Ellie Margolis

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Law professor @TempleLaw, suburban gardener, empty nester. Happy to nerd out about legal writing anytime.

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Got a story for you, @peterorlowicz.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

‘A priceless treasure of railroad archaeology’ is up and running in rural Pa.www.inquirer.com The East Broad Top Railroad in Huntingdon County is one of the last remaining narrow-gauge rail lines in the United States and began serving passengers in 1873

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So many journalists going to be spending their time in leftist brasseries interviewing voters and trying to figure out how they missed this movement

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

This matches what I've been seeing in friends. Be careful out there and mask up.

A seasonal wave of #Covid is sweeping across the U.S., driven by the FLiRT variants, a trio of the latest #SARSCoV2 mutants making the rounds. So no, it's not your imagination. People are getting Covid again www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Yep, people are getting COVID againwww.seattletimes.com A seasonal COVID-19 wave appears to be underway with cases growing or likely growing in 39 states.

It's a rough week for literary heroes.

Most exciting race in ages and such a satisfying result! I’m still flying.

First time seeing Lewis Hamilton win since I started watching F1 and cheering for him (what is the opposite of a bandwagon jumper 😅) LET'S FUCKING GO!!

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Well this is grim

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Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? - Rebecca Solnit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

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Feels like an opportunity for the internet to go to work. Want to give "tips" to anti-abortion anti-equality Jonathan Mitchell? Submit your anonymous comments here www.fasorp.org

If you haven't been to FASORP's webpage, it's quite clear its mission is to disrupt faculty hiring processes and law reviews for the purpose of making academia whiter than it already is. There are many organizations like this designed to torture Black and Brown academics.

FASORPwww.fasorp.org Faculty, Alumni, & Students Opposed to Racial Preferences

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Amused, I guess, that the PA Supreme Court has granted allocatur on the issue of whether a defendant's saying "the judge is a cocksucker," after losing a motion to suppress, constitutes criminal contempt meriting 15-30 days of incarceration, or whether being offensive isn't quite enough by itself.

Justices Agree To Consider Whether Name-Calling a Judge is Criminal Contempt | The Legal Intelligencerwww.law.com The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to address whether name-calling a judge constitutes criminal contempt.

I keep thinking about this lawsuit and getting mad all over again. The cowardice of these “anonymous” mediocre white men directly attacking some of the most accomplished, brilliant law profs in the academy to score political points is just despicable.

The Northwestern lawsuit is an example of the White gaze in action: “White gaze is the operational norm of White space wherein Black people are scrutinized through the lens of Whiteness, resulting in their exclusion, subordination, and objectification.” www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

Northwestern law school sued for discrimination against white men in faculty hiringwww.reuters.com A conservative group on Tuesday sued Northwestern University, claiming its law school discriminates against white men in faculty hiring and in the selection of articles that appear in its flagship law review.

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This is marvelous. Class action alleges Walmart systematically puts one price on the shelf, and charges a little more at the cash register. Walmart claims consumers can see the prices actually charged, so no harm. CA7 rejects. www.law360.com/securities/a...

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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice. But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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Most progressive people may not yet agree that NYT is more harm than good for democracy, and that we’d be better off with it going out of business. But I’m confident they will in the next five years.

this is the NYT laundering documents provided by a professional bigot to scandalize a completely non-scandalous thing bc the times has decided that the organization founded to stop gay parents from adopting kids is actually right in their bigotry and every major medical association is wrong

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Not only did they carelessly let this guy publish a blatant misrepresentation, when they changed the headline (completely altering the framing and I'd say the meaning of the piece), they didn't write an editor's note! <>

Not regretting my canceled subscription.

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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Holy moly. What is going on over there is grim.

Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote

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I would use a stronger word than "garbage."

You'll have to read the WaPo piece for this entirely accurate take from @paulgowder.bsky.social that this lawsuit is racist garbage. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

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"all of conservative legal theory in a single headline"

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It is, unfortunately, part of the everyday reality of being Black in the legal academy. Draft here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Legal Academia's White Gazepapers.ssrn.com For Black law faculty, Blackness, the Black experience, and Black legal and social identity are not trends. Yet, there are inflection points where legal scholar

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Hi the NYT published that piece because it wants Trump to win. Hope that clears it up.

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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?

That part isn't the disinfo part. It's the chaos and rumormongering that is going to be used to get Mike fucking Johnson etc. into power once they push Kamala Harris out of the line of succession. It's also being used to distract everyone from mounting a coordinated response to the Supreme Court

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Giving up hope is also complying with authoritarians in advance. It’s saying that fascism is inevitable, that there is no other way to be. I know it’s hard to keep hope alive, but I hope you find a way. ❤️

Don’t despair — here’s why https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/04/fourth-july-us-trump-biden-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

This Fourth of July, it’s hard to feel optimistic about the US. But I have hope | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com Let’s remember that we’ve come a long way – and the journey isn’t yet complete

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Tomorrow is the fourth. If America weren't great, we wouldn't care about keeping it. I love that our country is truly multiracial, all of us have "American" names, we care a lot less about class than other countries (in my work, this means lots of 1st gen students indistinguishable from the rest)

Ok wise friends, who has seen a good explainer of the Trump immunity opinions I can pass on to pay friends rather than trying to explain it myself? Like not just the outcome but actual breakdown of the reasoning (such as it is).

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There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons. ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

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(1/?) “It would be naïve to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.”

I'm sorry, what? How did any lawyer sign their name to this lawsuit? Missouri has filed against New York under SOCTUS's original jurisdiction to stay Trump's sentencing. ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

ago.mo.gov