Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026These are all state law claims, but the state statues have language similar to the Comstock Act. Hence (and maybe for other reasons) the threatened RICO. Jonathan Mitchell isn't on the complaint but he might as well be 000
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAnthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a human rights abuse worthy of prosecution under intentional law. Minimally, they should be impeached and removed for this alone. 15492160
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are so many reasons to be embarrassed by Eric Schmitt and his staff, but here it seems both that they started from the premise he was in Atlanta and reasoned backwards from there and also that they assumed people only go to NBA games, and only men's. 031
Reposted by Marcia McCormickBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/20261/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵 27658
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I am not sure what is up with Kevin right now. He seems overcome by melancholy. 130
Reposted by Marcia McCormickMatt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this is what true fascism looks like, running deep cover in a policy proposal so impossibly boring to read that hardly anyone notices that your primary goal is quite simply to regulate your friends and dynamite the administrative state into oblivion 28422
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is why this was a question on my Con Law II exam post Skrmetti. 000
Reposted by Marcia McCormick🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122122825227
Reposted by Marcia McCormickRoger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 24/09/2026There are no words for how angry this story makes me. Academic freedom is dead in Texas public universities.newyorker.comThe Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus ScandalStudents and faculty across the country were punished for their actions in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name. 24513
Reposted by Marcia McCormickEriq Gardner @eriqgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Does Paramount support the decision by CNN, MSNow and Politico to challenge the Trump ban in court? Do they even stand behind CBS News’ own statement that “No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting”? I asked. They wouldn’t comment. 022
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Oh. So we're heading for a Depression depression. 010
Reposted by Marcia McCormickConnor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Writing is fun. You endure hours of excruciating pain and self-doubt. But in the end, you’ve created something. And then you get to hate that thing. 916927
Reposted by Marcia McCormickChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This Missouri case is a perfect nesting doll of the consequences of the SCOTUS approach to its docket. 127464
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Kevin was having trouble committing this morning. But he feels better after some breakfast. 000
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026The thing liberals fundamentally don't understand is that trans people are losing rights they already had. We're not asking for more, we're asking not to lose what we already had for decades. Most sports leagues and the Olympics had inclusion criteria for decades without issue. 633236760
Reposted by Marcia McCormickChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026UPDATE: The intervenors, People Not Politicians, have filed their opposition to Hoskins's request before Judge Clark for an order blocking the Missouri Supreme Court from holding him (Hoskins) in contempt: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 1113235
Reposted by Marcia McCormickChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026UPDATE: Dueling rulings cause chaos over Missouri maps, as case returns to the U.S. Supreme Court Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins faces a contempt hearing at the Missouri Supreme Court, as the U.S. Supreme Court gets a new request to stop the chaos. Law Dork:lawdork.comDueling rulings cause chaos over Missouri mapsMissouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins faces a contempt hearing at the Missouri Supreme Court, as the U.S. Supreme Court gets a new request to stop the chaos. 1112139
Reposted by Marcia McCormickTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...vimeo.comPower to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther... 39808278
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026Got my American statutory database up and running with multiple layers. It has vector embedding for semantic search, 8gram shingles for statutory diffusion, and FTS5 for exact searches. 20k+ volumes over 400 years of state and local statutes. This is one of the coolest things I've ever done. 620818
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/08/2026Anti cross dressing ordinances over time in the US. What's remarkable is how much of this nucleated around St Louis and the Mississippi River in the mid 19th century. There's a story there to find. 2043072
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Meet Kevin, our local wildlife buddy. He makes my kids mad because "he just sits around the house doing nothing, and that's our job." He does literally sit on every ledge of our house he can find, preferably close to a window. 3202
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Playground logic strikes again. If-you-love-it-so-much-why-don't-you-marry-it-ass reasoning . . . . 030
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026You know this is a vague memory based on the swine flu mass vaccinations in the 1970s . . . There is no way this man has ever taken a child to the doctor. 120
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Things like genocide and even lesser evils happen bc the sociopaths at the top give ordinary people a permission structure. They have a “moral code,” but it only applies to a select group of people. Those not in that group are beyond the realm of human or moral obligation. 2/ 10967172
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This is a lot like the comment on one of my course evaluations for Employment Discrimination that there was too much of a focus in the class on employment discrimination. 020
Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/07/2026I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!lgbtqlegislation.comLGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking ProjectTwo decades of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, documented bill by bill — 10,000+ bills tracked across every state and Congress by the LegiAlerts team. 151071385
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is a really nuanced and careful way of talking about the harm and violation of stealthing and the blunt instrument that criminal law is. It gave me a lot to think about and some good things to add to my unit on sexual violence the next time I teach criminal law or sexuality and the law. 020
Reposted by Marcia McCormickChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 431881000
Reposted by Marcia McCormicketienne toussaint @etiennetoussaint.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Legal education trains people to argue within the rules. It doesn’t really train people to imagine different rules. That gap keeps coming up for me in teaching. I say that as someone who is part of the system that does the training. 2112
Reposted by Marcia McCormickMiranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In my latest piece for The Conversation, I wrote on how ERISA constitutes the legal underpinnings of so many health insurance barriers that occupy our attention, undercutting health insurer accountability. This is the subject of my next book, The Health Care Trap theconversation.com/how-health-i...theconversation.comHow health insurers get a free pass to deny coverage from a 52-year-old law meant to protect worker pensionsA little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims. 27132
Reposted by Marcia McCormickOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 30/06/2026Per last repost, I do think that in the US a lot of people, like a LOT of people, do not realize that if a birth certificate is no longer proof of citizenship then most of us have no proof of citizenship. At all. 664132935
Reposted by Marcia McCormickNancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant 27892012415
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026And to be clear, everyone born in the United States is a "birthright citizen." This isn't some well established legal label for children of immigrants. It's a label designed to call into question the validity of their citizenship, but not limited in any meaningful way. 030
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026My record of being terrible at predicting Supreme Court stuff remains unbroken! I seriously thought he was going to stick it out for at least next term's religion cases. 100
Reposted by Marcia McCormickLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026SAM ALITO IS RETIRING: www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...npr.orgJustice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retiresAlthough not well known outside the court, Alito played a key role in leading the conservative charge, not just on abortion, but on a host of other issues. 5223462
Reposted by Marcia McCormickDevin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 30/06/2026THIS SUNDAY — in STL — come to Tower Grove for the Anti-VP Picnic at the Sons of Rest Pavilion — 4 PM!! 🌹 @stldsa.org 🌹 act.stldsa.org/anti-veiled-... 0172
Reposted by Marcia McCormickQuinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The right-wing takeover of Florida’s public universities continues apace, and has now reached the FIU College of Law, where the Vice President of America First Legal has been named the interim Dean. God fucking help us. 33116
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I guess it's a little humid here this morning. 010
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I don't know why I should expect better, but I was struck by this framing of the DOJ's anti-civil-rights campaign as actually a pro-civil rights campaign in the Bloomberg Law Brief from Friday. See alt text for the whole summary. 011
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I have managed to lose an earbud somewhere in my house while I was sleeping, if you are wondering how things are going. 010
Reposted by Marcia McCormickSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 05/06/2026Mitchell has an agenda, which includes reviving the Comstock Act. Plus, Texas activists used this woman's story to lobby for a new bounty on abortion pills (HB 7). Once the bill passed, he amended a suit against a California doctor to say he violated that law, too www.autonomynews.co/woman-accuse... 13610
Reposted by Marcia McCormickjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote. 312154602
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Not gonna lie, I am stoked for this summer reading. 042
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Ugh, but of course. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...news.bloomberglaw.comEEOC Seeks to Revoke Rule Shielding Affirmative Action Plans (1)The EEOC submitted a proposal to the White House regulatory office that would remove a decades-old rule that helps protect companies seeking to implement affirmative action plans voluntarily. 010
Marcia McCormick @marciamccormick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I'm in the depths of grading and taking small comforts by reminding myself that students coming to totally opposite conclusions (from each other), but saying the answer is obvious, is actually a sign of a well balanced problem. 010
Reposted by Marcia McCormickMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 20/05/2026Being involved with faculty governance right now feels like trying to hold the line while you're under constant siege. These initiatives to chip away at (or sometimes smash) the basic functions of a university *just keep coming*. 612315