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Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law. Administrative law, political theory. Author: The Public’s Law. Personal views only. https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/blake-emerson

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · Feb 11

THE PUBLIC’S LAW is out now in paperback. The book identifies the dangers of the plebiscitary presidency and develops a participatory alternative grounded in the Progressives’ democratic transformation of Hegelian state theory. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 3h

This wolf comes as a wolf

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4h

The NYT's news pages did a solid job of covering the role of billionaire Marc Rowan in concocting the incredibly dangerous "compact" by which the Trump administration proposes to take over American universities.

But the opinion pages invited Marc Rowan to offer a rather wolflike defense. A brief 🧵—

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

The Times' coverage of Rowan's role has been remarkable. It is sad to me that after forcing his alma mater, Penn, to oust a really good president for incredibly poor reasons, Rowan's megalomanical next thought was "maybe the federal government should do this everywhere" and they're actually trying.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 11h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 16h

Right, so the GOP cares more about minority rule than reopening the government on their preferred terms. So be it! They own the shutdown, they control all three branches of the federal government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 19h

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 19h

I would have gone with “NUTS” but this works too.

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 19h

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

That's it. Thanks again for following.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

a police officer is sitting in a car and smiling

ALT: a police officer is sitting in a car and smiling

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

Assurances, lol

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa

Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

In tort law, when someone undertakes to protect another, they take on a duty to reasonably provide it. To fail to do so is a legal wrong. This often doesn’t apply legally to the policies of government, but it should. Medical grant cancellations are a physical injury to the public.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

“Founders of Antifa” implies “Antifa Originalism.”

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

Live from the fascism debate.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

In our post-glass era

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

Many such cases

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 2d

So they didn't let me use any barnyard epithets, but here's a fuller discussion of why it would be illegal to deny pay to furloughed federal workers at the end of a shutdown. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are losing this shutdown fight, against the odds. It doesn’t help that Trump is at the same time **sending the military into US cities** which, guess what, Americans don’t like!