Jamie Lau
@laudurham.bsky.social
Clinical Professor at Duke Law. Husband, adoring Dad of two, Cal Bear, Duke Blue Devil, Durhamite, and weekend warrior.
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Jamie Lau
@laudurham.bsky.social
· Nov 21
A quick intro for Bluesky. I advocate for the wrongfully convicted and 2nd chances, so posts will focus on criminal justice and reducing the # of people incarcerated. I will ocassionally post about @calfootball.bsky.social, @dukemensbasketball.bsky.social, and my family. Happy to be here with y'all!
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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BREAKING NEWS: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a STAY in hashtag#RobertRoberson’s case, just seven days before his scheduled execution. innocenceproject.org/news/texas-c...
Robert Roberson's Execution is Stayed by The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Roberson Was Scheduled to Be Executed on October 16 Despite Overwhelming Evidence of Innocence
innocenceproject.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
BREAKING NEWS: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a STAY in hashtag#RobertRoberson’s case, just seven days before his scheduled execution. innocenceproject.org/news/texas-c...
On #WrongfulConvictionDay, protect the innocent in NC by calling Gov. Stein's Office to ask that he veto HB307. The bill creates an arbitrary timeline for post-conviction litigation in capital cases that would make it virtually impossible to exonerate innocent people on death row.
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
On #WrongfulConvictionDay, protect the innocent in NC by calling Gov. Stein's Office to ask that he veto HB307. The bill creates an arbitrary timeline for post-conviction litigation in capital cases that would make it virtually impossible to exonerate innocent people on death row.
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Here are the comments that ABC used as justification for canceling Jimmy Kimmel Live.
September 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Here are the comments that ABC used as justification for canceling Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
New: FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk
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FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr warned. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
www.cnn.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
Hear, hear.
As a graduate of Duke law and graduate school, I hope they tell Trump to fuck off.
July 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Hear, hear.
Appreciate the opportunity to join @wunc.org to discuss Mr. Cole's case and the evidence of his innocence that led to his freedom. Public radio is a vital source of information, and we must ensure it survives the funding cuts and attacks by the current administration.
Benjamin Cole was released from prison in June with the help of Duke Law School's Wrongful Convictions Clinic after serving 27 years for a murder he maintains he did not commit.
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Released after 27 years: How Benjamin Cole and Duke Law School argued his innocence
Benjamin Cole was released from prison in June with the help of Duke Law School's Wrongful Convictions Clinic after serving 27 years for a murder he maintains he did not commit.
www.wunc.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Appreciate the opportunity to join @wunc.org to discuss Mr. Cole's case and the evidence of his innocence that led to his freedom. Public radio is a vital source of information, and we must ensure it survives the funding cuts and attacks by the current administration.
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Benjamin Cole always said he was in Ohio at the time of the murder in North Carolina that lead to his conviction. 27 years later, a review of the police department's case file revealed undisclosed records supporting Cole's alibi that he was in Ohio: law.duke.edu/news/wrongfu...
Wrongful Convictions Clinic client released after serving 27 years in prison
Benjamin Cole is the most recent clinic client to be released
law.duke.edu
June 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Benjamin Cole always said he was in Ohio at the time of the murder in North Carolina that lead to his conviction. 27 years later, a review of the police department's case file revealed undisclosed records supporting Cole's alibi that he was in Ohio: law.duke.edu/news/wrongfu...
April 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Just so I am keeping everything straight…the government can’t tell you to wear a mask because FREEDOM!!!!, but it can decide you are a “terrorist” and send you to a foreign gulag without due process and throw away the key.
That right?
That right?
April 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Just so I am keeping everything straight…the government can’t tell you to wear a mask because FREEDOM!!!!, but it can decide you are a “terrorist” and send you to a foreign gulag without due process and throw away the key.
That right?
That right?
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New in PN: North Carolina Republicans restart the steal
"The entire state supreme court affair is a microcosm of the last several years, a one-stop-shop highlighting all the ways in which Republicans have used the nonexistent problem of election fraud to destroy trust and make it harder to vote."
"The entire state supreme court affair is a microcosm of the last several years, a one-stop-shop highlighting all the ways in which Republicans have used the nonexistent problem of election fraud to destroy trust and make it harder to vote."
North Carolina Republicans restart the steal
If you can't beat 'em, try to get 60,000 votes tossed out.
www.publicnotice.co
January 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New in PN: North Carolina Republicans restart the steal
"The entire state supreme court affair is a microcosm of the last several years, a one-stop-shop highlighting all the ways in which Republicans have used the nonexistent problem of election fraud to destroy trust and make it harder to vote."
"The entire state supreme court affair is a microcosm of the last several years, a one-stop-shop highlighting all the ways in which Republicans have used the nonexistent problem of election fraud to destroy trust and make it harder to vote."
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Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!
January 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!
Republicans in North Carolina are trying to steal an election, and their efforts are much closer to succeeding now that the Republicans on the NC Supreme Court will potentially decide the winner.
www.wral.com/story/nc-sup...
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NC Supreme Court could now decide who should win the election for a seat on the court
After incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs appeared to defeat Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, Griffin has been seeking to throw out 60,000...
www.wral.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Republicans in North Carolina are trying to steal an election, and their efforts are much closer to succeeding now that the Republicans on the NC Supreme Court will potentially decide the winner.
www.wral.com/story/nc-sup...
www.wral.com/story/nc-sup...
My @dukelaw.bsky.social colleague Brandon Garrett on why Roy Cooper's recent commutations should signal the death penalty's end in North Carolina.
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Roy Cooper’s commutations should signal the death penalty’s end in North Carolina | Opinion
Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death penalty cases. | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
January 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My @dukelaw.bsky.social colleague Brandon Garrett on why Roy Cooper's recent commutations should signal the death penalty's end in North Carolina.
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I am very grateful to Governor Cooper for these 15 commutations to life sentences for death row prisoners.
Thanks to the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty for your amazing advocacy.
Let’s continue to work towards abolishing the death penalty.
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
Thanks to the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty for your amazing advocacy.
Let’s continue to work towards abolishing the death penalty.
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
Governor Cooper Takes Capital Clemency Actions
Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row in North Carolina to life without the possibility of parole. He commuted these sentences after a thoro...
governor.nc.gov
December 31, 2024 at 8:57 PM
I am very grateful to Governor Cooper for these 15 commutations to life sentences for death row prisoners.
Thanks to the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty for your amazing advocacy.
Let’s continue to work towards abolishing the death penalty.
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
Thanks to the NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty for your amazing advocacy.
Let’s continue to work towards abolishing the death penalty.
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
While this action is not the broad repudiation of the death penalty that North Carolina needs, I am grateful to Gov. Cooper for his careful review and commutations in these 15 cases. #CommuteTheRow
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
Governor Cooper Takes Capital Clemency Actions
Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced that he has commuted the sentences of 15 people on death row in North Carolina to life without the possibility of parole. He commuted these sentences after a thoro...
governor.nc.gov
December 31, 2024 at 7:49 PM
While this action is not the broad repudiation of the death penalty that North Carolina needs, I am grateful to Gov. Cooper for his careful review and commutations in these 15 cases. #CommuteTheRow
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
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NC district attorney: Biden’s commutations should guide us to end death penalty #ncpol
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NC district attorney: Biden’s commutations should guide us to end death penalty | Opinion
As a state prosecutor and district attorney, I became keenly aware that the death penalty does not serve victims or our communities. | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
December 27, 2024 at 12:20 PM
NC district attorney: Biden’s commutations should guide us to end death penalty #ncpol
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After Biden's commutations this morning, it's time for action in North Carolina.
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Criminal justice advocates push Gov. Cooper for major clemency grants in final days in office • NC Newsline
criminal justice advocates are urging Gov. Roy Cooper to make use of his powers to grant clemency for state crimes.
ncnewsline.com
December 23, 2024 at 2:12 PM
After Biden's commutations this morning, it's time for action in North Carolina.
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A historic act by President Biden. He has set a precedent that @ncgov.bsky.social Roy Cooper should follow by commuting NC's death row. Gov. Cooper can build on his own legacy as someone who stands for racial justice, humanity, and morality.
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Biden commutes most federal death row sentences to life in prison before Trump takes office | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden announced Monday that he is taking 37 people off federal death row to serve out life sentences behind bars — a decision that leaves only three federal prisoners awaiting execution ...
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December 23, 2024 at 1:04 PM
A historic act by President Biden. He has set a precedent that @ncgov.bsky.social Roy Cooper should follow by commuting NC's death row. Gov. Cooper can build on his own legacy as someone who stands for racial justice, humanity, and morality.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/p...
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President Biden says he's commuting the prison sentences for nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others.
The White House calls it the largest act of clemency in a single day in modern presidential history.
The White House calls it the largest act of clemency in a single day in modern presidential history.
www.npr.org
December 12, 2024 at 1:25 PM
President Biden says he's commuting the prison sentences for nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others.
The White House calls it the largest act of clemency in a single day in modern presidential history.
The White House calls it the largest act of clemency in a single day in modern presidential history.
"So as we near the end of the year, I hope outgoing governors will consider greater use of pardons for deserving constituents as they ponder the legacy they want to leave."
cc: @ncgov.bsky.social
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Actually, Pardons Aren’t Issued Often Enough
Fearing political backlash, governors use their clemency powers far less than they once did. But it’s a powerful tool for addressing injustice.
www.governing.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:10 PM
"So as we near the end of the year, I hope outgoing governors will consider greater use of pardons for deserving constituents as they ponder the legacy they want to leave."
cc: @ncgov.bsky.social
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cc: @ncgov.bsky.social
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