Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.

The facility has a capacity of 56 but reportedly held as many as 342 detainees, with some sleeping on garage floors and using overflowing toilets.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

Law Professor Statement on 9/11 Conference at UCLA School of Law We join the forthcoming call by members of the UCLA law faculty for Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his recent comment on an event t...

Just outside of Tallahassee, nestled among rolling hills and pecan groves of Florida’s Big Bend region, Jefferson County is one of the most rural parts of the state. With only... Read More

As courts winnow legal path to sue federal officers, attorneys search for new avenues in state law.

AI use in legal scholarship may not be the most important AI topic being discussed these days, but it is having a moment in the corners of the world that care about these things. Julian Nyarko has an ...

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 ...

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...

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform

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A president who loves breaking the law is very lucky to have a Supreme Court that gives him the time he needs to do it.

The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...

The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of Large Language Model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed

Introduction Law can generate data in two principal ways.[1] First, creating law generates data. Legislatures hold hearings, write reports, and pass laws. Agencies issue notices, take comments, and pr...

Victims of unconstitutional federal actions often have difficulty recovering money damages for their injuries. This Report discusses a potential remedial…

“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.

Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service

The Trump administration has gutted federal civil rights enforcement in the United States, leaving the people the laws were built to protect without adequate remedies.

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident.

As President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics face renewed scrutiny after the fatal shooting of a man in Biddeford, new Maine laws take effect Wednesday that restrict local authorities’ cooperation and aim to rein in unlawful federal action.

Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...

Melissa Murray (New York University School of Law) and Katherine Shaw (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School) have posted The Promise and Peril of Direct Democracy After Dobbs (Virginia Law Review, Vol. 112, p. 1, 2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court announced that it was leaving the power to regulate abortion “to the people and their elected representatives.” In the wake of Dobbs, state-level “elected representatives” quickly got to work, resulting in dramatic changes to the abortion access landscape.

Samuel R. Bagenstos (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Reconstructing the Public Health State (68 William & Mary L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2027)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The American public health system is in crisis. This Essay, presented as the 2026 Wythe Lecture at the William & Mary Law School, argues that the crisis is not merely a story about Robert F.