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Joan Howarth

@joanhowarth.bsky.social
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Law prof working for attorney licensing reform.

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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Indispensable M. Gessen. Time for a higher education reset?
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This Is Wrong www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168
When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...
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Dr. Felicia Kornbluh @vtfeminist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Paul Weiss/ Morale/ Estuary. It’s too good.
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American Constitution Society @acslaw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
⭐Attention Law Students⭐: Several student leaders have penned a letter calling on the legal profession to defend the rule of law. "The time to speak out and act in defense of the rule of law is now." You can review and sign the letter here. ⬇️ forms.gle/361fWqrhpEqJ...
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Law Students Call on the Legal Profession to Defend the Rule of Law
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
you think hegseth is bad, one time I accidentally added the country I was about to invade to the chat and then I had to be like omg Iran no lol total typo I did not mean YOU, we're gonna invade Iraq again haha just autocorrect. it was sooo mortifying tbh and then we had to invade both?? full cringe
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 14/03/2025
Public sector workers in democracies fought fascism and genocide. In totalitarian states, some went along with totalitarian crimes; some resisted. What kind of “public sector worker” will Elon Musk be? www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
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Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy
Musk and Tesla have faced heightened criticism since the billionaire made a gesture likened to a Nazi salute during an inaugural event in January.
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is a great idea. @raskin.house.gov invites others to join him in filing a FOIA request to find out what personal data on us DOGE has collected. Link to a FOIA form & submission info on his website: jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...
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DOGE Privacy Act Requests
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Brilliant
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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
✊🏾👏🏾✊🏾
Woman holding a sign at a protest: “Childhood Vaccines Cause Adulthood”
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is very good. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-third-fa...
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The Third Face of Power in the Age of Trump
Democrats must lead public opinion rather than merely following it.
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Home boy @catdad69.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Michele Hornish @hornish.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools. Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
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It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day.
Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform.
Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity.
We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few.
But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong.
It is also contrary to the rule of law.
The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair.
We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
what kind of stock trades do you think your senator has lined up for tomorrow morning? is that what they're working on tonight instead of figuring out how to get those teenagers out of the servers at the treasury?
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JEFF @jeffisrael.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Great point
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I spent most of my 22-years in the Army as an aviator in and out of line units flying OH-58's and UH-60's.We lost more aircrews in peacetime training accidents than combat. It's a very dangerous business. Having the President smear them as their families are freshly mourning is unforgivable.
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Hey Jane @heyjane.com · 24/01/2025
Hey Bluesky, we're Hey Jane 👋 We're the leading virtual abortion clinic in the US, and we're excited to get to share info, insights, and updates with you here. We've faced censorship on other platforms, so we're hopeful that we'll find a supportive community here that will help to amplify our work.
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Hey Jane’s telehealth clinic offers safe, affordable, and convenient reproductive & sexual health care. Get abortion pills, vaginal infection treatments, & birth control delivered fast.
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Fun to be named with my friend Debby Merritt as ABA 2025 "Legal Rebels" for our bar exam reform efforts. When at first you don't succeed, just keep at it for another 25 years.... www.abajournal.com/legalrebels/...
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Examining the Future: Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt are spearheading efforts to reinvent attorney licensing
Legal Rebels - ABA Journal
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
My team. Pay attention, Big Ten. Theryn Hallock sparks big second half, leads MSU women's basketball to rout of Michigan www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports...
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Theryn Hallock sparks big second half, leads MSU women's basketball to rout of Michigan
Spartans extend win streak to five with 88-58 road victory.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you want further proof that American journalism is dead, the Hollywood Reporter showed more moral clarity in their coverage of Elon Musk’s Nazi salute than the Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, WSJ, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or NBC. Cowards all. bit.ly/4gdjnQe
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Among other things, the fact that Trump nominated a degenerate drunk morning show host to lead the Department of Defense tells you everything you need to know about his idea of “merit-based opportunity.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Before we get too caught up in what’s next, it’s worth pausing to appreciate the wins. President Biden’s legacy as the most pro-Native American president in history is one of them.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
President Joe Biden's Impact On NDN Country
The Biden administration enabled, empowered, and enacted historic advancements for Indigenous peoples.
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Not to sound too wild-eyed, but perhaps the standard 1st year law school subjects should be reconsidered every 100 years or so. Our new paper explains why and how. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Langdell's Subjects
<p>When Christopher Columbus Langdell founded the law school curriculum that we teach, Jim Crow flourished. Women could not vote. The Supreme Court interpreted
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
My team! www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports...
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Michigan State women's basketball stays perfect at home, tops Washington
Spartans record 80-68 victory to end five-game winning streak for Washington.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Lightning strikes Washington Monument 12/31/24
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Civ Pro.
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Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Let he who has not paid for sex, raped a child, and used cocaine and ecstasy while campaigning in the name of traditional family values cast the first stone. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
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Ethics Panel Report Accuses Matt Gaetz of ‘Regularly’ Paying for Sex and Using Drugs: Trump Transition Live Updates
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Positive, important, but incomplete. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/u...
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Biden Commutes 37 Death Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Plan to Resume Federal Executions (Gift Article)
Those affected by the president’s action on Monday are still subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Three men will remain on federal death row.
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Alan Mygatt-Tauber @amtappeals.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I wonder how much Elon will support a shutdown when SpaceX’s bills don’t get paid.
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Now commute the federal death sentences.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
To repeat: Joe Biden has to clear federal death row — and many are pushing him to do so. www.lawdork.com/i/148087950/...
President Joe Biden pledged as a candidate for president to end the federal death penalty and encourage states to do the same.

Thus far, all that’s happened under his watch is a moratorium on federal executions and a review of the process — both ordered by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Along with that, though, the administration has defended existing death sentences, continued capital prosecutions initiated before Biden took office, and even brought at least one new capital prosecution — also done under Garland’s direction.

A similar moratorium had been in place in the Obama administration, but then the Trump administration took over, ended the moratorium, and carried out 13 executions.

With 40 people on federal death row currently, and Donald Trump set to return to office in 42 days, the circumstances could all repeat themselves.
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
MSU women’s basketball starting strong.
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Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
joe biden pardoning his son isn’t enough. he needs to get him drafted by the lakers
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dejaxvu.bsky.social @dejaxvu.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Not y’all calling drama on the TL “turbulence” 😂😂😂😂😂
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Twentieth anniversary of my law review article about Liberace. Still love it. Credit to MSU for hiring me to be Dean a few years later. scholars.law.unlv.edu/nlj/vol5/iss...
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Adventures in Heteronormativity: The Straight Line from Liberace to Lawrence
By Joan W. Howarth, Published on 09/01/04
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Action over handwringing. lssse.indiana.edu/blog/improve...
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Improve the Diversity of the Profession By Addressing the Costs of Becoming a Lawyer – LSSSE
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
"Abandoning Mangi’s nomination would be an unconscionable act at any time, but especially perilous for Democrats in the current political climate... [T]his goes beyond Islamophobia, as heinous as it is, and beyond Israel and Gaza. The basic ideals of the Democratic Party ... seem up for grabs."
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Joan Howarth @joanhowarth.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
I could use this puzzle repair lending library.
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