Margaret H. Zhang
@marzhang.bsky.social
Law prof @ Widener University Delaware Law School. Reproductive justice, workplace justice, environmental justice. Philly. She/her.
Blog (legal news for new and aspiring lawyers): marzhang.wordpress.com
Blog (legal news for new and aspiring lawyers): marzhang.wordpress.com
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November 1–December 16, 2025
It’s been a month and a half. Here’s a list of key legal developments that happened:*File this under “long reads”! The end of the semester kept me away from this blog for so…
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New blog post up, covering the last month and half of key U.S. legal developments!
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This was a really good read
A party with an actual theory of contemporary capitalism and what to do: see interview with Fernando Haddad, Brazil's Finance Minister
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/b...
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/b...
Brazil and the World System
An interview with Brazil's Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad
www.phenomenalworld.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This was a really good read
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More collective punishment from Kristi Noem: x.com/sec_noem/sta...
December 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
More collective punishment from Kristi Noem: x.com/sec_noem/sta...
🎉🎉🎉
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Whew, that was a lot to catch up on from the last few hours
BREAKING: Person of interest in Brown University shooting is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials say.
Brown University shooting live updates: Police probing whether suspect is tied to MIT professor’s killing
Police are looking into whether a shooting that killed an MIT professor could be linked to the mass shooting incident at Brown University, according to law enforcement officials.
nbcnews.to
December 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Whew, that was a lot to catch up on from the last few hours
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Extremely bleak
This is huge. Trump has successfully prosecuted a state official for bucking his racist war on immigrants. If they can get a judge, they can get anyone. Gift article.
Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Extremely bleak
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The lawless killing spree continues.
Do not become inured.
This is premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
We call that murder.
Do not become inured.
This is premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
We call that murder.
December 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The lawless killing spree continues.
Do not become inured.
This is premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
We call that murder.
Do not become inured.
This is premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
We call that murder.
December 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Just watched it. Crying 😭
Everyone should watch this video. Everyone.
Judge Salas is a person of extraordinary bravery, at a moment in our nation’s history when bravery is vital.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Judge Salas is a person of extraordinary bravery, at a moment in our nation’s history when bravery is vital.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | The Judges Being Pizza Doxxed in My Dead Son’s Name
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Just watched it. Crying 😭
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BREAKING: The Trump admin just proposed two rules targeting health care for trans youth. The first would bar federal Medicaid funding from covering this care. The second aims to coerce hospitals into denying that care by threatening to strip federal funding.
In major effort to end gender-affirming care, Trump administration takes aim at hospitals
The Trump administration intends to make its most forceful attempt yet at restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the U.S.
www.statnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BREAKING: The Trump admin just proposed two rules targeting health care for trans youth. The first would bar federal Medicaid funding from covering this care. The second aims to coerce hospitals into denying that care by threatening to strip federal funding.
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11 months after Trump blamed “DEI” for the crash on national television, this 209-page DOJ filing says… nothing of the sort
U.S. Government Admits Liability in Deadly D.C.-Area Air Collision
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
11 months after Trump blamed “DEI” for the crash on national television, this 209-page DOJ filing says… nothing of the sort
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What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails
A federal judge ruled that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities.
www.politico.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
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Impeach him the second you get a majority, imo. Let this guy lay it all out.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says:
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."
December 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Impeach him the second you get a majority, imo. Let this guy lay it all out.
December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The bipartisan petition to force a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has enough signatures.
Mike Johnson must bring this to the House floor immediately. Congress should not leave for a holiday break until we vote to protect healthcare for 25 million Americans.
Mike Johnson must bring this to the House floor immediately. Congress should not leave for a holiday break until we vote to protect healthcare for 25 million Americans.
December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The bipartisan petition to force a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits now has enough signatures.
Mike Johnson must bring this to the House floor immediately. Congress should not leave for a holiday break until we vote to protect healthcare for 25 million Americans.
Mike Johnson must bring this to the House floor immediately. Congress should not leave for a holiday break until we vote to protect healthcare for 25 million Americans.
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Here's some legislation I'm almost surprised not to have heard any member of Congress propose yet:
Citizen Kavanaugh Stop Compensation Act:
For every hour or part thereof, beyond the first 30 mins, that a U.S. citizen is detained by ICE, that citizen is paid $500. Paid from the ICE budget.
Citizen Kavanaugh Stop Compensation Act:
For every hour or part thereof, beyond the first 30 mins, that a U.S. citizen is detained by ICE, that citizen is paid $500. Paid from the ICE budget.
December 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Here's some legislation I'm almost surprised not to have heard any member of Congress propose yet:
Citizen Kavanaugh Stop Compensation Act:
For every hour or part thereof, beyond the first 30 mins, that a U.S. citizen is detained by ICE, that citizen is paid $500. Paid from the ICE budget.
Citizen Kavanaugh Stop Compensation Act:
For every hour or part thereof, beyond the first 30 mins, that a U.S. citizen is detained by ICE, that citizen is paid $500. Paid from the ICE budget.
Getting Foundation 3rd season flashbacks with all this talk of a "blockade" 😬 www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
Trump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels Maduro regime a "terrorist" group
The escalation exerts unprecedented pressure on the Maduro regime, threatening to bankrupt Venezuela's already struggling economy.
www.axios.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Getting Foundation 3rd season flashbacks with all this talk of a "blockade" 😬 www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...
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New blog post up, covering the last month and half of key U.S. legal developments!
marzhang.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/n...
marzhang.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/n...
November 1–December 16, 2025
It’s been a month and a half. Here’s a list of key legal developments that happened:*File this under “long reads”! The end of the semester kept me away from this blog for so…
marzhang.wordpress.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
New blog post up, covering the last month and half of key U.S. legal developments!
marzhang.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/n...
marzhang.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/n...
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This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON
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92% of Gen Z workers want jobs where they can discuss mental health openly. A new study reveals what employers need to do to keep high performers with chronic mental illness engaged and productive. buff.ly/XpfXhkK
Best way for employers to support employees with chronic mental illness is by offering flexibility
Employers that don’t support employees with mental illness risk missing out on the talents and skills that such employees can provide.
theconversation.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
92% of Gen Z workers want jobs where they can discuss mental health openly. A new study reveals what employers need to do to keep high performers with chronic mental illness engaged and productive. buff.ly/XpfXhkK
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This is extraordinarily effective (buying bundled medical debt), and life-changing for the people it helps. It’s just ludicrous that we are in these situations to begin with - www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...
CT governor erases medical debt for 40,000 more state residents with $63M in funds
“Medical debt can delay healing due to stress and anxiety about how to pay these bills,” Gov. Ned Lamont said.
www.ctinsider.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is extraordinarily effective (buying bundled medical debt), and life-changing for the people it helps. It’s just ludicrous that we are in these situations to begin with - www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...
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Again, even though the Japanese government leading up to 1945 committed terrible atrocities, none of us think that Japanese internment was caused by the Japanese government. It was caused by American racism.
No, Jews around the world don't suffer because of the actions of the government of Israel. Jews around the world suffer because antisemites use the actions of the government of Israel to justify attacks on Jews. And if you make the same association, you're also an antisemite.
December 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Again, even though the Japanese government leading up to 1945 committed terrible atrocities, none of us think that Japanese internment was caused by the Japanese government. It was caused by American racism.
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Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.
Video, I believe recorded off of local TV, of a bystander disarming one of the two killers.
December 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Wow. Amid horrific news of a shooting at Bondi Beach, this looks like a truly astonishing act of courage.