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Eric Segall
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Eric J. Segall is an American legal scholar and the Ashe Family Chair Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law, where he has taught since 1991. He teaches classes on federal courts and constitutional law. .. more

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 3h
Dogs holding hands (not posed I swear).

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 7h
I know they don’t require property at Yale but you would have thought federal courts was a popular class.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 13h
Holy cow, Trump appointed appellate judges voted for him 9 out of 10 times in the second term!! What a shocker! Alert the media! Oh, someone did. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
www.nytimes.com

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 13h
Brain dead.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Henry Farrell, Eric J. Segall

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d
That actually kind of sounds like your fantasy, Naomi.
Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf Okay, I’ll just say it. I’ve seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted. White liberal women are disproportionately sexually frustrated. Policing others as in the pandemic was an outlet for them, but it was not nearly enough. The smiles you see on their faces now say it all: white women long for all out combat with ICE - who tend to be strong, physically confident, masculine men - because the conflict is a form of physical release for them. They long for actual kinetic battle and it will get even uglier. 5:54 PM · Jan 9, 2026 · 474.2K Views

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 1d
From the day Miller entered the White House. It’s coming.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 1d
Even better if it’s three degrees….

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d
As Paul Musgrave shows, the right wingers are coming for political science. They’re coming for the legal academy, too, even if it’s still below the radar. Don’t think for a second the war on universities is just about the humanities. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...
U.S. Political Science in the Crosshairs
Conservatives have a lot of levers yet to pull
open.substack.com

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 2d
Saw this in the UK. Yup.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 2d
My prediction for the Supreme Court (non-court) term:
a man with a beard is making a funny face .
ALT: a man with a beard is making a funny face .
media.tenor.com

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 2d
Having been abroad for a week my observation is simply-things really are sucky here.
Sucky, suck, suck.
That’s all for now.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 4d
Happy birthday to @dorfonlaw.bsky.social, a wicked smart first team academic every year not to mention just a great guy.

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Jane Rabbit @janerabbit.bsky.social · 4d
reading it on a metal box in my living room

yup

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 4d
Writing this from a metal tube flying 35,000 feet over the Atlantic and I think you will see it, and with all the terrible happening everywhere still should pause to reflect that this is even possible.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 4d
On the blog, I argue that Trump is a literal law breaker: He does not merely violate the law; he and his administration seek to render it inoperative, broken. Examples: might-makes-right military actions; J6 pardons; censure of Sen Kelly; and firing members of independent agencies w/o cause. 👇
Trump Doesn't Merely Violate the Law. He Aims to Destroy it.
In yet another example of how each of Donald Trump's outrageous acts distracts attention from the previous outrageous act, yesterday, which ...
www.dorfonlaw.org

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 4d
Current state of mind leaving London back to US.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
In a how did this even start kind of way……

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
#TheGOPCourt

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
I had the great privilege of meeting Judges Wisdom, Tuttle, and Johnson when I clerked in 1985. Truly great men.
Now we have Ho, Smith, etc.
Sigh.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Would love that!

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Not this time….

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 5d
Even when grey, London is something.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 5d
The Monroe Doctrine was aimed at European interference in western sovereigns; it did not assert a U.S. interest in doing that interfering itself. That conception arose in the late 19th century. But gunboat diplomacy was only ever a U.S. policy, never a legal justification. Details on the blog. 👇
The Trumpian Version of the Monroe Doctrine is Simply Might Makes Right
When President James Monroe articulated what came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine, the United States lacked the kind of naval power that ...
www.dorfonlaw.org

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 6d
“The legal fights, policy battles, and elections that could define 2026” electionlawblog.org?p=153719
"The legal fights, policy battles, and elections that could define 2026" #ELB
Votebeat roundup.
electionlawblog.org

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 6d
Nothing like a cute London cafe with your honey.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 6d
In an accompanying essay on my blog, I discuss a new book on the Revolutionary War and offer thoughts on how to make use of the Revolution's ideals even while recognizing its inextricable links to the evils of slavery and Indian removal. 👇
Semiquincentennial Reflections on Original Sin and Inevitability
[Note to readers: I am of course aware of the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela, capture of Maduro, and suggestions that further mi...
www.dorfonlaw.org

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 7d
We have had 4 sunny days in a row.
Brilliant!

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 7d
Because SCOTUS said hanging chads are unconstitutional for this day only so no whopper for you.

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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 7d
Ok, I totally get why my colleague and friend @anthonymkreis.bsky.social loves Oxford so much.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 7d
my sense is this: not only are trump and rubio and hegseth lying to the public about the purposes, impact, planning, etc of the attack on venezuela. they are lying to each other. they have no idea what they're doing or where this ends.