Chris Sprigman
@cjsprigman.bsky.social
Murray and Kathleen Bring Prof., NYU Law. IP, antitrust, behavioral econ, occasional con law (bad for my health). ssrn.com/author=370802. Partner, lex-lumina.com. https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=37891
Add the Federal Judicial Center to the list of failed U.S. institutions. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...
Climate Change Is Erased From a Manual for Federal Judges
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Add the Federal Judicial Center to the list of failed U.S. institutions. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/c...
She's got a couple of challengers in the upcoming Dem primary. She deserves to lose.
“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said.
“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
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“You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’”
www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...
DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE'
The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.
www.ctpublic.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:03 PM
She's got a couple of challengers in the upcoming Dem primary. She deserves to lose.
Through left-wing and right-wing governments alike, Israel has engaged in a deeply evil program of land theft. Israel deserves not a penny of US support until it stops, cold, and reparations are made. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Israel Gives Itself More Control Over Occupied West Bank
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Through left-wing and right-wing governments alike, Israel has engaged in a deeply evil program of land theft. Israel deserves not a penny of US support until it stops, cold, and reparations are made. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
Stephan Tontrup and I have a short piece about our new experiment up on the Wharton Accountable AI site. The experiment looks at whether people will delegate moral decisions to AI to spread the blame when they act unfairly. Bad news: they will. And ... 1/ www.accountableaiforum.com/p/will-peopl...
Will People Try to Shift Moral Responsibility For Their Unfair Decisions Onto AI Agents? An Experiment Seeks to Find Out
Authored by Stephan Tontrup and Christopher Jon Sprigman
www.accountableaiforum.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Stephan Tontrup and I have a short piece about our new experiment up on the Wharton Accountable AI site. The experiment looks at whether people will delegate moral decisions to AI to spread the blame when they act unfairly. Bad news: they will. And ... 1/ www.accountableaiforum.com/p/will-peopl...
Arguments centrist Dems make that treat Dem voters as slack-jawed idiots, No. 1: When centrist Dems say we can't abolish ICE b/c we need some agency to do immigration enforcement--well, duh. Before 2003, the Immigration and Naturalization Service did enforcement. Importantly, it was part of DOJ. 1/
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Arguments centrist Dems make that treat Dem voters as slack-jawed idiots, No. 1: When centrist Dems say we can't abolish ICE b/c we need some agency to do immigration enforcement--well, duh. Before 2003, the Immigration and Naturalization Service did enforcement. Importantly, it was part of DOJ. 1/
I read this article for my German class. It's about the cancellation of a German high school band's trip to the US to perform with US student musicians. Why was the trip canceled? Well ... 1/ www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
www.swr.de
February 9, 2026 at 10:35 AM
I read this article for my German class. It's about the cancellation of a German high school band's trip to the US to perform with US student musicians. Why was the trip canceled? Well ... 1/ www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
We are going to learn about more things that our government is doing in these secret detention centers and we are going to be ashamed.
February 8, 2026 at 11:57 AM
We are going to learn about more things that our government is doing in these secret detention centers and we are going to be ashamed.
Everywhere you go in Freiburg, if you look, you can find the horror of the past. Here, outside what is now a university building, are the remembrance markers of a family missing and murdered.
February 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Everywhere you go in Freiburg, if you look, you can find the horror of the past. Here, outside what is now a university building, are the remembrance markers of a family missing and murdered.
For me, laundromats are a great pleasure of traveling. They’re relaxing, social, and you get to have a coffee and read. And German laundromats are tops.
February 7, 2026 at 11:32 AM
For me, laundromats are a great pleasure of traveling. They’re relaxing, social, and you get to have a coffee and read. And German laundromats are tops.
This is just so satisfying. AIPAC poured money into defeating Tom Malinowski in the NJ-11 Democratic primary. Why? 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
A Pro-Israel Group’s Move Backfires as Gaza Tensions Flare in Midterms
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February 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM
This is just so satisfying. AIPAC poured money into defeating Tom Malinowski in the NJ-11 Democratic primary. Why? 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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I am done with collaborationist bullshit
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I am done with collaborationist bullshit
I really am ready to have done with the fucking United States of America.
US Marshals, acting on behalf of the DOJ in Memphis, TN, kicked a dog during an arrest, leaving it with a broken rib.
February 6, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I really am ready to have done with the fucking United States of America.
Non-MAGA Republicans prefer their racism either coded or structural. Open, personalized racism they will not abide.
February 6, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Non-MAGA Republicans prefer their racism either coded or structural. Open, personalized racism they will not abide.
Bluesky: -1,288,432
if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked
February 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Bluesky: -1,288,432
Constitutional law as practiced in the United States in 2026 is a process of passing off raw political preferences as shoddy law-office history. It's an embarrassing spectacle and and deeply corrupt, and god willing one day before I shuffle off this mortal coil we will put an end to it.
SCOTUS is deciding two 2nd Amendment cases this Term. In each, the Court will apply a history-and-tradition test that, as @espinsegall.bsky.social argues on the blog, has no basis in actual history, ignores grave harms, and is unlike anything else in constitutional law.
The Roberts Court's Dangerous and Anti-Historical Bruen Test For Gun Safety Legislation Must Be Changed
In 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down the most anti-originalist and irrational decision interpreting the Second Amendm...
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February 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Constitutional law as practiced in the United States in 2026 is a process of passing off raw political preferences as shoddy law-office history. It's an embarrassing spectacle and and deeply corrupt, and god willing one day before I shuffle off this mortal coil we will put an end to it.
Freiburg: 3 women were burned as witches outside this McDonald‘s in 1599.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Freiburg: 3 women were burned as witches outside this McDonald‘s in 1599.
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Holy shit woke up to the fact that NJ Dems might have just nominated a socialist to the NJ-11. I mean I voted for her and she will be my rep if this sticks but even at the polling place I was doubtful and HERE WE ARE.
It’s been a long time coming, but a change is gonna come. 😭
It’s been a long time coming, but a change is gonna come. 😭
February 6, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Holy shit woke up to the fact that NJ Dems might have just nominated a socialist to the NJ-11. I mean I voted for her and she will be my rep if this sticks but even at the polling place I was doubtful and HERE WE ARE.
It’s been a long time coming, but a change is gonna come. 😭
It’s been a long time coming, but a change is gonna come. 😭
Has Gen Z found its anthem? 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49C...
Geese - “Taxes” (Live from Banker’s Anchor, Brooklyn, NY 09/27/25)
YouTube video by Zoot Fitzgerald
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February 6, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Has Gen Z found its anthem? 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49C...
I know there is reason to doubt, but Platner's redemption narrative has great power. www.youtube.com/shorts/WfyvO...
"Will you stand up for me?"
YouTube video by Graham Platner for Senate
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February 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
I know there is reason to doubt, but Platner's redemption narrative has great power. www.youtube.com/shorts/WfyvO...
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A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 5, 2026 at 12:10 AM
A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
I'm old enough to remember when privacy zealots were content to have Gawker killed off, not realizing--or perhaps not caring--that it was the thin edge of a very dangerous wedge. (This op-ed warning about that was prescient)
February 5, 2026 at 10:32 AM
I'm old enough to remember when privacy zealots were content to have Gawker killed off, not realizing--or perhaps not caring--that it was the thin edge of a very dangerous wedge. (This op-ed warning about that was prescient)
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A wild unfolding of injustice, cowardice, and capitulation: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Brad Karp Resigns as Paul Weiss Chairman Amid Epstein Fallout
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:22 AM
A wild unfolding of injustice, cowardice, and capitulation: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
God forbid the Democrats nominate mealy-mouthed Josh Shapiro. He has a way of failing to meet pretty much every moment. He'll get whomped. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
Philly DA Larry Krasner says ‘don’t be a wimp’ after Gov. Josh Shapiro decried his comparison of ICE agents to Nazis
Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."
www.inquirer.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
God forbid the Democrats nominate mealy-mouthed Josh Shapiro. He has a way of failing to meet pretty much every moment. He'll get whomped. www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
I have basically zero sympathy at this point for U.S. gov't lawyers who are complaining about the burdens of defending the indefensible. There is a choice. Stop defending it.
“it takes 10 emails from me for a release condition to be corrected. It takes me threatening to walk out for something else to be corrected.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Government attorney who told judge in ICE case, 'This job sucks,' removed from detail
Julie Le made the remark while she was representing the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, where federal officers are conducting a massive immigration crackdown.
www.nbcnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I have basically zero sympathy at this point for U.S. gov't lawyers who are complaining about the burdens of defending the indefensible. There is a choice. Stop defending it.