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Mary Louise Dudziak is an American legal theorist, civil rights historian, educator, and a leading foreign policy and international relations… more

Mary L. Dudziak
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Murder on the High Seas Part II: What We Know about U.S. Vessel Strikes One Month In

@tessbridgeman.bsky.social and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by @becingber.bsky.social and @bcfinucane.bsky.social to analyze the U.S. military campaign in the Caribbean.

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The Just Security Podcast: Murder on the High Seas Part II -- What We Know about U.S. Vessel Strikes One Month In
Tess Bridgeman and Rachel Goldbrenner are joined by Rebecca Ingber and Brian Finucane to analyze the U.S. military campaign in the Caribbean.
www.justsecurity.org
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Lisa W. Fazio, Will Jennings , and 6 more

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Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...
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by Mary L. Dudziak — Reposted by: Stephen M. Walt, Elizabeth Saunders, Will Jennings , and 5 more

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Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? @nytimes.com
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Has Trump’s second term posed a greater or lesser threat to the rule of law than you expected? Circular graph showing over half answered: much more than I expected, about a quarter: more than I expected, about an eighth: similar threat to what I expected, small sliver: much less threat than I expected.
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by Stephen I. Vladeck — Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Michael E. Mann, Anna O. Law , and 14 more

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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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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Joanna Bryson, Kim L. Scheppele , and 8 more

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BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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Rest in power Ann Fagin Ginger, who was 100. Here she is telling UC Berkeley students during the Free Speech Mvt. that they had 1st Amendment Rights. A model for our own time.
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Photograph of a woman at a microphone surrounded by a very large crowd of protesters.
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Jennifer A. Richeson, John McLaren , and 4 more

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Resolution of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate (thus not institutional policy and entirely non-binding, but still inspirational): Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" WHEREAS the United States Secretary of Education has requested that the University of Virginia enter into a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education", and WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions antithetical to the mission and traditions of the University, and WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions which endanger the independence and integrity of the University, and WHEREAS the compact likely violates state and federal law, and infringes upon the constitutional rights of members of the University community, and WHEREAS the University of Virginia exemplifies American academic values of the highest standard, including universal right to free speech and the cultivation of academic freedom; therefore BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written and calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University. Feature Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Nicholas A. Christakis, Brendan Nyhan , and 5 more

johnpfaff.bsky.social
You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.
“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Juan Cole, Melanie C. Green

windypundit.com
I like your work, but what the heck is Zeteo? Would you mind taking a few minutes to sell us on it? Who’s running it? What are they trying to do? Why is it so great?
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Rebecca Tushnet, Daxton R. Stewart

amykristinsanders.bsky.social
Know a law student interested in Communication/Media Law?

Applications are open for the Forum on Communications Law's Annual Conference and Media Advocacy Workshop scholarships to attend the February 2026 conference in Phoenix.

Application information available on the Forum's website.
Media Advocacy Workshop 2025-2026 Law Student Scholarship Program
Now in its 31st year, the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law is pleased to invite law students to apply for financial support to attend its Media Advocacy Workshop and Annual Confe...
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“'This is cruelty for cruelty’s sake,' said a senior congressional aide briefed on the plan. 'Targeting children — threatening their parents — offering them cash to give up safety — this is not immigration enforcement. It’s blackmail.'" open.substack.com/pub/migranti...
BREAKING: ICE Hunts Children in Twisted 'Freaky Friday' Operation
Operation targets unaccompanied children as young as 14 — with threats, bribes, and family arrests if they refuse to self-deport.
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Eric Goldman, Robert C. Richards , and 4 more

jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.
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by Mary L. Dudziak — Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Anna O. Law, Nathan P. Kalmoe , and 1 more

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What a great opportunity! Seminar Native Peoples, American Colonialism and the Constitution with @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social & Ned Blackhawk for grad students & "junior" faculty. In person & virtual. Apply by 10/10.
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The New York Historical’s Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is accepting applications for its fall 2025 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty. seminar | fall 2025 Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution Fridays, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025 | 11 am–2 pm ET Instructors: Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar invites a critical examination of a central paradox in American constitutional history: how can a nation celebrate a founding document and constitutional tradition built, in part, on the dispossession of Indigenous homelands? Indian affairs and westward expansion were foundational to the creation and evolution of the US Constitution, yet Native history remains marginalized within the fields of constitutional history and mainstream constitutional scholarship. This seminar explores emerging historical and legal literature that re-centers Native peoples and American colonialism in the narrative of US constitutional development. Presented in person at The New York Historical and via Zoom Apply by October 10, 2025
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, John Horgan, Kevin Jon Heller

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Spoke with @charliesavage.bsky.social about how the administration is trying to backfill a legal rationale for US strikes in the Caribbean.

Seems by "determining" there is an armed conflict—without any basis in fact or law—POTUS is giving himself a license to kill.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
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Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

A notice calls the people the U.S. military recently killed on suspicion of drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea “unlawful combatants.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told
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by Mary L. Dudziak

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Beautiful!!
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Anna O. Law, Elizabeth Saunders , and 7 more

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Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.
"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't." Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.
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by Mary L. Dudziak

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Does not seem to be working right now, but here's where to find your work in the Anthropic settlement.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6d
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Safiya U. Noble, Jason Mittell , and 5 more

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fishkin.bsky.social
@pastpunditry.bsky.social 's column in the NYT is terrific. This is why we need historians writing opinion pieces!

It also underscores something I keep thinking about lately. During the Second Red Scare era, 75 years ago, one key piece of background was there really were Soviet spies around!

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Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Richard Price, American Library Association , and 8 more

anthonyclark.bsky.social
If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏
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charliesavage.bsky.social
In case useful, I made a chart (with CourtListener links) of the newly disclosed attorney-client privilege material from the Trump J6 and docs grand jury investigations, and how they compares to the executive privilege-focused files that became public last October.

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Newly Revealed Material About Attorney-Client Privilege and Grand Jury Subpoenas in Trump’s Election and Documents Cases - Charlie Savage
Yesterday, Judge James E. Boasberg, the chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, made public some previously secret material about attorney-client privilege fights in th...
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Stephan Lewandowsky, Staffan I. Lindberg , and 11 more

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An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Anna O. Law, David R. Miller , and 5 more

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If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Anna O. Law, Manisha Sinha

evanbernick.bsky.social
Just going to leave this here. I continue to believe that this whole thing is a catastrophe for legal scholarship, and I hope it doesn’t do any more damage. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...
ESSAY BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP AND THE DUNNING SCHOOL OF UNORIGINAL MEANINGS Evan D. Bernick, Paul Gowder & Anthony Michael Kreist This Essay critically surveys the recent debate surrounding birthright citizenship in the United States, particularly in light of arguments presented by legal scholars Randy Barnett, Kurt Lash, and Ilan Wurman. Under the guise of "originalism," Barnett, Lash, and Wurman propose an ahistorical, revisionist interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause. They suggest that the term "jurisdiction" should be understood as "allegiance," seemingly to give the veneer of legitimacy to the Trump Administration's view that the children of undocumented immigrants may not be American citizens. This Essay argues that their efforts to radically redefine the historical understanding of citizenship are methodologically flawed and undermine core principles of constitutional law. The critique exposes the inaccuracies and inconsistencies in their position and scrutinizes the scholarly merit of new theories of birthright citizenship that are wildly inconsistent with constitutional text, history, precedent, and unbroken tradition. This Essay concludes by examining the professional responsibility of legal scholars to engage in rigorous, fact-based historical analysis rather than politically motivated reinterpretations that threaten to destabilize fundamental constitutional rights.
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Congratulations to @gauthamrao.bsky.social!!
Some books just take their time. I am inspired that yours is out!
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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 8d
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

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Reposted by: Mary L. Dudziak, Anna O. Law, Mirya R. Holman , and 4 more

gauthamrao.bsky.social
Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP
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marydudziak.bsky.social
Thanks. This is my plan for next year. I always have interim assignments but haven't been grading them-- and can't change my current syllabus. Thinking of adding 1-on-1 conversations about papers after they are turned in, but this could be problematic, especially during grading period.

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Sounds wonderful.
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Hivemind: how are you going to grade papers this semester? How will you avoid just grading the AI? 😑
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