Noah Smith-Drelich
nsmithdrelich.bsky.social
Noah Smith-Drelich
@nsmithdrelich.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ChicagoKentLaw. Constitutional litigator. Torts, Civ Pro, Health Law, § 1983. Current projects: right to travel, police funding, food taxes.
I graduated from Allegany, a public HS in rural Appalachia. Discussions of school choice (see Drummond) don't give enough credence to the fact that most parents have little effective choice. The practical result of publicly funding religious schools will be to force that education on many students.
#DidYouKnow

Allegany County has the lowest rate of #AdultLiteracy among #Maryland's #Appalachian counties.

More than 6 out of every 10 adults (62.1%) read at or below an 8th Grade level.

www.appli.org/maryland

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April 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Travel rights (which are reasonably robust, if regularly overlooked) can provide a bulwark against these sorts of anti-travel provisions. I wrote about this in Travel Rights in a Culture War, 101 Tex. L. Rev. O. 21 (2022),
texaslawreview.org/travel-right.... But litigants need to assert them!
April 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think this is a (grim) illustration of what Alex Yelderman @alexyelderman.bsky.social writes about in Danger as Deterrent, 65 B.C. L. Rev. 113 (2024). bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/311....
April 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Before now, law students largely struggled to differentiate one big law firm from another. One effect of Trump's individualized targeting of these places, and the various reactions that it's provoked, is to reveal meaningful differences that might not have been obvious to students before.
"The Constitution, top to bottom, protects against . . . attempts by the government to target citizens and lawyers based on the options they voice, the people with whom they associate, and the clients they represent."

Unbelievably proud of Jenner, the firm for which I had the privilege of working.
Jenner Stands Firm
www.jennerfirm.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Here's a possibly good $$ cut, which could help with police accountability. One effect of external funding for the police is to smooth the local costs of police misconduct liability, diminishing local pressures to reform. I write about this in Funding the Police, 84 Ohio State L. J. 717 (2023).
March 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's not every day that you get to stop an execution. Congratulations to my co-counsel (in a different case) and law school classmate, Amy Knight, on the Glossip decision! nondoc.com/2025/02/25/s...
SCOTUS throws out Glossip conviction, prosecutors to decide on new trial
The U.S. Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.
nondoc.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Fascinating take on Mexico politics/policy and AMLO specifically.
First post on BlueSky and it's a plug.

Wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about AMLO. I try to explain what Obradorismo actually is while critiquing his programmatic agenda, the opposition, and understanding AMLO's political success.

thenewinquiry.com/amlo-all-alo...
AMLO All Along
1917, in the wake of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was preoccupied with appointing the people that would run the government. The problem was that Lenin did not know much about what running the gove…
thenewinquiry.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Interesting twist on the Kristi Noem nomination: she's been barred from stepping foot on each of the reservations located within South Dakota (all 9). DHS is relatively new, but has there ever been a Secretary of Homeland Security who can't legally visit all of the parts of the 'homeland'?
November 14, 2024 at 9:47 PM