"enough of a fool, or enough of a coward...."

you saw what you saw https://t.co/0iUqSN7S6M via @YouTube

Thanks to the great team @nyulawreview for publishing Public Defense and an Abolitionist Ethic! https://t.co/YzcFyZCWze

Grateful to the fantastic folks @nyulawreview for all the work they put into to publishing this piece!

🧵4/9. @vmsoutherland of @nyulaw employs an abolitionist framework to re-imagine the role of public defenders in our current criminal legal system.

A civil rights lawyer in the legendary tradition of Thurgood Marshall & Constance Motley, Judge Natasha Merle is a stellar addition to the Eastern District of NY. “She is a star,” as Honorable John Gleeson recognized. She keeps great company, too! Congratulations, Judge Merle!

Talk about a race to the bottom.

To my colleagues and friends: thank you for the love and support over this past week. It is an honor to do this work and I do not take my responsibility as a scholar and teacher lightly. My team @NLawCRDJ is incredible and we wanted to take some time to set the record straight...

While Black women professors have literally died from the academy, been discredited, and pushed out of their positions, a group of angry yt men have decided to target nonwhite, LGBTQ & female law professors. Here are my thoughts/advice for professors concerned w/ the complaint.

Overturned Roe. Ended affirmative action. Overturned Chevron. And now putting an end to democracy.

Come on @MTA---31 minutes?!?

Show me you are more concerned about the cover up than the crime....

1. Brian Steel is a defense lawyer's defense lawyer. 2. It's absolutely bonkers that the judge is so upset by the revelation that he had a secret ex parte meeting with the prosecutor, and a key witness in the middle of a massive trial that he would hold Steel in contempt.

YOUNG THUG'S LAWYER HAS EVIDENCE OF COERSION AND WITNESS INTIMIDATION BY THE JUDGE AND THE STATE THE JUDGE WANTS TO KNOW HOW HE FOUND OUT BUT STEEL ISN'T RATTING. THE JUDGE THREATENS STEEL WITH JAIL. WOODY ALSO APPARENTLY ADMITTED HE'S THE ONE WHO KILLED NUT CORRUPTION.

I love it when he accidentally tells the truth. 😍

Trying to appease Republicans with cruelty will never work, because it will never be cruel enough for Republicans… and yet the Democrats keep trying, and losing the people who DON’T WANT TO VOTE FOR CRUELTY.

Andrew Weissmen: no one can be happy today. Me: SORRY BROTHER CAN’T HEAR YOU WE MAKIN’ SANGRIA

So how is it that he can potentially become president when anyone else convicted of a felony can't even get past the screening interview for a minimum wage job?

So I finally got my act together and posted this draft on ssrn:

Happy to report that my article "Public Defense and an Abolitionist Ethic" has found a home with @nyulawreview. Looking forward to working with the law review's phenomenal editors to get it into print. Thanks to the many who have provided wonderful feedback. SSRN coming soon!