Some of you may think Ilan Wurman is disappointed with how this argument is going. Wrong, he's not even listening, because he's already working on his next piece of scholarship: an article arguing that the 22nd Amendment is unconstitutional

Jackson is the only liberal justice who understands the moment and what it calls for. which we already knew because if Sotomayor understood it she would've retired under Biden

Great turnout at No Kings Newtown!

They started an illegal war of choice during an ideological, racist and sexist purge led by right wing podcasters calling targets on a sieg heiling billionaire’s website, believing their superior genes and brutality would lead to rapid victory and are now facing defeat bsky.app/profile/dunc...

Businesses have been hesitant to take up the new "AI Arbitrator" for corporate disputes. How long until they make their workers the guinea pigs and push them not only into forced arbitration but forced arbitration before an AI arbitrator? noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/ai-arbitra...

Lawyers are dropping good cases rather than risking a bad outcome from the Supreme Court

"The Court’s immunity jurisprudence creates a one-way ratchet: States that push too far risk locking in even more sweeping protections. States that hold back leave existing precedents intact, and crimes by federal agents unpunished."

They are calling millennials up like we don’t remember what happened to the first batch of us that went to Afghanistan and Iraq in are teens and twenties.

State law enforcement officials are dropping prosecutions of federal agents because they are too worried the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a ruling that makes federal agents even less accountable

It was always clear that Harmeet Dhillon wanted to end DOJ's Civil Rights Division as it had previously existed. This story of the types of lawyers now joining the Civil Rights Division shows just how completely upended it all is.

"[Homeschooling is] one of the most rewarding decisions our family has made. Which is why I find the modern parental rights movement — now the loudest political voice in homeschooling — so disturbing." ~ @skennedy2504.myatproto.social

Homeschooling doesn’t have to mean embracing the “parental rights” agenda. For my family, it's the opposite: a chance for our kids to go deeper into what interests them most and build intentional community while maintaining the standards expected in school talkingpointsmemo.com/news/i-homes...

Parental rights absolutists prioritize extreme anti-government ideology over child safety, defeating modest reform bills meant to prevent abuse and neglect.

Such important work from Chad and Oded. Whether it's criminal sentencing, evictions, or employment discrimination, ordinary people do worse appearing before former prosecutors and corporate attorneys ctmirror.org/2024/02/12/c...

Also, make sure to check out related work from @billycorriher.bsky.social @peoplesparity.bsky.social !!

My Boston Globe op-ed this morning asks: why is Massachusetts Governor Healy nominating so many former prosecutors to the bench despite strong evidence that prosecutorial backgrounds can worsen bail and detention outcomes?

Re Chavez: Thread for sexual assault survivors/victims (however you see yourself is ok!) and people supporting them today. Here are some things that I think are useful. I am not an expert, just someone who has been navigating being public about my experiences, including in media interviews. 🧵

I was recently in Mexico, where folks were getting ready to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a commemoration of el Batallón de San Patricio (St. Patrick's Battalion), and it was nice to see a celebration built on solidarity rather than green beer towardsolidarity.substack.com/p/the-irish-...

Mayor Mamdani, come up to the house and watch The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006) as tradition dictates.

Irish America wasn’t built on nostalgia—it was built on strikes, radicalism, and anti-colonial struggle. So what happened? noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/st-patrick...

▶️Don't miss a conversation with Josh Michtom, former veteran public defender and current lawyer for children, @rsgat.bsky.social this Wed 3/18 at 1PM EST in our new "In It Together" series ✅RSVP today! actionnetwork.org/events/in-it...

"The most vocal champions of parental sovereignty routinely support aggressive state intervention when families depart from preferred norms—particularly around gender, sexuality, and race." www.liberalcurrents.com/parental-rig...

Today @skennedy2504.myatproto.social talks about how despite using the rhetoric of “rights” the parental rights crowd is engaged in a larger authoritarian project

Pete Hegseth thinks his butch drag is convincing. It was, at least for the MAGA bro crowd, for a time. But now that he's waging an idiotic war on Iran, a lot of his fanboys are freaking out. It was all manly role-play! They didn't want a real war! www.salon.com/2026/03/13/p...

The housing first approach to homelessness was proven effective through partnership with the VA. Trump wants to use the VA to kill it slate.com/news-and-pol...

In our new "In It Together" series, we'll be having one-on-one conversations with public interest lawyers & advocates for perspective & a reminder that no one fights alone. ✅Join us: 3/18 @ 1PM EST with public defender Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social ✅RSVP today! actionnetwork.org/events/in-it...

Taking a break today from posting about concentration-camp matters for the newsletter, I wrote instead about a sociological study that might shed light on the Trump administration's reckless violence and the loyalty of his most diehard supporters.

The Next Costly Battleground in the Conservative War for Total Parental Control talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-nex...

The homeschooling debate has been driven by extremist parental rights rhetoric and worst case scenarios. But we’re missing the real opportunity: policies that expand educational flexibility and support families—at home, in school, or both. My latest in @ctmirror.org: ctmirror.org/2026/03/10/a...

A new Wyoming bill would allow parents to sue for financial damages and attorney’s fees if their kids are exposed to ideas that the parents don’t like.

I had to read this several times to make sure I understood correctly: A bill in Missouri would make it so that if a judge releases a person charged with a crime on bail, and that person commits a felony, the *judge* would be charged with a felony for their decision to release that person

This should be obvious, but the Heritage Foundation proposal for government-funded "marriage bootcamps" is not about building happy families but about social control How do I know? I've lived it noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/marriage-b...

1/2 ⚖️ In the recent tariff ruling, Justice Brett Kavanaugh lamented that the refund process is likely to be a “mess.” He may be correct - but his dissent overlooks the fact that it was the Court’s conservative majority that caused this mess in the first place.

How many of these Dunkin' feedbags are there going to be at the Boston No Kings this month now? www.masslive.com/entertainmen...

Kavanaugh on tariffs: "The refund process is likely to be a mess" [so now we have to leave them in place regardless of constitutionality]" I seem to remember a mechanism for avoiding exactly this kind of mess that you and your buddies got rid of in Trump v. CASA ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/tarif...

This is making me think about the way we constrain our political imagination based on what we've known, without really asking why. Like, we accept that closed borders and immigration strictures are fundamental to nationhood. But are they? That's not how things work in Europe, or...

lol called it www.liberalcurrents.com/how-the-supr...

Shorter Justice Sutherland: You rubes are looking to the Constitution to determine the president's war powers?? No no, the president got those directly from the king 🙃

The Blue States Getting Creative to Protect Their People from ICE noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/blue-state...

1/2 👉The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war - but a long line of Supreme Court decisions has expanded presidential authority to initiate military action without clear congressional approval. @skennedy2504.myatproto.social

"In typically Trumpian fashion, these actions are shocking to the common understanding—and the intent of—the U.S. Constitution, while also representing the natural endpoint of conservative jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court has been incredibly solicitous of executive power in foreign affairs"

The Elected Officials Defending Prison Sexual Assault h/t @nysfocus.bsky.social noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/officials-...

Here's @skennedy2504.myatproto.social on the 90 years of Supreme Court precedents enabling Trump's war in Iran

Blue state AGs get lots of coverage for suing Donald Trump and protecting residents from predatory corporations. But how do they use their discretion when they are called to defend the state in lawsuits brought by the same residents? noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/officials-...

Never expected to do this, but I just started a newsletter on Beehiiv! It will be a place for me to post writing that I am not publishing with other outlets but that I think is important. more about my writing here, and the first post is coming shortly! noneutralground.beehiiv.com/p/here-we-go

Just got some exciting feedback from the first person to read my new book! It’s a biography of my hero, Justice Anita Earls. This is an inspiring story that needs to be told. You can read the (revised) first chapter and help me tell this story. www.kickstarter.com/projects/206... #ncpol

Between this and the contempt orders, maybe it's finally starting. Lots more options on the table! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The absolute most charitable interpretation of Sarah Isgur's Supreme Court analysis is that she is embarrassingly lazy, and Steve walks through all the numbers that her "the principled conservatives are Doing Law, Not Politics" thesis conveniently omits

anyone who was actually interested in "disability fraud" would look into injury claims like this and why it is exactly that NYPD officers dive more than FIFA players