Sarah Isgur I’m trying to remember the last time I saw this many Con Law scholars, from the left and right, all agreeing with each other. I list a bunch in this thread:

As the Supreme Court explained in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, a nonpublic forum is a space that, while under government control and open for some presence by some members of the public, “is not by tradition or designation a forum for public communication.”

As David Lat helpfully explained: Let’s assume the Chemerinsky home was, for the night of this dinner, property controlled by the University of California and therefore the government. In that case, it would be what’s called a “nonpublic forum” in First Amendment doctrine.

If I wanted people to change their beliefs about an issue I cared about, and they invited me to a dinner at their home, I would use the occasion to try to persuade them with polite conversation, rather than protesting in a way that angered and alienated them.

humiliating. looks like shit. yet another massive W for earth, the best planet in the universe

Nope. Even if the school advertised the space to allow people/groups to speak at his house, that would be a limited public forum—they could still limit the topics and the time, place, and manner. So, no, none of this was protected by 1st Am. Any law student would know that.

If a professor invites you to dinner at his home, that does not convert his home into the public square. It is not an irrevocable invitation to remain indefinitely.

There is no 1A right to trespass on private property.

Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U.S. 551, 568 (1972)

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I've honestly never seen someone so clearly express the central fallacy of modern leftist activism: 'Effective protest makes powerful people uncomfortable, so if you're making powerful people uncomfortable, it must be effective protest.'

FISA aside, I'm looking forward to seeing the 2024 GOP platform, which I assume will formally adopt the principle of adopting whatever Trump posts on any given morning. wsj.com/politics/polic…

UPDATE: Statement from Dean Chemerinsky:

“I am enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda.”

Two more “dinners will go forward on Wednesday and Thursday. I hope that there…

Have you tried Advisory Opinions? 😇

Sarah Isgur and Judge Lee Rudofsky on the same podcast episode? Yes please!

Despite the excellent and engaging people involved, a warning that this is a hard podcast to listen to, as three federal judges report on their trip to Israel.

thedispatch.com/podcast/adviso…

New Pew report on party identification just dropped -> remember, young voters breaking more heavily Dem than their elders is a 2000s onward phenomenon, not 'how it always has been' pewresearch.org/politics/2024/…

If the campaign of stalking, abuse and speech-disruption being used against Democrats was coming from the right rather than the left, liberals would all agree that it's fascism nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Even for Amnesty International this is sick.
Daqqa abducted 19-year-old Moshe Tamam, castrated him, gouged his eyes out, mutilated the rest of his body and then shot him.

Good community note.

Sarah Isgur (Sarah Isgur) shares why she thinks the confirmation process is broken in our first episode of the season “SCOTUS: Flash Point.”

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.Sarah Isgur, on the ABC broadcast: “This isn't like 9/11. They are holding Israelis. They're holding Americans for that matter. So yes, Israel will keep prosecuting that war until every one of those people are home. And that 47-minute video that they have of what Hamas did on…

“What was Hamas hoping to accomplish on 10/7?” seems like one of the more underreported angles in this whole story.

Here is one stab at it.

haaretz.com/israel-news/20…