Professor, Lewis & Clark Law School. Teach constitutional law and torts, write on religious liberty and equal protection.
Jim Oleske
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"I want to focus on a great candidate notching a win, in an election that speaks to the depth of respected and diligent public servants we have in our community. How lucky I am to live in such a place."
Well said, @schraubd.bsky.social. Well said.
This suggests a lack of internal alignment among political appointees as to legality. Needless to say, it takes a lot of illegality for this administration to get to that point.
Bruce has added SCOTUS to his big speech before My City of Ruins:
There are bigger electoral fish to fry tonight, but I do want to give a congratulations to my friend and colleague Jo Perini-Abbott , who ...
This is really important from four of my law school colleagues who helped draft U of M’s institutional neutrality policy.
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Our unlawful campaign of murdering civilians is closing in on 200 individuals. And no one in Congress appears to care at all. Nor do most (perhaps all) of our allies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...
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Marcus's post is a worthwhile read.
Not a lot of fun stuff in politics but watching Orban’s defeat is fun.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...
BREAKING NEWS: A federal court just struck down the president's illegal tariffs – again – and Oregon has won a massive victory for working families for the second time this year.
When the president tries to illegally tax Oregonians, we'll go to court to stop him. #orpol
Institutional neutrality means little if it allows the University to signal official disapproval of deeply held views on matters of foremost public concern. Official statements must leave no doubt tha...
NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/
Raffi Melkonian
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield
Jacob T. Levy
When the federal gov't itself teams up with right-wing activists on X to smear my university by reducing it to a viral video clip, there's a lot of value in reading an account like this one by my colleague Dave Marcus of what actually happened at the latest notorious Fed Soc "free speech" dustup—
The EU flag is flying at Hungary’s parliament again after Péter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister — the first time it’s been displayed there since Viktor Orbán had it removed in 2014.
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On Tuesday, April 21, UCLA Law’s Federalist Society chapter hosted a lunchtime event with James Percival, general counsel at the U.S. Depart...
