Jon Weinberg
@jonweinberg.bsky.social
Law professor. Speaks Japanese a little. Terrible figure skater. Thinks immigration is good, actually.
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“This nation . . . has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln" [1/2]
September 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“This nation . . . has no right to expect that it will always have wise and humane rulers, sincerely attached to the principles of the Constitution. Wicked men, ambitious of power, with hatred of liberty and contempt of law, may fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln" [1/2]
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Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.
August 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.
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The article quotes me (accurately) saying, “I would be delighted to go before a magistrate (judge) and say, ‘Jesus Christ, he’s plainly lawfully present . . . “
(Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)
(Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)
Border Patrol criminally citing immigrants for not carrying their papers under decades-old law inewsource.org/2025/07/16/b...
Border Patrol in California criminally citing green-card holders
Border Patrol agents have issued the most citations at immigration checkpoints near the Salton Sea and Interstate 8 near Pine Valley.
inewsource.org
July 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The article quotes me (accurately) saying, “I would be delighted to go before a magistrate (judge) and say, ‘Jesus Christ, he’s plainly lawfully present . . . “
(Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)
(Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)
The article quotes me (accurately) saying, “I would be delighted to go before a magistrate (judge) and say, ‘Jesus Christ, he’s plainly lawfully present . . . “
(Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)
(Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)
Border Patrol criminally citing immigrants for not carrying their papers under decades-old law inewsource.org/2025/07/16/b...
Border Patrol in California criminally citing green-card holders
Border Patrol agents have issued the most citations at immigration checkpoints near the Salton Sea and Interstate 8 near Pine Valley.
inewsource.org
July 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The article quotes me (accurately) saying, “I would be delighted to go before a magistrate (judge) and say, ‘Jesus Christ, he’s plainly lawfully present . . . “
(Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)
(Protip: One shouldn’t actually say that to a judge. They’re sensitive.)
Bizarro substantive due process world: Justices Alito and Thomas, famed substantive due process maximalists, released a statement today indicating support for the argument that a state’s failure to *require* parental consent for abortions violates the parents’ constitutional rights
July 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Bizarro substantive due process world: Justices Alito and Thomas, famed substantive due process maximalists, released a statement today indicating support for the argument that a state’s failure to *require* parental consent for abortions violates the parents’ constitutional rights
If you’re not reading Talia Lavin, you should be.
I wrote about the military parade and the No Kings protests, about national identity and democracy vs autocracy as a battlefield of ideas, and about the uncertain future and our secondhand time: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Identity Sprain
Trump’s birthday parade In her masterpiece Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, the Nobel-Prize winning author and oral historian Svetlana Alexievich...
buttondown.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you’re not reading Talia Lavin, you should be.
It’s good to have someone to help you grade exams
May 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It’s good to have someone to help you grade exams
Another day at the office.
April 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Another day at the office.
Spending all of my time on small efforts to keep the world from going to hell, but . . . kittens!
April 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Spending all of my time on small efforts to keep the world from going to hell, but . . . kittens!
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This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process.
If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.
If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.
Trump's press secretary mocked the “Democrat and media outrage” over the deportation of a Maryland father as “nothing short of despicable.”
Karoline Leavitt Melts Down Over Deported ‘Father of the Year’
Trump’s press secretary mocked the Maryland father who the administration mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process.
If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.
If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.
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Chag Pesach Sameach to all who celebrate, and remember all Jews are commanded to love and protect the foreigners among us, "for we were foreigners in Egypt."
April 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Chag Pesach Sameach to all who celebrate, and remember all Jews are commanded to love and protect the foreigners among us, "for we were foreigners in Egypt."
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208 members of Congress sign on to an amicus brief arguing that eliminating birthright citizenship isn’t just unconstitutional, it also violates multiple laws passed by Congress which require and/or acknowledge jus soli.
Cc: @evanbernick.bsky.social
litigationandresponse.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Cc: @evanbernick.bsky.social
litigationandresponse.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
208 members of Congress sign on to an amicus brief arguing that eliminating birthright citizenship isn’t just unconstitutional, it also violates multiple laws passed by Congress which require and/or acknowledge jus soli.
Cc: @evanbernick.bsky.social
litigationandresponse.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Cc: @evanbernick.bsky.social
litigationandresponse.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
I joined 2000+ Jewish professors, staff and students in signing this letter:
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Not In Our Name
docs.google.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I joined 2000+ Jewish professors, staff and students in signing this letter:
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
"We hold various views…But we are united in denouncing…anyone who invokes our name—and cynical claims of antisemitism—to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities."
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Pour one out for Shoko, 2006-2025
February 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Pour one out for Shoko, 2006-2025
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BREAKING: 8th Cir has issued an administrative stay in the DACA ACA health coverage case -- DACA beneficiaries are eligible to enroll now during the short window the stay is in effect. DO IT NOW!
December 19, 2024 at 3:59 PM
BREAKING: 8th Cir has issued an administrative stay in the DACA ACA health coverage case -- DACA beneficiaries are eligible to enroll now during the short window the stay is in effect. DO IT NOW!
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Welcome new followers. I’ve been working with my students, who are finishing up their appeal briefs for three migrants seeking asylum here. For now, we do the work before us.
November 12, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Welcome new followers. I’ve been working with my students, who are finishing up their appeal briefs for three migrants seeking asylum here. For now, we do the work before us.
Welcome new followers. I’ve been working with my students, who are finishing up their appeal briefs for three migrants seeking asylum here. For now, we do the work before us.
November 12, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Welcome new followers. I’ve been working with my students, who are finishing up their appeal briefs for three migrants seeking asylum here. For now, we do the work before us.
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“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible… to build this fragile thing called democracy.” — Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post
Opinion | It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president
Isn’t this what a newspaper is supposed to do?
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2024 at 9:11 PM
“Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible… to build this fragile thing called democracy.” — Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post
Frederick Douglass, in 1882, on Trump/Vance: “[O]ur Republican friends . . . bow to [the] ignorant notion that every crumb of bread that goes into the mouth of a Chinaman . . . [1/2]
October 6, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Frederick Douglass, in 1882, on Trump/Vance: “[O]ur Republican friends . . . bow to [the] ignorant notion that every crumb of bread that goes into the mouth of a Chinaman . . . [1/2]
It was fun to see the brilliant (also, married to me) Jessica Litman cited in Justice Barrett’s concurring opinion in Vidal v. Elster today! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p... @jdlitman.bsky.social
www.supremecourt.gov
June 13, 2024 at 2:45 PM
It was fun to see the brilliant (also, married to me) Jessica Litman cited in Justice Barrett’s concurring opinion in Vidal v. Elster today! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p... @jdlitman.bsky.social
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This is the best one yet imo. 🪨🍴
May 23, 2024 at 10:34 PM
This is the best one yet imo. 🪨🍴
A federal court has rejected FL’s entry in the “throw people w/o immigration status & their friends & family in jail” frenzy, enjoining a law making it a felony to transport into FL a noncitizen who hadn't been “inspected” by the federal govt.
May 22, 2024 at 2:26 PM
A federal court has rejected FL’s entry in the “throw people w/o immigration status & their friends & family in jail” frenzy, enjoining a law making it a felony to transport into FL a noncitizen who hadn't been “inspected” by the federal govt.
