Deborah Pearlstein
@debpearlstein.bsky.social
Director, Program on Law & Public Policy, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. Charles & Marie Robertson Visiting Professor of Law & Public Affairs. Still teaching Con law, still aiming to get out of the new social media market.
In Princeton, beneath the monument to George Washington who won a pivotal battle here, current POV…
October 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In Princeton, beneath the monument to George Washington who won a pivotal battle here, current POV…
Odds seem real that capitulating firms start charging more. Their conflicts checks now lengthier/onerous b/c they include not just existing clients but WH/Musk interests too. Increased risk of ethics failings/addt'l shakedowns means prof'l liability insurance goes up too. Bigger picture=even worse.
April 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Odds seem real that capitulating firms start charging more. Their conflicts checks now lengthier/onerous b/c they include not just existing clients but WH/Musk interests too. Increased risk of ethics failings/addt'l shakedowns means prof'l liability insurance goes up too. Bigger picture=even worse.
For no apparent reason, been thinking abt how last year's Nobel Prize in economics went to the folks who showed why freer, open societies are more likely to prosper. Pulled this slide from his Nobel address. www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024...
April 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
For no apparent reason, been thinking abt how last year's Nobel Prize in economics went to the folks who showed why freer, open societies are more likely to prosper. Pulled this slide from his Nobel address. www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024...
What a joy to host the incomparable @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social for a set of talks at Princeton this week. Can't say I'm more optimistic about the fate of Humphrey's Executor, but I am more enlightened. Great thanks to Professor O'Connell. #lawatprinceton
March 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
What a joy to host the incomparable @ajosephoconnell.bsky.social for a set of talks at Princeton this week. Can't say I'm more optimistic about the fate of Humphrey's Executor, but I am more enlightened. Great thanks to Professor O'Connell. #lawatprinceton
Multiple HHS employees reporting receiving this memo today via email - notifying them of the ct's order Friday barring spending freezes based on the OMB memo or any Exec Order, concluding "The court's order is in effect and must be complied with." /10
February 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Multiple HHS employees reporting receiving this memo today via email - notifying them of the ct's order Friday barring spending freezes based on the OMB memo or any Exec Order, concluding "The court's order is in effect and must be complied with." /10
And some of the same info in graphic form, from Wash Post.
January 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
And some of the same info in graphic form, from Wash Post.
Here's what TikTok told its 170 million users. The US law didn't "ban" TikTok, it required ByteDance to divest its ownership interest. Nothing in the law required TikTok to go dark last night. Posts like this should be seen for what they are - starting tmw, a form of privatized govt propaganda.
January 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Here's what TikTok told its 170 million users. The US law didn't "ban" TikTok, it required ByteDance to divest its ownership interest. Nothing in the law required TikTok to go dark last night. Posts like this should be seen for what they are - starting tmw, a form of privatized govt propaganda.