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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 39m

Alright here's my American Legal History syllabus drive.google.com/file/d/1FZY1...

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_American Legal history Syllabus 2026.pdf

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 12h

"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences

Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 11h

Job: Princeton's Effron Center for the Study of America is conducting an open-rank search in Native American and Indigenous Studies in any field in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Review of applications begins November 1.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 7h

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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Micah Schwartzman @micahschwartzman.bsky.social · 4h

As Linda Greenhouse writes, St. Mary v Roy is a case asking a fundamental question about religious freedom: “Equality or preference?” She links my article with @nelsontebbe.bsky.social and @richschragger.bsky.social, arguing that the Court is committed to the latter — a doctrine of preference.

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Opinion | This Case Has Flown Under the Radar. It Won’t Stay There.

This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 5h

4 years ago, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle vacated Biden’s airplane mask mandate: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Now, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle says vacating rules is likely unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I wonder what changed! Grab 1: Then Grab 2: Now

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David Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 1h

We need to stop reaffirming that we don't expect Trump administration figures to face legal accountability for their misdeeds. Expectations produce reality. We need to start creating the expectation that they in fact will—indeed, must—face legal accountability.

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LSM @slukemorgan.bsky.social · 1h

add this to Project 2029. The Court should be able to intervene to stay executions but where a lower court has ordered a stay to preserve its own jurisdiction to hear the claim, the Court has no business vacating those stays. executions are never emergencies.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 8h

okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 12h

I still can't get over the fact that SCOTUS (minus Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson) did this yesterday *on the shadow docket.* Nary a word of justification. Not even a nod to the lower court opinions finding it unlawful to deport to 3rd countries w/o due process to flag torture & persecution risks.

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LSM @slukemorgan.bsky.social · 3h

ghoulish

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: SCOTUS’s Republican appointees will allow Tennessee to kill Christa Pike tonight, vacating a stay of execution entered by the Sixth Circuit this morning. The three Democratic appointees dissent.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 26A428
KENNETH NELSEN, WARDEN v. CHRISTA GAIL PIKE
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY
[September 30, 2026]
The application to vacate stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE KAVANAUGH and by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 30, 2026 order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Cir-cuit, case No. 26-5864, granting a stay of execution is vacated.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
The State of Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer. Earlier today, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a stay of Pike's execution solely to "adequately address and resolve" the issues presented in Pike's pending application for relief. Order in In re Pike, No. 26-5864, ECF Doc. 10-2, p. 2. Tennessee now asks this Court to vacate that stay and permit it to proceed with Pike's execution today. Stunningly, the Court acquiesces. Because its decision clears the way for the State to execute Pike before her still-pending legal challenges to her conviction can be properly considered, I respectfully dissent.

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 3h

SCOTUS says, without explanation, that it is fine to kill people while a legal challenge to their killing is still pending, because reasons.

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Valerie Gutmann Koch @vgkoch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My newest article, Disinformed Consent, is now posted on SSRN. In it, I grapple with the problem of state-mandated medical disinformation – false medical claims disseminated with awareness of their inaccuracy or with deliberate disregard for scientific consensus. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Disinformed Consent

At both the state and federal level, lawmakers and regulators are increasingly interfering with the physician’s independent duty to provide patients w

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Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 11h

Fouad Maged, Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Studies, has published Dignity vs. Deception: A Comparative Analysis of Non-Consensual Intimate Deepfake Regulation in the United Kingdom and the United States / papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Dignity vs. Deception: A Comparative Analysis of Non-Consensual Intimate Deepfake Regulation in the United Kingdom and the United States

<span>The regulation of non-consensual intimate deepfakes reveals a transatlantic schism between protecting the dignity of the person depicted and protecting th

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10h

clearly the real ethical problem is speaking about ethical problems

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12h

I wrote about the Supreme Court's nonstop lawless cruelty ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

Screenshot of a paragraph excerpted from the linked article, with the text highlighted in green from the word "But" onwards. Excerpt reads as follows:

In places like Thursday’s speech and Friday’s dissent, Jackson has continuously sought to call attention to the deeply perverse ways that the Court is exercising its equity jurisdiction on the shadow docket. Under the Court’s precedents, emergency applicants are supposed to show that they’re “likely to succeed on the merits” of their appeal from a lower court’s ruling, that they will be “irreparably injured” without immediate relief, and that the balance of the equities tilts in their favor; in other words, fairness is both the explicit purpose and the explicit standard. But the Republican justices have repeatedly abandoned those standards in service of their own purposes. And when the people empowered to wield equitable jurisdiction are actively hostile to the concept of equity, they produce injustice instead.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10h

the White House press ban lawsuit isn't the first time Trump’s DOJ has argued that the govt can single people out for worse treatment because of their viewpoints, and that the First Amendment doesn’t say anything about it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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The Trump White House Keeps Treating the First Amendment as More of a Suggestion

Where normal people see “rights,” the White House sees privileges that the president may grant or withhold as he sees fit.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10h

DOJ’s arguments in the White House press ban lawsuit really reflect the admin’s view of the Constitution writ large: where normal people see “rights,” the Trump administration sees mere privileges to be granted or withheld at Trump’s leisure ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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The Trump White House Keeps Treating the First Amendment as More of a Suggestion

Where normal people see “rights,” the White House sees privileges that the president may grant or withhold as he sees fit.

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 11h

whenever you feel like you’re too small to change anything know that citizens from small towns and cities that speak up against flock and axon cameras in their communities (and sometimes get arrested for it) are fighting and sometimes succeeding against this

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Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 11h

Round 3 in my series on advice for academic hiring. Avoid the leakers! Getting an inside look at how the sausage gets made while on the market is a little bit too much like peering into the mouth of madness.

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Unsolicited Advice on the (Legal) Academic Hiring Market #3

Avoid Leakers

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 10h

My hypothesis is that jurisdictions that let police screen rape cases arrest, prosecute, and convict at a lower rate than those that have prosecutors involved from day 1. We have never had data to test it, but we might now. This is one of my current projects.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 10h

Great stuff from @rickhasen.bsky.social “Whether he is watching too much Fox News or acting for other reasons, Alito seems to be emotionally unable to rationally examine the evidence in the cases before him to see if they support his voter fraud arguments.” democracyproject.org/posts/exorci...

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Exorcising Justice Alito’s Voter Fraud Boogeyman

A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

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Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 22h

We're gonna hurry up and decide this case, but in the meantime we insist that the government spend Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's dumping people in countries they've never known in violation of the UN Convention Against Torture.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

some ~personal news~ as they say .... I'm writing a second book! I loved writing Lawless & working with One Signal. And I'm having a 💥blast 💥working on ... IDENTIFIED! more info coming, soon(ish)?

Author of LAWLESS and cohost of the Strict Scrutiny podcast Leah Litman's IDENTIFIED, chronicling the paradigm shift in how law and politics approach issues of identity, with right-wing ideology transforming identity-based discrimination into a tactic to restructure government and civic institutions, to position themselves as victims, and to persecute the very minorities those classifications were created to protect, to Alessandra Bastagli at One Signal, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2028, by Amelia Atlas at CAA (world English).

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 15h

Breaking News: Just received a journal review where I was informed that I didn't have a grasp on the administrative burden literature.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Too young to legally consent to sign a contract. But old enough to consent away where they want to live to be shipped someplace random by a government that hates them. In a just world, Hollad would need to annex half of Belgium to find room for the expanded Hague prison thus all calls for.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 16h

a gish gallop of dismantling the federal securities laws

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Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This . . . mode of politics is about domination. But they're generally pretty bad at politics. So what do you do? You arbitrarily impose yourself on the domains of public life that are more squarely in the realm of the prerogative.

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Beau Baumann 🍎 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wrote a new Substack about what happens when institutions lose their originating mythology and end up surviving on their function in society. This is a theme brought up in my rewatch of "The Crown." But it is making me think about American juristocracy and displays of institutional morality.

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Function without Myth

Rewatching “The Crown”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.

IV
The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.

The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People have said this, but I'm going to say it too. Folks don't trust universities because we often enable abusers, not because of "woke" professors or classes. It is often the professors that teach those classes that end up having to do the heavy lifting in keeping students from leaving

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not new, but literally every shadow docket hearing, the Supreme Court is reinforcing its illegitimacy. It is not a court. It is not doing the work of a court. In the interest of the rule of law, we need to ultimately abide by its rulings, but there is no future without significant court reform

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

literally the only irreparable harm here is to the people who are fucking getting sent to countries they have no connection to

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ROT IN HELL FOREVER

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is one of the most painful things you’ll ever see and you should absolutely see it

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And do you know why I don’t think that the Democrats should not fund DHS through regular order; it is because the President funded it through two reconciliation bills and now is spending money from the agency like its own personal slush fund.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.

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