Tony Ghiotto
@tonyghiotto.bsky.social
Teaching professor at University of Illinois College of Law | Director, Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism | Trial Advocacy Director
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Profs Lesley Wexler and @tonyghiotto.bsky.social (@law.illinois.edu) discuss the Pentagon's implementation of the transgender service ban, highlighting how discharge procedures uniquely burden transgender service members and may signal animus and raise equal protection concerns.
Process and Prejudice: Implementation of the Transgender Service Ban
Illinois Law professors Lesley M. Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto examine the implementation of the Trump administration’s transgender military service ban, focusing on recent litigation, the Department of...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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👏 Hegseth did not commit a war crime👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
👏 Hegseth did not commit a war crime👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
👏There are no war crimes without war👏
👏 Hegseth ordered mass murder 👏
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Is the practice of using service member attorneys as immigration judges legal? Is it alarming? Professors Lesley Wexler and Tony Ghiotto explore these questions and more in a two-part series for Justia Verdict.
Part 1: verdict.justia.com/2025/09/10/p...
Part 1: verdict.justia.com/2025/09/10/p...
Probably Lawful but Definitely Awful: Deployment of Military Attorneys for Civilian Practice— Part One in a Two-Part Series of Columns
In this two-part series of columns, Illinois Law professors Lesley M. Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto examine the Trump administration’s increasing domestic use of military personnel—particularly military attorneys (JAGs)—to enforce civilian law, highlighting legal concerns surrounding the Posse Comitatus Act. Professors Wexler and Ghiotto argue in Part I that while the use of JAGs as prosecutors and immigration judges may technically be lawful under limited congressional exceptions, it undermines civil-military boundaries and raises serious constitutional and due process concerns.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Is the practice of using service member attorneys as immigration judges legal? Is it alarming? Professors Lesley Wexler and Tony Ghiotto explore these questions and more in a two-part series for Justia Verdict.
Part 1: verdict.justia.com/2025/09/10/p...
Part 1: verdict.justia.com/2025/09/10/p...
We explored the lawfulness (or unlawfulness) of Trump’s use of military lawyers as immigration judges and federal prosecutors in @justiaverdict.bsky.social
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Probably Lawful but Definitely Awful: Deployment of Military Attorneys for Civilian Practice— Part One in a Two-Part Series of Columns
In this two-part series of columns, Illinois Law professors Lesley M. Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto examine the Trump administration’s increasing domestic use of military personnel—particularly military....
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September 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
We explored the lawfulness (or unlawfulness) of Trump’s use of military lawyers as immigration judges and federal prosecutors in @justiaverdict.bsky.social
verdict.justia.com/2025/09/10/p...
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
When you’re outside with your dogs and a C130 flys overhead and your first reaction is that the invasion of Illinois is beginning may be a sign we are living in a fascist nation.
September 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
When you’re outside with your dogs and a C130 flys overhead and your first reaction is that the invasion of Illinois is beginning may be a sign we are living in a fascist nation.
“There was no legal authority,” says the narrator, as the vice president continues to inch towards disbarment.
Q: On the Venezuela vessel strike, what legal authority were you guys working under?
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
JD VANCE: The legal authority is there are people who are bringing -- literal terrorists -- who are bringing deadly drugs into our country
September 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“There was no legal authority,” says the narrator, as the vice president continues to inch towards disbarment.
Thanks to @kpfa.org and California Public Radio for letting me discuss the posse comitatus act, martial law, and the looming invasion of Chicago and Baltimore by the Texas National Guard. kpfa.org/episode/upfr...
Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Deployment of National Guard in LA; Plus, Syrian Elections | KPFA
00:08 — Tony Ghiotto, Teaching Professor and Director of Trial Advocacy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Law. 00:33 — Samer Araabi is a member of the Arab Resource and Organi...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Thanks to @kpfa.org and California Public Radio for letting me discuss the posse comitatus act, martial law, and the looming invasion of Chicago and Baltimore by the Texas National Guard. kpfa.org/episode/upfr...
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Illinois Law professors Lesley Wexler and @tonyghiotto.bsky.social analyze the broader fallout of the transgender military ban, examining its chilling effect on mental health care across the armed forces and the legal precedents it sets for future challenges to executive authority over the military.
The Transgender Military Ban: Part II: Collateral Consequences for Mental Health Access and Lessons for Future Litigants
In this second of a two-part series, Illinois Law professors Lesley M. Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto examine the broader implications of the Trump administration’s attempt to ban transgender individuals....
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April 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Illinois Law professors Lesley Wexler and @tonyghiotto.bsky.social analyze the broader fallout of the transgender military ban, examining its chilling effect on mental health care across the armed forces and the legal precedents it sets for future challenges to executive authority over the military.
Thankful to @justiaverdict.bsky.social for supporting and publishing Part I of our deep dive of the litigation involving Trump’s bad of transgender service members
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The Transgender Military Ban: Part I: District Court Rejection of Deference and Secretary of Defense Hegseth’s Rejection of Judge Reyes
Illinois Law professors Lesley M. Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto examine recent judicial rulings halting the enforcement of a Trump administration executive order banning transgender individuals from mili...
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April 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Thankful to @justiaverdict.bsky.social for supporting and publishing Part I of our deep dive of the litigation involving Trump’s bad of transgender service members
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Discussed the decay of Military Rule of Law for the ABA’s Rapid Response Project
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Threats to Military Rule of Law
Defense Secretary Hegseth's removal of senior military lawyers sparks concern over legal independence, military justice, and compliance with civil and international law, say experts Maurer and Ghiotto...
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April 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Discussed the decay of Military Rule of Law for the ABA’s Rapid Response Project
www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/...
www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/...
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Illinois Law profs Lesley Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto examine the impact of the Prioritizing Military Excellence Order on #transgender service members, comparing it to past military policies and assessing its consequences for military readiness, legal integrity, and unit cohesion.
Do Ask, Do Exit or Mask: Transgender Service Members, the DOD Guidance on the Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness Executive Order, and Why It Should Matter to Us All
Illinois Law professors Lesley M. Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto analyze the impact of the Prioritizing Military Excellence Order, which restricts transgender military service, comparing it to past polici...
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March 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Illinois Law profs Lesley Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto examine the impact of the Prioritizing Military Excellence Order on #transgender service members, comparing it to past military policies and assessing its consequences for military readiness, legal integrity, and unit cohesion.
Let’s not normalize the military transgender ban or the administration’s supposed justifications: verdict.justia.com/2025/03/13/d...
Do Ask, Do Exit or Mask: Transgender Service Members, the DOD Guidance on the Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness Executive Order, and Why It Should Matter to Us All
Illinois Law professors Lesley M. Wexler and Anthony Ghiotto analyze the impact of the Prioritizing Military Excellence Order, which restricts transgender military service, comparing it to past polici...
verdict.justia.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Let’s not normalize the military transgender ban or the administration’s supposed justifications: verdict.justia.com/2025/03/13/d...
Join the University of Illinois College of Law over zoom for “The Military in the Age of Trump 2.0.” Register here: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7/335...
February 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Join the University of Illinois College of Law over zoom for “The Military in the Age of Trump 2.0.” Register here: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7/335...
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We can take arguments off the board because they’re nonsense—regardless of the academic’s motives
Once we start taking entire arguments off the board because of their consequences, we might as well give up the academic enterprise altogether.
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
We can take arguments off the board because they’re nonsense—regardless of the academic’s motives
This is great stuff.
After recapping a busy week of #SCOTUS news, today's "One First" takes a deep dive into our new cert. petition challenging the constitutionality of the "short-martial"—the mandatory bench trials that Congress first authorized for servicemembers starting in 2019:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/114-histor...
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114. History, Tradition, and the "Short-Martial"
From the Founding until 2018, servicemembers had a right to be tried by a panel of fellow servicemembers. A new cert. petition asks whether Congress violated due process when it took that right away.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:46 PM
This is great stuff.
Anyone else losing sleep over what happens if Trump (unlawfully) orders the fed military into a state and the governor mobilizes the state guard to stop the federal invasion?
Donald Trump says he plans to declare a national emergency in order to enact a program of mass deportations using the military
Trump Confirms Plans To Declare National Emergency For Mass Deportations
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November 22, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Anyone else losing sleep over what happens if Trump (unlawfully) orders the fed military into a state and the governor mobilizes the state guard to stop the federal invasion?