of that selfishness steeped in white supremacy, this nonsense will continue.

Something that’s just so weird to me is how *white* the spaces in legal academia are when it comes to talking about birthright citizenship. This debate—super white and male. The volleys online—also super white and male. Perhaps it speaks to the whiteness (and maleness) of the con law space. 1/2

It reminds me of the people in college history classes who would defend slavery by talking about how it was "good for the economy." A lot of evil things are good for the economy, but money--and the ability of the wealthy to make more of it--shouldn't be the base line for morality.