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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If they’re this careless about who they send to the torture prison, they’re going to be this careless about your health, safety, and social security, too.

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Read @danfarbman.bsky.social's article about abolitionist lawyering & the Fugitive Slave Laws. Vivid anecdotes in Section II spur the imagination in an era of arbitrary arrests, deportations, & disappearances of students, barbers, swim instructors & more. www.californialawreview.org/print/resist...

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Resistance Lawyering — California Law Review

This is the story of a group of abolitionist lawyers who devoted themselves to working within a legal system that they considered to be fundamentally unjust and illegitimate. These “resistance lawyers...

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In today’s one-two punch, the @aaup.bsky.social National alongside MESA & 3 of our chapters also sued the Trump administration over their unconstitutional ideological-deportation policies that have chilled speech & dissent on campuses nationwide. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...

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AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech

The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Delighted to read @itamann.bsky.social's latest thoughtful piece today: "The redefinition of antisemitism isn’t simply a policy shift–it’s part of a deeper transformation of American democracy." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The new definition of antisemitism is transforming America – and serving a Christian nationalist plan

Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I don’t see how, unless our entire profession stands shoulder-to-shoulder in unity, we successfully push back against this effort to break our profession and our democracy. Cowering & compromising won’t work. He is attacking us for the success of our work. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY SUBJECT: Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court Lawyers

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“The intake began with slaps. One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” I believed him. But maybe it’s only because he didn’t look like what I had expected—he wasn’t a tattooed monster.” time.com/7269604/el-s...

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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“But a longstanding lesson of political opposition under authoritarian conditions… is that a critical means for building cross-group trust and solidarity, including for election season, is a willingness to stand on principle.“ newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse — Sidecar

Trump and the law.

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

They won't stop at Columbia, or on Palestine. This is a broadside against the independence of academia. The only way for universities to defend themselves is to push back aggressively. Admins not ready to do that need to get out of the way. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/u...

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White House Expected to Pause $175 Million for Penn Over Transgender Policy

The decision is the latest clash between a university and the administration as it pushes schools to end diversity programming and adopt stricter discipline, among other things.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The Trump admin's thuggish letter to Columbia is garbage, legally speaking. The admin has no statutory authority to make these demands, and many of them are unconstitutional. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Authoritarian power grabs begin by neutralizing civil servants, judges, academics, journalists, and artists. You can't have freedom or democracy in such conditions. Trump is pointing the same gun at Perkins Coie, the AP, the Kennedy Center, and Mahmoud Khalil, but many people don't see that yet.

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The administration is going well beyond its Title VI authority and the First Amendment. Universities must mobilize to fight this in court, or there will be no limit to how and when the administration commandeers higher ed. It’s Palestine today; don’t wait to see what it is tomorrow.

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Columbia University signed its own death warrant when it indulged the notion that student protests about a foreign government's actions were actually disguised attacks on other students based on their identity.

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Yaman @ysalahi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Excited to represent Colorado grocery workers with @daveyseligman.bsky.social and Towards Justice! We’re challenging collusion between Kroger and Albertsons that we think rigged negotiations against workers during the 2022 strike, resulting in lower wages than should have been the case.

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