Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Jotwell LegalPro: Sida Liu, Lawyer Activism and Legalism’s Uneven Paths in East Asia, JOTWELL (October 13, 2026) (reviewing Celeste L. Arrington, From Manners to Rules: Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan (2025)), legalpro.jotwell.com/lawyer-activ.... 001
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026She calls it a "crime wave" of agents lying in affidavits to arrest Democrats. Sounds fair. 021072
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago? 374322762
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Jotwell LegalHist: Sara Mayeux, The Real Housewife of William Blackstone, JOTWELL (October 12, 2026) (reviewing Julia Rudolph, William Blackstone, Family Man: New Contexts in Gender, Jurisprudence, and Jamaica, Law & Hist. Rev. 1 (2026)), legalhist.jotwell.com/the-real-hou.... 011
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026JJR is a terrific guy who is running against James Uthmeier, a disgrace to the legal profession. Such good news JJR's getting support. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...miamiherald.comJosé Javier Rodríguez gets $5 million national injection for Florida AG raceThe money represents the largest donation this cycle from a national Democratic group to a statewide Florida candidate. 041
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Help me: what is the theory on which this could be unconstitutional? If we treat the AI/agent as an extension of the person, DIY provides a sufficient alternate channel, doesn't it? Now, add blocking email, text, chat, and it's harder, but not much. Arguing AI has some rights itself is just silly. 210
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Redactions un-redacted. bsky.app/profile/obar... 030
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You rang? (He can 'establish' what he likes, just not empower it how he likes. And real issues about how any 'decision' would be reviewed.) bsky.app/profile/mfro... 0114
Reposted by Michael FroomkinDavid Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It is a great honor to receive the coveted "Highly Recommended!" Thank you, @lsolum.bsky.social! papers.ssrn.com/abstract=752...papers.ssrn.comBeyond Neoliberal AdministrationRecent developments in administrative law limit Congress's ability to confer regulatory discretion on its administrative agents. Commentators have tended to vie 0145
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Needless (?) to say, the facts publicly available very strongly show that there is no cause for firing whatsoever. So any conclusion to the contrary, absent something radically new in the facts, would be a travesty. I expect it nonetheless. 3/3 060
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026While membership of the committee is sus, the rules of procedure seem crafted to look (be?) reasonable. A fun legal question would (will?) be if a conclusion that there is cause for firing would be reviewable, and under what standard. Not APA, but APA-adjacent?2/3 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govEstablishment of a Committee of Inquiry to Investigate Allegations of False Statements by Lisa DeNell CookMEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ECONOMIC POLICY THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF 120
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In a unitary exec world, the Prez claims plenary power to fire; SCT says 'not so fast' for the Fed. So WH needs fig leaves of due process (or, in fact, any process). This aims to provide. But it has no real legal status, nor power to compel testimony. 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...nytimes.comTrump Announces White House Inquiry Into Fed Governor Lisa Cook (Gift Article)President Trump said the White House would investigate unsubstantiated claims that Lisa D. Cook committed mortgage fraud and hold a hearing next month. 181
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Wild new escalation in DOJ/ICE attempt to get immunity from legal consequences: our names should not be mentioned in public court papers. 175
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Jotwell IP: David Fagundes, Insightful New Empirical Study Measuring Market Effects, JOTWELL (October 8, 2026) (reviewing Clark D. Asay, Cree Jones, Cassidy McCleary, & Stephanie Plamondon, An Evidence-Based Approach to Fair Use, 60 Ga. L. Rev. 203 (2026)), ip.jotwell.com/insightful-n.... 022
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Jotwell Int'l: Hoi Kong, Dyzenhaus on Common Good Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law, JOTWELL (October 7, 2026) (reviewing David Dyzenhaus, The War Against Law: What’s Wrong with Common Good Constitutionalism (2026)), intl.jotwell.com/dyzenhaus-on.... 011
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.) 1981867710
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Jotwell Contracts: Eliza Mik, A Warning on Agentic AI, JOTWELL (October 5, 2026) (reviewing Deborah DeMott, When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency, __ Harv. J.L. & Tech. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (May 27, 2026)), contracts.jotwell.com/a-warning-on.... 001
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The new version of "how many divisions has the Pope?" 031
Reposted by Michael FroomkinKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis— 631731696
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is fun & has a historical logic but I don't buy it going forward. "Privacy is an inherently exclusionary liberal entitlement inextricably linked to property, racial oppression, sexual control, and class segregation." Transparency empowers despots. Makes me want to teach a privacy seminar. 020
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Jotwell Crim: Eric J. Miller, Leviathan Twisted: The Supreme Court’s Legitimation of Police Violence, JOTWELL (October 2, 2026) (reviewing Alice Ristroph, The Judicial Police Power, 71 Vill. L. Rev. 1 (2026)), crim.jotwell.com/leviathan-tw.... 001
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Jotwell Family: Dara E. Purvis, Complicating Children’s Rights, JOTWELL (Oct 1, 2026) (reviewing Aníbal Rosario Lebrón, Opting Out of Subordination: Minors’ Right to Control Their Bodies and Futures, 47 Cardozo L. Rev. __ (2026), available at SSRN (Apr. 17, 2026)), family.jotwell.com/complicating... 001
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In a deep sense it totally was. Just not a fake. 040
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Jotwell Equality: Eliot Tracz, Where are the Women?, JOTWELL (September 30, 2026) (reviewing Jill Elaine Hasday, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (2025)), equality.jotwell.com/where-are-th.... 011
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sometimes the news just makes me sick. There is no decent reason not to stay this case pending merits resolution. Or indeed to decide this to allow 3rd country deportations. Court packing is now the moderate option. www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...courthousenews.comSupreme Court yields to Trump, giving feds free rein on third-country deportationsImmigrant advocates say the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy left their clients to face prolonged and arbitrary detention, beatings, sexual assault and even disappearance. 030
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jotwell Courtslaw: Allan Erbsen, Personal Jurisdiction and the Tapestry of Constitutional Law, JOTWELL (September 29, 2026), , courtslaw.jotwell.com/personal-jur.... 101
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I still think this (along with insane carelessness on the party of major AI purveyors) explains a lot of the explosion of 'rogue' agentic behavior. 011
Reposted by Michael FroomkinDavid Froomkin @dfroomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Beyond Neoliberal Administration," my forthcoming chapter in Building Democratic Capacity (Cambridge University Press, edited by @blakeprof.bsky.social, @joshuamacey.bsky.social, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social, and Bijal Shah, forthcoming 2027), is now posted to SSRN. papers.ssrn.com/abstract=752... 32515
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Jotwell Corp: Da Lin, Green SOX?, JOTWELL (Oct. 28, 2026), corp.jotwell.com/green-sox. 101
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Consider the possibility that instead of being stupid it's a ploy to destroy insurance pools and "prove" the ACA is "unaffordable". Usually one should not attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity, but this is *so* stupid that it might just be an exception. 120
Reposted by Michael FroomkinBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One of humanity's greatest heroes 220961
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If someone is both a Ph.D in political science and a law degree, does this mean they should do half as much, or that where they have their appointment controls? Asking for someone I know... 000
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All very well, but as an immunocompromised person what I want to know is how does a mask mandate work in a **bar**? People in bars drink things. If there is a lesbian secret to drinking whith a mask on, I think they owe to the rest of us to share it. www.mediaite.com/media/wild-l...mediaite.comWild Lesbian Bar Story Shattering Boston Globe RecordsThere may be growing concerns about the future of media and the rise of AI, but one Boston outlet is shattering records and laughing all the way to the bank. 100
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Can we expect to see French troops protecting Ukrainian grain shipments or trains? No? Why not? 010
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Does this count as good news, on the theory that every wasted dollar is a dollar that they cannot do something evil with? apnews.com/article/ice-...apnews.comICE is wasting tens of millions of dollars on 'uninformed' detention projects, report findsAn investigation has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing uninformed plans to increase detention capacity, and the to... 001
Reposted by Michael FroomkinDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De... 3822411169
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026An issue to watch out for is whether in order to connect your device to theirs you have to download a bunch of software on your machine which lets them do things in the name of security such as inventory all your files and/or create various types of access for them. 010
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Jotwell Adlaw: Jodi Short, Taking Shared Powers Seriously, JOTWELL (September 24, 2026) (reviewing Chad Squitieri, Congress in the Mouth of a Lawyer, 78 Ala. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Apr. 07, 2026)), adlaw.jotwell.com/taking-share.... 021
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026PSA: Didn't let "smart" devices into your home. (I dread my next car when the ancient Toyota needs replacing.) arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...arstechnica.comOwners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridgesSo absurd and embarrassing ..." 011
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Convenience stores systematically screwing mostly poorer customers a few cents or dollars at a time. Also posting false low gas prices on their street signs to lure in customers. Hard not to see this as a symbol of life in Trump's America. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comAmid soaring living costs, America’s biggest convenience-store chains quietly overcharge consumersGuardian investigation: 7-Eleven and Circle K stores often fail to honor advertised prices – charging more at pump and register for gas, snacks, and other items 021
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Members of Congress must halt government-paid mass constituent e-newsletters and mass mailings 90 days before an election if they are a candidate on the ballot, per House rules. 220
Reposted by Michael FroomkinJotwell @jotwell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jotwell Torts: Kenneth W. Simons, If Your Perception, Reaction Time, Or Coordination Is Substandard, Are You Negligent?, JOTWELL (September 23, 2026), torts.jotwell.com/if-your-perc.... 111
Reposted by Michael FroomkinStatus Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This U.S. family was surrounded by Border Patrol agents after accidentally hitting a patrol car. Once free and proven innocent in court, they had the front door of their home blown off its hinges in retaliation. Border Patrol doesn't just target immigrants, it torments American citizens too. 28423307
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The more I read about Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, the worse she sounds. And frankly she didn't sound that great when she was running for office. 020