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Melissa Murray

@profmmurray.bsky.social
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Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.

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Deirdre @deirdredeirdre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes! Ready. Set. Go! ❤️ #goodnews
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
Great hit. Thanks to @profmmurray.bsky.social for asking about the AP reporting on detainees disappearing from the online locator.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Judge Kelly has scheduled a hearing in this case for 3:30. I guess we'll find out whether he thinks it's as straightforward as I told @profmmurray.bsky.social it is. www.ms.now/the-beat-wit...
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Kathy Fowler @kathyfowlertx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Melissa Murray (@profmmurray.bsky.social) at #TribFest26 in a discussion of the U.S. Constitution and her book, “The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader”: “…birthright citizenship. It’s the new abortion.”
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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 28/09/2026
@profmmurray.bsky.social on Trump, Xi and free press: The president basically said, "I'll have what he's having."
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, we noted that Alito hadn't recused in Suncor (he owns stock in 2 oil companies, & he flew on a PJ owned by someone w interests in one of the companies in the case). He's now recused. . . which likely means there are still 5 votes for Big Oil. tinyurl.com/2425sh73
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Justice Alito Recuses Himself Days Before Major Climate-Change Case (Gift Article)
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. had faced pressure to recuse himself from the climate case because he owns stock in oil companies.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My book is in good company at the Texas Tribune Festival! @imaniperry.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @davidpakman.bsky.social
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
About to sub in for @arimelber.bsky.social on @beatwithari.bsky.social on @msnowreports.bsky.social at 6 pm ET! Join us!
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This episode was unhinged in the best way possible.
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Leah & Melissa talk news: attacks on free press, Kennedy Center, & yes more on that Ka$h Senate testimony on bestiality. THEN Alex Wagner joins to discuss her fabulous new book THE STEAL: 4 Right-Wing Hard-Liners, 1 Republican Presidency, & the Raid on America's Courts crooked.com/podcast/trum...
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Jake Peralta: It's Time to Heist!
Alt: Jake Peralta: It's Time to Heist!
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A bonus episode on what went down with SCOTUS's decision to leave the Trump administration's Postal Service regulation slash election interference slash mass disenfranchisement blocked. For now. crooked.com/podcast/brea... @profmmurray.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social
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BREAKING: SCOTUS Blocks Trump's Mail-In Ballots BS | Crooked Media
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Roland Gerritsen van der Hoop @rgh1205.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This bigot is not “testing the boundaries of political speech” @wsj.com He is spouting racist drivel and you know it. You just will not say it, because it offends your tender senses (and perhaps some of your readers).
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Melissa & Rashad Robinson discuss right-wingers using rigged rules & confusion to ward off democracy - and how Trump's IRS is trying to resegregate education. THEN Niko Bowie & Daphna Renan discuss SUPREMACY: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People crooked.com/podcast/how-...
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How Trump is Using the IRS to Resegregate America | Crooked Media
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, exhibiting real "pick me" energy, thinks maybe all of this is within the USPS's statutory authority (in other words, keep trying, fellas! The 2028 election cycle is coming up!)
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Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey: Pick Me, Choose Me
ALT: Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey: Pick Me, Choose Me
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adnan-rahman.bsky.social @adnan-rahman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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In Conversation: Melissa Murray and President Cristle Collins Judd
Constitutional law scholar and New York Times bestselling author Melissa Murray returns to Sarah Lawrence to discuss her new book, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive
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johncalogero.bsky.social @johncalogero.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do we all need to be constitutional scholars? Yes. We need to read it, understand, and debate it. youtu.be/zOsXuaVcDoI?...
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Melissa Murray | Full Episode 6.12.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
YouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS
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kfc86.bsky.social @kfc86.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@profmmurray.bsky.social I just started reading The U.S. Constitution. I’m already hooked by the line, “with the heat curdling their resentments.”
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
TBF, it probably looked better in the original German.
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BeatriceKind @bvkind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"This isn’t just about abortion and it’s not going to end with abortion. But if we are going to register any kind of objections, we need a functioning, healthy #Democracy. And that’s the first thing that they have disrupted." - Melissa Murray, J.D., constitutional scholar, professor
Color front-cover image of the 2026 guide entitled "The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader," authored by Professor Melissa Murray, J.D., constitutional scholar. Cover text reads as follows: "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: A COMPREHENSIVE AND ANNOTATED GUIDE FOR THE MODERN READER. MELISSA MURRAY. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR."
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Laurie B @lauriebidaho.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@profmmurray.bsky.social tonight I started reading your book on the US Constitution. I’m 70yo, we weren’t taught very much then, as a teenager we were secluded in this kind of history. I’m grateful to have learned about you from Nicole Wallace and deadline White House. #thankyou
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
John Roberts to the Shadow Docket:
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Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain: I Wish I Knew How To Quit You
ALT: Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain: I Wish I Knew How To Quit You
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Heather @hpiglet.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026
August all wrapped up. Overall a pretty good month I'd say. Man oh man does the magic system from Rust in the Root live rent free in my brain right now. Names of books in the alt text.
A photo showing the covers of @hpiglet's August 2026 Reads. From left to right they are: 
The US Constitution A comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader; Melissa Murray 
Queer as Folklore; Sacha Coward
Rust in the Root; Justina Ireland
The Butcher of the Forest; Premee Mohamed
Beautiful Darkness; Fabien Vehlmann illustrated by Kerascoët
Full Moon over Freedom; Angelina M Lopez
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
GET IN LOSER(S), WE'RE REFORMING THE SUPREME COURT! Our HOT SCOTUS REFORM SEPTEMBER bonus series (airing every Thursday!) kicks off with Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net talking about Supreme Court expansion! crooked.com/podcast/we-n...
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Regina George: Get in Loser, Shopping!
ALT: Regina George: Get in Loser, Shopping!
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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The Secretary of the Treasury is using the IRS to advance a pro-White Nationalist agenda. That is extraordinary.” —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on @npr.org with @steveinskeep.bsky.social #highered
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Wesleyan University president on administration's efforts to revoke tax-exempt status
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Wesleyan University president Michael Roth about U.S. Treasury and IRS efforts to revoke tax-exempt status from private schools that help students based on race.
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my voice -75+ journey toward Democracy @mccuebillie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Olatunde Johnson @olatij.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Exactly. The regs are here: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-18127.pdf Note the dramatic extension of Bob Jones, purposefully vague on what is “discrimination”, and purports to apply to remedial programs too (ie that correct past and ongoing discrimination).
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AuldDragon @aulddragon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is a pretty good example of something @kateshaw.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net talked about on the most recent episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, on how SCOTUS is taking a ton of power for themselves. By entertaining these applications, they're making themselves the... (1/n)
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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The dream of the segregation academy is alive and well.
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Joan Resnick Ehrlich @jremmc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A permission structure to practice segregation. Racism. White Christian Nationalism. Fascism. And the SCOTUS 6 will be fine with it. So much undoing we need to do. So much reforming we need to do. In so many areas.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
And while you're pondering the Administration's latest attempt to resegregate society, never forget that it has no trouble creating policies to aid wealthy, corporate interests. tinyurl.com/taf2yur3
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Trump Administration Wants Billion-Dollar Businesses to Qualify as ‘Small’ (Gift Article)
Higher revenue and employee limits for small businesses that get federal contracts and loans could disadvantage the smallest companies, their owners say.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The article focuses on the new IRS regs' impact on higher ed, but their terms would also apply to private schools that receive tax-exempt status. Even if the regs are challenged, many schools will end their integration measures to avoid scrutiny. This is a permission structure. tinyurl.com/4s28jsau
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Rashad Robinson @rashadrobinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Really enjoyed this convo with @profmmurray.bsky.social on “Connect with Jacob Soboroff.” We talked about something I keep coming back to in my book: being seen, heard or celebrated is not the same thing as having the power to change the rules, move resources or shape what happens next.
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The Weeknight on MS NOW @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“They are trying to steal this election”: A whistleblower is sounding the alarm on the U.S. Postal Service’s “haphazard” plans to federalize mail-in voting that could “derail the midterm elections.” @symonedsanders.bsky.social and MS NOW Legal Analyst @profmmurray.bsky.social react.
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
BONUS EP - the ballroom, the separation of powers, and … the disasterpiece theater that SCOTUS created podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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SCOTUS Greenlights Trump's Ballroom
Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · S7 Bonus · 34m
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Garriel Keeble @coyotestar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just in case you might have questions about this, treat yourself to a copy of the Constitution Annotated Guide by Melissa Murray.
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barlofa25.bsky.social @barlofa25.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Melissa Murray, former Law Clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Brennan Center for Justice President Michael Waldman and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Alicia Menendez to discuss the ruling. youtube.com/watch?v=cqrL...
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'Annoyed but not freaked out': Elections expert BREAKS DOWN SCOTUS ruling on mail-in ballots
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"As Murray methodically analyzes each provision of the Constitution, the means to effectuate these goals are framed for the reader." lareviewofbooks.org/article/cons...
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Constitution but Were Afraid to Ask | Los Angeles Review of Books
Melissa Murray’s new book offers an invaluable primer on the structure, history, and meaning of US law’s most important document.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yep.
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stephaniepwolf.bsky.social @stephaniepwolf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Couldn't agree with it more. NAL and really enjoying it. (Yesterday's pod about James Wilson was fascinating, too!)
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Murray does not shy away from controversial issues, although she rarely takes sides." Laurie L. Levenson on Melissa Murray’s new guide to the U.S. Constitution: lareviewofbooks.org/article/constit…
the cover of The U.S. Constitution by Melissa Murray
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There's no one better than Laurie Levenson for breaking down criminal justice issues. This review made my whole day (and I just dropped a kid at college, so I was DEEP in my feelings)!
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Laurie L. Levenson on Melissa Murray’s new Constitution guide: "This is a book for all of us at a time when it's more important than ever that we know, and defend, our rights." lareviewofbooks.org/article/constit…
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Dem. appointees, #SCOTUS has *granted* the Trump administration’s request to freeze a district court injunction that had blocked the mail-in ballots executive order. But Trump’s EO remains blocked by a different injunction in a different case—at least for now:
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
epic week away with friends + fam. thank you to @profmmurray.bsky.social and Vaughn for holding it down on @connectwithjacob.bsky.social while I was out.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Supreme Court, or at least the Republican appointees, has shown they have a ton of zeal for basically cannibalizing and eliminating common sense gun control regulation." Leah Litman, law professor and co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast (with Melissa Murray)... youtube.com/shorts/o7Mtv...
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SCOTUS wants to 'cannibalize' common sense gun control: law professor
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Mae "I Dissent" 🫶🏽 @maewilbon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
(1) Dear Professor Murray, I am writing to express my sincere thanks for your powerful segment this morning as the guest host on @connectwithJacob. I deeply appreciate you bringing much-needed national coverage to the devastating ongoing blackout and its impact on the Black community.
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S Carr @warmtakes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Waking up and finding @profmmurray.bsky.social with guest @leahlitman.bsky.social on @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social Show (so he can have a well-deserved vacay) gives me a want to live for the hope of it all. Then, she slipped in an “All Too Well” segway…we see you! Thank you for your service!
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