Margo Schlanger
@mjschlanger.bsky.social
University of Michigan Law Prof. Founder and director, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. Criminal justice reform and other issues. Formerly at DOJ CRT, DHS CRCL, USDA DFAP.
Argument: Injunctive lawsuits enforcing the statute barring disability discrimination by the federal government are valid because there is a cause of action and a waiver of sovereign immunity. Lots of details in the piece, but the bottom line bolsters a key check on government overreach.
December 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Argument: Injunctive lawsuits enforcing the statute barring disability discrimination by the federal government are valid because there is a cause of action and a waiver of sovereign immunity. Lots of details in the piece, but the bottom line bolsters a key check on government overreach.
I had no idea this was a thing, but now I'm all over it!
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I had no idea this was a thing, but now I'm all over it!
Reposted by Margo Schlanger
And then you should read this great @mjschlanger.bsky.social piece from a decade ago that develops similar themes: repository.law.umich.edu/articles/1410/
Intelligence Legalism and the National Security Agency’s Civil Liberties Gap
Since June 2013, we have seen unprecedented security breaches and disclosures relating to American electronic surveillance. The nearly daily drip, and occasional gush, of once-secret policy and operat...
repository.law.umich.edu
October 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
And then you should read this great @mjschlanger.bsky.social piece from a decade ago that develops similar themes: repository.law.umich.edu/articles/1410/
So how long did it take?
August 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
So how long did it take?
Reposted by Margo Schlanger
That's what @mjschlanger.bsky.social has been going around saying!
March 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
That's what @mjschlanger.bsky.social has been going around saying!
I ran CRCL for 2 years in the Obama administration. It plays statutorily required roles, addressing public & employee civil rights complaints. Another demonstration that the Administration stands against core civil rights, not just what it thinks is too-expansive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
March 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I ran CRCL for 2 years in the Obama administration. It plays statutorily required roles, addressing public & employee civil rights complaints. Another demonstration that the Administration stands against core civil rights, not just what it thinks is too-expansive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.