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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 20h

Scary new interpretation of the 14th Amendment just dropped!

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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · Jun 10

A comparative, solutions-oriented legal & policy analysis of methods used to combat the impact of dis- & misinformation on democracy

Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy eds. Ronald J. Krotoszynski, J., András Koltay & @charlottegarden.bsky.social

#BookSky #LawSky

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Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 16h

KBJ’s blunt question today about the Supreme Court’s culture war hypocrisy kind of floored me, because it’s the kind of meta-criticism that we aren’t used to hearing from the justices.

It’s the second day of the term, and things are that dire already. slate.com/news-and-pol...

With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term

The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 14h

Speta on FCC Authority and Broadcaster Viewpoints

James B. Speta (Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law) has posted The FCC Lacks Authority To Punish Broadcasters for their Viewpoints (Yale Journal on Regulation Notice & Comment, Sept. 26, 2025) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Does the…

Speta on FCC Authority and Broadcaster Viewpoints

James B. Speta (Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law) has posted The FCC Lacks Authority To Punish Broadcasters for their Viewpoints (Yale Journal on Regulation Notice & Comment, Sept. 26, 2025) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Does the federal government have the power to punish broadcasters, by exercising its power over their licenses to use the airwaves, for speech the government does not like, including speech that criticizes the government?

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 22h

The oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar, about whether Colorado can ban licensed therapists from subjecting minors to the discredited & harmful "conversion therapy" is done

You do not actually have to hear the arg to predict that the Christians will win.

I would love to be wrong, but

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 22h

Rebuttals now.

A twelve year could get gender affirming care w/o parent consent but could not get Chiles counseling w/ their parents consent.

Now giving fake science facts that I will not repeat

But basically trans panic

Citing Cass Review which has zillions of problems.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 23h

I guess I will live blog the argument. Unless I get too disgusted and stop.

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1d

Hello!

I am your friendly neighborhood First Amendment professor here to provide some background on Chiles v. Salazar, to be argued in Supreme Court this morning.

At issue is whether Colorado can ban licensed therapists from inflicting the discredited practice of “conversion therapy” on minors

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 1d

"Precisely because they have been losing court cases over free speech and visas for foreign students, Trumpists now seek to entrap universities in a deal that effectively removes the protections of federal law and gives the administration arbitrary power over them."

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 2d

“This is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. Defendants have made a range of arguments that . . risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation.” — Trump-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut (Oct. 4, 2025).

Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 2d

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment

Read more here.

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 3d

Table of Contents for the Legal Theory Lexicon, legaltheorylexicon.com/table-of-con... The New TOC for the Lexicon can always be accessed from the new home page--top left corner.

Table of Contents

Visit the post for more.

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

Mau/Zürn: "Es geht einer, der sich für eine bessere Gesellschaft einsetzte. Die Erinnerung an Claus Offe ist Ansporn für den Einsatz für eine gerechte und demokratische Gesellschaft für die Zukunft – auch und gerade in diesen schweren Zeiten."

Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 4d

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben

Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.

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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 4d

Ein sehr schöner Nachruf.

Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 4d

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Sozialwissenschaftler Claus Offe gestorben

Claus Offe prägte die Sozialwissenschaften mit scharfsinnigen Analysen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektiven. Als Grenzgänger zwischen Soziologie und Politologie bleibt sein Werk wegweisend.

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

"Badano and Nuti's book shows that political liberalism has much to say about containing illiberal views. I hope I’ve conveyed some of its scope and originality... Still, I wondered whether the book’s theoretical commitment to political liberalism was also getting in the way." 10/10

Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

"Badano and Nuti propose that, when deconsolidation is occurring, the task of containment cannot fall solely on the state. They argue that individuals, political parties, and sub-state-level officials also owe duties in such situations." 9/

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

"Even under the best conditions ... states should take ‘soft’ measures ... Under the worst conditions" (serious threat) "states may take rights-infringing measures, like banning parties or restricting speech".

"The book’s central contribution is about what to do in between." 8/

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

"Badano and Nuti aim to propose an alternative to existing views of ‘liberal democratic self-defence’", including "the tradition of militant democracy".

They elaborate on the "idea of containment" in a "gnomic footnote in Political Liberalism" on unreasonable views. 7/

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

"Indeed, even in a well-ordered society, it is implausible that every person would accept a reasonable conception of justice (38)."

We "get a view" on which "the non-ideal theory of a minimally liberal society is just as fundamental as the ideal theory of the well-ordered society". 6/

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

"They refer to such societies as ‘minimally liberal’ and argue that political liberalism should also be concerned with how a minimally liberal society can move towards being a well-ordered one (32)." 5/

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

They start "with the observation that a pluralism of reasonable worldviews will also occur in a non-ideal society, as long as basic liberties are protected" (critiquing Quong’s ‘internalist’ interpretation of political liberalism). 4/

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

"Badano and Nuti’s version of the theory is ‘more political’ in several ways, the most fundamental being that they “take seriously the fact that there appears to be no natural disposition built into human beings (or societies) to become more and more liberal over time” (184)." 3/

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

"The book’s proposals are creative", "novel and wide-ranging", "argued for within a systematic theory" and "informed by a wide array of current examples and social scientific research".

"Badano and Nuti manage to make Rawls far more realistic than he typically seems." 2/

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Mathias Hong @hongmathias.bsky.social · 4d

How should Rawlsians respond to right-wing populism?

Manish Oza reviews "Politicizing Political Liberalism" by Badano/Nuti @alasianuti.bsky.social

"Legitimacy might not require justifying liberalism to the unreasonable", but its survival "depends on persuading at least some of them".

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 4d

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to cancel Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants.

KBJ, dissenting, says she "cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference" while "lives hang in the balance."
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I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand. Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly mis- judges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the sta- bility our Government has promised them. Because, re- spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump Administration’s “Compact of Excellence” for Universities is... far from excellent! Indeed, it’s unconstitutional. In this post, let me count the ways.

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The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine and the Compact for Excellence

Members of the Trump administration love to say that federal funding is a privilege not a right and therefore something that can be granted or withheld based on changing administrative priorities.

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