This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Law prof at GW Law, sometimes lawyer. Speaking as private citizen, outside official job duties, on matters of political/social/other concern. Stuff I write: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1785600
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Story here. Attorneys say Pike is unconscious, on a ventilator and that both of her arms were “swollen, burned, and blistered” upon her arrival at the hospital Wednesday night. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/02/c...
Christa Pike on ventilator after failed execution attempt - Nashville Banner
Christa Pike was unconscious and on a ventilator a day after she survived two doses oft the lethal injection drug pentobarbital, according to a court filing.
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The statement of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide on the botched execution of Christa Pike is worth reading in full.
Justice Blackmun (30 years ago): "Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed."
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 4d agoPress release I woke up to, on Christa Pike’s condition (sent 9/30 at 11:36pm ET)
This is the doctor Tennessee pays $3k per execution to perform. patriotpost.us/search?q=mar...
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How many times does a far-right doctor have to inflict excruciating pain during “botched” executions before one concludes he’s doing it on purpose?
Zach Everson@zacheverson.com · 4d agoTennessee's last botched execution was way back in [checks notes] May. "Mark Fowler, the doctor who was involved in Carruthers’ attempted execution, also oversaw Pike’s — at this time — attempted death sentence."
UPDATE: At a call with the federal court tonight, "the state [of Tennessee] represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion."
To paraphrase Bryan Stevenson, the question right now isn’t whether Christa Pike deserves to die; it’s whether the State of Tennessee deserves to kill. That moral authority has been so manifestly forfeited.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d agoI've included the witness update into my story at Law Dork, but this is just horrifying — and cannot be in fitting with the state's execution protocol.
I've included the witness update into my story at Law Dork, but this is just horrifying — and cannot be in fitting with the state's execution protocol.
Christa Pike's status unclear after execution attempt: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30.
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Media witness to Pike execution just now (9:39CT): “we have no idea if she’s still alive or not.”
“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.
“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d agoThey made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.
My team at the NVA Lab has produced a new dashboard for exploring our data on US protests from Jan 2025-May 2026. This snapshot shows the 61k+ protest events (>14.6M+ recorded participants) active in the US since Trump's second inauguration. Link to dashboard in thread.
Law schools should require all future prosecutors to spend 30 minutes learning about confirmation bias.
Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 6d agoWe've uncovered some definitive proof Eric Schmitt's supposedly blockbuster texts were not about an Atlanta Hawks game. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-evi...
Bipartisan, but effectively split Democrats and near unanimous Republican support. This bill protects the NCAA, not college sports, and certainly not college athletes. The only way to do that is to let athletes collectively bargain (which this bill leaves out). www.espn.com/college-spor...
U.S. Senate votes 77-22 to pass Protect College Sports Act
The Protect College Sports Act, a federal bill aimed at reshaping the industry, took a step toward becoming law on Monday when the U.S. Senate voted, 77-22, to pass it, with Ted Cruz saying "this bill puts an end to the chaos plaguing college athletics."
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The next Democratic Congress/President needs to add 35 seats to the 5th and 8th Circuits.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 7d agoEven the finest modern scientific instruments are incapable of measuring the levels of sweaty, pick-me desperation in the blog posts Josh Blackman is about to uncork
1/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵
Securing this kind of concession from the Chinese right before the midterms should really shore up Trump’s standing with America’s frozen monkey meat exporters.
Counsel for Defendants was up late sending Trump’s insane tweets about Ford’s Theatre to the judge. Odd he’s not responding to calls from opposing counsel this AM.
Adam A. Marshall@a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 2w agoBreaking: CNN, MS Now, Politico have moved for an emergency hearing before Judge Kelly, noting reporters for their orgs were turned away from WH this morning
Not inexplicable: Trump obviously told the DOJ to make sure the judge saw his insane Tweet. A self-respecting lawyer would refuse to file this and explain to his client that it was actually counterproductive.
Whey Standard@wheystandard.bsky.social · 2w agoSo, late last night, the administration inexplicably decided to file a supplemental declaration to reinforce that the CNN/MSNOW/Politico ban was because of the president’s disagreement with the First Amendment-protected content of their reporting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
TROs are famously advisory opinions with no legal force. This shouldn’t be a big deal.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.
The great virtue of the Trump administration may be that it has pushed the argument so far, and is seeking to defend such egregious presidential behavior, that virtually no one will be on board with it and the rights-privilege distinction will die a second more final death…. Here’s hoping.
The NYT has reprinted the gov brief in the press ban case and it is revealing. It makes clear that the admin's central arg for why Trump could kick CNN etc. out of the WH is that access to the WH is not a right but a privilege🧵 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read the White House Response to the Lawsuit From CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The Trump administration has defended its ban on the three media outlets in a court filing.
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Oh wow, this might be even worse that the memorandum. Here’s Trump saying directly that CNN was banned for reporting on the U.S. military killing 200 schoolgirls. Lawyers wrote this.
Thomas Frampton@tframpton.bsky.social · 2w agoIf that name sounds familiar…
In fairness, there really is a need for more national security infrastructure in this part of Northern Virginia.
Nick Kodama 🌳👻@nickkodama.bsky.social · 2w agolol what
This is really solid writing on how the APA works for non-lawyers. More of this please.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 2w agoI know judges love to talk about how they just Do Law, Not Politics, but an opinion like this one is as close as judges get to being like “your policy proposal is too stupid to be legal, please get out of my face with this”