“The race to incarcerate made a new generation of advocates crucial to the survival of liberal institutions and values in the age of mass incarceration—including the ideal of adversary justice, racial equality, and the legitimacy of a democratic state, whose overriding goals are security & justice”

“The race to incarcerate made a new generation of advocates crucial to the survival of liberal institutions and values in the age of mass incarceration—including the ideal of adversary justice, racial equality, and the legitimacy of a democratic state, whose overriding goals are security & justice”

Trump continues to manufacture emergencies to do unprecedented things. The Roberts Court, in turn, invokes its own emergency power to permit those actions to take effect.

Listen to a sample from Demand The Impossible, about McWilliams v. Dunn, which raises the issue of what an intellectually disabled man facing the death penalty is due. @demandtimpossible.bsky.social

Outreach to encourage minority students to apply is the most clearly permissible approach under the case law. That means Harvard is choosing to overcomply. I’m doubtful it helps them avoid further litigation or improves their position.

Kimmel won. Winning matters, wins are how we’re going to prevent this autocratic slide.

Turns out entire judicial philosophies are meaningless when you've got a 6-3 majority

Trump continues to manufacture emergencies to do unprecedented things. The Roberts Court, in turn, invokes its own emergency power to permit those actions to take effect.

Supreme Court decision making isn’t some form of platonic reasoning but rather counting to 5 based on a sense of the leanings, inclinations, and hobby horses of the Justices

Listen to a sample from Demand The Impossible, about McWilliams v. Dunn, which raises the issue of what an intellectually disabled man facing the death penalty is due. @demandtimpossible.bsky.social

“Rosenzweig was fired, according to multiple sources, because of the negative things he said about Trump on a social media blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami…With his dismissal, Rosenzweig has become the latest of dozens of federal prosecutors fired by Trump's Justice Department”

“Rosenzweig was fired, according to multiple sources, because of the negative things he said about Trump on a social media blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami…With his dismissal, Rosenzweig has become the latest of dozens of federal prosecutors fired by Trump's Justice Department”

Trump should be lavishing awards on Comey instead of turning him into a martyr

"Herald of a Restless World is the best introduction I know of to Bergson’s life and thought, in either English or French. It is also the most delightful book I’ve read about him, written with clarity, joy, humor, and narrative drive" 💅💅💅

Bright responds to Boleyn’s assertion that the legal system is “now weighted in favor of indigents and minorities”

Bryan Stevenson spars with Susan Boleyn, a lawyer in the State of Georgia’s death penalty unit, over whether there’s racism in the administration of capital punishment. #DemandTheImpossible

We live in a banana republic

Truth

We live in a banana republic

Charlestown, MA

Charlestown, MA

Excellent by @joelowndes.bsky.social: “Just as remembrance is key to national identity, so, as the 19th-century theorist of nationalism Ernst Renan pointed out, is selective forgetting. The making of Kirk into a national symbol requires the erasure of his extensive record of dehumanizing statements”

Excellent by @joelowndes.bsky.social: “Just as remembrance is key to national identity, so, as the 19th-century theorist of nationalism Ernst Renan pointed out, is selective forgetting. The making of Kirk into a national symbol requires the erasure of his extensive record of dehumanizing statements”

Who among us hasn’t received a Cava bag full of cash?

Who among us hasn’t received a Cava bag full of cash?

It is time for a love revolution It is time for a new constitution —Lenny Kravitz

“He has .. sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”

“He has .. sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”

“A hot microphone caught one panelist calling another committee member ‘an idiot,’ although it was unclear who was speaking.”

“A hot microphone caught one panelist calling another committee member ‘an idiot,’ although it was unclear who was speaking.”

Sunrise at Charlestown, MA marina

“Mazower writes in his introduction to On Antisemitism, ‘Anyone who takes antisemitism seriously as an ongoing problem must surely therefore be dismayed by the confusion that exists around the term, not to mention the overuse that threatens to strip it of meaning.’”

It is time for a love revolution It is time for a new constitution —Lenny Kravitz

“Mazower writes in his introduction to On Antisemitism, ‘Anyone who takes antisemitism seriously as an ongoing problem must surely therefore be dismayed by the confusion that exists around the term, not to mention the overuse that threatens to strip it of meaning.’”

Sunrise at Charlestown, MA marina

List of Trump DOJ’s demands of UCLA

List of Trump DOJ’s demands of UCLA

“The report details the deaths of civilians killed during intense Israeli bombing of densely populated areas, the destruction of hospitals and clinics, including…the destruction of educational, religious and cultural sites. The consequence, it said, is the erasure of Palestinian identity”

“The report details the deaths of civilians killed during intense Israeli bombing of densely populated areas, the destruction of hospitals and clinics, including…the destruction of educational, religious and cultural sites. The consequence, it said, is the erasure of Palestinian identity”

View of the Charles from my office

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View of the Charles from my office

“He railed against judges who had become so numb to the daily grind of processing cases that they were no longer capable of distinguishing between inconvenience and injustice.” amzn.to/45LFzNg

lmao

lmao

“He railed against judges who had become so numb to the daily grind of processing cases that they were no longer capable of distinguishing between inconvenience and injustice.” amzn.to/45LFzNg

Justice Sotomayor suggests—implausibly—that justices somehow have a vested property interest in their office. Yet another reason why relying on judges to be reformers is an absolute disaster.

“Is the Constitution Broken?”Brandon Terry, Aziz Rana, @noahfeldman.bsky.social in Boston Common

“Is the Constitution Broken?”Brandon Terry, Aziz Rana, @noahfeldman.bsky.social in Boston Common