Recent law grads — we're now hiring for legal fellows to begin in Fall 2025. Our First Amendment rights are under daily assault. I hope you'll consider applying to work with us at @knightcolumbia.org to push back. knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...

Kudos to James for standing up like this and saying he will not participate in anything Columbia does following the university's capitulation.

In light of Columbia's capitulation to the Trump regime's illegal and extortionate demands, I have resolved not to write for Columbia publications, speak at Columbia events, or perform other free labor for a university that has repudated its values. 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

"The mission of all patriots now, while we can, is to do anything we can to make people aware of what is happening in our names so a) everyone knows and b) no one can claim they didn’t know." Concentration camps will be filled -- with us. (Hello, journalists?) www.thefarce.org/we-...

Yep.

I know it's screaming into the void but I'm begging people to not repost random opinions from people who have very limited legal knowledge, even if they are appealing because they sound bad for Trump.

Hot take: if you don't know the difference between venue and personal jurisdiction, maybe you shouldn't be offering opinions on whether lawyers should have cited the Florida long arm statute or not. ...1L civ pro exists for a reason, just saying.

Anyway, I know it's not news that Trump is hypocritical, but here's my story reminding people that MAGA world insisted that the Biden admin sending impolite notes to Facebook was the greatest threat to free speech, but are completely silent on Trump calling up Murdoch and demanding he kill a story

This gov’t wants us to think it can do whatever it wants—including terrorize ppl to enforce a racist immigration agenda. This court says: No, you can’t. Proud of our friend Mark Rosenbaum for fighting hard to make this happen. As always, he’s clear on the stakes. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...

Ugh.

ADL chief says he regrets not calling out Musk’s sieg heil “more clearly” when it happened. Except ADL didn’t “call it out” at all. Instead, the org outright defended Musk, and said his action *wasn’t* antisemitic. That seems pretty clear to me.

Awful and cowardly. The refusal to at least brief, and better yet ask input from, faculty is especially sad . . . but telling. You can do better, Alan, and you risk squandering all the moral authority and public support Harvard has marshaled so far in this fight.

What a despicable, corrupt sleazeball. If Dem's don't do absolutely everything in their power to stop this nomination (whether they ultimately succeed or not), it will be a(nother) huge failure on their parts.

An early example of how the Trump/Noem destruction of FEMA is causing and will cause tremendous harm . . . including to people in Red states. I’m not holding my breath that many of them will hold him accountable, though.

Unbelievable. There’s no limit to the depths that Charlie Kirk’s racism will reach.

This.

My government is imposing sanctions on a UN mandate holder for doing her job, including calling on the ICC to do its job: holding perpetrators of international crimes accountable for their actions. This is behavior worthy of a crime family, not a member of the United Nations.

NEW: Trump administration relied heavily on shadowy Canary Mission website to identify pro-Palestinian activists for deportation, per new court testimony. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller also deeply involved in project, records show. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Wow. If you had any doubts about how inappropriate, lawless, and ridiculous Trump’s approach to tariffs is, this should eliminate them.

Hehehe

Such an outrageous misuse of the FTC's workshop power. Pure political grandstanding in the service of awful bigotry and hatred.

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Right?!!

He would have been a fifth grader if he hadn’t been left back

Awful and exactly the wrong way to respond to ICE, on so many levels. @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social is exactly right that this will only provoke greater ICE violence and give them justification for that abuse and violence. And it’s just wrong. Don’t help them be worse than they already are.

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Why are folks mad at the working mom with kids on Medicaid and SNAP rather than companies like Walmart that refuse to pay her a living wage and provide health insurance?

Every authoritarian movement attracts wackos obsessed with various crackpot theories, because the social psychology of kooky conspiracism is adjacent to that of authoritarianism. But the bizarre tangents shouldn’t obscure the core threat: They fear and hate free men and women.

Bit late to the game, but Thinh Nguyen and I have an op-ed in The Hill explaining why use of copyrighted materials for AI training data is fair use: thehill.com/opinion/judi...

Another very dark day in the rapid decline of the Supreme Court & any claim to lawfulness or legitimacy. The whole point of a stay it to preserve the status quo & to avoid irreparable harm. The status quo is that these migrants are in the US & we've never done this. The irreversible harm is obvious.

Gee, tell us what you really think, @sethabramson.bsky.social. Sadly, every expletive and label in here is true and we forget or normalize it at our continued peril. Time to stand up and say enough.

It has been overshadowed because the law is silly and there’s so much other lawlessness, but there is no legal justification whatsoever for the president deeming this not to be an enforceable law, and companies relying on that representation do so at their peril.

Happy Independence Day, America. This country belongs to all of us. Don’t let anyone steal your patriotism. 🇺🇸🗽

Disgusting an&d treasonous behavior as Trump and Hegseth continue to do Putin's bidding, allowing massive damage, injury, & death in Ukraine. All that blood is on their traitorous hands. History will judge them &, unfortunately, the US . . . very harshly for this abandonment of a democratic ally.

Yep. This is the stuff of kings (you know, the guys we celebrate overthrowing today), not of a society based on the rule of law. The US government pushed very hard for the Tik Tok ban because of supposed critical national security interests but Trump keeps repeatedly saying, "oh, never mind."

Love this!

Pretty much captures it. Too bad so many Americans have forgotten this or just don't care anymore. Let the holiday today be a reminder that we all need to channel the Americans of 1776 (flawed as they were on so many levels) and say hell no to our wannabe Mad King.

He forgot that Trump also turned the White House into a cheap car dealership for his former co-president Elon. Our embarrassing slide continues.

Our antisemitic President at work. But, as many others have said, will the NYT and other mainstream media give this blatant bigotry anywhere near the attention it can't stop giving to Zohran Mamdani's words and (inaccuarately) supposed antisemitism? Not holding my breath.

Let's hope so. But we will prevail over this mad King only if all of us rise up, as did the Americans in 1776, & insist that we will no longer tolerate the tyranny that's all around us. Sitting back and fretting, or complaining without acting, won't save us. Every single one of us must get involved.

Yep. Just sick.

There will be so much of this today. So many reasons it's impossible to celebrate Independence Day or to see our history of freedom and democracy (flawed as it is) as something that will continue. We are desperately close to -- maybe already beyond -- losing most of what made the US truly free.

Tell me again how anyone is OK with this? Causing huge harm & even death for so many vulnerable Americans for no reason other than giving huge tax breaks to the super-rich, & ICE a bigger budget than the entire Marine Corps. The GOP budget is an abomination and we need to keep saying so.

Shame, shame, shame on Penn. Such craven cowards.

Since the 1980s, Admin law has siloed itself off from poverty law, civil rights law, environmental, and to our lasting shame, immigration law. Admin law has become an airless debate over abstract principles. We forget admin law is there because vulnerable people stand before the state’s predation.

True evil. I hope Democrats really draw huge attention to this and his constituents make him pay the price. But I’m not holding my breath.

I just got this same email. Ridiculous fawning, just like the Cabinet meetings where everyone gushes about the wonders of the Dear Leader. If we ever had any doubt that many apparently sane Americans would follow a mad authoritarian into tyranny, it’s now very clear how many will. Ugh.

Sadly, painfully, maddeningly true.