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Gautam Hans

@gshans.bsky.social
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Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream. Speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾

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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 12h
Nothing will ever justify state-administered murder. Nothing.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h
They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15h
Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS *grants* Tennessee's request to vacate the stay of execution the Sixth Circuit had entered in the case of Christa Pike, clearing the way for her execution: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 18h
I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and future
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Lani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words - Harvard Law School
Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Christa Pike’s attorneys say the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a stay of execution. News spreading now outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, where the execution is scheduled for 10am.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026
If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”
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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed
SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sophia was my student last year; she’s incredible. The Sun has done excellent work on this difficult story.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026
really fascinating to see isgur conduct this interview as if conservative election mistrust has materialized out of nowhere or as if liberal claims of voter suppression are totally baseless. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Opinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?
And how we learn to trust elections again.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Office US over Office UK makes no sense. This is why democracy is bad!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 24/09/2026
Nothing makes a White House official more upset than the possibility that law students might learn that racism exists
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How the Trump White House Is Trying to Bring the Legal Profession to Heel
The administration's attacks on the American Bar Association's accreditation powers are part of a broader ideological project.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Safeguarding Democracy Project @sdpucla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Rick Hasen asks David Kaye, where are we relative to other countries regarding government favoritism / punishment of speech? At what point do we enter the realm of an illiberal democracy? Full webinar here www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfMA... @rickhasen.bsky.social @davidakaye.bsky.social @law.ucla.edu
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The desire to assimilate into whiteness, so prevalent in our community, doesn’t work. For some people we will always be “other” (which is why it makes no sense to vote for Trump, as one person quoted did — no one’s more focused on creating and demonizing out groups). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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South Asians, a ‘Model Minority,’ Face Surging Racism in America
Social media posts, including from the Department of Homeland Security and a Texas Republican candidate, have helped stir fear among people of South Asian heritage.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m going to be extremely annoyed by the top 20, especially because so many of the shows lower on the list are so mid. Which is the point of such lists!
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spectacular restoration of a spectacular house. For Sale: A Midcentury Gem Restored by Benedikt Taschen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/r...
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For Sale: A Midcentury Gem Restored by Benedikt Taschen
The founder of Taschen Books is selling his meticulously restored Beverly Hills house, the Adelman Residence, for $25 million.
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The NYT has reprinted the gov brief in the press ban case and it is revealing. It makes clear that the admin's central arg for why Trump could kick CNN etc. out of the WH is that access to the WH is not a right but a privilege🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the White House Response to the Lawsuit From CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The Trump administration has defended its ban on the three media outlets in a court filing.
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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW RESEARCH PAPER! With Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that somehow involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity. Here's the SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material, 2022-2025
<div> Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now capable of creating realistic-looking images and videos with just a text prompt. This capacity has been mi
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Me for the WaPo on Trump’s anti-press campaign. Shameful, unsurprising behavior. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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White House media bans have been tried before. They rarely hold up in court.
Trump’s ban on reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico could run afoul of the Constitution.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one asked for this 🤦🏾‍♂️
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I find these lists a little tiresome but since I’m sitting on a tarmac… www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A list of my ballot for the top shows of the 21st century (in no particular order): Six Feet Under, Mad Men, High Maintenance, Andor, 30 Rock, Breaking Bad, Watchment, Succession, The Office (U.K.), In Treatment
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two updates: The plaintiffs have already filed for a TRO: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... And the case has been assigned to Judge Timothy Kelly—a Trump appointee, but the same one who ruled *for* Jim Acosta in the press pass revocation dispute during the first Trump administration.
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Temporary Restraining Order – #2 in CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC. v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-03287) – CourtListener.com
MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order by CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., Akayla Gardner, Cheyenne Haslett, Betsy Klein, MS NOW Cable, LLC, POLITICO LLC. (Attachments: # 1 Memorandum in Support, # 2 Declara...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hats off to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her candor and thoughful reflections on her family’s experiences with one of our country’s most vexing problems. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is plainly unconstitutional. The White House press pass and facilities open to the press are public forums, as the DC Circuit has held, and the First Amendment bars the president from banning news orgs from that forum based on viewpoint.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Americans did not declare independence from a king only to submit to the supremacy of a different court. @daphnarenan.bsky.social and I are in today’s Globe. Gift link:
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The Constitution belongs to ‘We the People,’ not nine justices - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court was never meant to have the last word on self-government.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A really wonderful remembrance from Victor Garber at "Godspell" — he's an excellent writer and this made me want to seek out the film. www.vulture.com/article/vict...
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The Role That Changed Everything
Getting cast as Jesus in Godspell, I recognized that my life would never be the same.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
Writers aren&#8217;t born, they&#8217;re made&#8212;from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
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Peteski @peteski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Calvin and Hobbes ➛ more ★ via
Calvin and Hobbes
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great @rickhasen.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives and Liberals Just Came to the Brink—and Finally Said “No”
For the time being, let’s celebrate that the center of the court did hold, even as dangers remain ahead in both 2026 and 2028.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Story of my life: “Where are you *really* from?” (Answer: the Detroit suburbs)
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In which my colleague Dave Pozen and I articulate the (uneasy) case for a constitutional convention. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Back to Philadelphia? The Uneasy Case for a New Constitutional Convention
<p><span>No country has ever had a written constitution in longer continuous operation than the United States. Such resilience is cause for commemoration. But f
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An insightful extended feature! As a Trek fan from the late TNG/early DS9-VOY days, I have been thinking mostly about DS9 these days (maybe b/c of the state of the world, and my job) & less about new Trek. I think ST does its best when it provides something singular (like DS9). More of that, please!
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Who asked for this?!
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 11/09/2026
What has the forever war meant for free speech? This morning, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social & @azmatzahra.bsky.social appeared on @democracynow.org to discuss the legacy of 9/11, the war on terror, & our symposium, "The Forever War and the First Amendment.” Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q22...
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Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad & Attacks on Rights at Home
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The jawboning will continue until morale improves.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some centrists need to look up the approval ratings for MLK in 1964.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Me at first thinking “it’s wonderful that the children know it’s the 60th anniversary of Star Trek.” 🤓😬🫠
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Another banger from @radleybalko.bsky.social. We will never get anywhere until we reckon with where we were, what we did, and who we harmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened.
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No coincidence that Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s leading liberal constitutional lawyers, is the dean of Berkeley Law. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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Trump Administration Accuses Berkeley Law School of Racial Discrimination
The Justice and Education Departments said the school had penalized white and Asian applicants, the latest in a series of investigations into admissions at elite universities.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Direct link to our SCOTUS amicus brief in the USPS mail ballot case: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/26...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/09/2026
Really rare to spot something like this in the wild, but The Wall Street Journal ran a "Supreme Court Expansion Is Secretly Unconstitutional Actually" column that directly refutes its thesis in the paragraph that immediately follows. Beautiful stuff. www.wsj.com/opinion/is-c...
Last week only one House Democrat, North Carolina’s Don Davis, voted for a measure to propose a constitutional amendment fixing the court’s size at nine. But it’s unclear that such an amendment is necessary. Democrats cite several precedents from the 19th century in which Congress voted to increase the number of justices. But there are no clear precedents that support a partisan court-packing plan and a strong argument that it would be an unconstitutional assault on judicial independence and the separation of powers.

Article III establishes “one Supreme Court,” and Article I mentions “the Chief Justice,” but otherwise the Constitution leaves to Congress the authority to establish the structure of the federal judiciary, including the number of justices. In the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress created the Supreme Court with six justices.
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Michigan Law @umichlaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The American Constitution Society (@acslaw.bsky.social) has named Professor Leah Litman, ’10, as the winner of its 2026 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law. Congratulations, Professor @leahlitman.bsky.social! Read more: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/litman-...
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Litman Wins ACS Cudahy Writing Competition | University of Michigan Law School
The American Constitution Society (ACS) has named Professor Leah Litman, ’10, as the winner of its 2026 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law.
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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In moments like this, one despairs at the thought that this country may never rid itself of Islamophobia. I still hope it may happen in my lifetime.
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
every time I read another racist saying Mamdani shouldn’t attend the 9/11 ceremony, I think about this story his mom, Mira Nair, told me about the racism he and his grandfather experienced in the weeks after the attacks.
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