Clinical Law Prof at Michigan State. Author of American Indian Children and the Law. Born and raised in Michigan, Hollins (BA) and MSU (JD) alum. Views expressed are my own and not that of my employer
Kate Fort
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It’s always good to see exactly how much worse it can get
This was not as bad as the dream where RBG told me nothing I argued would make the Court care about the Indian Child Welfare Act, which, intellectually I knew was an uphill battle, but still seemed rude for her to use one of her passes back from beyond to tell me that.
Listen we love our Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and our local elementary children have tours there amongst our 50,000 students
My students are having exam nightmares. Me? I dreamt that Adam Unikowski’s Fourth Amendment Supreme Court case involved the ICWA term “continued custody” and no one told me and we didn’t do any briefing on it and I only learned about it from a Lawfare podcast
My little conspiracy theory has always been that Neil had a Native girlfriend in college who absolutely broke his heart by leaving him and telling him he could never understand her and he’s been trying to prove otherwise ever since
Under “neutrality” policies, universities are failing to take sides to *protect democracy* and they will ultimately regret it. There is no freedom in academia under fascism
The amount of made up (hallucinated) quotes from real cases in briefs lately has been a lot. And I’m someone who has a pretty limited practice and has seen it and have been texting with friends who are seeing it. GenAI isn’t it for *actual* legal work, I am sorry
Happy to report my essay in the Yale Law Journal Forum has been published
yalelawjournal.org/essay/the-ch...
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
The UMN leadership - ultimately my bosses - has failed this test, as they have failed every test except, perhaps catering to the needs of power.
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The Indian Child Welfare Act is an incredibly important piece of federal legislation, but achieving its stated goals to protect and preserve Native families is...
