Reposted by Melissa MurrayDeirdre @deirdredeirdre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yes! Ready. Set. Go! ❤️ #goodnews 0141
Reposted by Melissa MurrayAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026Great hit. Thanks to @profmmurray.bsky.social for asking about the AP reporting on detainees disappearing from the online locator. 111011
Reposted by Melissa MurrayJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Judge 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... 0289
Reposted by Melissa MurrayKathy Fowler @kathyfowlertx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Melissa 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.” 0123
Reposted by Melissa MurrayCrooked 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." 13017
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026On @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/2425sh73nytimes.comJustice 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. 614451
Reposted by Melissa MurrayAlice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My book is in good company at the Texas Tribune Festival! @imaniperry.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social @profmmurray.bsky.social @davidpakman.bsky.social 3458
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026About to sub in for @arimelber.bsky.social on @beatwithari.bsky.social on @msnowreports.bsky.social at 6 pm ET! Join us! 51097
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This episode was unhinged in the best way possible. 17611
Reposted by Melissa MurrayStrict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Leah & 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...static.klipy.comJake Peralta: It's Time to Heist!Alt: Jake Peralta: It's Time to Heist! 14910
Reposted by Melissa MurrayStrict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A 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.socialcrooked.comBREAKING: SCOTUS Blocks Trump's Mail-In Ballots BS | Crooked Media 27219
Reposted by Melissa MurrayRoland Gerritsen van der Hoop @rgh1205.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This 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). 218710
Reposted by Melissa MurrayStrict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: 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-...crooked.comHow Trump is Using the IRS to Resegregate America | Crooked Media 13913
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Justice 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!)static.klipy.comEllen Pompeo as Meredith Grey: Pick Me, Choose MeALT: Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey: Pick Me, Choose Me 817237
Reposted by Melissa Murrayadnan-rahman.bsky.social @adnan-rahman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026westfaironline.comIn Conversation: Melissa Murray and President Cristle Collins JuddConstitutional 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 0175
Reposted by Melissa Murrayjohncalogero.bsky.social @johncalogero.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Do we all need to be constitutional scholars? Yes. We need to read it, understand, and debate it. youtu.be/zOsXuaVcDoI?...youtu.beMelissa Murray | Full Episode 6.12.26 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBSYouTube video by Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS 34812
Reposted by Melissa Murraykfc86.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.” 0214
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 07/09/2026TBF, it probably looked better in the original German. 2834164
Reposted by Melissa MurrayBeatriceKind @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 26621
Reposted by Melissa MurrayLaurie 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 2493
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 04/09/2026John Roberts to the Shadow Docket:static.klipy.comJake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain: I Wish I Knew How To Quit YouALT: Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain: I Wish I Knew How To Quit You 1130239
Reposted by Melissa MurrayHeather @hpiglet.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026August 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. 092
Reposted by Melissa MurrayStrict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026GET 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...static.klipy.comRegina George: Get in Loser, Shopping!ALT: Regina George: Get in Loser, Shopping! 1554375
Reposted by Melissa MurrayJames 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 #higherednpr.orgWesleyan University president on administration's efforts to revoke tax-exempt statusNPR'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. 8344164
Reposted by Melissa Murray my voice -75+ journey toward Democracy @mccuebillie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026 0299
Reposted by Melissa MurrayOlatunde Johnson @olatij.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Exactly. 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).public-inspection.federalregister.gov 12511
Reposted by Melissa MurrayAuldDragon @aulddragon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This 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) 1329
Reposted by Melissa MurrayDEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The dream of the segregation academy is alive and well. 1258
Reposted by Melissa MurrayJoan Resnick Ehrlich @jremmc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A 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. 03612
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026And 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/taf2yur3tinyurl.comTrump 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. 510047
Reposted by Melissa MurrayJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Gloria 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. 5951221739
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The 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/4s28jsautinyurl.comTrump 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. 59234
Reposted by Melissa MurrayRashad Robinson @rashadrobinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Really 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. 1307
Reposted by Melissa MurrayThe 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. 1011142
Reposted by Melissa MurrayStrict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026BONUS EP - the ballroom, the separation of powers, and … the disasterpiece theater that SCOTUS created podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...podcasts.apple.comSCOTUS Greenlights Trump's BallroomPodcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · S7 Bonus · 34m 34915
Reposted by Melissa MurrayGarriel Keeble @coyotestar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Just in case you might have questions about this, treat yourself to a copy of the Constitution Annotated Guide by Melissa Murray. 2406
Reposted by Melissa Murraybarlofa25.bsky.social @barlofa25.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Melissa 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...youtube.com'Annoyed but not freaked out': Elections expert BREAKS DOWN SCOTUS ruling on mail-in ballotsYouTube video by MS NOW 1287
Reposted by Melissa MurrayMatterist 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...lareviewofbooks.orgEverything You Wanted to Know About the Constitution but Were Afraid to Ask | Los Angeles Review of BooksMelissa Murray’s new book offers an invaluable primer on the structure, history, and meaning of US law’s most important document. 0266
Reposted by Melissa Murraystephaniepwolf.bsky.social @stephaniepwolf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Couldn't agree with it more. NAL and really enjoying it. (Yesterday's pod about James Wilson was fascinating, too!) 0143
Reposted by Melissa MurrayLos 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… 0244
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 25/08/2026There'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)! 17211
Reposted by Melissa MurrayLos Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Laurie 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… 0308
Reposted by Melissa MurraySteve 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:supremecourt.gov 872235916
Reposted by Melissa MurrayJacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026epic 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. 81178
Reposted by Melissa Murraypissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The 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...youtube.comSCOTUS wants to 'cannibalize' common sense gun control: law professorYouTube video by MS NOW 27323
Reposted by Melissa MurrayMae "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. 1569
Reposted by Melissa MurrayS Carr @warmtakes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Waking 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! 1415