Jennie Broecker
@jenniebroecker.bsky.social
Associate communications director, University of Wisconsin Law School. Word nerd. Mom of two humans and one morkie.
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The US Coast Guard issues a new, more stringent policy on hate symbols including the swastika, just hours after The Washington Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under new guidelines. wapo.st/4rdDQew
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The US Coast Guard issues a new, more stringent policy on hate symbols including the swastika, just hours after The Washington Post reported that the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under new guidelines. wapo.st/4rdDQew
I’m walking in Saturday’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Rockford for my friend, my mom and so many more.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I’m walking in Saturday’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Rockford for my friend, my mom and so many more.
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Ending crime reports wouldn't make the world safer; ending disease reports wouldn't make the world healthier; and ending pollution reports won't make the world cleaner.
E.P.A. To Stop Collecting Emissions Data From Polluters
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ending crime reports wouldn't make the world safer; ending disease reports wouldn't make the world healthier; and ending pollution reports won't make the world cleaner.
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How much security at a campus event is enough? Campus police are mulling the question.
Charlie Kirk's killing raises the stakes for campus security
How much security at a campus event is enough? Campus police are mulling the question.
n.pr
September 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
How much security at a campus event is enough? Campus police are mulling the question.
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Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
September 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
The Pack is back 💚💛🤍
September 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The Pack is back 💚💛🤍
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“How many more Americans must die before lawmakers ban these weapons of war?” - John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety
We’ve had a federal assault weapons ban before, it’s past time for Congress to do it again: Text BAN to 644-33.
We’ve had a federal assault weapons ban before, it’s past time for Congress to do it again: Text BAN to 644-33.
How many lives have been lost in school shootings in the US this year?
Two children were killed and 17 others were injured in a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in South Minneapolis on Wednesday.
abcnews.go.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“How many more Americans must die before lawmakers ban these weapons of war?” - John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety
We’ve had a federal assault weapons ban before, it’s past time for Congress to do it again: Text BAN to 644-33.
We’ve had a federal assault weapons ban before, it’s past time for Congress to do it again: Text BAN to 644-33.
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The two victims of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting deserved to come home from their first week of school alive. Honor them by reading and sharing their stories. Give the shooter #NoNotoriety.
August 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The two victims of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting deserved to come home from their first week of school alive. Honor them by reading and sharing their stories. Give the shooter #NoNotoriety.
This is my sister and brother-in-law’s church. Their kids went to school there only a few years ago. 😭
This community has been devastated. Credit to the @startribune.com photog, Richard Tsong-Taatarii. And all the journalists, first responders and health care workers who responded to this horror.
This community has been devastated. Credit to the @startribune.com photog, Richard Tsong-Taatarii. And all the journalists, first responders and health care workers who responded to this horror.
No mother should have to run barefoot toward gunfire to save their child, but that’s exactly what this mom instinctively did when she learned about the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School yesterday. 🧵
August 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is my sister and brother-in-law’s church. Their kids went to school there only a few years ago. 😭
This community has been devastated. Credit to the @startribune.com photog, Richard Tsong-Taatarii. And all the journalists, first responders and health care workers who responded to this horror.
This community has been devastated. Credit to the @startribune.com photog, Richard Tsong-Taatarii. And all the journalists, first responders and health care workers who responded to this horror.
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For me, it is the permission slip: legislators are equals, period. You can assign a detail, you might even arrest, but a permission slip? No one is the boss of no one in a legislature.
Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a “slumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.
August 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
For me, it is the permission slip: legislators are equals, period. You can assign a detail, you might even arrest, but a permission slip? No one is the boss of no one in a legislature.
Must-listen
C-sections are the most frequently performed major surgeries in the world. So why do so many patients feel severe pain during them? From Serial, Season 2 of “The Retrievals” is a four-part audio series about a widespread problem and the people trying to solve it. https://trib.al/1GP9PUh
August 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Eat up every second of summer in Wisconsin while you can 🩷
August 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Eat up every second of summer in Wisconsin while you can 🩷
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Behnke '88 told us last fall: “I believe my unique legal training should benefit the greater community.” -- gargoyle.law.wisc.edu/2024/10/bene...
Congrats!
Congrats!
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Behnke '88 told us last fall: “I believe my unique legal training should benefit the greater community.” -- gargoyle.law.wisc.edu/2024/10/bene...
Congrats!
Congrats!
My sister is taking her fam to see Paul McCartney on his 2025 tour so it prompted me to watch clips from the greatest concert I will ever see. June 8, 2019, at Lambeau Field.
“Live and Let Die” was epic. The feels!
“Live and Let Die” was epic. The feels!
July 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My sister is taking her fam to see Paul McCartney on his 2025 tour so it prompted me to watch clips from the greatest concert I will ever see. June 8, 2019, at Lambeau Field.
“Live and Let Die” was epic. The feels!
“Live and Let Die” was epic. The feels!
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Multiple credible claims that Bove urged DOJ employees to break the law and ignore the judiciary. And the GOP Senate decided this is not disqualifying because nothing is disqualifying.
By a vote of 50-49, the #Senate confirmed Emil J. Bove III to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit
Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted against.
Senator Hagerty did not vote.
No further votes this evening.
Republican Senators Collins and Murkowski voted against.
Senator Hagerty did not vote.
No further votes this evening.
July 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Multiple credible claims that Bove urged DOJ employees to break the law and ignore the judiciary. And the GOP Senate decided this is not disqualifying because nothing is disqualifying.
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New: The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an 1849 law on abortion was impliedly repealed by later abortion legislation, so it no longer operates as a ban on abortion.
Read the opinion here: www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
Read the opinion here: www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
www.wicourts.gov
July 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an 1849 law on abortion was impliedly repealed by later abortion legislation, so it no longer operates as a ban on abortion.
Read the opinion here: www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
Read the opinion here: www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/D...
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BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.
Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban. The court’s liberal majority ruled 4-3 on Wednesday that the ban is no longer valid because newer abortion restrictions superseded it.
bit.ly
July 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal majority strikes down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Follow LADD! ⬇️
This international community of scholars investigates the role of lawyers in resisting — and at times enabling — authoritarianism in contexts of democratic backsliding.
This international community of scholars investigates the role of lawyers in resisting — and at times enabling — authoritarianism in contexts of democratic backsliding.
LADD explores all forms of legal engagement across professions. The goal is to understand what drives lawyers’ behavior and to map patterns that cross national and political boundaries.
For more, see this interview with Professor Kathryn Hendley:
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For more, see this interview with Professor Kathryn Hendley:
clp.law.harvard.edu/knowledge-hu...
Why Study Lawyers Amidst Democratic Decline - Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession
Do you expect lawyers to step up, or do they have a place to step up in that society? Kathryn Hendley, professor of law and political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison Many think that Russia is...
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June 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Follow LADD! ⬇️
This international community of scholars investigates the role of lawyers in resisting — and at times enabling — authoritarianism in contexts of democratic backsliding.
This international community of scholars investigates the role of lawyers in resisting — and at times enabling — authoritarianism in contexts of democratic backsliding.
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The American Bar Association filed a lawsuit today to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms. Learn more: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
June 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The American Bar Association filed a lawsuit today to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms. Learn more: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Had the pleasure of meeting him in January and seeing the passion behind his work
Amid the news this week of a new Purdue Pharma settlement, we thought we'd share timely story from our spring alumni magazine about @templelaw.bsky.social's Jonathan Lipson '90, who was honored this year at @theaals.bsky.social -- gargoyle.law.wisc.edu/2025/06/bank...
‘Bankruptcy Whisperer’ Honored for Role in Purdue Pharma Case
When a group of bewildered opioid activists and survivors sought transparency and accountability during the infamous Purdue Pharma bankruptcy, they found Jonathan Lipson '90.
gargoyle.law.wisc.edu
June 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Had the pleasure of meeting him in January and seeing the passion behind his work
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@joshuabraver.bsky.social writes about what is different now than from 1957-1968, when military forces actively patrolled U.S. soil on eight separate occasions
“In the past, military deployments have been forgotten because the wave of unrest broke gently. This time, however, the wave may crash violently,” Joshua Braver writes:
When the Military Comes to American Soil
Domestic deployments have generally been quite restrained. Can they still be?
bit.ly
June 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
@joshuabraver.bsky.social writes about what is different now than from 1957-1968, when military forces actively patrolled U.S. soil on eight separate occasions
Congrats to @joshuabraver.bsky.social @law.wisc.edu for making the home page of @nytimes.com for posing a question tied to this week’s highest profile national story — www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
Opinion | The Military May Find Itself in an Impossible Situation in Los Angeles (Gift Article)
Law and ethics can be at odds.
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Congrats to @joshuabraver.bsky.social @law.wisc.edu for making the home page of @nytimes.com for posing a question tied to this week’s highest profile national story — www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...
It’s a heck of a time. Stay cool and hydrated!
June 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s a heck of a time. Stay cool and hydrated!
Timeline cleanse. Nature doing its beautiful thing.
May 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Timeline cleanse. Nature doing its beautiful thing.