Kate Levine
@klevine02.bsky.social
Law Professor at Cardozo Law, former appellate public defender. I write about our national addiction to the carceral state and complain about mundane things. https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/kate-levine
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Kate Levine
@klevine02.bsky.social
· Jan 14
Redistributing Justice
This Article surfaces an obstacle to decarceration hiding in plain sight: progressives’ continued support for the carceral system. Despite increasingly prevale
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I’m proud of this coauthored paper, “Redistributing Justice,” with Ben Levin. It’s forthcoming in Columbia Law Review. Up on SSRN now. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
If you need more reason to abolish money bail (you don’t), here.
🚨 I’ve been keeping this under wraps until published and it’s out today.
Do judges with background in law enforcement act differently at bail time? Our groundbreaking NYC study estimates that when they set bail, it is a full 32% higher on average compared to other judges. Check it out and share.
Do judges with background in law enforcement act differently at bail time? Our groundbreaking NYC study estimates that when they set bail, it is a full 32% higher on average compared to other judges. Check it out and share.
Judicial Professional Background and Pretrial Detention Outcomes | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core
Judicial Professional Background and Pretrial Detention Outcomes
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December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you need more reason to abolish money bail (you don’t), here.
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that there are no 4th Amendment rights in your Google search terms. When you search on Google, you tell them your search terms; the government can get those queries without a warrant. The third-party doctrine applies.
www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
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Job opening for a clinical teaching fellow in the Civil Rights Litigation initiative at Michigan Law. This is an opportunity to plug into (or continue within) a robust local social justice lawyering network while also exploring teaching. Please share widely!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Clinical Teaching Fellow- Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, Law School | U-M Careers
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December 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Job opening for a clinical teaching fellow in the Civil Rights Litigation initiative at Michigan Law. This is an opportunity to plug into (or continue within) a robust local social justice lawyering network while also exploring teaching. Please share widely!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
Is there a bigger scandal hiding in plain sight?
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Is there a bigger scandal hiding in plain sight?
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The memo associated w/ this chart closes with what I am reading as a thinly veiled threat
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The memo associated w/ this chart closes with what I am reading as a thinly veiled threat
Awful that theyll bear Trump’s name but direct cash investment for children acrruing for 18 years is a really good idea. Call it Universal Basic Income. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
Michael and Susan Dell to Put $250 in 25 Million Children’s Accounts
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Awful that theyll bear Trump’s name but direct cash investment for children acrruing for 18 years is a really good idea. Call it Universal Basic Income. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
The NY Post at it again www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The NY Post at it again www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Civil Rights are gun rights, which means the administration is denying them to people who are Black or trans. The same DOJ is also arguing that "certain people" should not have guns, let's not forget. What the DOJ is doing is "civil rights for white people."
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was created to protect the rights of the politically disempowered. Under the leadership of Harmeet K. Dhillon, a lawyer and MAGA-world star, the division is pivoting to knocking down gun restrictions.
At the Justice Department, Civil Rights Now Means Gun Rights
The Civil Rights Division was created to protect the disempowered. Under Trump, it's working to dismantle gun restrictions.
www.thetrace.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Civil Rights are gun rights, which means the administration is denying them to people who are Black or trans. The same DOJ is also arguing that "certain people" should not have guns, let's not forget. What the DOJ is doing is "civil rights for white people."
New oxymoron alert 🚨
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
New oxymoron alert 🚨
Ok well now the whole thing makes sense. Assume Kim Clark CEO is connected to Trump in some sY. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...
Kimberly-Clark Agrees to Buy Kenvue, Maker of Tylenol, for $40 Billion
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ok well now the whole thing makes sense. Assume Kim Clark CEO is connected to Trump in some sY. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/b...
In the NYT fantasy of what the “Right” is he is a problem. Once again NYT tells on itself. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
Nick Fuentes: A White Nationalist Problem for the Right
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In the NYT fantasy of what the “Right” is he is a problem. Once again NYT tells on itself. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
Evert saying Naomi needs to be “more aggressive” but also “stay calm” is peak.
September 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Evert saying Naomi needs to be “more aggressive” but also “stay calm” is peak.
Did any of the folks who like the US open and are shocked by Chrissie Everet’s commentary on Coco and Naomi (hard to put a finger on what connects them) migrate to BS?
September 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Did any of the folks who like the US open and are shocked by Chrissie Everet’s commentary on Coco and Naomi (hard to put a finger on what connects them) migrate to BS?
Just lol to the worst people on earth using the most abusive power against each other and any pearl clutching. L Law enforcement is randomly deployed against people — poor people and people of color daily forever.
August 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Just lol to the worst people on earth using the most abusive power against each other and any pearl clutching. L Law enforcement is randomly deployed against people — poor people and people of color daily forever.
Just asked ChatGPT if I should be worried about the singularity in case anyone else is there
August 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just asked ChatGPT if I should be worried about the singularity in case anyone else is there
Very good professor and nice person, may his memory be a blessing. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Law School Professor Richard Fallon Dies at 73 | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Law School professor and internationally renowned constitutional law scholar Richard H. Fallon Jr. died on Sunday. He was 73.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Very good professor and nice person, may his memory be a blessing. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The NYT is trash clickbait. It’s so sad.
June 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The NYT is trash clickbait. It’s so sad.
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But it by no means follows that we should fold things up. Most law in the U.S. does not involve the Supreme Court, and every Supreme Court decision, every one, has wiggle room that antifascists should be as willing to find as fascists. So take it.
June 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
But it by no means follows that we should fold things up. Most law in the U.S. does not involve the Supreme Court, and every Supreme Court decision, every one, has wiggle room that antifascists should be as willing to find as fascists. So take it.
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Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
Garland v. Texas Top Cop Shop
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June 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Near the end of the Biden years, Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to rein in nationwide injunctions in a low-stakes case where a Republican judge/Fifth Circuit blocked an act of Congress from applying to anyone anywhere.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
They declined and took up Trump’s patently illegal order instead.
The examples in this oped are so stark. Obama and Biden— help kids and educate. Trump — van and terrorize. Anyway, hope dems are drafting so many laws right now.
June 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The examples in this oped are so stark. Obama and Biden— help kids and educate. Trump — van and terrorize. Anyway, hope dems are drafting so many laws right now.
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I'm excited to share my article, The Immigration Subpoena Power, which explores the way that ICE uses administrative subpoenas for civil immigration enforcement and the concerns that these practices raise. Many thanks to those who helped improve it (1/2)
columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
THE IMMIGRATION SUBPOENA POWER - Columbia Law Review
Introduction After a series of public losses in its war on “sanctuary” cities, the first Trump Administration deployed the immigration subpoena, a new and formidable weapon in this fight. It used thes...
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February 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I'm excited to share my article, The Immigration Subpoena Power, which explores the way that ICE uses administrative subpoenas for civil immigration enforcement and the concerns that these practices raise. Many thanks to those who helped improve it (1/2)
columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
columbialawreview.org/content/the-...
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I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
How you can help the incarcerated firefighters battling L.A. wildfires
The Los Angeles-based Anti-Recidivism Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to ending mass incarceration, started a fundraiser on Friday to support the fire crews of California’s prisons.
www.latimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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One of the articles I'm most proud of is now out in the world as the lead article in the latest volume of the Minnesota Law Review thanks to its wonderful editors.
Co-authoring it w/ Rell Carter fundamentally altered how I think about the production of knowledge.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Co-authoring it w/ Rell Carter fundamentally altered how I think about the production of knowledge.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 4, 2024 at 2:24 PM
One of the articles I'm most proud of is now out in the world as the lead article in the latest volume of the Minnesota Law Review thanks to its wonderful editors.
Co-authoring it w/ Rell Carter fundamentally altered how I think about the production of knowledge.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Co-authoring it w/ Rell Carter fundamentally altered how I think about the production of knowledge.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
On the other hand…
November 14, 2024 at 3:51 AM
On the other hand…