The fundamental mistake that the conservative legal movement made in looking at the Warren Court was assuming that it was all power and zero parts persuasion, so all they had to do was capture the institution. They were, I think, half right, but that other half is very important.
SCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS.
Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.
Whistleblower complaint says the DOGE engineer "told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
It’s nearly impossible to lose Grenell, but Ogles pulled it off.
Please read @billmckibben.bsky.social on the toxic oil clouds the Iran war is now generating:
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-dark-and...
These poor kids. This family did nothing wrong except believe in the United States.
Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH.
The article covers newly released discovery in the case.
Here’s what discovery confirmed:
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Every day Pete Hegseth confesses to war crimes in front of the whole world.
Even if it is a "mistake," it can still be a war crime. A person who acts recklessly in causing disproportionate civilian deaths can be found to have acted “wilfully” and thus responsible for a war crime.
Read "'Mistakes' in War": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …
“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”
washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...
We built the United Nations, with all its flaws, with the hope of never having World War II again and we're going to have to build a new set of multilateral institutions with the hope of never having Donald J. Trump again
As a former federal district court law clerk, I have to say it is quite a reversal from the norm when a pro se attorney is calling out briefing missteps made by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
No career lawyers on the brief, typically a sign that the arguments therein are indefensible
An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Happy birthday, Ghana. The country's independence in 1957 marked marked a new era in the history of the continent and the world - a Second Emancipation, one might say.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Some thoughts on the war in Iran, by me. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/i...
@raskin.house.gov (D-MD) derides the argument that it’s too late to debate whether to go to war: “What a humiliating, self-defeating argument!”
The next Forever War is here.
"The CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces with the aim of fomenting a popular uprising in Iran, multiple people familiar with the plan told CNN."
I've been in the law business for quite a while and I've never heard of something like this. I'm guessing someone didn't tell POTUS about dropping the appeal and when he found out he blew a gasket about looking weak. Gift link to NYT piece:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
Read our #SCOTUS brief on behalf of an ideologically diverse group of scholars, including @ilyasomin.bsky.social and @amandafrost.bsky.social: www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/t...
Every argument for Trump claim that children of illegal migrants can be denied birthright citizenship would also have denied it to numerous freed slaves and their children, thus going against main purpose of 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause. See my post for reasons why: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.
Those big law firms never needed to cave but they caved. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Very proud of my old colleagues at WilmerHale—and the other firms that didn't cave, and the firms that stepped up to represent them, and the lawyers at caving firms who subsequently quit.
Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
Rick Scott on @cnn.com: Every president since Truman has gone to war without a war declaration.
It's not a good sign that my work is relevant:
The Gloss of War: Revisiting the Korean War’s Legacy - Michigan Law Review share.google/bd3NyagMfAdL...
Today's attack on Iran is an attack on the postwar legal order. Yet again, Trump has taken an action that threatens to end an era of historic peace and return us to a world in which might makes right. The cost will be paid in human lives.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
