Hannah Walser
@hkpmw.bsky.social
Thinking about people thinking about other people. First Amendment, interpretive methodologies, criminal law, law & philosophy. PhD (English) —> JD —> Furman Fellowship at NYU Law. Philly homer; mayor of the quiet car. she/her. hwalser.wordpress.com
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Hannah Walser
@hkpmw.bsky.social
· Apr 4
“Interpretive Facts: Textualism, Empiricism, and the Law-Fact Divide” is now available on SSRN! The article will be published next spring/summer, so I have lots of time to incorporate suggestions. 😊
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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To my mind, this is a sign of weakness: they‘re looking for a face-saving way out. Needless to say, MN should not give it to them. The answer, now and always, is “fuck you.”
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
www.democracydocket.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:03 AM
To my mind, this is a sign of weakness: they‘re looking for a face-saving way out. Needless to say, MN should not give it to them. The answer, now and always, is “fuck you.”
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I should work—I want to work—but my mind feels like it’s tangled in a net, or in vines. I can shuffle forward an inch or two at a time, with intense effort.
January 24, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I should work—I want to work—but my mind feels like it’s tangled in a net, or in vines. I can shuffle forward an inch or two at a time, with intense effort.
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple?
WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Why are they sending witnesses to Whipple?
WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
WHY ARE THEY SENDING WITNESSES TO WHIPPLE?
If they don’t arrest and prosecute the murderer(s), people are going to start taking action on their own. This is a prediction, not a hope or a suggestion. My hope is that the Minnesota state authorities enforce Minnesota law.
January 24, 2026 at 6:23 PM
If they don’t arrest and prosecute the murderer(s), people are going to start taking action on their own. This is a prediction, not a hope or a suggestion. My hope is that the Minnesota state authorities enforce Minnesota law.
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If the person they murdered was armed - legally, I'll add - then the people who murdered him are well within their rights to raise a self defense claim at their murder trial and a jury of their peers can evaluate the evidence to determine whether the claim is credible.
January 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
If the person they murdered was armed - legally, I'll add - then the people who murdered him are well within their rights to raise a self defense claim at their murder trial and a jury of their peers can evaluate the evidence to determine whether the claim is credible.
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If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
This is one of the wildest things I’ve ever heard
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"Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."
"Aides to Todd Blanche directed the U.S. Atty’s office and FBI agents based in MN to shut down a civil rights investigation into an officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good and instead alter it to probe Good for possible criminal liability, according to three people briefed on the discussions."
January 24, 2026 at 12:43 AM
This is one of the wildest things I’ve ever heard
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What a big man.
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 5:57 PM
What a big man.
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Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.
These visuals of hundreds of clergy surrounded by police, their prayers making a cloud of water vapor in the subzero temperatures, are extremely compelling
January 23, 2026 at 5:08 PM
These visuals of hundreds of clergy surrounded by police, their prayers making a cloud of water vapor in the subzero temperatures, are extremely compelling
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As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
As clergy pray, arrests begin
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Volunteers wearing sandwich boards of the original exhibit.
January 22, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Volunteers wearing sandwich boards of the original exhibit.
Seriously, the city should:
- put up a replica of the exhibit as close to the original site as possible, partnering with a private org/business if necessary
- pay people (or get volunteers—I’d do it for free) to hang out by the President’s House and direct them to the reinstalled exhibit
- put up a replica of the exhibit as close to the original site as possible, partnering with a private org/business if necessary
- pay people (or get volunteers—I’d do it for free) to hang out by the President’s House and direct them to the reinstalled exhibit
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Seriously, the city should:
- put up a replica of the exhibit as close to the original site as possible, partnering with a private org/business if necessary
- pay people (or get volunteers—I’d do it for free) to hang out by the President’s House and direct them to the reinstalled exhibit
- put up a replica of the exhibit as close to the original site as possible, partnering with a private org/business if necessary
- pay people (or get volunteers—I’d do it for free) to hang out by the President’s House and direct them to the reinstalled exhibit
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If they take it down, we will put it back up. This is fucking Philly.
I led a walking tour not too long ago that ended at this very site, which is actually a compelling & important part of the Independence National Historic Park - an antidote to half-truth history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
July 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If they take it down, we will put it back up. This is fucking Philly.
I’m glad that more people seem to be noticing that the country now has a secret police and that having a secret police feels bad even if they don’t come after you personally
“This is Trump’s goon squad, for Christ’s sake.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...
Opinion | ‘This Is Trump’s Goon Squad, for Christ’s Sake’
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I’m glad that more people seem to be noticing that the country now has a secret police and that having a secret police feels bad even if they don’t come after you personally
Just to sum up, today we learned that ICE:
- has an explicit policy of violating the 4th Amendment (but kept it secret because they know it’s illegal)
- kidnapped a 5-year-old & used him as bait before sending him thousands of miles away from his family
- murdered a man in a camp & lied about it
- has an explicit policy of violating the 4th Amendment (but kept it secret because they know it’s illegal)
- kidnapped a 5-year-old & used him as bait before sending him thousands of miles away from his family
- murdered a man in a camp & lied about it
January 22, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Just to sum up, today we learned that ICE:
- has an explicit policy of violating the 4th Amendment (but kept it secret because they know it’s illegal)
- kidnapped a 5-year-old & used him as bait before sending him thousands of miles away from his family
- murdered a man in a camp & lied about it
- has an explicit policy of violating the 4th Amendment (but kept it secret because they know it’s illegal)
- kidnapped a 5-year-old & used him as bait before sending him thousands of miles away from his family
- murdered a man in a camp & lied about it
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This comes just after the president publicly demanded that ICE should start showing the public how terrible the people are who they're grabbing and arresting.
In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
5-year-old boy among four students detained by ICE, according to school leaders
School district leaders argue ICE agents are following students and their parents while driving to and from school.
www.kare11.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 AM
This comes just after the president publicly demanded that ICE should start showing the public how terrible the people are who they're grabbing and arresting.
In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old.
www.kare11.com/article/news...
Using kids as bait. (Not the first time they’ve done this)
ICE is getting down to some real foundational evil here. Accepting someone’s hospitality and then brutalizing them. Snatching babies.
January 22, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Using kids as bait. (Not the first time they’ve done this)
“The school says the other two students, they don’t know exactly what happened to them.”
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:22 AM
“The school says the other two students, they don’t know exactly what happened to them.”
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
Child-stealers.
Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Child-stealers.
A parting thought on Wolford: C.J. Roberts kept insisting that there‘s no principled difference between 1A & 2A when it comes to private property rights. If I’m presumptively allowed to enter a coffee shop to canvas for a politician, I’m presumptively allowed to enter a coffee shop with a gun. (1/4)
January 21, 2026 at 12:11 AM
A parting thought on Wolford: C.J. Roberts kept insisting that there‘s no principled difference between 1A & 2A when it comes to private property rights. If I’m presumptively allowed to enter a coffee shop to canvas for a politician, I’m presumptively allowed to enter a coffee shop with a gun. (1/4)