Joshua J. Freundel
@lawlawcoolj.bsky.social
Lawyer. Extremely junior scholar. Legal interpretation, Fed Courts, the First Amendment, and Halakhic jurisprudence. Sartorially competent.
By the logic of the fetal personhood movement, this baby can constitutionally be elected to the United States Senate.
August 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
By the logic of the fetal personhood movement, this baby can constitutionally be elected to the United States Senate.
Against the law.
“The Department of Homeland Security has formally instituted a new requirement that members of Congress and their staff provide a week of notice before they visit immigration detention facilities, a policy that is at odds with a federal law that allows lawmakers to make unannounced oversight trips.“
ICE to require lawmakers to give a week’s notice before detention visits.
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Against the law.
How is deploying the Marines in LA (or, for that matter, nationalizing the California National Guard) not a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act?
June 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
How is deploying the Marines in LA (or, for that matter, nationalizing the California National Guard) not a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act?
More like Tar-what-ifs
May 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
More like Tar-what-ifs
I cannot believe that Professor Bray agrees with the way SG Sauer used his article in oral arguments.
May 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I cannot believe that Professor Bray agrees with the way SG Sauer used his article in oral arguments.
I'm pretty sure taking a jet from the sovereign nation of Qatar to then use for personal use is the textbook example of "accept[ing] of any present... from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
May 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I'm pretty sure taking a jet from the sovereign nation of Qatar to then use for personal use is the textbook example of "accept[ing] of any present... from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
Every time Stephen Miller talks it's helpful to remember that he did not go to law school.
Stephen Miller: "The writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a time of invasion. So I would say that's an option we're actively looking at."
May 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Every time Stephen Miller talks it's helpful to remember that he did not go to law school.
Today in New York Times corrections
May 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Today in New York Times corrections
A late entry in the contest for biggest sycophant
April 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A late entry in the contest for biggest sycophant
How I arrived on Bluesky…
April 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
How I arrived on Bluesky…
A lighthearted story about the U.S. Constitution, for a recent change; or, the kids are alright.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
Two-Student Team Stuns the Competition at U.S. Constitution Contest
Matthew Meyers and Colin Williams of Oregon won first place at the national U.S. Constitution Team competition. Then came the recount that threatened to unravel their achievement.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A lighthearted story about the U.S. Constitution, for a recent change; or, the kids are alright.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
This is the kind of stately document that should be read by every American. A magisterial reassertion of the values of liberty enshrined in law.
INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is the kind of stately document that should be read by every American. A magisterial reassertion of the values of liberty enshrined in law.
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“One of the top MS-13 members”?
This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States.
She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility.
Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States.
She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility.
Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
Bondi is escalating the rhetoric against Abrego Garcia, who she calls "one of the top MS-13 members" and "a terrorist"
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
“One of the top MS-13 members”?
This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States.
She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility.
Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
This woman is an officer of the court and the Attorney General of the United States.
She knows that she wields immense power and responsibility.
Yet here she is on national TV, making baseless claims about a guy her boss wrongly sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
At the zoo today. Several hundred spectators at the panda enclosure, and when Qing Bao started eating they all burst into cheers. More convinced than ever this would end the trade war within hours.
April 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
At the zoo today. Several hundred spectators at the panda enclosure, and when Qing Bao started eating they all burst into cheers. More convinced than ever this would end the trade war within hours.
He is confusing having autism with being RFK, Jr.
RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
April 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
He is confusing having autism with being RFK, Jr.
Reposted by Joshua J. Freundel
Old enough to remember when the GOP thought the biggest scandal in the world was the Obama admin's IRS reviewing the tax exempt status of some right leaning non-profits.
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, CNN reports
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...
www.cnn.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Old enough to remember when the GOP thought the biggest scandal in the world was the Obama admin's IRS reviewing the tax exempt status of some right leaning non-profits.
Reposted by Joshua J. Freundel
Oh.
"This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“
"This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“
April 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Oh.
"This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“
"This is about whether we have functional constitutional government in this country. If the IRS can go after you because of what you think or what you believe or what you do, we'd no longer live in a free country.“
Reposted by Joshua J. Freundel
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
April 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"
I will not apologize for my buying habits.
April 16, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I will not apologize for my buying habits.
Once again, the anti-birthright citizenship article is published on a Jewish holiday and I am deprived the chance to dunk on it with everyone else.
April 15, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Once again, the anti-birthright citizenship article is published on a Jewish holiday and I am deprived the chance to dunk on it with everyone else.
Why hasn’t China just taken their pandas back yet? That would end any remaining support for this trade war tomorrow.
April 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Why hasn’t China just taken their pandas back yet? That would end any remaining support for this trade war tomorrow.
I will never cease to have a sense of pride when I make a point and then learn that a top-regarded law professor has made the same point.
April 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I will never cease to have a sense of pride when I make a point and then learn that a top-regarded law professor has made the same point.
Another way, pace Justice Jackson's dissent, that the Court's emergency order is even more worthy of criticism than Korematsu.
I saw somewhere that attorneys aren’t even able to locate their clients?
How the hell are they supposed to file habeas petitions in the proper venue when they don’t know where their clients are detained?
How the hell are they supposed to file habeas petitions in the proper venue when they don’t know where their clients are detained?
April 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Another way, pace Justice Jackson's dissent, that the Court's emergency order is even more worthy of criticism than Korematsu.
A troubling insinuation in this emergency order is that the President's invocation of the AEA is not subject to judicial review, which means there is no way to prospectively stop these arbitrary detentions (and no way to address them comprehensively, since habeas petitions are filed individually).
NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS Judge Boasberg's restraining order against the deportation of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. The majority holds that migrants must file habeas petitions where they're confined.
Liberals + BARRETT dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Liberals + BARRETT dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A troubling insinuation in this emergency order is that the President's invocation of the AEA is not subject to judicial review, which means there is no way to prospectively stop these arbitrary detentions (and no way to address them comprehensively, since habeas petitions are filed individually).