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The ABA @americanbar.org caves to the Trump Administration. Shame! www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schools

The ABA's rules have required diversity and inclusion for decades, putting it squarely in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration.

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The Root@therootdotcom.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Speaking truth to power.

A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.

Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s very easy & common for people to shrug off the relevance of gpa/test score when the “underperformance” is white & male. Call it confirmation bias, racial/gender bias, whatever you want. Lesson is we tend to see “merit” in systems that produce our expected outcomes. 1/

There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’
Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.

Their findings are backed up by others. A 2019 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that 75% of white students who were recruited to Harvard as ALDCs "would have been rejected" if they had been treated as white students without those connections.

My colleague Dave Marcus sets the record straight on the event at UCLA Law last week that @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy falsely referred to as “campus chaos.” I hope those using the false narrative in their campaign against universities pause to consider a true account: www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...

Meaningful Campus Engagement with Government Officials: A Response to UCLA’s Critics (Guest Post By UCLA Law Professor David Marcus)

On Tuesday, April 21, UCLA Law’s Federalist Society chapter hosted a lunchtime event with James Percival, general counsel at the U.S. Depart...

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www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/02/c... I was today years old when I learned that California state prisons hand people over to ICE and that sanctuary laws only apply to local jails and law enforcement.

Immigrants Behind Bars Often Find ICE Waiting After Their Prison Sentences

Many state prison systems work with ICE. California, for example, has handed over 18,000 prisoners since 2015.

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Name your top 15 tv shows ever, gut instincts only All In The Family MASH Friends Thirty Something The Sopranos The Americans Breaking Bad Sex Education Friday Night Lights Lost (seasons 1-3) Queen Sugar Insecure Catastrophe (Season 1) Bad Sisters Fleabag

www.justsecurity.org/136681/bosni... Great piece by @bwgerstein.bsky.social !

Bosnian Serbs Wield Islamophobia to Gain Support for Secession

In U.S. and Israel meetings, Bosnian Serb leaders used anti-Muslim rhetoric to gain support for their ethno-nationalist separatist project.

justsecurity.org

My dad won a Breakthrough Prize last night for lifetime achievement in fundamental physics. “The Oscars of Science” - strangest event I’ve ever attended. Tech bro billionaires, celebrity performers and presenters, and scientists. But the main thing is I got a photo with my favorite actor!

Zalman Rothschild@zalmanr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Brilliant piece by @zalmanr.bsky.social about the terrifying prospect of parental religious beliefs trumping even basic public health.

Yup! Here you go: wapo.st/482ywCQ

Niko Bowie@nikobowie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pre-ordering now!

The Court's claimed power to strike down acts of Congress is not in the Constitution. Rejected by early Americans as incompatible w/ self-government, it emerged as a weapon against abolition & multiracial democracy. Since 1857 the Court has used it to undermine voting laws & restraints on autocracy.

Frederick Douglass on the Civil Rights Cases in 1883: "We have been, as a class, grievously wounded, wounded in the house of our friends."

I was today years old when I actually watched Afroman’s videos. hilarious!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fabulous conversation today with @jamellebouie.net and my wonderful colleague Alexander Arnold.

He's going to fall asleep inside ten minutes

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

No sitting president has ever appeared before the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the history of the United States.

I mean OF COURSE this isn’t the only thing we should be doing. My friends and colleagues are filing cases, writing briefs, giving aid to immigrants afraid to leave their houses, following and documenting ICE, organizing for unions and House candidates, being immigration court observers…1/

I love penguins.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

He’s not hiding the ball.

Trump: "We have a thing called a war, or as they would rather say, a military operation. It's for legal reasons. Because as a military operation, I don't need any approvals. As a war you're supposed to get approval from Congress. Something like that. So I call it a military operation."

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This has been true for decades but especially now.

If you're a Democratic politician and you're paying a consultant to tell you that the way to beat the Republicans is to foreground their issues, adopt their framing and just promise to be 50% as ruthless on it, you should retire from politics immediately and take the consultant with you.

I hope everyone is taking photos of every single ICE dude in the airports so we can identify them when they go back to the full-on KKK hooded look to disappear, pepper spray, beat, and shoot innocent people.

Remember when people lost their jobs for not grieving sufficiently that Charlie Kirk had died?