Thanks to Sonja Sharp @latimes.com for letting me vent about the inanity of qualified immunity and Justice Alito's angry dissent from the denial of certiorari in Pina v. Estate of Jacob Dominguez. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Great insights and commentary!
No such thing as reverse discrimination. Racism and sexism are structural, one way streets.
Elon Musk, accounting for his work week:
1. Bought DOGE employees their first beer
2. PT for overuse of right shoulder
3. Groped a chainsaw
4. Led support group for Afrikaners suffering from nostalgia
5. Insisted that up-armored cybertruck be able to withstand "combatant baseball attack"
Lincoln Caplan reviews Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration and calls it "groundbreaking, engrossing, and authoritative." www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/03/harv...
My Civil Rights class is in large part about this country's unbroken commitment to White welfare programs. It also focuses on White male resistance to competition and a merit-based economy.
Another way of reporting this information is that NYPD is responsible for an ongoing crime wave—1000’s of batteries and kidnappings committed by uniformed officers.
Q: One of your opinions that has been recently trashed by academics concerns the states having the power to declare illegal immigration as an invasion. Some critics have charged you with being hostile to immigrants. This criticism is a bit rich, considering you are yourself an immigrant. And you've argued in support of constitutional birthright citizenship—a topic that I agree with you on. Is the criticism of your invasion opinion the kind of academic commentary that you were thinking of? A: I'm not going to talk about any pending case, of course. But anyone who reads my prior writings on these topics should see a direct connection between birthright citizenship and invasion. Birthright citizenship is supported by various Supreme Court opinions, both unanimous and separate opinions involving Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and others. But birthright citizenship obviously doesn't apply in case of war or invasion. No one to my knowledge has ever argued that the children of invading aliens are entitled to birthright citizenship. And I can't imagine what the legal argument for that would be. It's like the debate over unlawful combatants after 9/11. Everyone agrees that birthright citizenship doesn't apply to the children of lawful combatants. And it's hard to see anyone arguing that unlawful combatants should be treated more favorably than lawful combatants.
Judge James Ho wants you to know he isn’t *that* committed to birthright citizenship reason.com/volokh/2024/...
A prison for “the worst of the worst” is the exact same phrase the Pentagon used 22 years ago when the first detainees from the “Global War on Terror” arrived in Guantanamo in January 2002.
(It was a lie then too.)
My new article "Carceral Apartheid: Centering State Responsibility for Racial Harm" explores how state violence produces the racial order. At the center of this story is the criminal system. Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thank you.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Mass incarceration" is a white-washed term. It does not acknowledge the intentional violence necessary to achieve the shocking racial disparity in incarceration rates.
"Carceral apartheid" centers the state and acknowledges that these disparities result from racial discrimination, nothing else.
