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Valerie Hans

@jurygirl.bsky.social

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Cornell Law School professor working on torts, psychology & law, jury decision-making. Fan of Eagles, Steelers & Niners, which makes some games difficult.

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Valerie Hans is an American legal scholar and psychologist. She is the Charles F. Rechlin Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and has been the editor of the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. Trained as a social scientist, her major areas of study are the jury system, jury reform, and the application of social science to law. .. more

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Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 11h

What is that template?

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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 13h

Prof. Michael Mannheimer (author of a leading article on the subject) explains why federal officers do NOT have anything like absolute immunity from prosecution for violating state law: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

What Kind of Immunity for ICE Agents?

Professor Michael Mannheimer (Northern Kentucky University) is the author of an important new article on "Unpacking Supremacy Clause Immunity." The…

reason.com

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 18h

What?!?!?!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting community reaction

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23h

The rage that has to exist in the average Minnesotan to watch someone stuck on an icy hill and STAND BY AND TAUNT THEM

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 23h

This morning in Minneapolis, an ICE vehicle got stuck on an icy hill in a residential neighborhood. Agents had to push the vehicles out, some almost slipping in the ice themselves.

Reposted by Valerie P. Hans, Smith, Samantha Brennan

Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 23h

The rage that has to exist in the average Minnesotan to watch someone stuck on an icy hill and STAND BY AND TAUNT THEM

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 23h

This morning in Minneapolis, an ICE vehicle got stuck on an icy hill in a residential neighborhood. Agents had to push the vehicles out, some almost slipping in the ice themselves.

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for sharing your perspective.

Reposted by Timothy Snyder, Robert West, Rebecca Solnit , and 34 more Timothy Snyder, Robert West, Rebecca Solnit, Dorothy Bishop, Will Jennings, Samuel L. Perry, Tom Shakespeare, Valerie P. Hans, Henning Melber, Philip Nel, Peter Holmes, Joni Lovenduski, Trevon D. Logan, Robert C. Richards, R. M. Wilson, Gerald Friedman, Nazita Lajevardi, Scott A. Imberman, Michael H. Whitworth, Anne Norton, Eric D. Knowles, Michael Müller, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Daryl Adair, Mark Priestley, Kate Starbird, Pauline Stafford, Björn Heile, Umut Özkırımlı, Greg Linden, Tim Stephens, Christina Pagel, Colin Talbot, Markus Haverland, Jeannette Sutton, Virginia Sapiro, Jim McManus

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations!

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3d

J6 prosecutor: “It’s more maddening than it is anything else. I spent years of my life watching the events of that day unfold in front of me again and again and again. I spoke with dozens and dozens of people who were there that day and who are still dealing with the trauma.”

Five years after Jan. 6, Trump is rewriting the narrative around the Capitol siege

More actions are expected, including possible payments to compensate Jan. 6 defendants, as the White House launches a webpage dedicated to Trump's claims.

www.nbcnews.com

Reposted by Valerie P. Hans, Sanford F. Schram, Josh Pasek

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 5d

“Now once they were at the Capitol and the attack…happened, he refused to stop it. He instead issued a tweet that without question in my mind endangered the life of his own Vice President.” (p. 33)

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 5d

Taunting penalty was devastating!

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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 5d

My 15 year old just texted me this TikTok video and told me that “this is our geopolitical situation right now.” I both love that he’s politically astute and hate that this is the world he has to grow up in.

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 25 more Jason Mittell, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, John R. Hutchinson, Steven French, Valerie P. Hans, Rosemary A. Joyce, Fabián Muniesa, Brian Medeiros, Jaakko Husa, Jussi T. Eronen, Smith, Jesús Rodríguez Pomeda, Adrian Vickers, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Richard Larouche, Brian Keegan, Peter Jacobsen, John Maynard, Jeremy S. Pal, Mauro Gatti, Brooke Harrington, Olivier Jourdan, Guillaume Allègre, JOEL B. FINKELSTEIN, Daxton R. Stewart, Prakash Kashwan, Peter Jacobs

The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 5d

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 6d

Nooooo I don't want two of my favorite teams playing each other in the wild card round!!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations Ilya!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 9d

45 minutes into the Jack Smith deposition, I lament that the damning evidence Jack Smith discusses was never presented in a public jury trial.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9d

Republicans wouldn't let Jack Smith testify in public. Instead they did it behind closed doors and released a transcript and video on New Year's Eve, hoping few people would notice.
They think it’s smart politics, but I think it’s one more attempt to cover up treason. History will agree with me.

Capitol riot 'does not happen' without Trump, Jack Smith told Congress

Former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers that the Jan. 6. riot at the U.S. Capitol “does not happen” without President Donald Trump.

apnews.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9d

Capitol riot 'does not happen' without Trump, Jack Smith told Congress

Former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers that the Jan. 6. riot at the U.S. Capitol “does not happen” without President Donald Trump.

apnews.com

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 9d

That's my hometown!

Reposted by Valerie P. Hans, Margot C. Finn

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 9d

“The biggest disappointment of 2025 may well have been not what Trump did but how so many let it happen.” @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the year in politics.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me/7co9Uv

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 9d

Wow those are dramatic earrings!

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 12d

Go Birds!

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Valerie P. Hans

Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 12d

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Think you can't make a difference?

Well, consider the 3.5% rule

"if 3.5% of a population protests against a regime, the regime will fail"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Valerie P. Hans

Brandon Lee Gowton @brandonleegowton.bsky.social · 16d

Cooper DeJean is NFC Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career

www.bleedinggreennation.com/news/167003/...

Cooper DeJean is NFC Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career

Philadelphia’s second-year defensive back is getting a lot of love this week.

www.bleedinggreennation.com

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 18d

So interesting! Kudos to you for pursuing the record.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Valerie P. Hans

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18d

It's 2025, and we're sharing bootleg 60 Minutes segments broadcast in other countries because our own country is being run by fascists and their billionaire-owned state media helpers, just as the Founding Fathers intended, of course.

Reposted by Valerie P. Hans

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 18d

Brief on behalf of 1st Am experts in Simon v Ivey by @gshans.bsky.social, @profalankchen.bsky.social, @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social, Helen Norton & myself. We urge 11th Circuit to join other courts in recognizing an academic freedom exception to Garcetti rule.

cornell.app.box.com/s/73jpdps7yf...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19d

Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.

Valerie Hans @jurygirl.bsky.social · 22d

Sorry to see that the jury convicted Judge Dugan. I didn't think the evidence supported a conviction.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22d

For those asking about sentencing, the 1505 charge carries a 5-year maximum, but Judge Dugan's guideline sentence will be much lower, because she's a first-time offender & there are mitigating factors. And of course, there will be an appeal before the conviction becomes final.

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