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Blake Emerson

@blakeprof.bsky.social
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Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law. Administrative law, political theory. Author: The Public’s Law. Personal views only. law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profil…

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 5h
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 11h
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Star Wars: Kylo Ren Screams 'MORE!!!'
ALT: Star Wars: Kylo Ren Screams 'MORE!!!'
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Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Could be wrong but I feel like when you release a “terror-suspect” on bail, it’s not all-that-terrorism that they are reasonably suspected of?
nbcnews.com
Terrorism suspects arrested near British air base used by U.S. are released on bail
The five British nationals were detained after a massive security operation near a base the U.S. uses to facilitate strikes on Iran.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check out David’s fabulous essay in our forthcoming volume, Building Democratic Capacity: Essays on Administrative Law’s Futures.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dem presidential hopefuls need to start being clear that they intend to prosecute people who do criminal things at Trump’s behest. Trump might pardon them sure, but, then again, he may not, since he’s lazy, mercurial, and a narcissist.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1000 percent chance of these gold bars going missing when Trump leaves the White House.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Perfect outfit in which to ask, “are we in a tradwife exodus”
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Soon they’ll be telling me I can’t give my lectures with an iced coffee in hand, smh
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👍🏼
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Justice Jackson from the top rope.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ranter-curious Quaker circa 1650.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We need a NOAA but for vibe shifts.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Press gets much better at standing up for itself and the rule of law as Trump’s approval rating plummets
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exciting new classroom capabilities, including “bring your own computer.”
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
She’s got that glint in her eye that says “civil rights violations”
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh no
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Are we having fun yet?
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I need reality to stop mimicking my previous torts exams.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not clear on who the “we” is here.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seems kind of like he’s been cracking down on dissent the whole time.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good we need a point person to handle all the AI-related corruption in the White House. The president needs help.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Perfect encapsulation of Trump’s political theory. He is the people and the White House is his property.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I guess we’ll find out if the President can still be enjoined anymore soon.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👍🏼
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He’s now made clear that he will not be responding to our letter. Such disappointing leadership and failure to take accountability.
latimes.com
UCLA chancellor faces faculty outcry over 9/11 statement, a test of academic freedom
Over 50 UCLA law faculty and 200 professors nationwide urge Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his statement about a campus 9/11 symposium amid a growing academic freedom debate.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Vote for us: we’re morons.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Honestly this is the perfect Papal face to make at a massive green orb. No notes
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You mean Hegel? Yes.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I join over 50 my of UCLA Law colleagues in expressing our dismay at Chancellor Frenk’s public response to a disinformation campaign against a Law School symposium on the legacy of 9/11. We call for a retraction and the opportunity to meet with the Chancellor. sites.google.com/view/ucla-la...
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We write to express our grave disappointment at Chancellor Frenk’s September 11, 2026 statement, which he has reaffirmed, that appears to condemn a symposium hosted by several law school centers on th...
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
POV: It’s not your POV, you are looking at someone else doing the thing
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Remind me how much capital has been invested in AI so far? Is it somewhat more than a billion?
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This would be a fun conversation to listen in on.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There is 0 governmental interest in enforcing an illegal rule, to say nothing of an unconstitutional rule.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Breaking: Supreme Court, with Justices Thomas and Alito Publicly Dissenting, Continue Block on USPS Rule Through the Midterm Elections [Now updated with Analysis] electionlawblog.org/2026/breakin...
electionlawblog.org
Breaking: Supreme Court, with Justices Thomas and Alito Publicly Dissenting, Continue Block on USPS Rule Through the Midterm Elections [Now updated with Analysis] #ELB
You can find the ruling at this link. The Supreme Court, with the noted dissents of Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas, has rejected the government’s mendacious attempt to put its USPS mail ballot rule in ...
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Remembering how in Battlestar Galactica the eponymous ship survived the Cylons because it wasn’t hooked into the internet
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Joey put this all better than I could. Frenk really let the law school and the university down here, including high-school basics of constitutional democracy, academic freedom, and his administration’s stated principles of institutional neutrality.
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When future President John Adams walked into court to defend the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, he knew he was laying down a marker for future generations about what the rule of law is. Julio Frenk, chancellor of my university, unfortunately missed that lesson and a few more.
latimes.com
UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event with 9/11 'mastermind' attorney; organizers push back
After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the u...
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Op-Ed headline writer phoning it in today
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two NYT headlines on same day. Need a little more object permanence at the editorial level.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
There’s this one weird trick called LEGISLATION
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So, what are you going to do with your 5k that Trump’s definitely going to give all of us when Republicans win the midterms - a thing that will happen?
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Are my pants wide enough? Are they too wide? The modern dilemma
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The latest in a lot of existing evidence that Netanyahu’s gross negligence allowed 10/7 to happen. The whole episode before and on that horrific day was a shocking display of Bibi’s incompetence, which he then tried to bury in public memory with subsequent, ongoing war crimes.
apnews.com
UAE warned Netanyahu of major Hamas operation days before Oct. 7 attack, news report says
An Israeli newspaper says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was directly warned by the president of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a major offensive just days before the militant gro...
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The idea of a “working royal” is inherently ridiculous
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Shocked, shocked to find that a historical epic about de Gaulle is a hit in France.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My hot take on the AOC/MAHA thing is that politics requires peeling off alienated groups from your rivals into your own coalition, even if you don’t like them and there are risks to “normalizing” them. Like you don’t get to 51 percent in any country with the pure of heart.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
W hat are the chances the Supreme Court stays in the lower court’s preliminary injunction on Trump’s postal service election rigging scheme? I’d say it’s like 50/50
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I mean…
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