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I discussed the limited legal justification offered by the Trump administration for putting boots on the streets (protecting federal bldgs & employees), the mismatch between that and the overheated political rhetoric, & the risks of escalation.

On Meet the Press I talked about our country’s tradition that “boots on the ground are a threat to liberty.”

“A truly compelling account of how Stephen Bright, one of the nation’s greatest lawyers, devoted his life to demanding justice…. His career, as told by Tsai, demonstrates how much good a lawyer committed to public justice can do.” law.georgetown.edu/news/georgetow…

Stephen Bright in his office at Southern Center for Human Rights, taken sometime in the 1980’s. He kept photos of his clients to remind him of what they were like before they encountered the criminal justice system. Demand The Impossible

“Tsai argues that a public defender movement ought to be revived; racial justice acts need public support; and a lot of work can be done to end the death penalty.” ⁦Future Hindsight⁩ ⁦Demand The Impossible⁩ futurehindsight.com/episodes/pursu…

Back at it to discuss birthright citizenship and nationwide injunctions. Kristen Welker Meet the Press

Pleased to join Kristen Welker and former U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg on Meet the Press to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling ending universal injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases.

Reform of nationwide injunctions is warranted but “unfortunately, this ruling raises more questions than it answers.”

During my remarks for Seattle U Law School’s webinar on the Supreme Court’s ruling ending universal injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases, I assess the decision against the backdrop of two dynamics: the rise of judicial supremacy and constitutional politics in a populist age

“The contents of the document were explosive. Below the heading, ‘Result,’ someone had scrawled figures for how many African Americans and women should be placed on master jury lists if one wanted to underrepresent their numbers on juries.” amzn.to/45LFzNg

The Extraordinary Career of Stephen Bright | UW School of Law law.uw.edu/news-events/di…

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“The United States is unlikely to be the most crime-ridden country in the world, but for the last fifty years, its policies have been driven by a perception that social disorder lurks around every corner.” Demand The Impossible W. W. Norton & Company

“He railed against judges who had become so numb to the daily grind of processing cases that they were no longer capable of distinguishing between inconvenience and injustice.” amzn.to/45LFzNg

BREAKING: Pope Leo today: "Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life."

My new essay (with BojanBugaric) for Democracy Journal: “How long can judicial resistance last when it is to come from unelected lower court judges, if it comes at all? We believe that the momentary flurry of judicial activity is fool’s gold.”

“In 1989, [Justice] Powell's committee produced a set of recommendations [to restrict habeas corpus], which Senator Strom Thurmond introduced as legislation … Aides on Capitol Hill had a nickname for the project: ‘Fry Them Faster.’” amzn.to/45LFzNg