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Jamal Greene

@jamalgreene.bsky.social

Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School. Ex-DOJ/OLC. Becoming familiar with your game. How Rights Went Wrong available at Bookshop.org (https://tinyurl.com/se32my4r), Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/3vbcfwa4), or a decent public library.

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Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · last wk.

The president shaking the hands of people who were just feted for their investigation into his misdeeds seems to me the WHCA dinner at its best, not its worst. That’s not a defense of the event, whose existence I can’t bring myself to have strong feelings about.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

After ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Araujo, the FBI leaked to Fox News a claim that he was found with possible meth in the van. His family said it was a total falsehood; it was a bag of salt to be used to make an electrolyte drink. And they were right. It was not drugs.

Harris County District Attorn... • X.com @Harris CountyDAO We can confirm the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's van tested negative for narcotics/ illicit drugs. We are not commenting further on the test results, as the investigation is pending. Harris County District Attorn... 9.1h O We have notified Salgado Araujo's family because we felt they had the right to know.
NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

The Justice Department is dropping the subpoenas it filed demanding grand jury testimony and phone records from New York Times journalists after sharp questioning Thursday from a federal judge. n.pr/4b5pIh8

Justice Dept. drops 'New York Times' subpoenas under pressure from judge

The Justice Department is dropping the subpoenas it filed demanding grand jury testimony and phone records from New York Times journalists after sharp questioning Thursday from a federal judge.

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Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've become convinced that more US law schools need to lean in to comparative public law. Putting Wurman to one side, I've been struck over the years at how little US-trained lawyers know about other constitutional cultures. Clichéd, I know, but this one's true.

Michael Karanicolas@karanicolas.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wurman’s statement is also just factually wrong. Literally every country in the world, apart from a handful of exceptions like North Korea, has vibrant civil society groups who advocate for democracy and human rights. Nobody is “culturally incapable” of constitutional self government.

Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 3w ago

Whatever happens with this suit from here on, Judge Williams's opinion is an important historical record of the President and DOJ's behavior.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

The Parties used the existence of federal litigation as a means of conferring legitimacy upon a course of action that they were unwilling to subject to judicial review. The context of the "settlement," the relationships of the people involved in negotiating and approving it, the ethical implications of their conduct, and the Parties' swift efforts to dismiss this case after the Court raised fundamental jurisdictional questions all support this conclusion. Accordingly, the Court expressly finds that Plaintiffs acted in bad faith. See Sofaly v. Portfolio Recovery Assocs., LLC, 155 F.4th 289, 295 (3d Cir. 2025) (monetary sanctions were proper under the court's inherent power where the lawyers acted in bad faith and committed fraud on the court by using "their clients to bring contrived lawsuits"). That finding is enough to invoke the Court's inherent authority. See JTR Enter., LLC V. Columbian Emeralds, 697 F. App'x 976, 986 (11th Cir. 2017) ("The key to invoking a court's inherent power to sanction is a finding of bad faith.") (citation omitted).
Jamal Greene@jamalgreene.bsky.social · 4w ago

We need more creative thinking about the structure of federal funding arrangements and the incentives they create for coercion. It's a very hard problem, but for some thoughts on this in the antidiscrimination space, see here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/weakeni...

Weakening Government Coercion by Strengthening Government Regulation

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Phil Rocco@philiprocco.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...