Maureen Duffy
@maureenduffy.bsky.social
Law prof @UCalgary Law. Formerly visiting prof at STCL Houston. Human rights, Constitutional Law (U.S., Canada), Migration, International Criminal Law. Author of @lawcrossingborders.bsky.social blog. Usual disclaimers, reposts not (always) endorsement.
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Maureen Duffy
@maureenduffy.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you
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wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
wcaleb.rice.edu
Nice! Figuring out the dates is not fun. This seems like it could be a helpful tool.
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The @theatlantic.com claims that Canadians will use "treachery" to make America and its media look "silly".
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
December 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The @theatlantic.com claims that Canadians will use "treachery" to make America and its media look "silly".
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
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Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.”
Published April with @texastribune.org
Published April with @texastribune.org
A Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law
The decision to strip chapters from books that had already won the approval of the state’s Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideologic...
www.propublica.org
December 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.”
Published April with @texastribune.org
Published April with @texastribune.org
I’m guessing none of those posts involve warm Christmas wishes!
December 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I’m guessing none of those posts involve warm Christmas wishes!
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The University of Oklahoma fired an instructor for failing a student who wrote a reaction paper without having read the text she was supposed to react to.
By definition she failed to satisfy the requirements of the assignment—which she publicly disclosed before the decision to fire the instructor.
By definition she failed to satisfy the requirements of the assignment—which she publicly disclosed before the decision to fire the instructor.
Adding on to the clip @parkermolloy.com found where the dumbass OU student admits she just rushed through the assignment.
This isn't an issue of a trans instructor trying to force students to adhere to their worldview...it's a moron student half-assing an assignment and trying to shift blame.
This isn't an issue of a trans instructor trying to force students to adhere to their worldview...it's a moron student half-assing an assignment and trying to shift blame.
Jordan Uhl on Instagram: "Oklahoma University student Samantha Fulnecky admitted to local press that she rushed her assignment in a matter of minutes and didn’t follow the guidelines but should have r...
In a stunning admission, Oklahoma University student Samantha Fulnecky reveals she rushed her assignment and didn't follow guidelines, sparking controversy and debate about academic integrity and acco...
www.instagram.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The University of Oklahoma fired an instructor for failing a student who wrote a reaction paper without having read the text she was supposed to react to.
By definition she failed to satisfy the requirements of the assignment—which she publicly disclosed before the decision to fire the instructor.
By definition she failed to satisfy the requirements of the assignment—which she publicly disclosed before the decision to fire the instructor.
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Way to go Marty! The Supreme Court’s refusal on Tuesday to let the Trump administration deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area was in large part the result of a friend-of-the-court brief submitted by a Georgetown University law professor named Martin S. Lederman.
How a Scholar Nudged the Supreme Court Toward Its Troop Deployment Ruling
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Way to go Marty! The Supreme Court’s refusal on Tuesday to let the Trump administration deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area was in large part the result of a friend-of-the-court brief submitted by a Georgetown University law professor named Martin S. Lederman.
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Abolish Ice
“Prosecutors added that of the 22 times Cincinnati police were called, Saxon never reported those incidents to ICE.”
“It was also revealed in court that his own ICE supervisor called him a ‘loose cannon.’”
“It was also revealed in court that his own ICE supervisor called him a ‘loose cannon.’”
“The federal judge ordered Saxon's detention, saying he is ‘violent and volatile’ and shows a consistent pattern of domestic violence where he threatened to kill the woman multiple times.” www.wlwt.com/article/cinc...
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Abolish Ice
Reposting because this decision is so important and a bit surprising from this Court.
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Reposting because this decision is so important and a bit surprising from this Court.
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Just released on the Guantanamo war court website: A 904-page filing with 899 pages entirely redacted, following a nearly four-year security review. It was filed on Dec. 29, 2021 as exhibits by one of the defendants in the long-running Sept. 11 case.
December 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just released on the Guantanamo war court website: A 904-page filing with 899 pages entirely redacted, following a nearly four-year security review. It was filed on Dec. 29, 2021 as exhibits by one of the defendants in the long-running Sept. 11 case.
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1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, and Illinois Federation of Teachers, my law firm has moved to intervene as defendants in the DOJ's lawsuit seeking Illinois' complete statewide voter registration database. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
🚨 United States of America v. Matthews
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Illinois AFL-CIO, Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, and Illinois Federation of Teachers, my law firm has moved to intervene as defendants in the DOJ's lawsuit seeking Illinois' complete statewide voter registration database. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
GlobalTV, in Canada, aired the 60 Minutes episode about CECOT, which was pulled at the last minute in the US. Now they are using copyright claims to try to get it removed from the Internet.
December 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
GlobalTV, in Canada, aired the 60 Minutes episode about CECOT, which was pulled at the last minute in the US. Now they are using copyright claims to try to get it removed from the Internet.
Why not just change the name of earth?
December 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Why not just change the name of earth?
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On left:
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
On left:
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review
On right:
Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
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BREAKING: We reached a settlement with Travis County, Texas to ensure everyone arrested in the county is provided with an attorney at their first criminal court appearance.
The Constitution is clear: Everyone has the right to legal counsel regardless of their ability to afford one.
The Constitution is clear: Everyone has the right to legal counsel regardless of their ability to afford one.
December 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
BREAKING: We reached a settlement with Travis County, Texas to ensure everyone arrested in the county is provided with an attorney at their first criminal court appearance.
The Constitution is clear: Everyone has the right to legal counsel regardless of their ability to afford one.
The Constitution is clear: Everyone has the right to legal counsel regardless of their ability to afford one.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.
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Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
December 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
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🏠Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Training is funded, shes only 3.5 years old, playful, sweet, full of love, enjoys the outdoors. MELIA needs a calm adult only home. No dogs.
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🏠Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Training is funded, shes only 3.5 years old, playful, sweet, full of love, enjoys the outdoors. MELIA needs a calm adult only home. No dogs.
⬇️
www.facebook.com/reel/1448444...
1.7K views · 5.7K reactions | Melia is just 3 years old and has spent 829 days in the shelter, where most of her days quietly pass in her kennel. Because she did react to strangers entering her previo...
Melia is just 3 years old and has spent 829 days in the shelter, where most of her days quietly pass in her kennel. Because she did react to strangers entering her previous home, she needs a...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
💻[email protected]
🏠Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Training is funded, shes only 3.5 years old, playful, sweet, full of love, enjoys the outdoors. MELIA needs a calm adult only home. No dogs.
⬇️
www.facebook.com/reel/1448444...
🏠Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
Training is funded, shes only 3.5 years old, playful, sweet, full of love, enjoys the outdoors. MELIA needs a calm adult only home. No dogs.
⬇️
www.facebook.com/reel/1448444...
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San Antonio native Cristina Rodríguez selected as the next dean of Yale Law School.
law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
Cristina Rodríguez Selected as Next Dean of Yale Law School
Rodríguez will assume the deanship on Feb. 1, 2026, as the Sol and Lillian Goldman Dean and Professor of Law at Yale Law School.
law.yale.edu
December 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
San Antonio native Cristina Rodríguez selected as the next dean of Yale Law School.
law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
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With months-long consulate and embassy delays being reported, the two tech companies say staying put in the U.S. right now could prevent workers from getting stranded in their home countries.
Apple, Google tell workers on visas to avoid leaving the U.S. amid Trump immigration crackdown
With months-long consulate and embassy delays being reported, the two tech companies say staying put in the U.S. right now could prevent workers from getting stranded in their home countries.
n.pr
December 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
With months-long consulate and embassy delays being reported, the two tech companies say staying put in the U.S. right now could prevent workers from getting stranded in their home countries.
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Wow. Last used ~1934, inherent contempt would in effect bring Bondi to trial in the House & by majority vote empower the House to put her in jail. Far more effective than other options (criminal referral to her own DOJ or endless civil litigation), it'd be a huge bipartsan stand against the Admin.
BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Wow. Last used ~1934, inherent contempt would in effect bring Bondi to trial in the House & by majority vote empower the House to put her in jail. Far more effective than other options (criminal referral to her own DOJ or endless civil litigation), it'd be a huge bipartsan stand against the Admin.
Such an important read.
“The white supremacist, anti-14th Amendment, post-Brown movement has the complicity or active engagement of all three branches of government as it works to undo the constitutional infrastructure of Reconstruction and the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.”
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Is It Too Late?
No. But We Must Better Understand the Nature of the Battle
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Such an important read.
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BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
December 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.