Nicholas Serafin
@nickserafin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Law at Santa Clara Law
Some powerful speeches from @nationalnurses.bsky.social members rallying the crowd at the SF #nokings rally 👊
October 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some powerful speeches from @nationalnurses.bsky.social members rallying the crowd at the SF #nokings rally 👊
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Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."
newrepublic.com/post/201625/...
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ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The Chicago raids send a worrying signal about the ideal ICE agents in Trump's America
The agency is on a hiring spree. But we know what that kind of breakneck expansion of the workforce can result in because we’ve seen it before.
www.msnbc.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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For Constitution Day, Santa Clara Law had a great discussion about the "Rule of Law"
Watch the video (which I think I unintentionally evaded): santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...
With @zahrsaid.bsky.social @nickserafin.bsky.social
Watch the video (which I think I unintentionally evaded): santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...
With @zahrsaid.bsky.social @nickserafin.bsky.social
Constitution Day event
santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
For Constitution Day, Santa Clara Law had a great discussion about the "Rule of Law"
Watch the video (which I think I unintentionally evaded): santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...
With @zahrsaid.bsky.social @nickserafin.bsky.social
Watch the video (which I think I unintentionally evaded): santaclarauniversity.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...
With @zahrsaid.bsky.social @nickserafin.bsky.social
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We will have to hale people before truth and reconciliation commissions for these deeply unconscionable violations of human rights.
What is the point of law if honest compliance on one’s own volition means state retribution?
What is the point of law if honest compliance on one’s own volition means state retribution?
August 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We will have to hale people before truth and reconciliation commissions for these deeply unconscionable violations of human rights.
What is the point of law if honest compliance on one’s own volition means state retribution?
What is the point of law if honest compliance on one’s own volition means state retribution?
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The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.
The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality
June 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.
New piece in the Maryland Law Review on an under appreciated provision of the Constitution, the Corruption of Blood clause of Art 3 S3. The history of this clause is fascinating and touches on questions of race, disability, eugenics, immigration, sex, and much more...
April 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New piece in the Maryland Law Review on an under appreciated provision of the Constitution, the Corruption of Blood clause of Art 3 S3. The history of this clause is fascinating and touches on questions of race, disability, eugenics, immigration, sex, and much more...
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I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.
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They're not fascists, they just think we're in a state of exception due to the pollution of the polity and citizen body by undesirable racial elements whose removal is of such paramount importance that it transcends the dictates of the law, justified by their embodiment of the Will of the People.
April 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
They're not fascists, they just think we're in a state of exception due to the pollution of the polity and citizen body by undesirable racial elements whose removal is of such paramount importance that it transcends the dictates of the law, justified by their embodiment of the Will of the People.
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If the courts lose jurisdiction because the government puts the prisoner in a black hole then there is no law.
It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing
April 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
If the courts lose jurisdiction because the government puts the prisoner in a black hole then there is no law.
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Vichy collaboration
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to “intervene” in ICE detainments
A memo sent by the Office of General Council at Johns Hopkins instructs faculty and staff not to intervene if federal law enforcement detain a community member on campus.
buff.ly
March 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Vichy collaboration
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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
March 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.
There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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A five-alarm fire for academic freedom.
The US Attorney in Washington DC is investigating Georgetown Law School, demanding that "if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic]," the law school should "move swiftly to remove it"
Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the First Amendment.
Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the First Amendment.
March 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A five-alarm fire for academic freedom.
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said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.
“We have measles outbreaks every year," Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.
RFK Jr. Dismisses Measles Outbreak As ‘Not Unusual’ After Child's Death
“We have measles outbreaks every year," Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.
www.huffpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?
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World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people.
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
February 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people.
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
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i keep saying these people hate the american system of government because it is true. “sovereign over the executive branch?” get the fuck outta here. he is a servant of the constitution and those “rogue judges” are doing their jobs!
Rooting for the dictator that he and other Christian nationalists have called for - a President who answers to no one.
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
i keep saying these people hate the american system of government because it is true. “sovereign over the executive branch?” get the fuck outta here. he is a servant of the constitution and those “rogue judges” are doing their jobs!
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No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.
January 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.
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This is illegitimate and illegal. I don’t care how many people support it, and how many judges shrug at it. It is a crime against the post-Civil War constitutional order, a constitutional order that was paid for in the blood of Union soldiers.
January 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is illegitimate and illegal. I don’t care how many people support it, and how many judges shrug at it. It is a crime against the post-Civil War constitutional order, a constitutional order that was paid for in the blood of Union soldiers.
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1/X As promised, here is a thread with my impressions from the oral argument in US v. Skrmetti this morning (this is the case challenging TN's ban on gender affirming for transgender minors). In addition, if anyone wants more background, my pre-oral-argument explainer on the case is linked here.
1/X An important Equal Protection case, United States v. Skrmetti, will be heard by the SCT tomorrow (Wed. Dec. 4). For those who have not been following the case closely, a 🧵 about the case, why it is important & what to watch for. I'll do my best to explain in lay terms & stay away from legalese.
December 4, 2024 at 7:13 PM
1/X As promised, here is a thread with my impressions from the oral argument in US v. Skrmetti this morning (this is the case challenging TN's ban on gender affirming for transgender minors). In addition, if anyone wants more background, my pre-oral-argument explainer on the case is linked here.