Thomas Frampton

There’s a lot to do if/when we get past all *this*, but a requirement to run as a Democrat should be support for codifying Bivens. (If federal officials deprive you of clearly established constitutional rights, you should have the same remedies as when Georgia or Utah officials do. Winning issue.)

Proud to be a signatory on this letter. And, as if to prove the point, here’s the DOJ official responsible for ousting Jim Ryan and leading the “negotiations” with our Board of Visitors. It has nothing to do with protecting Jews; 100% with advancing a far-right partisan agenda.

Ryan’s shameful ouster is on all of them, for sure, but don’t sleep on AG Jason Miyares. UVA’s GC works for him, not the President; our GC is technically a “Senior AAG.” It’s tough for UVA to fight Trump with two hands tied behind our back. (Something to consider this Nov. if you vote in VA.)

I do not think our universities, politicians, government offices, employers, and fellow academics should be on the website of the "Jews promote race-mixing for others but not themselves" guy.

Walked past the old post office building yesterday, across from Union Station, and was struck by the inscription (which I’d somehow never noticed): “Messenger of sympathy and love / Servant of parted friends / Consoler of the lonely / Bond of the scattered family / Enlarger of the common life.”

Cf. law professors heartened by ChatGPT’s enthusiasm about their latest work-in-progress…

Rancid was right there for them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrjg...

Some fascinating stuff in this Batson opinion . . . including the appellate court noting that a prospective juror's hesitation when asked if they can be "fair" and "impartial" is actually the mark of a good juror, not a basis to strike.

"The workaround could face legal scrutiny . . ." is a heckuva way to start the ninth paragraph of an article about the functional abolition of one branch of government.

I’ve got plenty of issues with how “DEI” initiatives play out in universities and corporate America—and obviously policies matter more than these general statements—but it’s REALLY nice to read something like this right now.

And "no name-changes" SecDef29 now prefers to be called SecWar29.

Interestingly, KJB made the same move yesterday in a Batson case (Pitchford v. Cain) where I think (hope?) that's what Kavanaugh wanted to hear.

Wild that a federal judge scolds a group of Jewish Intervenors concerned about "lists of Jews" for "unfortunate" and "counterproductive" analogies to past antisemitic regimes . . . and today Trump's at SCOTUS asking to strip citizenship & create a stateless people out of a disfavored minority group.