Reposted by Gautam HansCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4hThis is the first time I see anyone report that back in 2020, Justice Samuel Alito personally lobbied the local government in his New Jersey hometown of Trenton to preserve a statue of Christopher Columbus the community and its leaders wanted removed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Samuel Alito and New Jersey’s Fallen Columbus Statue (Gift Article)Justice Alito has a history of nudging the boundaries of judicial rectitude. 02511
Reposted by Gautam HansAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 7032701139
Reposted by Gautam HansLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026VERY important point from my colleague Sam Bagenstos - the 2026 Senate races will determine the future of the Supreme Court and federal courts more broadly. Which means the 2026 Senate race in MICHIGAN could determine the future of the Supreme Court 13468124
Reposted by Gautam HansThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/10/2026Richard Avedon was the first, and for a long time the only, staff photographer at The New Yorker. His early work at Harper’s Bazaar was some of his best. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot... 313918
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 11/10/2026“But that's life. One minute you're on top of the world. The next minute, some secretary is running you over with a lawnmower.” 020
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The one time this administration cares about antitrust. 🤦🏾♂️😒🙄 041
Reposted by Gautam HansJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Calling my shot: we will see less than half as many pundit-consultant pieces about this Latino realignment as we saw in the other direction 2021-2025, because a Latino blue shift doesn’t fit the Dems-Too-Woke narrative 271329269
Reposted by Gautam HansThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/10/2026From the daily newsletter: Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times in Mississippi by the same white prosecutor for a crime he did not commit, was the subject of the In the Dark podcast. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...newyorker.comThe Death of Curtis FlowersFrom the daily newsletter: Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times in Mississippi by the same white prosecutor for a crime he did not commit, was the subject of the In the Dark podcast. 24817
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 10/10/2026A fascinating, important role at LDF for the right person! www.naacpldf.org/about-us/car...naacpldf.orgProject Director, Pro Truth InitiativeThe NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is the country’s first and foremost civil and human rights law organization. Founded in 1940 under the leadership of Thurgood Marshall, who subse... 030
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 09/10/2026That person went on to become one of the nation’s leading experts in their area, so it was hardly a bad bet! 030
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 09/10/2026One of my law school mentors (hired to teach a specialized subject decades ago) told me they interviewed at the AALS conference w/the dean, who asked what they would teach. My prof named the class, and the dean replied “The person teaching that class now is an adjunct I’d love to get rid of.” Hired! 170
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reminds me of this @donmoyn.bsky.social classic: bsky.app/profile/donm... 1182
Reposted by Gautam HansJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492776786
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Still thinking about this sad news. My friend, colleague, and mentor Sheri Johnson argued and won Flowers v. Mississippi not even a decade ago. Think of how different Mr. Flowers’ life would’ve been had MS not mistreated him the way it did for decades. He was only 56! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/o...nytimes.comCurtis Flowers Has Died at 56. His Case Became a Symbol of Racial Bias.A white district attorney tried Mr. Flowers six times for the same murder, always ensuring that few or no Black people were on the juries. 061
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland ‘listening to the wind’ when the academy reached her to notify her of the win.” Story checks out. 030
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Still was figuring out what to do with my hair… an ongoing question. This was at Kramerbooks in D.C., not far from my apartment! 010
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026An amazing day for Canadians, classicists, poets, and also me (my all-time favorite book is “Autobiography of Red”). 191
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026As someone who will look for typos on menus and loves to explain the distinctions for between/among and fewer/less, this moved me. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/m...nytimes.comExperts Agree: Nobody Knows What ‘Bimonthly’ or ‘Biweekly’ MeansCouldn’t we impose some rules-based order, etching a single meaning of “bimonthly” on a stone pillar? Probably not. 051
Reposted by Gautam HansRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...mississippitoday.orgWrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers diesAfter Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him. 181113289
Reposted by Gautam HansTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get. 201130224
Reposted by Gautam Hansdanielle weisberg @danielleweisberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026desecrating the Animaniacs’ home and for what! For what 18017
Reposted by Gautam HansThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form. 188111601871
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If you haven’t seen “North by Northwest”, she is witty, warm, and sharp. Who among us could hold our own against both Cary Grant *and* Marlon Brando (“On the Waterfront”)? 0134
Reposted by Gautam HansJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026For our symposium on "The Forever War and the First Amendment," @knightcolumbia.org and @harpers.bsky.social co-commissioned this essay from @harikunzru.bsky.social about art and censorship after 9/11. It's really good, and I'm hoping Hari will turn it into a book. harpers.org/archive/2026...harpers.orgStargazing, by Hari KunzruArt and censorship after 9/11 0156
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026sounds like someone has made it up to NFIB v. Sibelius in 1L Con Law... 110
Reposted by Gautam HansSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une... 1133734759
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You could say so many things about this (the complete and intentional fraying of an already tattered national interrelationship, imagine an alternate universe where a Dem prez says this about Oklahoma, etc.) but what I find remarkable is how San Diego, a military hub, is portrayed as cannon fodder. 030
Reposted by Gautam HansAAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/ 1300101
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As my colleague @jtlg.bsky.social noted, Kotlikoff not even six months ago seemed to have run over a student’s foot with his car. It has not been a year of inspiring leadership from our president and board, in my opinion. bsky.app/profile/jtlg... 051
Reposted by Gautam HansThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/10/2026Doctors in Tennessee are attempting to save the life of a woman whom the state just tried to kill. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comChrista Pike and the Absurdity of Humane ExecutionDoctors in Tennessee are attempting to save the life of a woman whom the state just tried to kill. 129333
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Cornell’s administration just emailed us a link to this 8 minute video message from the president. It strikes a different tone but doesn’t have much content. statements.cornell.edu/2026/2026100...statements.cornell.eduMessage from President Michael I. Kotlikoff 100
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Doxxing someone in your party about a Daylight Savings Time bill while gas prices and mortgage rates are what they are is… 😑 010
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I subscribed; have you? If not, you’ll lose access to my Nina Totenberg memoir review from a few years back, as well as all of the stuff Jay writes after we cyberbully him. 020
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Almost 5 yrs ago my best friend @melaastro.bsky.social & I were on an episode of @sporkful.bsky.social with guest co-hosts @ericeddings.bsky.social & @bmluse.bsky.social discussing a dispute: what food you should go for on a road trip. They’re replaying it this week! www.sporkful.com/should-you-p...sporkful.comShould You Put Ice In Your Milk? With Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (Reheat)Should you eat at chain restaurants on vacation? Is soup bar food? Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings join us to resolve your disputes. 031
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Nothing will ever justify state-administered murder. Nothing. 070
Reposted by Gautam HansRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her. 20818181
Reposted by Gautam HansChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Justice 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? 411357343
Reposted by Gautam HansSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Over 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...supremecourt.gov 3316669
Reposted by Gautam HansNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and futurehls.harvard.eduLani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words - Harvard Law SchoolSchlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality. 419740
Reposted by Gautam HansSteven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Christa 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. 26923
Reposted by Gautam HansSteve 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). 941241511
Reposted by Gautam HansJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026If 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”ballsandstrikes.orgThe Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court NeededSCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it. 9674205
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sophia was my student last year; she’s incredible. The Sun has done excellent work on this difficult story. 0101