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Published: March 23, 2025 12:21

“Institutions with resources must resist thuggish bullying, not just for their own sakes, but to protect others who will find it much harder.” Good piece from @sulliview.bsky.social …

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Published: March 22, 2025 20:15

Columbia’s capitulation is so disappointing. No statute authorized the Trump administration to make these demands, and many of them implicate or encroach on the constitutional freedoms of students, faculty, and the University itself. 1/…

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Published: March 22, 2025 11:55

The most powerful institutions surrendered, so now Trump will come even more ruthlessly after the less powerful ones. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 21, 2025 21:01

A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written. …

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Published: March 21, 2025 18:09

To be fair, this office is less necessary now that the admin has eliminated civil rights and civil liberties. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 21, 2025 11:59

I wrote this about news organizations that were settling with Trump, but it's equally true of law firms that are settling with him. Maybe even *more* true, since the spectacle of *lawyers* surrendering to Trump is especially dispiriting. …

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Published: March 21, 2025 11:53

You'd never know it, but there is actually a constitutional provision that gives universities, law firms, and media orgs the *right* to say no to the president when he demands that they prostrate themselves before him. [contains quote post or other…

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Published: March 21, 2025 11:48

Has Paul Weiss, the storied liberal law firm, explained which of Trump's initiatives it will support? The identification of alien enemies for rendition to El Salvador? The deportation of student protesters? Lawsuits against news orgs that won't say Gulf of…

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Published: March 20, 2025 23:54

Paul Weiss hasn’t confirmed any of this. I *really* hope that’s because this is wishful thinking on Trump’s part. I can’t imagine that Paul Weiss’s lawyers would agree to this. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 20, 2025 14:40

This is *tens of thousands* of warrantless searches every year by border agents who have essentially unfettered discretion to decide who enters and who doesn’t.…

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Published: March 20, 2025 12:02

Whatever we offer, they’ll demand more, because what they actually want is to vanquish every institution—the media, the courts, the bar, the universities—that could serve as a check on their power. “There is no appeasing these forces” is right.…

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Published: March 20, 2025 00:08

“Linked to pro-Palestinian views” is apparently now grounds for arrest and due-process-free deportation. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 19, 2025 18:36

We're asking a federal court to compel the USDA to restore the climate-related data sets, policies, and other webpages the agency purged unlawfully a few weeks ago. @knightcolumbia.org & @earthjustice.bsky.social PI motion:…

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Published: March 19, 2025 17:20

American discourse about war and international affairs is impoverished and distorted by a censorship regime that's largely invisible. Thanks to @evelyndouek.bsky.social for casting some light on it.…

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Published: March 18, 2025 22:13

Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from a Louisiana jail: “even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice” …

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Published: March 18, 2025 17:03

Very grateful to the thousands of Jewish professors, staff, and students who signed this principled, powerful, and justifiably angry letter. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 17, 2025 18:32

This is from the excellent brief filed earlier today by former government officials--all of them conservatives and independents--in support of the Associated Press's challenge to its exclusion from the White House press pool.…

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Published: March 17, 2025 18:15

Also, even as to written orders, it really depends on the font, I would think [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 17, 2025 10:58

The Associated Press case is more important than you think. I wrote about it for Le Monde. English: https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-fight-over-the-white-house-press-pool-is-a-fight-over-democracy French:…

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Published: March 15, 2025 22:44

The Trump admin's thuggish letter to Columbia is garbage, legally speaking. The admin has no statutory authority to make these demands, and many of them are unconstitutional. https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-title-vi-demand-letter-that-itself.html

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Published: March 15, 2025 17:45

It can happen here. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 14, 2025 14:03

Knight Institute statement. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/knight-institute-condemns-trump-administrations-effort-to-subjugate-universities-to-official-power

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Published: March 14, 2025 13:22

"To our knowledge, no major university leadership has publicly denounced the attack on Columbia or Mahmoud Khalil. In the face of an open assault on a peer Ivy League institution and basic principles of free speech, Harvard remains silent."…

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Published: March 14, 2025 11:56

The subjugation of universities to official power is a hallmark of autocracy. No one should be under any illusions about what’s going on here.…

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Published: March 14, 2025 00:02

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

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Published: March 13, 2025 17:53

There's a lot of work to do. We're hiring another Legal Fellow to start ASAP. Please send the best people our way. @knightcolumbia.org https://knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-fellow

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Published: March 13, 2025 01:45

Thanks to @cbsmornings.bsky.social for having me on to discuss Mahmoud Khalil and the Trump admin's shocking and unconstitutional plan to arrest and deport students for engaging in lawful protest activity. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 12, 2025 11:14

Political leaders who are standing by meekly while their constituents are arrested for constitutinally protected speech are an embarrassment to NY city and NY state.…

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Published: March 11, 2025 20:56

No one--not universities, not anyone else--should be turning in their neighbors or students or colleagues for engaging in lawful political speech. There's just no way a democracy can come back from something like that.

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Published: March 11, 2025 18:32

This is a really important point--so important I'm sorry David Wallace-Wells doesn't get there until his last paragraph. What more could Columbia have done to punish the protesters? Drone strikes? (The whole piece is excellent and worth reading.)…

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Published: March 11, 2025 15:58

Trump and Musk are taking away your freedoms but on the other hand they are also taking away your money.

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Published: March 10, 2025 23:00

Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas petition. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25556782-mahmoud-khalil-habeas-petition/

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Published: March 9, 2025 23:55

Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right…

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Published: March 9, 2025 15:41

Thanks to Politico for dedicating its newsletter this morning to the crucial problem of Democrats swearing too much.

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Published: March 9, 2025 14:30

DHS agents raided a Columbia building last night and seized Mahmoud Khalil, a grad student who negotiated on behalf of the student protesters last year. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 8, 2025 22:39

Apparently Mike Johnson didn't receive the letter @knightcolumbia.org sent on Thursday. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 8, 2025 14:20

I find it incredible that anyone takes Trump/Musk seriously when they claim to be concerned about antisemitism. Trump routinely demonizes “globalists” and Musk is a sieg-heiling supporter of far-right groups around the world.

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Published: March 7, 2025 16:03

This is beyond McCarthyite. Every law firm in the country should condemn it, and Perkins Coie should sue over it. This is textbook First Amendment retaliation, and even our current Supreme Court will say so, if given the opportunity.…