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Today is publication day!⭐️ Learn how a boy of humble origins became one of the fiercest critics of the criminal justice system and a fearless advocate for racial equality. I hope you enjoy DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE as much as I enjoyed writing it. @wwnorton amzn.to/45LFzNg

“The style of regulation reflected in the Columbia deal is at once far more coercive and far more arbitrary—opaque in development, unpredictable in application, deeply susceptible to personalism and corruption, and only contingently connected to the laws Congress has written.”

the art of the deal is fairly transparent extortion: T***p selects a university to target, invents some pretext for "investigating," agrees then to negotiate a deal in which the university pays the equivalent of an immense fine--($250 million)--not unlike a small business…

Here's what I'm hearing from multiple reform/realignment sources inside: There are people in Trump II who quite openly promote Big Tech interests and hinder efforts to curb market power. All the firms have to do is pay a kind of ideological fee: mouthing anti-woke pieties.

COOK @McdonaldAari2!!!!!!!!!

Robert Tsai (rest) ruled out for Friday.

A Maryland man who was twice sentenced to death for a pair of murders he didn’t commit, and then served 32 years in prison before being released, is suing the prosecutors and police detectives who mishandled his case: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

The release was triggered after a reporter for @washingtonpost discovered a letter the FBI had sent to Cassilly in 1999 saying the evidence used to convict Huffington was flawed and an agent had testified falsely — and Cassilly never told anyone.

David Pozen on Columbia U’s deal with Trump

Last fall, the editors of the Harvard Law Review invited me to write the Foreword for this year's Supreme Court issue. My working draft is below, and comments are most welcome. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

This moment will last forever. What a beautiful way to say goodbye. Thank you Ozzy.

I chatted with @sara_randazzo of @WSJ about the court hearing on @Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Harvard University’s odds to win its Boston court battle look favorable—but the larger war is up in the air on.wsj.com/46hSRny

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Judge sentences ex-officer in Breonna Taylor raid to nearly 3 years in prison, declining DOJ request of no prison time.

Law and order as profit and entertainment