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James E. Clyburn @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social · 11h

Americans across the country enrolled in an ACA plan are already being notified that their monthly premiums will skyrocket beginning next year.

If this has happened to you, please comment what you or your family’s current premium is and what it will rise to next year.

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 10h

You can add the Bluebook to that list.

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · Aug 19

Only law professors and lawyers can appreciate this. In a “free library” in Washington, DC, someone has offered the Bluebook. #lawsky #appellatesky

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Josh Pasek @joshpasek.com · 11h

How should university boards prepare?

- Strategize in advance (could happen here)
- Leverage internal expertise (strategize with political scientists, public policy scholars and law faculty)
- Respond collectively and support one another
-Stay true to the mission

This is the real fiduciary duty!

Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 11h

@joshpasek.com, @umich.edu, provides boards of trustees a roadmap for responding to external pressue, like the so-called Educational Compact.

@aaup.org @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 11h

You can watch the full webinar on the intersection of academic freedom and board independence. 2/

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The Integral Relationship Between Board Independence and Academic Freedom | Webinar on Demand

YouTube video by AGB

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 11h

@joshpasek.com, @umich.edu, provides boards of trustees a roadmap for responding to external pressue, like the so-called Educational Compact.

@aaup.org @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social

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

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you

That is not, in fact, what ICE does

He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine

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Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 1d

Update: 282 former DOJ officials write a letter of warning (see post above). 236/

“We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it."

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm'

Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

Judge Esther Salas, whose son was murdered in 2020, issues a dire warning today:

“Officials from top to bottom” are using rhetoric that puts judges at risk:

www.youtube.com/embed/nJO3QH...

YouTube

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 1d

We've been fighting for academic freedom a long time.

From 1926:

"I do no know whether the theory of evolution is true, & I realize there are sincere men on both sides of the controversy, but there is an impending danger to the freedom of teaching when it is forbidden by law..."

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A 1926 article about the right to teach evolution in college classrooms. "I do no know whether the theory of evolution is true, and I realize there are sincere men on both sides of the controversy, but there is an impending danger to the freedom of teaching when it is forbidden by law to teach such well-established theory."

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: "If you can't see that since Trump's taken office, there's been an organized, systematized campaign to delegitimatize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault immigrants and anyone perceived to be an immigrant, then I can't persuade you of it."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller: "If you can't see that since we've taken office, there's been an organized, systemitized campaign to delegitimatize, dehumanize, threaten, impede, obstruct, and physically assault ICE officers in their duties, then I can't persuade you of it."

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 1d

Watch the entire AGB webinar, “The Integral Relationship Between Board Independence and Academic Freedom,” for an urgent conversation about the foundations of these vital freedoms. 2/2

View it now on YouTube: youtu.be/owQIhVhX8mw?...

The Integral Relationship Between Board Independence and Academic Freedom

YouTube video by AGB

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 1d

Academic freedom is not just about the rights of professors and universities. Higher education and society at large both depend on it. - Professor David Rabban 1/2

@aaup.org @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 1d

Further evidence that there is no relationship between law school rankings and ethical behavior of graduates.

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 1d

Utah’s commissioner of higher education has one request following the fatal shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk: Make your commitment to safeguarding free speech on campus even stronger.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2025/10/03/utah-colleges-urged-safeguard-free

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

The weird snipe at @stevevladeck.bsky.social aside, Ilan misses the entire point that even the framers accepted the general idea of judicial oversight re: the president's deployment of military forces. Congress enacted a statutory regime. The president is bound by it. Courts have equitable powers.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 2d

What is the point of the Trump compact? @fishkin.bsky.social: “It is about control. Specifically it is about turning existing federal law, over which the administration has limited control, into terms of a ‘deal’ that offers the government much more control.”

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well.

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In sum, the President is certainly entitled "a great level of deference," Newsom II, 141
F.4th at 1048, in his determination that he "is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws
of the United States." 10 U.S.C. § 12406(3). But "a great level of deference" is not equivalent to
ignoring the facts on the ground. As the Ninth Circuit articulated, courts must "review the
President's determination to ensure that it reflects a colorable assessment of the facts and law
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Case 3:25-cv-01756-IM Document 56
Filed 10/04/25
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within a 'range of honest judgment.'" Id. at 1051 (quoting Sterling, 278 U.S. at 399). Here, this
Court concludes that the President did not have a "colorable basis" to invoke § 12406(3) to
federalize the National Guard because the situation on the ground belied an inability of federal
law enforcement officers to execute federal law. Id. at 1051-52. The President's determination
was simply untethered to the facts.
c. Whether there is a Rebellion or Danger of Rebellion
Defendants also aroue that the Sentember 28 2025 federalization order is authorized

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 2d

Update: Michael Ben’Ary, fired prosecutor, leaves a warning not on his way out the door.

How many more warning notes do we need? 235/

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fired national security prosecutor warns colleagues in note on way out

Michael Ben’Ary says he was fired based on a social media post by a January 6 conspiracy theorist

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

The regime’s playbook:

Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction.

Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action.

The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis.

There is no justification for violence by anyone.

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 3d

@joannaschwartz.bsky.social book Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable is excellent.

www.joannaschwartz.net/shielded-how...

THE BOOK | Joanna Schwartz

Joanna Schwartz is a Professor of Law at UCLA, and is one of the country's leading experts on police misconduct litigation. Her book, SHIELDED, tells the stories of people whose lives have been shatte...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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