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https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lnbw3j32zc24
Published: April 21, 2025 00:33
Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. …
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Published: April 19, 2025 13:14
From the reply brief @knightcolumbia.org @aaup.bsky.social & @mesa1966.bsky.social filed last night in our challenge to the lawless arrests of student protesters. https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/2dupwdyumn
https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3ln63nyvhok2x
Published: April 19, 2025 12:02
Trump is exploiting and repurposing authorities created during the Bush and Obama administrations for the “war on terror.” This is a great piece by @bcfinucane.bsky.social about what’s new and what’s not.…
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Published: April 19, 2025 11:51
Nice work @aclu.org
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Published: April 17, 2025 13:29
This op-ed from China Daily (!) is exactly right. What a sad and weird thing it is that Chinese state media is warning Americans about “short-sighted nationalism”—and that the warning is justified and urgently necessary.…
https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lmz33oxgkc2u
Published: April 17, 2025 12:08
Rubio’s defense of the arrests/deportations of student protesters relies almost entirely on cases decided before the Supreme Court gave meaning to the First Amendment. Harisiades was decided before Brandenburg. Turner was decided fifteen years before…
https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lmyzkjqtns2u
Published: April 17, 2025 11:41
Israel’s US-facilitated massacre of journalists continues. https://qudsnen.co/palestinian-photojournalist-killed-alongside-nine-family-members-in-israeli-airstrike-on-gaza-home/?amp
https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lmuofag7p223
Published: April 15, 2025 18:10
Law professors challenge constitutionality of Trump EO purporting to bar them from engaging with the International Criminal Court. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.640571/gov.uscourts.nysd.640571.1.0.pdf
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Published: April 15, 2025 00:02
Nothing in federal privacy law precludes a university from denouncing the Gestapo-reminiscent arrest, detention, and deportation of students whose only offense was exercising their First Amendment rights.…
https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lmsimibr6225
Published: April 14, 2025 21:22
"One of the darkest days in American history" is absolutely right.
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Published: April 14, 2025 12:15
Incredible but true--the universities haven't made any joint statement. 80 institutions did join an important brief last week in support of the plaintiffs in AAUP v. Rubio, but the country's largest universities weren't among the signatories.…
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Published: April 12, 2025 13:46
Thanks to @aaup.bsky.social, which is filing the lawsuits that universities should be filing but aren’t.
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Published: April 11, 2025 21:49
That it’s so complicated to present a First Amendment claim in this context is itself an indictment of our system. He’s imprisoned and threatened with deportation because of his lawful political speech. That’s what the First Amendment is supposed to…
https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3lmktplnb6s2x
Published: April 11, 2025 20:19
100 years of First Amendment law is worth very little if it doesn’t foreclose the government from arresting, imprisoning, and expelling legal permanent residents on the basis of their lawful political speech.
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Published: April 11, 2025 19:31
Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/naval-academy-banned-books.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare