Llezlie
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Professor of Law @georgetownlaw, Lawyer, Clinician, Diversity Professional, Low-Wage Worker Advocate, Critical Race Theorist. Grad @columbialaw. Views my own. www.llezliegreen.com
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This week, Congress could simply remove Trump's power over tariffs. It's all delegated from Congress. But instead
The Senate is about to go on a multi-week recess with the markets plunging by the most since COVID.
April 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This week, Congress could simply remove Trump's power over tariffs. It's all delegated from Congress. But instead
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Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025.
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
!["As deans of law schools, we have a special responsibility for the legal profession. Recently, the federal government has imposed significant sanctions on the law firms of Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling, Paul Weiss, and Jenner & Block seemingly because of the clients they and their lawyers represented and litigation in which their lawyers participated.
We write to reaffirm basic principles: The government should not punish lawyers and law firms for the clients they represent, absent specific findings that such representation was illegal or unethical. Punishing lawyers for their representation and advocacy violates the First Amendment and undermines the Sixth Amendment.
We thus speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
[Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:326sthh7kvwgjxiobjabout2/bafkreidwv4buajoyedezluwpxxlzg4nyrkko647r3q37yjbfcouat3hrpy@jpeg)
March 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025.
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
Attending a fantastic conversation between Professor Bernadette Atuahene and Professor Justin Hanford discussing her new book “Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America.”
March 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Attending a fantastic conversation between Professor Bernadette Atuahene and Professor Justin Hanford discussing her new book “Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America.”
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After the president’s unlawful and unprecedented invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, a judge issued a nationwide temporary restraining order in Democracy Forward's case with our partners at @aclu.org & @aclu-dc.bsky.social. Full statement to follow.
March 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
After the president’s unlawful and unprecedented invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, a judge issued a nationwide temporary restraining order in Democracy Forward's case with our partners at @aclu.org & @aclu-dc.bsky.social. Full statement to follow.
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University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.
Opinion | Colleges Are Under Attack. They Can Fight Back.
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.
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"We will only deport dangerous criminals" was a lie from the moment it was uttered. Everything about Dr. Alawieh's return to the US was lawful. She has no criminal record. A federal court issued an order to block her removal from the country. Still, she was deported.
"A Rhode Island doctor who traveled home to Lebanon to visit family was prevented by U.S. Customs..from reentering the country..at Boston's Logan Intern'l Airport & told she was being deported..to her home country, said a fellow doctor ..for Brown Medicine."
www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...
She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.
www.providencejournal.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"We will only deport dangerous criminals" was a lie from the moment it was uttered. Everything about Dr. Alawieh's return to the US was lawful. She has no criminal record. A federal court issued an order to block her removal from the country. Still, she was deported.
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Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
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“Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution,” Treanor wrote.
Georgetown law dean rebuffs DEI warning from top federal prosecutor for DC
Georgetown Law School’s dean has rebuffed an unusual warning from the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., that his office won’t hire the private school’s students if it doesn’t eliminate dive...
apnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution,” Treanor wrote.
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“In the sense of the moral order, midnight is a time when all moral values lose their distinctiveness…Over and over again we see this. Most people live by the philosophy: everybody is doing it, so it must be all right. It’s midnight in the moral order.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr., Feb. 11, 1962
—Martin Luther King, Jr., Feb. 11, 1962
January 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“In the sense of the moral order, midnight is a time when all moral values lose their distinctiveness…Over and over again we see this. Most people live by the philosophy: everybody is doing it, so it must be all right. It’s midnight in the moral order.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr., Feb. 11, 1962
—Martin Luther King, Jr., Feb. 11, 1962
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Helpful ICE Information from JB Pritzger of Chicago, IL. Please share!
January 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Helpful ICE Information from JB Pritzger of Chicago, IL. Please share!