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That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream and laughs too loud. Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School. Technology law and policy, con law, clinical legal education, and screaming into the void.
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agree and boy do i have the podcast for you if you feel this way
Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears
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“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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UPDATE: Jonathan Mitchell and Kyle Duncan get another go at the First Amendment, as the Fifth Circuit this evening announced — after business hours going into the holiday weekend — that they're taking the Llano County library books litigation en banc. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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As a C-3PO I can promise this metaphor makes no sense. 🫠🤔😒
honestly they’re kinda cooking with this
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Breaking: Judge Ada Brown, a Trump appointee in N.D. Texas, has blocked the FTC’s noncompete rule, limited to the named plaintiffs, in an APA challenge as likely contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious. The rule is set to go into effect in September. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.
Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security
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'We'll kill you if you try to stop us' is terrorism.
Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org
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The timing is odd to celebrate but — effective 7/1 I am a full Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell. I am also starting a new Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Clinic this fall. I’m grateful to my friends & allies for their support, and to my enemies for ever motivating me to work as hard as possible.
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ACLU v. Ashcroft (III) 🫠
Just realized that alongside the challenge to TN's ban on medical care for trans youth the other big SCOTUS case next term is a challenge to age verification laws for online porn so that should be fun
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It’s giving Independence Day. 🫠
If you feel like there's not enough happening in the news right now, you're in luck: polls open in the United Kingdom in roughly 36 hours.
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Order OMB to destroy all paper copies of every student loan and delete all the files.
Okay, folks, who is putting together the list of the funniest crimes that Biden should be committing between now and election day to highlight the absurdity of today's immunity ruling? Not the stuff like assassinations. Just stuff to make a point.
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From Franz Kafka's diaries.
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john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history
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I was prepared for disaster, but the Netchoice decision is good. It rejects the broadest arguments made by the states and the platforms. It recognizes that platforms are ‘editors’ but dismisses the argument that regulation in this sphere is categorically unconstitutional.
Knight Institute Comments on Supreme Court Ruling In Cases Involving Florida and Texas Social Media Lawsknightcolumbia.org
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Between this and last week's decision in Murthy, the Court is telling the Fifth Circuit to knock it the fuck off.
Major slapdown of Fifth Circuit in #Netchoice cases "But it is necessary to say more about how the First Amendment relates to the laws’ content-moderation provisions, ... That need is especially stark for the Fifth Circuit." #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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