Last month, Edward Martin, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sent a letter to the dean of Georgetown Law School, indicating that it is under investigation for continuing to “teach and promote” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). “It has come to my attention reliably that Georgetown Law School continues to teach and promote […]
From yesterday’s decision in Doe v. Combs by Judge Lewis Liman (S.D.N.Y.) (for more on the split among the Doe v. Combs judges on this, see this post; for more on the split among federal judges generally on pseudonymity in lawsuits alleging sexual assault, see PDF pp. 78-85 of this article): Plaintiff alleges that nearly […]
Throughout the 2024 presidential campaign season, Donald Trump accused his Democratic opponents—President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris—of using the levers of power against him. “The Biden regime’s weaponization of our system of justice is straight out of the Stalinist Russia horror show,” he told rallygoers in March 2023 after being indicted in Manhattan […]
Yesterday, a new complaint was filed challenging the firing of probationary employees. The plaintiffs in this case, however, were not the fired employees. They could challenge their removal through the usual civil service process, and not in federal court. But here, twenty states sued almost every department in the federal government. What is the basis […]
When I write something controversial, I expect blowback. My recent posts about Justice Barrett were no exception. I received the usual smattering of criticisms, telling me that I have no business being a law professor and that I am an embarrassment. Another burner email account urged me to kill myself by swallowing cyanide. But one […]
Parody of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” written and performed by Remy. LYRICS: Psst I pay dead people You think you’re getting rid of us federal employees? Think again…working from home, mustard on my tee, no Ain’t going back, talk to OMB bro Underfired, overpaid, can’t be seen though Turned my camera off to exfoliate my […]
Amid this week’s escalation of a North American trade war, the stock market has been sending a clear signal: Stop doing this. Stocks rise and fall for a wide variety of reasons, of course, but this week’s downward spiral was largely driven by one man: President Donald Trump. Trump’s announcement on Monday of new 25 […]
I’m not an expert on immigration law, but it appears that US law prohibits entry for foreigners who support designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations, such as Hamas. This in turn leads to the question of whether foreign students who have already been admitted can have their visas revoked (or not renewed) for supporting Hamas while in […]
It’s hard to make a smart science fiction movie—and even harder to make a smart sci-fi movie that is also a funny, audaciously bizarre, and pointedly political satire that is somehow still grounded in romance and real human feeling. I can think of one such movie—Brazil, the laugh-out-loud, incredibly bleak, epically romantic 1980s satire directed […]
Trump 2.0 looks mighty different from Trump 1.0 but there are a few crucial areas of overlap. His penchant for tariffs is one of those things, as covered yesterday. His fixation on projecting strength at the border is another. But now it’s looking like President Donald Trump will also be reviving another first-term relic that threw […]