All races all religions, that's America to me - Frank Sinatra

I finally met @jesspish.bsky.social at a book talk for the incredible "The Highest Law in the Land" and we somehow ironically ended up at a cop bar afterwords. She is very supportive, has good taste, and you should listen to her and pre-order The Church Committee Report.

For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Baby for scale

here we go (police incident report follows)

Baby for scale

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

Made some bread for Christmas lunch and dinner

Prominent business and government figures spread rumors about the attack on Brown University’s campus this month, reigniting questions about accountability in online discourse.

Here's a couple weeks of the syllabus for an Atlantic Revolutions course I took with the great Carolyn Fick in 2012. The class was a mixture of advanced undergrads and grad students at Concordia University. I don't think they'd let you assign this much reading now....

Here's a couple weeks of the syllabus for an Atlantic Revolutions course I took with the great Carolyn Fick in 2012. The class was a mixture of advanced undergrads and grad students at Concordia University. I don't think they'd let you assign this much reading now....

This is true and it’s why the abolitionists loved Acts 17:26 so much

Christmas Eve means court-bouillon

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u... Miller believes that immigrants are “forever branded by their origins, distinct and antithetical to the fabric of our community.” “In short, he views immigration solely through the lens of cultural threat" [Prof. Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Univ of Colorado Law School]

Time for BachFest!! www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/b...

Time for BachFest!! www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/b...

the reluctance of urbanist policymakers to acknowledge and celebrate the successes of Ras Baraka and Brandon Scott in particular is just, like, naked racism with a heaping side of ideology

I dunno those all seem like pretty good bets to me!

NOTED: In Kavanaugh's Illinois National Guard solo concurrence, he adds footnote that seems to try to calm outrage over his solo opinion in the CA ICE emergency ruling that led to some calling race-based immigration arrests "Kavanaugh stops." Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Justice Alito seems to have missed that the government's account of the Marimar Martinez shooting has been completely discredited.

BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Tbf they probably fired the people who initially looked into it

The best comment in my course evals: "I anticipate some students might say there is too much reading, I disagree"

for nonlawyers unfamiliar with legal citation - they are quite clearly redacting the court - but just the court - that issued particular decisions they cite. comments/speculation suggest they automated redactions and confused victim initials with court initials

Good facts included in this piece but still very unwarranted in giving weiss the benefit of the doubt. Like "oh she didn't realize it's harder to make edits on TV than on her blog" come on

New paper alert! "The Capture of the Congressional Intelligence Committees" argues that instead of being a meaningful check on the intelligence community, the intelligence committees have become the spy agencies' biggest boosters on Capitol Hill. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Aaaand it's officially Denver's hottest December day in 86 years. 76° so far in Denver. That's our average high on...May 27th. #COwx

Books are low-key goated when preserving the intellectual + creative birthright of all humanity is the vibe

Colorado immigration activist Jeanette Vizguerra nine months after she was taken into custody ICE "I am thankful that they never gave up, remaining committed even when the outcome seemed dark […] This fight is about the constitutional rights we all share, human rights and dignity for all people,"

Who's boston?? Dersh??

Why was this even redacted? (Also can’t believe this is real )

It feels very appropriate that my article, A New Satanic Panic, 36 Yale J. L. & Feminism 102 (2025) has appeared on Westlaw on Halloween. Seems like a good time to do a thread on the piece! SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Westlaw: www.westlaw.com/Document/Idc...

So happy that my article about the origins and first decades of the Atlanta Police is finally out! It traces the institutional development of the department, the discourses of Black criminality that underlaid racist policing, and protest against the police. lawreview.colorado.edu/print/volume...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

DOJ lawyer followers: This is incorrect, black highlighting works perfectly. Don’t worry about it

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

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On left: Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review On right: Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"

Some folks have flagged for me that Boasberg thrice cites the forthcoming HLR paper by me and Teddy Rave on habeas class actions. I wouldn't hold myself out as an expert on the underlying substantive law questions, but Boasberg gets the class action stuff right: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Here's a much more reasonable question from that same test

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.

Latest: I asked DHS' public affairs office if it considers recording or following federal law enforcement to be obstruction of justice. DHS response: "That sure sounds like obstruction of justice." reason.com/2025/12/22/d...

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

This is a long shot, but do any of my friends here have a copy of Bruce Allen Murphy's biography of Abe Fortas that you'd be willing to sell?

obviously this is transparent bullshit, but it's extremely unconvincing "hey is this really a new story worth pursuing?" is something you say at the start not 2 hours before it airs!

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

I've long wanted to write a piece on how to run a law review symposium: to offer, without judgment or condescension, some best practices and relevant questions to ask. And I've finally drafted a brief (7K) word piece on that topic in rough draft form. If you're interested in reading, let me know!

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants