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Eric Muller

@elmunc.bsky.social
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Fading lawprof. Scholar of WWII Japanese American incarceration. Quasi-intermediate bassist. Squeeze, XTC, Fountains of Wayne. Lover of small dogs--yes, all of them.

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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Two can play this game. #LakeOntario #LakeAmerica #GreatLakes
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Product launch! #testosterone #hegseth #trump
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Product launch! #testosterone #hegseth #trump
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mitch McConnell released this statement about the death of Lindsay Graham.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Trustees Disembowel Faculty Without Seeking Faculty Input: AAUP Chapter #academicsky
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today Ross Douthat platforms a powerful German man on a quest to "maximize" humans. And doesn't see, or doesn't ask about, the obvious precedent. We've seen this film. It doesn't end well. #historysky #skystorians
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today Ross Douthat platforms a powerful German man on a quest to "maximize" humans. And doesn't see, or doesn't ask about, the obvious precedent. We've seen this film. It doesn't end well. #historysky #skystorians
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Big announcement about the "civil discourse" program here at #UNC - corrected for accuracy. #academicsky #academia
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Interesting, Claude! OTOH, a team in Berlin also built a place to kill my grandmother. #TrustTheProcess #TechInnovation #AIpocalypse
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I hope the #Canvas hackers snagged my exam question about a Canvas #hack and are now trapped in a recursive spiral. #CanvasHack
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I hope the #Canvas hackers snagged my exam question about a Canvas #hack and are now trapped in a recursive spiral. #CanvasHack
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Interesting, Claude! OTOH, a team in Berlin also built a place to kill my grandmother. #TrustTheProcess #TechInnovation #AIpocalypse
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Comey Comey, who can I turn to?
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Comey Comey, who can I turn to?
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I hope Professor Barnett's colleagues and students at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Georgetown Law will give his words the reception they deserve. #lawsky #academicsky @jentaub.bsky.social
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Fixed it. #guns #secondamendment
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Fixed it. #guns
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Interested in how an influential amicus curiae brief comes together? Joining me in this webinar are Rachel Grossman and John Nakahata from the firm that represented me & Larry Oda, whose personal story of birthright citizenship the brief narrates. apiavote.org/birthright-w... #lawsky #academicsky
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Former #UNC provost secretly settles lawsuit against university alleging illegal secrecy. #academicsky
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Enjoyable to watch? Absolutely! Courageous? For sure! Unprecedented? Hardly! The stuff of "awe?" Depends on your perspective. Awe was what I felt watching this as a kid. What I felt this time was "nostalgia," or maybe "deja vu."
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You all know he'll claim A DEAL just before the civilization-obliteration deadline, right? Regardless of whether there's actually a deal? Right?
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Dear Chief Justice Roberts, is threatening the death of a civilization within the scope of the President's Article II absolute immunity? Or just his presumptive immunity? Asking for a nation. #lawsky
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Dear Chief Justice Roberts, is threatening the death of a civilization within the scope of the President's Article II absolute immunity? Or just his presumptive immunity? Asking for a nation. #lawsky
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My university is too scared of its shadow to publicize the impact of my amicus brief in the birthright citizenship case, so I am grateful to my former dean Gene Nichol for this shout-out. #lawsky #academicsky www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This administration's stupidity is unbounded. We circled the moon in 1968, seven months *before* landing on it.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Like most everyone else, I see the government losing in today's #birthright #citizenship case. And it's braggy to note this, but this is such a rare thing that I'm going to do it anyway: My amicus curiae brief got *two* call-outs in the courtroom this morning. Kind of a dream come true.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Justice Alito should bring this sensibility to his effective assistance of counsel jurisprudence!
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm stunned. Rachel Maddow spent a full 3 minutes tonight detailing the arguments I make in my amicus curiae brief in the birthright citizenship case. Here's hoping Sam Alito and Neil Gorsuch are regular Maddow Show watchers! 😉 www.youtube.com/live/e5u_Dmb...
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MSNBC Live : The Rachel Maddow Show 3/30/2026 | MS NOW Breaking News Trump Today MAR 30, 2026
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm stunned. Rachel Maddow spent a full 3 minutes tonight detailing the arguments I make in my amicus curiae brief in the birthright citizenship case. Here's hoping Sam Alito and Neil Gorsuch are regular Maddow Show watchers! 😉 www.youtube.com/live/e5u_Dmb...
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MSNBC Live : The Rachel Maddow Show 3/30/2026 | MS NOW Breaking News Trump Today MAR 30, 2026
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In my amicus curiae brief in the birthright citizenship case, I show that the U.S. recognized as citizens children born to (1) Japanese enemy aliens, (2) US citizenship renunciants, and even (3) people dragged to the US from Peru and held for deportation. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
You cannot make this shit up — UNC is hosting an “AI for the Public Good” conference. Tickets for this event, conceived of and held at a publicly funded university, are $250. 🙃
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
What an odd take. I've been on college campuses since 1994. There have been countless events worthy of big protests over that time -- and almost no sizable protests. The question is the opposite of the one this piece asks: why has there been only one seize-the-campus-style protest in decades?
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Pssst, hey, you, thinking about #lawschool? Let me fill you in on something. The so-called "socratic method" in most of your classes will really just be a reading quiz. With your reading assignment open in front of you.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I can say only that the right place for this obscenity of a planning session was a space called the Indian Treaty Room. #skystorians
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 17/03/2026
1925 called and they want their antisemitic stabbed-in-the -back myth back.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Check out the twink in this weird new #DHS Bobby Kennedy #MAHA video. (There's also a person dressed as a dessert pastry.)
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Until this, my 64th turn around the sun, I'd had one encounter w/ out-loud antisemitism. In a store, a salesman accused a guy of trying to "Jew" him on a price. In the last 6 weeks I've had three. All conventional anti-Jewish things. None of them about Israel, Gaza, etc. Something has shifted.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is a peak UNC Chapel Hill story. They've put a popular undergrad tour guide on probation after an undercover UNC employee went on her tour and disapproved of a few things she said. It's astonishing how fragile this university often is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThTSf6dk/ #academicsky
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HR hates to see me coming fr. #uncchapelhill #thissucks #stopbullying #dooksucks
TikTok video by india <3
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is a peak UNC Chapel Hill story. They've put a popular undergrad tour guide on probation after an undercover UNC employee went on her tour and disapproved of a few things she said. It's astonishing how fragile this university often is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThTSf6dk/ #academicsky
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HR hates to see me coming fr. #uncchapelhill #thissucks #stopbullying #dooksucks
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Two critical reviews have appeared of the @maddow.bsky.social podcast "Burn Order" on Japanese American incarceration -- mine and Scott Kurashige's. densho.org/catalyst/mul... substack.com/home/post/p-... Will @maddowblog.bsky.social be acknowledging and responding to the critiques? #skystorians
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Eric L. Muller: Guest Perspective on Rachel Maddow’s "Burn Order" - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
Legal historian Eric L. Muller—Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—raises important historiographical questions about MS NOW’s podcast Rachel Maddow Prese...
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Jimmy Hoover @jimmyhoover.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Consider.
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"Burn Order," the new @ms.now podcast from @maddow.bsky.social on Japanese American internment in WWII, is gripping, dramatic ... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. Read my review at densho.org/catalyst/mul... #skystorians #lawsky #history #bluesky #podcasts
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Eric L. Muller: Guest Perspective on Rachel Maddow’s "Burn Order" - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment
Legal historian Eric L. Muller—Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—raises important historiographical questions about MS NOW’s podcast Rachel Maddow Prese...
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Burn Order," the new @ms.now podcast from @maddow.bsky.social on Japanese American internment in WWII, is gripping, dramatic ... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. Read my review at densho.org/catalyst/mul... #skystorians #lawsky #history #bluesky #podcasts
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"Burn Order," the new @ms.now podcast from @maddow.bsky.social on Japanese American internment in WWII, is gripping, dramatic ... 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨. Read my review at densho.org/catalyst/mul... #skystorians #lawsky #history #bluesky #podcasts
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I'm thrilled this morning to see my amicus curiae brief about birthright citizenship as one of just 2 (out of 43 filed!) singled out by @stevevladeck.bsky.social in his newsletter "One First." The brief is here: tinyurl.com/3hy76638 Please help spread the word! #lawsky
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties. #lawsky #skystorians tinyurl.com/3hy76638
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Yesterday I filed an #AmicusCuriae brief at #SCOTUS in the birthright citizenship case. It presents stories of 3 families of Japanese ancestry--w/o legal allegiance to the USA--to show citizenship derives from birth on US soil, not parental loyalties. #lawsky #skystorians tinyurl.com/3hy76638
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Evergreen
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Allusive historical essays are the bracing tonic our crisis demands.
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