I will always stand by Hamza, a good friend and ally who has faced numerous challenges with trying to hold multiple truths, operate in a minefield, and navigate a horrendously toxic, bloody, divisive, incendiary, and outright dangerous discourse. He has been getting an

The reason the Alito flag stories (like the Thomas stories) are so important is not because they reveal the individuals in question to be extremist ideologues. It is because of the utter contempt for the history, ethics, and standing of the court on which they serve & for the

axios.com/2024/05/23/cla…

Trump: “Vladimir Putin…Will do that for me, but not for anyone else.”

Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

Since I posted my opinion here supporting the ICC prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants for Hamas leaders and for Israeli PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant, I’ve received a torrent of vitriol, mostly ad hominem attacks (including many messages attacking me specifically

U.N. Court Orders Israel to Halt Rafah Offensive nytimes.com/2024/05/24/wor…

Why isn't the Stars and Stripes on top?
Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/…

Submitted my grades. Let the fun begin.

Graded exams and papers.
Summer vacation.
The best thing about academic life

Raskin: “if and when we win back the House and the Senate and the White House we will look at the Supreme Court and figure out what can be done about that extremely corrupted and contaminated body.” Yes we will, brother. Yes we will.
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A great voice for justice in New Jersey.
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As Justice Kagan’s dissent says, “In every way, [Alito’s 6-3] majority today stacks the deck against the [African-American] challengers,” ensuring that the “‘odious’ practice of sorting citizens, built on racial generalizations and exploiting racial divisions, will continue.”

'Source of Wise Counsel to Many': Retired NJ Supreme Court Justice Alan B. Handler Dies at 92 at.law.com/pj5Ao6?cmp=sha… via NJ Law Journal

“In bestowing racist legislatures with the presumption of good faith, Alito [and five colleagues are] advancing the twin causes of white Christian nationalism and insurrection symbolized by the ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag displayed over his beach house in 2023. Alito is, in short, in

“Since the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, Trump has become more and more apocalyptic in his language. This week, he sent another dangerous signal to his supporters: FBI agents are an armed enemy, ready to assassinate the former president. Unless, of course, Trump and his

This shows why Trump’s campaign didn’t release any aerial shots of his South Bronx rally. MAGA claims 25,000 people showed up, but this photo — taken while Trump spoke on stage — shows a crowd ONE-TENTH that size.

The media laps up all his lies — please share to call out the BS!

Fascism in America?
 
The fascism debate rages on: Here is why it matters, what the main contentions are, and why the arguments of the Skeptics are increasingly untethered from what is happening on the Right.
 
Some thoughts from my new piece (link in bio):
 
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Justice Alito was in a group that at Princeton accused it of promoting birth control and paying for abortions, and of diluting the explicitly Christian character of the school.

Tommy Tuberville: 'The unemployment rates of all people in the country were very very low under Donald Trump, but not under this president.' (The unemployment rate when Trump left office was over 6 percent -- it's now been under 4 percent for two years.)

Clarence Thomas delivers a rather extraordinary critique of Brown v. Board of Education just after Brown's 70th anniversary, suggesting that the Brown court significantly overstepped its constitutional authority in its quest to end Jim Crow. supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…