Kate Shaw
@kateshaw.bsky.social
Law prof @Penn, cohost Strict Scrutiny podcast
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We had the BEST time at #CrookedCon - the episode we recorded will be out Monday!!
@profmmurray.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @crooked.com
@profmmurray.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @crooked.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We had the BEST time at #CrookedCon - the episode we recorded will be out Monday!!
@profmmurray.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @crooked.com
@profmmurray.bsky.social @leahlitman.bsky.social @kateshaw.bsky.social @crooked.com
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:
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And now Penn rejects the compact! Students, faculty and staff unite. @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org 🔥 www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment
With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.
www.thedp.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
And now Penn rejects the compact! Students, faculty and staff unite. @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org 🔥 www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Re Brown, here’s a letter signed by a number of Brown alums who are law professors - there are a lot of us! (With huge thanks to @courtneygjoslin.bsky.social among others for organizing)
Proud to join this group of 39 Brown University alumni who are law professors in urging the university to reject the Trump-Vance presidency's enforced loyalty "compact": drive.google.com/file/d/1COIp...
October 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Re Brown, here’s a letter signed by a number of Brown alums who are law professors - there are a lot of us! (With huge thanks to @courtneygjoslin.bsky.social among others for organizing)
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We prevail through solidarity. Much organizing is behind this decision by Brown U to not cave, on the day that the Pentagon press corps walked out in unison rather than submit to censorship. In the year that so many non-immigrants showed up to stand with immigrants. #nokings
Brown rejects the compact!
President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.
October 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
We prevail through solidarity. Much organizing is behind this decision by Brown U to not cave, on the day that the Pentagon press corps walked out in unison rather than submit to censorship. In the year that so many non-immigrants showed up to stand with immigrants. #nokings
Brown rejects the compact!
President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.
Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment
Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.
nyti.ms
October 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Brown rejects the compact!
President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters
Great guide to what’s on the ballot in November - including three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court up for retention
for the weekend crowd: take a moment today to explore what's on the ballot next month!
it's not all about NYC, VA, and NJ: i put together a guide of the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.
explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
it's not all about NYC, VA, and NJ: i put together a guide of the 180+ key races you should know about, across 32 states.
explore, & find the ones that interest you the most, here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Great guide to what’s on the ballot in November - including three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court up for retention
ICYMI:
Read the full piece at the link 🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
#PLAW #LawatPrinceton #supremecourt
@kateshaw.bsky.social
#PLAW #LawatPrinceton #supremecourt
@kateshaw.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
ICYMI:
Sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social to talk start of a new SCOTUS term, end of an unprecedented summer on the shadow docket, & 20 years of Chief Justice John Roberts
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | ‘Hypercharged’ Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social to talk start of a new SCOTUS term, end of an unprecedented summer on the shadow docket, & 20 years of Chief Justice John Roberts
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
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the case against comey is an illegal, selective, vindictive prosecution. Trump vowed vengeance and retribution; prosecutors concluded there was no case against comey; Trump forced out the prosecutors & replaced them with a loyalist who got an indictment.
The case should be dismissed before trial.
The case should be dismissed before trial.
September 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
the case against comey is an illegal, selective, vindictive prosecution. Trump vowed vengeance and retribution; prosecutors concluded there was no case against comey; Trump forced out the prosecutors & replaced them with a loyalist who got an indictment.
The case should be dismissed before trial.
The case should be dismissed before trial.
Finally had a chance to watch this, and it’s very much worth your time if you haven’t - late night tv as a site of popular constitutionalism
As I was saying…
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Finally had a chance to watch this, and it’s very much worth your time if you haven’t - late night tv as a site of popular constitutionalism
A fantastic installment of @stevevladeck.bsky.social’s (always essential) newsletter
For today's bonus "One First," I wrote about the increasingly noisy claim that legal constraints don't really matter in the current moment—why it's utterly belied by what's actually happening on the ground (and by what law can actually *do*); and why, in many respects, it's affirmatively dangerous:
Bonus 176: Law, Lawlessness, and Doomerism
Law is not—and never will be—a perfect constraint on government action. But claims that legal limits have become wholly irrelevant to the current administration are not just wrong; they're dangerous.
www.stevevladeck.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A fantastic installment of @stevevladeck.bsky.social’s (always essential) newsletter
There’s so much more to say about SCOTUS, but one thing I hope came through in this convo is what a winning streak Trump is on at SCOTUS right now - & how insane it is that the court is blessing many of his assertions of executive authority w/o a word of explanation @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
Listen to my wonderful cohost Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social talking with Ezra Klein about the Supreme Court and Trump!!
A must-listen conversation - in part because if Kate & Ezra are where they are on SCOTUS ... it's a 5 alarm+ fire! @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
A must-listen conversation - in part because if Kate & Ezra are where they are on SCOTUS ... it's a 5 alarm+ fire! @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Backing Trump’s Power Grab
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
There’s so much more to say about SCOTUS, but one thing I hope came through in this convo is what a winning streak Trump is on at SCOTUS right now - & how insane it is that the court is blessing many of his assertions of executive authority w/o a word of explanation @strictscrutiny.bsky.social
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Here's an interview Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social did with Lev Menand, the expert on the Fed (the headline does not capture the substance of the piece): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Opinion | Will the Supreme Court Put Real Limits on This President? Start With Lisa Cook.
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Here's an interview Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social did with Lev Menand, the expert on the Fed (the headline does not capture the substance of the piece): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
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Can President Trump fire Lisa Cook? Under a proper understanding of the Federal Reserve’s place in our constitutional order, says Kate Shaw, the answer should be no.
Opinion | The Supreme Court Must Limit This President. Start With the Fed.
Trump’s effort to oust Lisa Cook could have all sorts of worrisome consequences.
nyti.ms
August 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Can President Trump fire Lisa Cook? Under a proper understanding of the Federal Reserve’s place in our constitutional order, says Kate Shaw, the answer should be no.
I sat down with Columbia Law School’s Lev Menand, a genuine expert on the Fed, to talk through Trump’s effort to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook - and its implications for both Fed independence & what remains of the separation of powers
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
Opinion | The Supreme Court Must Limit This President. Start With the Fed.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I sat down with Columbia Law School’s Lev Menand, a genuine expert on the Fed, to talk through Trump’s effort to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook - and its implications for both Fed independence & what remains of the separation of powers
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...
A real treat to take a break from the horrors of this timeline to talk to my amazing @penncareylaw.bsky.social colleague @serenamayeri.bsky.social about her fantastic new book “Marital Privilege”
You can get Serena's book MARITAL PRIVILEGE: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law
here from our friends at Bookshop dot org: bookshop.org/p/books/mari...
here from our friends at Bookshop dot org: bookshop.org/p/books/mari...
Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law
Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law
bookshop.org
August 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A real treat to take a break from the horrors of this timeline to talk to my amazing @penncareylaw.bsky.social colleague @serenamayeri.bsky.social about her fantastic new book “Marital Privilege”
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NEW: The band is back together to chat legal news, including the shadow docket insanity on NIH research funding.
Then Leah chats with Eli Savit, candidate for Michigan AG, about threats to marriage equality
& Kate with Serena Mayeri on her book MARITAL PRIVILEGE
crooked.com/podcast/trum...
Then Leah chats with Eli Savit, candidate for Michigan AG, about threats to marriage equality
& Kate with Serena Mayeri on her book MARITAL PRIVILEGE
crooked.com/podcast/trum...
a close up of a girl 's face with the words why are you telling me all of this
Alt: a close up of a girl 's face with the words why are you telling me all of this
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August 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
NEW: The band is back together to chat legal news, including the shadow docket insanity on NIH research funding.
Then Leah chats with Eli Savit, candidate for Michigan AG, about threats to marriage equality
& Kate with Serena Mayeri on her book MARITAL PRIVILEGE
crooked.com/podcast/trum...
Then Leah chats with Eli Savit, candidate for Michigan AG, about threats to marriage equality
& Kate with Serena Mayeri on her book MARITAL PRIVILEGE
crooked.com/podcast/trum...
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new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
ICYMI - in the second half of this episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social & I took a break from the news cycle to remember the one and only David Souter. Thanks to former Souter clerks Erin Delaney & Alli Orr Larsen for joining us & sharing some lovely Souter stories
What a return from vacation ... Kate & I do a whirlwind tour through the legal news (including some concerning fallout from SCOTUS's recent decision in Catholic Charities).
And then are joined for a delightful retrospective on Justice Souter by Alli Orr Larsen & Erin Delaney! Check it out!
And then are joined for a delightful retrospective on Justice Souter by Alli Orr Larsen & Erin Delaney! Check it out!
NEW: we break down the legal angles of the Trump-Epstein … situation; cover SCOTUS’s fake & nonexistent reasoning on the shadow docket; & talk lower court happenings.
THEN-our Justice Souter retrospective with his former clerks, Profs. Alli Orr Larsen & Erin Delaney. crooked.com/podcast/can-...
THEN-our Justice Souter retrospective with his former clerks, Profs. Alli Orr Larsen & Erin Delaney. crooked.com/podcast/can-...
July 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ICYMI - in the second half of this episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, @leahlitman.bsky.social & I took a break from the news cycle to remember the one and only David Souter. Thanks to former Souter clerks Erin Delaney & Alli Orr Larsen for joining us & sharing some lovely Souter stories
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Bracing analysis from Columbia Law School’s David Pozen about the significance and implications of Columbia’s settlement with Trump. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
July 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Bracing analysis from Columbia Law School’s David Pozen about the significance and implications of Columbia’s settlement with Trump. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regu...
Urgent piece by @ambpressman.bsky.social about the dangers of capitulation to the administration - we know from Hungary what happens when “those best positioned to uphold democratic norms chose the comfort of an illusion over the courage of action”
Democracies collapse not just through force, but through the naïve self-confidence of elites. What should alarm us isn’t that strongmen follow similar playbooks, but that our elites do too. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
The real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Urgent piece by @ambpressman.bsky.social about the dangers of capitulation to the administration - we know from Hungary what happens when “those best positioned to uphold democratic norms chose the comfort of an illusion over the courage of action”
Sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social to talk through our (very different) reactions to this SCOTUS term @nytimesoped.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
Opinion | ‘There’s Just Too Much Lawlessness’: Three Legal Experts on an Embattled Supreme Court
www.nytimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social to talk through our (very different) reactions to this SCOTUS term @nytimesoped.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
The first segment of this episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social has an excellent overview of the legal questions surrounding the Iran strikes, via @becingber.bsky.social in conversation with @leahlitman.bsky.social
For more on the international and domestic law governing the U.S. strikes on Iran, I spoke with @leahlitman.bsky.social of the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social podcast:
Is Trump's Unilateral Bombing of Iran Even Legal?
YouTube video by Strict Scrutiny
youtu.be
June 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The first segment of this episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social has an excellent overview of the legal questions surrounding the Iran strikes, via @becingber.bsky.social in conversation with @leahlitman.bsky.social
SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law
#BREAKING: Over a (sharp) public dissent from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS clears the way for the Trump administration to remove migrants to third countries *without* giving them an additional opportunity to contest whether they face persecution or other forms of mistreatment there:
www.supremecourt.gov
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
SCOTUS majority not deigning to give *any* reasons for staying the injunction of the district court - in the highest-possible stakes context & where the executive branch has acted appallingly - evincing real contempt for both district courts & the rule of law