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Ray Brescia

@raybrescia.bsky.social

Law professor; author; lawyer; bass player: all opinions my own.

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Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · last mo.

Skocpol. Skocpol. Skocpol. We have forgotten what politics is. It is not policy. That is not what moves people.

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · last mo.

Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump's latest election claims aren't really about 2020. They're about creating a pretext for what comes next. He's done this before: invent a crisis, then claim extraordinary powers to respond to it. This time, the target is your vote. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump's New Election Conspiracy Isn't About 2020. It's About November.

Donald Trump has only just discovered that foreign countries—well, actually, just China—try to influence our elections.

open.substack.com

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."

Ray Brescia@raybrescia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today, #ToddBlanche will have to answer to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and be in the room with #Epstein survivors, but he's already faced the music. There will be more. Read @LegalAF on the recent ruling in the now-knee-capped Slush Fund case. open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

A Judicial Sledgehammer to the Slush Fund Case

Federal Judge Williams Takes Trump--and Acting AG Blanche on the Eve of His Confirmation Hearing--to Task, Dismissing the Sham Case for Alleged Wrongdoing by the IRS

open.substack.com

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Issa Kohler Hausmann at Yale Law School. "What’s missing from the news coverage, and from universities’ capitulation, is that the legal rule supposedly compelling this surrender doesn’t exist. The whole campaign rests on invented law and distorted statistics." news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...

A Yale-Trump Settlement Would Concede Live Constitutional Issue

Opinion: The precedent Yale University would set in settling with the Department of Justice matters for every institution navigating the murky waters the Supreme Court left behind with its 2023 ruling...

news.bloomberglaw.com

Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Senate needs to grill Todd Blanche on slush fund, Epstein files, firing DOJ employees, and targeting Trump rivals, but most important is his vision for AG. Does he plan to follow the rule of law or act as Trump’s puppet? My thoughts in @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

19 Questions the Attorney General Needs to Answer

Todd Blanche may have impressed President Donald Trump enough to earn a nomination to permanently lead the Justice Department, but the acting US attorney general made disturbing departures from the ag...

bloomberg.com

Ray Brescia@raybrescia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My piece on @msnownews.bsky.social pointing out that the narrow victory for #LisaCook at the #SCOTUS does not mean her troubles are over, nor are members of the #federalreserve out of the woods. www.ms.now/opinion/supr...

Opinion | How the Supreme Court opened the door for Trump to fire independent officials

Ray Brescia: The Supreme Court gave Trump a narrow loss in the case of Lisa Cook — but essentially authorized future harassment of Federal Reserve officials.

ms.now

Ray Brescia@raybrescia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please check out my @legalafmtn.bsky.social interview with Prof. Robert Ceresa of Huston-Tillotson U., an #HBCU, who discusses his @texasobserver.org piece on #votingrights, the #VRA, and the central role of civil society groups in bringing about #socialchange: in the U.S., #Cuba, and beyond.

TovahR 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇲@tovahr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

youtube.com/watch?v=vYuJ... On this episode of Legal AF, Ray Brescia speaks to Robert M. Ceresa, an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Politics Lab at the James L. Farmer House at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically black college.

God@thegodshow.com · 3mo ago

Zohran Mamdani’s been the Mayor of New York for 6 months and the Knicks just became NBA Champions for the first time in 53 years. Congrats, New York!