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Hannah Walser

@hkpmw.bsky.social

Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & humanities, theories of mind. Assistant Professor @umichlaw.bsky.social. 💙💛 she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com

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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last wk.

As to Haiti, remember that this is happening because Justice Sam Alito — joined by all of the Republican SCOTUS appointees — insisted that Trump's racism isn't racism. www.lawdork.com/i/203137816/...

Brandi Buchman@brandibuchman.bsky.social · last wk.

At least 363,000 Haitians and 7,000 Syrians who have legally lived and worked in the U.S. for years after escaping war, famine and natural disaster, are expected to officially lose their temporary protected status on Monday. My latest for @huffpost.com. www.huffpost.com/entry/i-want...

Hannah Walser@hkpmw.bsky.social · last wk.

Caveat: I don’t know anything about this poll’s methodology. Taking it at face value for the moment, though, it’s striking that the U.S. is notably *un*concerned about “mass migration.” At the very least, it doesn’t seem like the past decade’s attempts to gin up xenophobic panic have worked

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.

What do people in 7 countries see as the biggest global threats? France: Climate change: 48% UK: Climate change: 35% Canada: Climate change: 31% Poland: Military attack: 43% USA: Political extremism: 39% Germany: Mass migration: 36% Australia: Religious terrorism: 31% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Hannah Walser@hkpmw.bsky.social · 2w ago

So frustrating to watch a show that nobody really cared about and everyone has already forgotten about and also it’s not even good, but I have opinions about it! The investigator in The Day of the Jackal (Sky TV 2024) is a total asshole! Who‘s with me? (sound echoes cavernously)

Hannah Walser@hkpmw.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yep. Those adverbs in Roberts’s description of Korematsu—“*solely and explicitly* on the basis of race“—turned out to be load-bearing: even an executive action obviously motivated by racism is fine if the Court can come up with some additional race-neutral reason for it

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In Trump v. Hawaii, Roberts wrote that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” But the author of the Korematsu opinion, having exchanged his white robe for a dark one, would have agreed. After all, Hugo Black wrote that “pressing public necessity”—not “racial antagonism”—motivated the Japanese-internment policy. Black upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction because he argued that the presence of a national-security motive meant the racism against Japanese Americans didn’t count. And that is exactly the logic the Roberts Court has followed in so many cases. This reasoning—Black’s reasoning—has been reiterated again and again by Roberts and his right-wing colleagues to sanction discrimination against the vulnerable populations targeted by the Republican Party. The Korematsu decision may be overturned by the “court of history.” But its legacy lives on in the Roberts Court.
Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...