In recent days, the Department of Education has announced two sets of investigations stemming from the administration’s application of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The announced investigations are focused on institutional compliance within the context of the Supreme Court opinion and subsequent guidance from the Department of Education
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Thompson on Mandamus and Democracy
By Dan Ernst
Elizabeth Lee Thompson, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, has published Mandamus as a Democracy Tool, which is forthcoming in the Denver Law Review:Legal scholars recognize the centrality of state courts and procedures to United States democracy but the study of state proceedings and their impact represents a largely unexplored arena.…
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By Ann Althouse
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"The Trump administration on Monday repeatedly stonewalled a federal judge seeking answers about whether the government had violated his order barring the deportation…"
By Ann Althouse
“…of more than 200 noncitizens without due process, escalating a conflict that threatened to become a constitutional crisis…. Judge James E. Boasberg… said, he wanted only to figure out the timeline of the flights to determine whether they were in violation of his ruling. But [Justice Department lawyer, Abhishek Kambli] repeatedly refused to say anything about…
"A new report is shedding more light on why UW-Madison’s director of Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement lost his job."
By Ann Althouse
“The report, which was released Friday, details how former DDEEA chief LaVar Charleston spent millions of dollars, handed out bonuses and raises, and never fully communicated any of it to anyone else at the school…. But perhaps the most damning part of the report came from what Charleston spent on training, travel, and events. Which…
"Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer."
By Ann Althouse
“There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned. Because of this, South Africa has been taken off our list of Countries receiving Economic and Financial Assistance. Please be advised that,…
"It’s time to not just try to love one another, because we know the difference between trying and doing. It’s time to do."
By Ann Althouse
Said Jesse Colin Young, in 2018.Quoted in “Jesse Colin Young, Singer Who Urged Us to ‘Get Together,’ Dies at 83/As the leader of the Youngbloods, he sang one of the enduring anthems of the peace-and-love era. He went on to have a prolific career as a solo artist” (NYT).ADDED: Here’s a Youngbloods single that I…
Roberts on The Vagrancy Law Model: Governing Through Social Contagion in the Anglo World, c. 1824-1932
Christopher M. Roberts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, has published The Vagrancy Law Model: Governing Through Social Contagion in the Anglo World, c. 1824–1932 as The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2025-4. Here is the abstract.
This chapter aims to trace the nature and impact…
Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) Announces PhD in Contemporary Studies (DEC)
From António Ventura, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20-UC):
A PhD for the Age of Complexity
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) announces the PhD in Contemporary Studies (DEC), which prepares a new generation of researchers to better understand and act on the uncertainties of contemporary complexity, in an intense environment of interdisciplinary knowledge creation.
It…
"President Trump wrote on social media on Sunday night that he no longer considered valid the pardons his predecessor granted to members of the bipartisan House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the Capitol…"
By Ann Althouse
“… and a range of other people whom Mr. Trump sees as his political enemies, because they were signed using an autopen device…. But Mr. Trump’s assertion, which embraced a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory about former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., was a new escalation of his antidemocratic rhetoric. Implicit in his post was Mr.…