Reposted by Sue McMahonAlvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 13/09/20262/ If you worked in a company where you anticipated a 10% chance that your product would kill ten people, let alone all people, the correct response would be horror, ceasing all operations, and likely contacting the police or other criminal authorities. 1142
Reposted by Sue McMahonDavid Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/08/2026it’s useful to remember every so often that the george w bush admin, led by its immoral lawyers, broke such a fundamental rule of law, torturing those in its custody, that after 25 years justice for the victims of 9/11 remains out of reach. 113860
Reposted by Sue McMahonBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...nytimes.comHow a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform... 411181430
Reposted by Sue McMahonDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 30/06/2026SCOTUS reform won't just simply happen if Dems take Congress & the White House. A case has to be made for it—to a skeptical public, to reluctant politicians, to a hostile media. The blowback from the right will be intense and terrify a lot of weak-willed pols. The case has to be made starting *now* 251220362
Reposted by Sue McMahonthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I left the Church years ago. I can’t go back. I do not demand that the Church change for me. But when the Holy Father says stuff like this I feel so connected to the depths of my faith, to the part of the Church that I did not and cannot leave, and I am so happy to feel that way 361800203
Reposted by Sue McMahonJeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026“We propose that state supreme courts amend their rules of professional conduct to impose a uniform ‘hold open’ date for offers until Oct. 1 of students’ 2L year for 2L summer positions.” @marklemley.bsky.social & I have an op-ed in Bloomberg on early recruiting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...news.bloomberglaw.comState Supreme Courts Can Resolve Early Legal Recruiting MessOpinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting. 54717
Reposted by Sue McMahonCaz 💖💜💙 @wabbits.bsky.social · 21/06/2026When I started in public libraries TWO DECADES AGO we were already lending: Jigsaws Video games Kids’ toy packs Dressing up costumes Laptops ….why will nobody TALK TO LIBRARIANS or even do the most cursory of searches before sharing their Extremely Hot Takes 🫠 67914
Reposted by Sue McMahonghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026i think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy" 1254389668
Reposted by Sue McMahonMarin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I love people at the airport who stack the security bins of other travelers. Just nice, decent people helping out people they’ve never even met. ❤️ 0101
Reposted by Sue McMahonAOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026They help you out, your mom and dad They really want to, and they do! They fill you with the fun they had And add some extra vibes for you! 14615
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026This whole clip is infuriating, but the statement “it would be like poetry without rhyming, it’s too easy” seems designed to make English majors everywhere spontaneously combust. 000
Reposted by Sue McMahonToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Johnson may be too Protestant to know this, but the Just War Doctrine in Catholicism is codified in Canon Law. Trump's assault on Iran satisfies literally none of the conditions of it. 65911
Reposted by Sue McMahonAlicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Interested in a state supreme court clerkship? @statecourtreport.org has a database featuring clerkship opportunities from 25 states and more than 80 justices. We hope it's a good starting point for applicants! statecourtreport.org/state-judici...statecourtreport.orgState Judicial Clerkship Resource 12822
Reposted by Sue McMahonRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 06/04/2026We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis 192355421
Reposted by Sue McMahonDr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA 344362907568
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026During oral args today, Justice Sotomayor mentioned the post-Thind denaturalization campaign when noting the risk of retroactive application of the birthright citizenship EO. Our amicus brief tells that story. @korematsuctr.bsky.social @aaldef.bsky.social @ccrcj.bsky.socialsupremecourt.gov 052
Reposted by Sue McMahonSean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down. 9945181036
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I am beyond proud to be a part of the team that drafted this amicus for the Korematsu Ctr & other nonprofits/race & law ctrs in the birthright citizenship case. In it, we tell the stories of the concrete harms when the government has stripped citizenship in the past and the retroactive risks now.supremecourt.gov 43413
Reposted by Sue McMahonRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom 1055651586
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025@jrabrams.bsky.social changed my law teaching for the better with this book. Highly recommend. 061
Reposted by Sue McMahonJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 10/12/20251/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...nytimes.comOpinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash 25976362
Reposted by Sue McMahonJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time. 302567416
Reposted by Sue McMahonJoey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The fact that many Democratic Senators are profoundly trapped in an unreal matrix of DC-media assumptions is a disaster on an epic scale. But it’s also an opportunity. You have to wait years to primary most Senators, but you can fight to change those assumptions now. Let me explain… 35518
Reposted by Sue McMahonjade, whose voice is the Deluge @goblinmode.com · 27/10/2025much of this stems from a gross misunderstanding of writing as “the act of sitting down to write”. writing is the 10,000 other things that you do before you sit down. it is light cast through a window hitting the far wall, it is the memory of that time you saw that one bird, it is the act of living 05412
Reposted by Sue McMahonDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.startribune.comPerry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes. 26996326
Reposted by Sue McMahonJoey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.documentcloud.orgAAUP-UC-Trump Lawsuit -- Uploaded by Jaweed Kaleem of the Los Angeles Times 5421128
Reposted by Sue McMahonSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The fate of the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship still hangs in the balance. Let’s get educated. 1344128
Reposted by Sue McMahonLilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025UC workers, alums, community members, please send Governor Newsom and your state legislators encouraging them to sue the federal government like Harvard did and release the feds' demand letter so Californians know what is at stake. It takes 2 minutes: actionnetwork.org/letters/uc-s...actionnetwork.orgUC Stand Up, Demand No ConcessionsYesterday, Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that the federal administration’s freezing of $2.2 billion dollars at Harvard University was unconstitutional. The court decisions shows a way the UC can fight... 0153
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I’m thrilled to be part of this webinar series on competence to stand trial, co-hosted by @nacdl.org and @statecourts.bsky.social. Our first session on Wednesday (11a PST) lays out the current state of play across the U.S. Join us! ncsc-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...ncsc-org.zoom.usWelcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Competency and Restoration Reimagined from Practice to Possibility: Level Setting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining th...Competency and Restoration Reimagined from Practice to Possibility This three-part webinar series will provide insight and recommendations on how to make improvements in competency to stand trial sys... 020
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 04/09/2025My fearless colleague David Kaye, speaking truth to power. 030
Reposted by Sue McMahonTheoderic @theoderic.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Friendly reminder that things don’t go back to normal if he kicks the bucket. They could even get worse! And even when they lose an election there’s years, decades, generations of repair and remaking to be done. 22811
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025So very proud to have my name on this excellent letter. Huge thanks to my UC colleagues who took the laboring oar in putting it together. 182
Reposted by Sue McMahonNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 14/08/2025“We have committed our professional lives to learning and free inquiry, working together with students to advance truth for the collective benefit of society. Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.”bostonglobe.comHarvard faculty won’t cave to Trump demands - The Boston GlobeUnlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name. 216850
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 28/07/2025“You think I showed up with ChatGPT? . . .Dickinson? Obsessed. David Foster Wallace built a temple of footnotes in my name. I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.” 040
Reposted by Sue McMahonDavid Pressman @ambpressman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Democracies collapse not just through force, but through the naïve self-confidence of elites. What should alarm us isn’t that strongmen follow similar playbooks, but that our elites do too. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.The real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence. 08431
Reposted by Sue McMahonSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/07/2025A reminder that our profession is not just big firms, and that countless lawyers are stepping up in this critical moment. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...nytimes.comBig Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him. 13796146
Reposted by Sue McMahonDavid Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Video of me teaching legal research and writing in the fall.media.tenor.coma woman wearing a mask stands on a red carpet in front of a streetAlt: woman filming workout video as military coup happens in the background. 48114
Sue McMahon @suemcmahon.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Finally got a terrible first draft done. Time to tear it apart.media.tenor.coma man in a suit and goggles is holding a hammer and breaking a wall .Alt: a man in a suit and goggles is holding a sledgehammer and breaking a wall . 040
Reposted by Sue McMahon28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 19/06/2025“magical realist Zohran Mamdani” would be like if everyone on his team was human except for his ghost campaign manager and you could see a bodega cat levitating in one of his ads 412600221