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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🤓 Some personal & professional news to share! I teamed up with Amy Poehler on a new Harvard Online course: Purpose, Perspective, and Persuasion. The premise is simple but essential: careers don’t “unfold”—we shape them. 👉 To learn more and enroll: lnkd.in/gXkcsNcV

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The high stakes tariff case reaches the Supreme Court tomorrow. May the President impose sweeping tariffs under a law that lets him "regulate" imports in a declared emergency? Or are sweeping tariffs beyond the power Congress delegated? For my overview: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

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President Trump’s tariffs v. the Supreme Court’s duties | Jody Freeman

🏛️ The Supreme Court hears oral argument tomorrow in the case about the president’s power to impose sweeping tariffs. It’s an undeniably high stakes case. 🌀 Learning Resources v. Trump concerns the p...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Hey ya'll. I've not been posting here so much because LinkedIn offers more room to explain the complex legal machinations (and shenanigans) of this administration - so please follow me there! Good stuff on the the rule of law, democracy, and presidential overreach.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Curious about the legal & scientific claims behind EPA's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" that underpins all US climate rules? Check out our latest CleanLaw ep, where I discuss with my colleague Richard Lazarus + Sol Hsiang of Stanford's Doerr School. eelp.law.harvard.edu/what-science...

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CleanLaw — What Science and the Law Say about EPA’s Authority to Regulate GHGs – Environmental and Energy Law Program

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Got an hour? Sharing this fairly nerdy & somewhat depressing but also very fun podcast ep on the Trump EPA proposal to end federal climate rules - a cross-over ep from Shift Key & CleanLaw, with me, Jesse Jenkins & Rob Meyer of HeatMap News! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Trump’s Move to Kill the Clean Air Act’s Climate Authority, Forever

Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins · 08/06/2025 · 1h 9m

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Sharing my piece out today on the Trump administration proposal to rescind the scientific "endangerment finding" and surrender EPA's role fighting climate change. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Contributor: Trump's EPA proposes to end the U.S. fight against climate change

How much damage will Americans suffer as climate-denial politics masquerade as good policy?

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The Trump EPA is planning to eliminate ALL federal climate rules by reversing the scientific finding that climate pollution harms people. By their calculation, our powerplants & cars emit too small a share of global emissions to warrant doing anything. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The Budget Congress passed nearly triples ICE's budget to build out detention centers (including for families) & more - a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system. A super-charged internal police force is concerning. My post on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

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💰 The full text of the budget is here and worth scrolling through 👇 | Jody Freeman

💰 The full text of the budget is here and worth scrolling through 👇 https://lnkd.in/gHhbsS4q 💰 It includes billions of dollars in additional funding for ICE, a build-out of detention centers, and ...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In a DOJ memo, the administration has threatened to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship relying on a broadly worded statute used against communists in the McCarthy era & asserting power to do so for what sounds like virtually any reason. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

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♦️ Following up on earlier note I posted, about the administration's chilling threat to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship. | Jody Freeman

♦️ Following up on earlier note I posted, about the administration's chilling threat to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship. There is a DOJ Memo directing lawyers in the civil division...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The EPA has proposed to eliminate climate rules for coal-fired power. Its rationale? American power plants don't contribute significantly enough to climate change to warrant regulation. Expect a torrent of comments arguing that this can't withstand scientific, economic & legal scrutiny.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"The protests in Los Angeles fall far short of rebellion," district court judge Breyer wrote, in ruling that the president did not meet the legal test for mobilizing the National Guard. Worth a read: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

It's terrifying to think that because ICE officials are not identifying themselves or following normal law enforcement protocol, now anyone can impersonate them and do horrifying things: just dress up in camo, put on a mask, jump out of a van and take people away. How does this make us safer?

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

👋 Hello from Los Angeles where there is no rebellion or invasion. Dodger game last night, Farmer's Market this morning. Thanks to local law enforcement for handling small # of numbskulls causing violence among overwhelmingly peaceful protests. Not occupied, don't need liberation. Thanks anyway!

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

3 points on the administration's punishment of Harvard: 1. Groundbreaking research benefits all Americans, makes us stronger 2. No government of either party should try to micromanage our private universities or businesses. 3. The extreme measures aren't reasonable, fair law enforcement.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Climate news: here's my take on the expected proposal from EPA to remove all limits on climate pollution from power plants, which produce 25% of US GHGs. It has no basis in science or logic & will run into trouble in the courts but the point seems to be performative www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

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Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants | Jody Freeman

More climate news from the Trump administration: ✳️ EPA is reportedly planning to completely eliminate any greenhouse gas limits for power plants which produce about 25% of US total greenhouse gas e...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Climate News: EPA's plans to rescind all GHG limits for power plants based on an eyebrow-raising argument that they aren't significant as a share of global emissions. If true it's headed for legal trouble. Even conservative lawyers w deep EPA experience are dubious: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...

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Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

To all my foreign students & the world: I'm sorry this administration is taking its rage out on you. In the most nakedly vengeful move yet to punish a private university that it cannot bring to heel, Trump's DHS has barred Harvard from enrolling foreign students. Shameful, petty & un-American.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Congress just voted to block California from setting its own vehicle pollution standards - a major setback for public health & cutting climate-warming gases. Sad. It's part of the great unraveling of environmental progress that this administration & this Congress has set in motion with a vengeance.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Stephen Miller saying the administration is "actively considering" suspending habeas corpus - the right to challenge government detention - is "factually and legally nuts" as Steve Vladeck explains. https://open.substack.com/pub/stevevladeck/p/148-suspending-habeas-corpus?r=6o6dh&utm_medium=ios

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🇨🇦And Congratulations Donald Trump! You managed to take an almost certain Conservative Party victory in Canada and turn it into a Liberal Party win!🎁 May Mark Carney be the man for the moment - the man the Great White North needs. 🌂🌪️ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Canada Election 2025 Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Prime Minister

CBC/Radio Canada, the national broadcaster, projected a win for the Liberal Party in an extraordinary election that was dominated by President Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty and its economy.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A sober summary of the Trump Admin's lawlessness based on input from many law professors across the political spectrum. Despite ideological differences there's broad consensus that the Trump admin is a threat to basic American rights, the rule of law and democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

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Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency (Gift Article)

A diverse group of legal scholars flashes red warning lights about the future of America.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🥊 Harvard is clearly playing to win in lawsuit against the Trump administration for its punitive actions after the university refused to comply with its unlawful demands. HU has hired formidable legal talent. Let's just say, not bringing a knife to a gun fight. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Why I'm having the best weekend in 3 mths: 💥Judge Wilkinson's historic opinion in Abrego Garcia case saying administration's overreach shocks the conscience. 💥Lisa Murkowski admitting "We are all afraid" out loud. 💥SCOTUS blocking further Venezuelan deportations to check brazen noncompliance.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Sharing interview I did on public radio on the Trump admin's public health, climate & environmental rollbacks and its general lawlessness. If you have time & interest, give it a listen. Sober but not entirely bleak! www.alleghenyfront.org/trump-moves-...

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Trump moves to quickly slash federal regulations, target state and corporate climate efforts

President Trump ordered 400 federal agencies to scour for regulations to repeal, and to do so without public notice or comment.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is the actual Supreme Court order directing the administration to "facilitate" the return of Abrego Garcia. Whatever facilitate might fairly mean, the intent is clear. Stephen Miller's characterization - that it vindicates the administration & so Garcia can be left to rot - was heinous.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

As this administration tries to bend law firms, universities & media to their will & refuses to follow the law, let's stay focused on those abusing power & not turn on each other. Stanford & Yale are supporting Harvard's stand. Unions are speaking out on returning Abrego Garcia. Build coalitions!

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The cover story for Trump's attack on universities is antisemitism but it's a ruse. 🎯 The real aim is direct government regulation of what we teach and learn & government control of freedom of thought. 💬 📚 🇺🇸 That is unamerican. Not to mention unconstitutional. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

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The Promise of American Higher Education

No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Harvard like other universities is doing research that benefits millions, in partnership with the private sector and with federal $ - to fight cancer, diabetes, opioid addiction, Alzheimer's & more. Trump has frozen $2B in support for this kind of work. Madness. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Helping the U.S. fight addiction, cancer, other afflictions — Harvard Gazette

Heres's a snapshot of recent research backed by the partnership between government agencies and higher education.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Proud of Harvard for standing up. “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Sharing my thoughts on Oval Office meeting where Trump & admin officials mock Abrego Garcia, the wrongly deported man, and taunt the courts. Nonsense they can't return him. Inhumane. Elected officials, religious leaders, everyone must stand up. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

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Gotta get this off my chest. 🎯 In every course I teach at Harvard Law… | Jody Freeman | 65 comments

Gotta get this off my chest. 🎯 In every course I teach at Harvard Law School, I suggest to my students that the best approach to making a good argument is to give people on the other side the benefi...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Trump is now dispensing with the Administrative Procedure Act. New executive order directs agencies to repeal regulations, skipping legal process requiring notice & comment, whenever Trump declares rule "facially unlawful." Ignoring Congress & usurping courts www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Directs Repeal of Regulations That… | Jody Freeman

The Trump administration officially believes that the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act are meaningless. 💥 Here's the key quote from today's Executive Order (which implements ...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"We should all be be very very afraid." That's the title of an essay by Larry Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, two leading constitutional law scholars, on Trump's astonishing theory that the US Govt can deport anyone, for any reason & courts can't do anything about it. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

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Opinion | We Should All Be Very, Very Afraid | Jody Freeman

"We should all be be very very afraid." That is the title of an essay by Larry Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, two of the nation's leading constitutional law scholars, published today. T...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Sharing my longer LinkedIn take on Trump's order directing agencies to sunset all energy related regulations after 5 years. Not clear it's lawful, how it would work & totally confusing for business. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...

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Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy | Jody Freeman

Oof. Trying to catch up to the latest Executive Orders! And folks, we have a new one that purports to SUNSET ALL REGULATIONS RELATED TO ENERGY issued by a long list of federal agencies after five ye...

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Woo-boy. Four executive orders about coal and the power sector. Do they actually do anything? A quick look:

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Even if you are not a liberal and don't read Huff Post this article is a good summary of what leading scholars of democracy are saying about this moment, comparing Trump's actions to other autocrats around the world: www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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It Is Happening Here

Trump is following the playbook of autocrats around the world — and it could change America forever.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

So much attention on the poor penguins that got tariffed. 🐧 But what about remote Svalbard in Norway? This is a place Rs & Ds would equally love! Mandatory guns & passports (you must carry both), a literal ban on dying there + polar bears! Why punish Svalbard? www.lifeinnorway.net/svalbard-fac...

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16 Fascinating Facts About Svalbard: Norway's Arctic Archipelago

Fun Svalbard facts: You cannot give birth. Dying is forbidden. It's possible to see the northern lights at midday. Remember to take your gun.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Thank you to law firms and retired judges standing up for rule of law! 500+ firms & 300+ retired judges signed a brief supporting Perkins Coie in its challenge to Trump's attacks on the firm & the legal profession. thehill.com/regulation/c...

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Things that might happen I am rooting for: *After the WI and FLA election results vulnerable R members of Congress realize Elon isn't magic & Trump is an anchor *R mayors and governors realize recession = BAD for them *folks realize the Trump tariff policy could decimate their 401Ks 🤞🤞🤞

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

He inherited a stable economy & is bent on wrecking it; is blithely gutting agencies that Americans depend on for services & benefits; sent law enforcement to use hyper-aggressive tactics in student arrests to inspire fear; deported people to a brutal foreign prison camp with no hearing. Day 72!

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Well, this didn't do the trick. Susan Crawford won the Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

@karaswisher.bsky.social I'm a big fan. But Pivot discussion re law firm attacks was too thin. This is a wholesale assault on the rule of law: punish lawyers inside & outside govt + intimidate judges. Anyone who can challenge him. If firms submit for business reasons the whole system is at risk.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A very welcome urgent call from one brave law firm to others: "Lawyers and big firms: For God’s sake, stand up for the legal profession, and for the Constitution. Defend the oath you took when you became officers of the court." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

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Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump

The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.

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Jody Freeman @jodyfreeman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A post worth reading on how to fight democratic backsliding - from my friend Scott Cummings. Explains the playbook Trump is following by attacking lawyers, judges and legal institutions and how to resist. verfassungsblog.de/stopping-aut...

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Stopping Autocratic Legalism in America – Before It Is Too Late

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