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Jesse Bachir
@drfreedom.bsky.social
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Dr [of the philosophy of] freedom. Yes, it does sound like a Marvel villain. Do-er of philosophy & law (US & UK) | BA, LLB, AM, PhD | Research freedom & free expression | Republicanism/non-domination | Constitutional lawyer(?) | 🏳️‍🌈 | he/him | 🏳️‍⚧️ rights!
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 8h
The disconnect between arriving in the US seeing all the “welcome” messages in different languages, displaying flags from various counties, etc.

To then going through TSA screening seeing posters advertising self-deportation on a free flight + $1,000

Is certainly an incredibly stark contrast.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d
It’s an insane world where militarizing your own civilian streets and ordering extrajudicial murders on the high seas doesn’t get you a prize.
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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 2d
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Legal Theory Blog
Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 3d
I do believe they wish that you were not there, as well.
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 3d
Supposed “magic” we haven’t discovered yet: civic virtue. Answered that question. Next. 😅
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 3d
do not value rule of law, or are willing to bend its norms to satisfy populist demands around perceived political problems, then legal systems can do little to help.

Rule of law hinges on normative internal acceptance, not on the system or its structures. Voting and rhetoric have consequences.
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 3d
Remember Legal Positivism 101: Rule of law works only to the extent that those in positions of power have accepted an internal point of view with rule of law as a relevant condition of the system. Legal entrenchment can go no further than such an internal viewpoint.

If leaders are elected that 1/
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 3d
Let’s just keep eroding rule of law principles….
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 5d
Statutes give judges non-judicial functions for judicial review.

Yes. Mhmmm.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 6d
So the argument is that Congress giving *judges* this power ≠ Congress giving *courts* this power?

Umm…
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 5d
👆🏻 This point cannot be overstated.
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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 5d
If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...
Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 5d
It really is rather damning that the Cass report says 'this isn't evidence-based', yet he's explicitly now come out and said to the contrary; and also that it is evidence-based (especially since much of medicine is done on the basis of standards of evidence that Cass rejected without good reason).
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 6d
And since he loves going to the English law; JR under English law doesn’t support this view.
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 6d
He seems to think that equitable relief cannot constrain Presidential power and limit such power to the conditions of the statute in question. Seems to imply that one can only bring an action for damages. But, that’s odd: why would JR of executive action even exist, then?
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 6d
Who can look at the authoritarian tactics and lawlessness of ICE and think: we need that here?

ICE dragged children into the street in the middle of the night in Chicago. Ransacked people’s homes. And Badendoch thinks that’s a *good* idea?
Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 6d
I look forward to seeing the “emerging scholarship” — that most definitely exists and isn’t currently being written by just him right now — on this point.
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Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 6d
We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 6d
If we take this seriously, Labour seems to think that civil rights protests in the US during the civil rights era were too disruptive. And that’s embarrassing for them.
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 6d
As Mahmood said “cumulative disruption … is in and of itself, a reason for the police to be able to restrict and place conditions.”

This is fundamentally at odds with freedom of speech and the goals of liberal democracy. This is explicit use of law to silence and (re)move dissenting voices.
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 6d
Labour appears more interested in silencing dissent, than listening to voters.

Even if we take the argument seriously that protest is disruptive — that’s kind of the point. Historic social movements have been achieved with disruptive protest. Labour seems uninterested in history or social change
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Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 7d
Flag burning is constitutionally protected speech.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 8d
Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 7d
This isn’t a wait list; it’s a fundamental failure and a denial of self-determination.
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Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈 @awjt.bsky.social · 7d
In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.
Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist. This system is failing to support people to transition not because it is broken, but by design. The frustrating thing is that this would not be a difficult problem to solve under a different political paradigm. Trans+ people do not need to be assessed by gender clinics or diagnosed by psychiatrists to tell us what we already know: we are trans. The healthcare we need, especially when it comes to hormones, is already available to cis people through making an appointment with their GP. Gender clinics are unnecessary and exist to segregate healthcare for Trans+ people. Abolishing this system and providing Trans+ healthcare in primary care, at the GP through an informed consent model, would solve many of the issues this data reveals. GPs already prescribe hormones to cis adults. Trans+ adults simply need the same access to this healthcare.
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 8d
But I think that’s fundamentally because too many people misunderstand “merit.” These are the people that bemoan DEI programs, yet fail to appreciate that someone from Ivy school X can be much worse at doing their job than someone from state university S; yet insist that the degree is ‘merit’.
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Jesse Bachir @drfreedom.bsky.social · 8d
Fundamentally unconstitutional and jeopardises the future of academia.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8d
Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 9d
The admin’s efforts to get universities to agree to a list of demands in exchange for preferential access to federal funding isn’t just “troubling” as Ted Mitchell, prez of the @aceducation.bsky.social says in this article; it looks blatantly unconstitutional.🧵
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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