Main Sunday, July 06, 2025A Dual Track for Article Five AmendmentsI spent much of last week in the Birch Bayh Archives researching my next article and book. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to talk what I found there
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Was a University of Illinois Architecture Professor Denied Tenure because He Is a Zionist? UPDATED
Main Saturday, July 05, 2025Was a University of Illinois Architecture Professor Denied Tenure because He Is a Zionist? UPDATEDMoving to the front with the correct link.So submits my friend and co-author Cary Nelson, emeritus professor at UIUC and former president…
Speed dial
Main Thursday, July 03, 2025Speed dialI am not a fan of Justice Sotomayor’s writing, even when I agree on the substance–it comes across as over-wrought without being lyrical. But check out the final line of her dissent from the…
Why Ever Bother Calling a Trump Regime Press Office?
Main Thursday, July 03, 2025Why Ever Bother Calling a Trump Regime Press Office?It’s been a remarkable week for the press. In a week in which the president’s corruption* and authoritarianism were displayed, inter alia, in a letter from his…
Title VI action v. Haverford College dismissed
Main Thursday, July 03, 2025Title VI action v. Haverford College dismissedHere, this time with prejudice, because plaintiffs largely failed to clean-up the press-release pleading the court dismissed in January. There also is this line at the end of…
Trump plays procedural games, wins procedural prizes (Updated Twice)
Main Thursday, July 03, 2025Trump plays procedural games, wins procedural prizes (Updated Twice)Donald Trump voluntarily dismissed his BS lawsuit against the DesMoines Register and pollster Ann Selzer over her erroneous final-weekend poll that showed Kamala Harris winning Iowa. Some…
Zombie laws and Dobbs
Main Wednesday, July 02, 2025Zombie laws and DobbsDobbs created the perfect laboratory for zombie laws. Many states had 19th-century bans or near-bans that were obviously unenforceable (in some states enforcement had been enjoined; in others officials knew they could not…
Until Paramount seized the trophy . . . (Updated)
Main Wednesday, July 02, 2025Until Paramount seized the trophy . . . (Updated)It appears that institutions will stick together in response to Trump authoritarianism. Not by joining together in collective resistance, as one would hope. But by individually capitulating, thereby…
Penn wins the trophy for caving
Main Tuesday, July 01, 2025Penn wins the trophy for cavingWhen the story of institutional cravenness in this dark period is written, University of Pennsylvania will live in the Ninth Circle of Hell. Penn was the first to cut its leader…