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Kate Levine

@klevine02.bsky.social
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Law Professor at Cardozo Law, former appellate public defender. I write about our national addiction to the carceral state and complain about mundane things. cardozo.yu.edu/directory/kate-levine

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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Commentators can stfu about Naomi now. What is up!?
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Actually the least stunning thing I’ve heard about 2025.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I will vote for any candidate whose platform is: Ban Cruises.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Right-wing helicopter pilots did a flyover of Kid Rock's house, appeared in his social media, and were suspended by the Army—only to have their suspension overturned by Pete Hegseth, who called them "patriots." Here's why Democrats politicized the Pentagon by promoting Black people.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Here we are again… hope Springs eternal.
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Adam Davidson @sonofdavid.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is pretty much the Black History Month celebration I expected from them.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I guess we're just arresting journalists now.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
wasn’t the case dismissed?
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
What was Don Lemon arrested for? I thought the church protest indictment was dismissed by magistrate and appeal court?
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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Dallas set to exonerate Tommy Lee Walker, who was wrongfully executed for murder 70 years ago despite *9* alibi witnesses saying he was with his pregnant girlfriend: www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/d...
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Dallas set to exonerate man wrongfully executed for murder 70 years ago
Wednesday is expected to be one of the most significant moments in the history of the Dallas County​ Commissioners Court.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Justice Jackson takes an interesting stand today. SCOTUS often waives the filing fees for indigent parties—but refuses to do so after they file multiple "frivolous" petitions. Jackson says that's unfair and dissents from the practice moving forward. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting from denial of motion for
leave to proceed in forma pauperis.
To file a petition in this Court, litigants must pay a $300
fee, along with the (much higher) cost of printing 40 bound
copies of their filing. Litigants who cannot afford the filing
fee and the cost of printing can request to proceed in forma
pauperis. The Court largely grants these requests, allowing
those litigants to file for free, but our openness to indigent
litigants has its limits. In fact, the Court sometimes imposes blanket filing bars that prohibit litigants from filing
any more in forma pauperis petitions in noncriminal matters going forward, regardless of the merits of their claims. I believe that when balancing prisoners’ access to judicial
review, on the one hand, and reducing our administrative
burden, on the other, we should err on the side of keeping
our courthouse doors open. For a system designed to administer justice, reflexively rejecting (potentially meritorious) petitions from incarcerated litigants has a cost that is
much too high when compared to the (meager) administrative efficiency gains. Nor should we forget the role that indigent incarcerated litigants have played in the development of important constitutional doctrines—and through
habeas proceedings no less. See, e.g., Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335 (1963); see also Sindram, 498 U. S.,
at 181 (Marshall, J., dissenting).
Accordingly, I would not apply the filing bar that the
Court imposes for frequent “frivolous” filers to prisoners
who, like Howell, seek to proceed in forma pauperis.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
However far she gets, Osaka has already won.
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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 15/01/2026
America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way. The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
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Indiana University Cancels MLK Celebration Dinner
Indiana University in Indianapolis canceled a dinner in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted annually in January by the Black Student Union, Mirror Indy reported.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
It’s actually amazing how restrained the people Minneapolis have been so far.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
If i was a kid growing up right now in a place with gun culture and positive views of ICE, it would sure be hard to understand when it was and wasn’t ok to shoot another person.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If you need more reason to abolish money bail (you don’t), here.
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies. www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Job opening for a clinical teaching fellow in the Civil Rights Litigation initiative at Michigan Law. This is an opportunity to plug into (or continue within) a robust local social justice lawyering network while also exploring teaching. Please share widely! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Clinical Teaching Fellow- Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, Law School | U-M Careers
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Is there a bigger scandal hiding in plain sight?
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The memo associated w/ this chart closes with what I am reading as a thinly veiled threat
This directive is the first step of the Board of Regents’ ongoing implementation of its statutory responsibility to review and oversee curriculum under Senate Bill 37 and related provisions of the Education Code. This curriculum review under Senate Bill 37 will, in part, ensure each university is offering degrees of value.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Awful that theyll bear Trump’s name but direct cash investment for children acrruing for 18 years is a really good idea. Call it Universal Basic Income. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
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Michael and Susan Dell to Put $250 in 25 Million Children’s Accounts
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The NY Post at it again www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
New oxymoron alert 🚨
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Ok well now the whole thing makes sense. Assume Kim Clark CEO is connected to Trump in some sY. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...
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Kimberly-Clark Agrees to Buy Kenvue, Maker of Tylenol, for $40 Billion
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
In the NYT fantasy of what the “Right” is he is a problem. Once again NYT tells on itself. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
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Nick Fuentes: A White Nationalist Problem for the Right
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Evert saying Naomi needs to be “more aggressive” but also “stay calm” is peak.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Did any of the folks who like the US open and are shocked by Chrissie Everet’s commentary on Coco and Naomi (hard to put a finger on what connects them) migrate to BS?
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Just lol to the worst people on earth using the most abusive power against each other and any pearl clutching. L Law enforcement is randomly deployed against people — poor people and people of color daily forever.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Just asked ChatGPT if I should be worried about the singularity in case anyone else is there
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Very good professor and nice person, may his memory be a blessing. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Law School Professor Richard Fallon Dies at 73 | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Law School professor and internationally renowned constitutional law scholar Richard H. Fallon Jr. died on Sunday. He was 73.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The NYT is trash clickbait. It’s so sad.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
But it by no means follows that we should fold things up. Most law in the U.S. does not involve the Supreme Court, and every Supreme Court decision, every one, has wiggle room that antifascists should be as willing to find as fascists. So take it.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 28/06/2025
Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere. They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
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Garland v. Texas Top Cop Shop
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The examples in this oped are so stark. Obama and Biden— help kids and educate. Trump — van and terrorize. Anyway, hope dems are drafting so many laws right now.
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Lindsay Nash @lindsaycnash.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I'm excited to share my article, The Immigration Subpoena Power, which explores the way that ICE uses administrative subpoenas for civil immigration enforcement and the concerns that these practices raise. Many thanks to those who helped improve it (1/2) columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
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THE IMMIGRATION SUBPOENA POWER - Columbia Law Review
Introduction After a series of public losses in its war on “sanctuary” cities, the first Trump Administration deployed the immigration subpoena, a new and formidable weapon in this fight. It used thes...
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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How you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A. wildfires
The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons.
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Rachel Lopez @rlopez.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
One of the articles I'm most proud of is now out in the world as the lead article in the latest volume of the Minnesota Law Review thanks to its wonderful editors. Co-authoring it w/ Rell Carter fundamentally altered how I think about the production of knowledge. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
On the other hand…
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
I’m proud of this coauthored paper, “Redistributing Justice,” with Ben Levin. It’s forthcoming in Columbia Law Review. Up on SSRN now. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Redistributing Justice
This Article surfaces an obstacle to decarceration hiding in plain sight: progressives’ continued support for the carceral system. Despite increasingly prevale
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
Research stab in the dark. Other than sexual offenses, does anyone know of proposals to extend or abolish criminal SOL for any crimes? Can be proposed by anyone, doesn't have to be a bill, advocates, activists, whoever.
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Kate Levine @klevine02.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Hello again.
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