The great Allen Sumrall and I have an op-ed at NBC News NBC NewsTHINK on why the courts should stay out of the Trump/J6 Committee subpoena fight. nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…

#Unionyes for independent grievance procedures and other things ;-)

Welcome to the new OnLabor website — a revitalized blog dedicated to covering a revitalized labor movement. onlabor.org

In which b-boy bouiebaisse looks to Reconstruction to find a vigorous attempt by Congress to rein in an out-of-control Supreme Court that many saw as a threat to the people’s power.

The law passed, but Andrew Johnson, on the brink of impeachment, had other ideas.
nytimes.com/2022/10/14/opi…

HLS STUDENTS ORGANIZING FOR A REPRO CLINIC, PROFESSOR, AND CURRICULUM BECAUSE HLS DOES NOT HAVE THEM! PRESS RELEASE HERE: bit.ly/3CbrDhD. SIT-IN ALL DAY.

200+ political scientists to Congress: It's time to “adopt inclusive, multimember districts with competitive and responsive proportional representation.”
nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/…

Congress spoke decisively when it passed the War Powers Resolution, but in the decades since, the OLC issued a series of opinions allowing the executive to ignore or narrowly construe key provisions.

.Niko Bowie's Harvard Law Rev comment on the Cedar Point decision (prohibiting union organizers from entering farmland) has some nice theorizing of democracy and labor.

gated: heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPag…

A quick 🧵 for students from diverse backgrounds starting PhDs.

No, you’re not crazy. Yeah, this is a bunch of shit that is nothing like the reason you decided to do this. The canon is v white & very male, and v unrepresentative of your experiences. Go abt building a new canon.

In-person and Virtual: Celebration of Life for Lani Guinier mvtimes.com/things-to-do-4…

✊🏾✊🏼✊🏿BREAKING: Today we are unionizing the United States Congress.

This EO contains important, incremental steps (many of which my co-authors and I have advocated for), but it’s disappointing that this fairly tepid EO took two weeks to come out. The Biden Admin has shown no sense of urgency about this crisis.

Check out my analysis of the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA decision last week gutting the EPA’s regulatory authority, with a focus on the consequences that the decision could have for broader executive agency policymaking—and labor policy in particular.

All workers deserve a union, and that includes lawyers.

We can't wait for 'Unionizing Legal Workplaces' at #PPP22 , where we'll be covering topics including why your legal workplace should unionize, the nitty gritty of how to make it happen, and what to expect after you win.

A+ Mondaire Jones on Mehdi Hasan talking about including jurisdiction stripping in bills that SCOTUS would strike down. He proposed it for voting rights in the past & will do so for abortion protection next. EVERY Democratic in office should be on board.

I’m looking forward to this

Read our new piece on #CastroHuerta ’s context.
Tribes resisted similar state power grabs in the 1830s & won a #SCOTUS case declaring state law had no force on tribal land. States defied the ruling and the Trail of Tears was the result.
This is about power. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…