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Ji Seon Song

@jiseonsong.bsky.social

Law prof at UC Irvine ruminating on policing, punishment & healthcare. Otherwise, 🇰🇷🇺🇸 preoccupied with travel, food, music.

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Ji Seon Song @jiseonsong.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Absolutely appreciated the opportunity to engage in deep brainstorming and thinking through my new crisis response and policing project with the incredible people at @syracuselaw.bsky.social @katmacfarlane.bsky.social.

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Sent by Columbia University interim President Katrina Armstrong at 11.57pm this evening. Two raids by the Department of Homeland Security tonight on university accommodation . No arrests made.

magistrate judge authorizing DHS to enter non-public areas of the University and conduct searches of two student rooms.
The University has a clear protocol in place. Consistent with this protocol, our longstanding practice, and the practices of cities and institutions throughout the country, the University requires that law enforcement have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including residential University buildings. Tonight, that threshold was met, and the University is obligated to comply with the law. Our University Public Safety was present at all times.
Columbia continues to make every effort to ensure that our campus, students, faculty, and staff are safe. Columbia is committed to upholding the law, and we expect city, state, and federal agencies to do the same.
I understand the immense stress our community is under.
Despite the unprecedented challenges, Columbia University will remain a place where the pursuit of knowledge is cherished and fiercely protected, where the rule of law and due process is respected and never taken for granted, and where all members of our community are valued and able to thrive. These are the principles we uphold and that guide us every day.
For students in need of support, I've included a list of University resources below.
Standing together for Columbia,
Katrina Armstrong
Interim President, Columbia University in the City of New York

Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:
I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) in two University residences tonight. No one was arrested or detained. No items were removed, and no further action was taken.
Federal agents from the DHS served Columbia University with two judicial search warrants signed by a federal magistrate judge authorizing DHS to enter non-public areas of the University and conduct searches of two student rooms.
The University has a clear protocol in place. Consistent with this protocol, our longstanding practice, and the practices of cities and institutions throughout the country, the University requires that law enforcement have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including residential University buildings. Tonight, that threshold was met, and the University is obligated to comply with the law. Our University Public Safety was present at all times.
Columbia continues to make every effort to ensure that our campus, students, faculty, and staff are safe. Columbia is committed to upholding the law, and we expect city, state, and federal agencies to do the same.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

GLOSSIP! SCOTUS holds that it can review the OK court's decision (which refused to allow the *prosecution to concede error in a death penalty case*). Also finds the prosecution violated constitutional rules against permitting false testimony. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

supremecourt.gov

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The most painful thing is the realization that we have built and accepted such an extraordinary digital panopticon that the kinds of social movements necessary may be much more difficult than we have dared to imagine.

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