Margo Schlanger
@mjschlanger.bsky.social
University of Michigan Law Prof. Founder and director, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. Criminal justice reform and other issues. Formerly at DOJ CRT, DHS CRCL, USDA DFAP.
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And then you should read this great @mjschlanger.bsky.social piece from a decade ago that develops similar themes: repository.law.umich.edu/articles/1410/
Intelligence Legalism and the National Security Agency’s Civil Liberties Gap
Since June 2013, we have seen unprecedented security breaches and disclosures relating to American electronic surveillance. The nearly daily drip, and occasional gush, of once-secret policy and operat...
repository.law.umich.edu
October 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
And then you should read this great @mjschlanger.bsky.social piece from a decade ago that develops similar themes: repository.law.umich.edu/articles/1410/
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Professors @sbagen.bsky.social and @mjschlanger.bsky.social react to the SCOTUS ruling in US v. Skrmetti michigan.law.umich.edu/news/bagenst...
Bagenstos and Schlanger on Supreme Court Trans Rights Ruling in US v. Skrmetti | University of Michigan Law School
On June 18, the US Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law that prohibits some medical treatments for transgender minors. Writing for the 6-3 majority in US v. Skrmetti, Chief Justice John Roberts stated...
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June 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Professors @sbagen.bsky.social and @mjschlanger.bsky.social react to the SCOTUS ruling in US v. Skrmetti michigan.law.umich.edu/news/bagenst...
Really happy to share this new piece, where I talk about the need for individualization and accommodation, in and out of prison, and for people with and without disabilities (though the need to act is particularly urgent behind bars). scholars.law.unlv.edu/nlj/vol25/is...
Feedback welcome!
Feedback welcome!
Keynote: Promoting Disability Equality Behind Bars
By Margo Schlanger, Published on 06/01/25
scholars.law.unlv.edu
June 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Really happy to share this new piece, where I talk about the need for individualization and accommodation, in and out of prison, and for people with and without disabilities (though the need to act is particularly urgent behind bars). scholars.law.unlv.edu/nlj/vol25/is...
Feedback welcome!
Feedback welcome!
Nice piece (with some quotes from me and others) on national injunctions and birthright citizenship and tomorrow's SCOTUS argument about them both. www.huffpost.com/entry/birthr....
Trump Knows He Won’t Win On Birthright — So He’s Got A Different Strategy
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on birthright citizenship this week — but it has become about something different entirely.
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May 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Nice piece (with some quotes from me and others) on national injunctions and birthright citizenship and tomorrow's SCOTUS argument about them both. www.huffpost.com/entry/birthr....
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Hey, everyone, read @mjschlanger.bsky.social 's (sadly timely) new piece on how to sue the federal government for violating disability discrimination law. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Challenging Federal Government Impunity: The Case of Disability Law
The scope of federal government exemption from ordinary liability and judicial scrutiny is, highly contested. That contest has never been more important than ri
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May 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Hey, everyone, read @mjschlanger.bsky.social 's (sadly timely) new piece on how to sue the federal government for violating disability discrimination law. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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New! my pre-publication piece, "Challenging Federal Government Impunity: The Case of Disability Law"
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=522....
Here's the TLDR: DOJ sometimes argues that courts can't enforce disability discrimination laws against federal agencies. That's wrong; this piece shows why.
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=522....
Here's the TLDR: DOJ sometimes argues that courts can't enforce disability discrimination laws against federal agencies. That's wrong; this piece shows why.
Challenging Federal Government Impunity: The Case of Disability Law
The scope of federal government exemption from ordinary liability and judicial scrutiny is, highly contested. That contest has never been more important than ri
papers.ssrn.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
New! my pre-publication piece, "Challenging Federal Government Impunity: The Case of Disability Law"
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=522....
Here's the TLDR: DOJ sometimes argues that courts can't enforce disability discrimination laws against federal agencies. That's wrong; this piece shows why.
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=522....
Here's the TLDR: DOJ sometimes argues that courts can't enforce disability discrimination laws against federal agencies. That's wrong; this piece shows why.
New! my pre-publication piece, "Challenging Federal Government Impunity: The Case of Disability Law"
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=522....
Here's the TLDR: DOJ sometimes argues that courts can't enforce disability discrimination laws against federal agencies. That's wrong; this piece shows why.
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=522....
Here's the TLDR: DOJ sometimes argues that courts can't enforce disability discrimination laws against federal agencies. That's wrong; this piece shows why.
Challenging Federal Government Impunity: The Case of Disability Law
The scope of federal government exemption from ordinary liability and judicial scrutiny is, highly contested. That contest has never been more important than ri
papers.ssrn.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
New! my pre-publication piece, "Challenging Federal Government Impunity: The Case of Disability Law"
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=522....
Here's the TLDR: DOJ sometimes argues that courts can't enforce disability discrimination laws against federal agencies. That's wrong; this piece shows why.
papers.ssrn.com/abstract=522....
Here's the TLDR: DOJ sometimes argues that courts can't enforce disability discrimination laws against federal agencies. That's wrong; this piece shows why.
DHS raids civil rights budget to run ads praising our dear leader. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol.... Because of course they did.
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April 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
DHS raids civil rights budget to run ads praising our dear leader. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol.... Because of course they did.
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The Phi Beta Kappa Society has named Professor @mjschlanger.bsky.social as one of 14 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars for the 2025–2026 academic year.
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Schlanger to Speak Nationwide on Civil Rights, Government Service as Phi Beta Kappa Scholar | University of Michigan Law School
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has named Professor Margo Schlanger as one of 14 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars for the 2025–2026 academic year.
michigan.law.umich.edu
April 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has named Professor @mjschlanger.bsky.social as one of 14 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars for the 2025–2026 academic year.
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/schlang...
michigan.law.umich.edu/news/schlang...
No worries, Scott!
Sorry I neglected to tag @mjschlanger.bsky.social in the original post! (I forgot she had joined Bluesky 🤦🏻♂️)
April 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
No worries, Scott!
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They had a plan . . . democracyjournal.org/arguments/wh...
What’s Behind DHS's Abuses
DHS was created with a civil rights office to prevent the abuses we’re seeing now. Funny thing—Trump shut it down.
democracyjournal.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
They had a plan . . . democracyjournal.org/arguments/wh...
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Hard as it is to focus on any particular shard of the collapse of the federal government, here’s a great piece by my former boss on the illegal dismantling of our former office, the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/whats-behind-dhss-abuses/
https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/whats-behind-dhss-abuses/
What’s Behind DHS's Abuses
DHS was created with a civil rights office to prevent the abuses we’re seeing now. Funny thing—Trump shut it down.
democracyjournal.org
April 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Hard as it is to focus on any particular shard of the collapse of the federal government, here’s a great piece by my former boss on the illegal dismantling of our former office, the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/whats-behind-dhss-abuses/
https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/whats-behind-dhss-abuses/
An important OpEd by @sbagen.bsky.social .
Here I am this morning in the Washington Post on the Trump Administration's defiance of an "apportionment transparency" law Congress passed to rein in abuses like the first-term Ukraine shakedown. wapo.st/3FXgjey
Opinion | Trump is openly defying a law created to rein in his first-term abuses
Withholding funding led to his first impeachment. Now the White House won’t post its spending moves.
wapo.st
April 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
An important OpEd by @sbagen.bsky.social .
Mine, in Democracy Journal: Trump has dissolved DHS's civil rights office, for all the very bad reasons you'd expect. democracyjournal.org/arguments/wh...
What’s Behind DHS's Abuses
DHS was created with a civil rights office to prevent the abuses we’re seeing now. Funny thing—Trump shut it down.
democracyjournal.org
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Mine, in Democracy Journal: Trump has dissolved DHS's civil rights office, for all the very bad reasons you'd expect. democracyjournal.org/arguments/wh...
A stunning compilation. forward.com/fast-forward...
Campus arrest tracker: Who has been detained for 'anti-semitic' or 'pro-Hamas' activity?
ICE has detained Mahmoud Khalil and other students and professors at Columbia University, Brown, Georgetown, on 'pro-Hamas' allegations.
forward.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A stunning compilation. forward.com/fast-forward...
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That's what @mjschlanger.bsky.social has been going around saying!
March 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
That's what @mjschlanger.bsky.social has been going around saying!
For anyone who's been using the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse Trump 2.0 collection (clearinghouse.net/trumpchallen...) -- or using the Clearinghouse at all -- will you consider supporting our work with a donation? mailchi.mp/umich/civil-...
This Giving Blueday, Help Support Civil Rights Advocacy
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March 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
For anyone who's been using the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse Trump 2.0 collection (clearinghouse.net/trumpchallen...) -- or using the Clearinghouse at all -- will you consider supporting our work with a donation? mailchi.mp/umich/civil-...
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Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires:
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uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires:
uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com
uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com
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You know, that @mjschlanger.bsky.social , who's quoted in this piece, is really smart. "Incredible overreach" indeed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare (Gift Article)
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
You know, that @mjschlanger.bsky.social , who's quoted in this piece, is really smart. "Incredible overreach" indeed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
Mahmoud Khalil's detention and green card revocation are really frightening. Thanks to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for her piece (and for quoting me in it). www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare (Gift Article)
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Mahmoud Khalil's detention and green card revocation are really frightening. Thanks to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for her piece (and for quoting me in it). www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
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I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.
New from the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse -- we're going to track and post about civil rights lawsuits against the Trump Administration. Check it out! clearinghouse.net/post/1175/
Clearinghouse is tracking Trump Administration litigation | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
Civil Rights Litigation Clearninghouse post: Clearinghouse is tracking Trump Administration litigation
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January 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
New from the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse -- we're going to track and post about civil rights lawsuits against the Trump Administration. Check it out! clearinghouse.net/post/1175/