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Wins 2025 hands down
Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it."

Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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@buhealthlaw.bsky.social recently earned a place, and an A+ rating, in the National Jurist preLaw Magazine’s Health Law Honor Roll. This grade ranks BU Law among the top 17 health law programs listed and affirms BU Law’s leadership in the field.

Learn more ➡️ www.bu.edu/law/2025/12/...
December 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Take a look back at the important work of the ABA during 2025. From improving the legal profession to advancing the rule of law, eliminating bias to enhancing diversity, the ABA has continued to make great contributions for the legal profession and community. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48iDLxk
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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This season of gratitude, we’re thankful for those who continue to uplift justice, equity, and dignity in our communities. Wishing you a peaceful and meaningful Thanksgiving 🦃!
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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September 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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🍎✨ Shana Tova! 🍯✨ As we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, let’s commit to renewal, justice, and community. May this year bring peace, health, and hope to all. Shana Tova U’Metuka! #RoshHashanah #ShanaTova #JusticeForAll #CivilRights
September 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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September 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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I woke up in a good mood and a law professor had to ruin it.
a man is writing in a notebook with a pen
ALT: a man is writing in a notebook with a pen
media.tenor.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:
July 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
#StaceyAbrams explains how to achieve an #autocracy in 10 steps.

We're at step 9.

The military is in our streets. Is our democracy worth the effort to defend it?
July 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.
Land of Hope and Dreams
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
May 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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May 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the elegance, agility and effortless natural grace of the penguin.
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Hammock hugs are the best hugs.
April 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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This is specifically about universities. It is very important to see how fascists and authoritarians in other countries have attacked them. And to think, as Gessen does here, about constructive responses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
Opinion | M. Gessen: ‘Trump Is Building a Mafia State’
“Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it.”
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Lawyers, meanwhile, are figuring it out: Everyone has to hang together, or else they will all hang separately

thehill.com/regulation/c...
Hundreds of law firms, former judges sign onto briefs in support of Perkins Coie
Hundreds of law firms and former judges have signed onto friend-of-the-court briefs in support of Perkins Coie as the law firm challenges President Trump’s executive order targeting it.   More…
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April 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Require schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom?

Listen as I read this letter, signed by more than 150 Texas faith leaders, opposing state interference with both education and religion. 

Text of the letter: bit.ly/43xadvg
March 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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More than 50 bar organizations stand together with the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
March 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.
Incredible chart
March 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM