Catherine Crump
@catherinecrump.bsky.social
Clinical Professor @BerkeleyLaw focused on the impact of emerging technologies on civil liberties
Following up on a Daily Cal report from last week: 4 @UCBerkeley students were arrested for felony vandalism. Their protest against Charlie Kirk reportedly involved displaying posters w/ his quotes & attempting to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate. 1/4
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Following up on a Daily Cal report from last week: 4 @UCBerkeley students were arrested for felony vandalism. Their protest against Charlie Kirk reportedly involved displaying posters w/ his quotes & attempting to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate. 1/4
I love the Wayback machine.
This piece is a lively and fun overview of the @internetarchive's history and current work, including its race to keep up with new forms of media, like AI outputs and ephemeral social content.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
This piece is a lively and fun overview of the @internetarchive's history and current work, including its race to keep up with new forms of media, like AI outputs and ephemeral social content.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business
The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I love the Wayback machine.
This piece is a lively and fun overview of the @internetarchive's history and current work, including its race to keep up with new forms of media, like AI outputs and ephemeral social content.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
This piece is a lively and fun overview of the @internetarchive's history and current work, including its race to keep up with new forms of media, like AI outputs and ephemeral social content.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...
This seems right. But OMG, it seems terrible for us all that the cost of leading an academic institution these days is the inevitably shredding of your personal reputation.
My additional takeaway from this letter is that Jim Ryan, a personal friend from my days on the UVA Law faculty, is, by virtue of his moderate temperament and personal decency, unsuited to knife fights with people who have neither.
my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This seems right. But OMG, it seems terrible for us all that the cost of leading an academic institution these days is the inevitably shredding of your personal reputation.
The argument in this academic freedom and funding case is starting right now! See the livestream link.
Tomorrow, Friday 9 AM: @BerkeleyLaw Dean Erwin Chemerinsky argues in the 9th Circuit in Thakur v. Trump. He will defend preliminary injunctions that restored ~$1 billion in research grants to the UC system. Watch the livestream: www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/live-o...
Live Video Streaming of Oral Arguments and Events
www.ca9.uscourts.gov
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The argument in this academic freedom and funding case is starting right now! See the livestream link.
This ACLU post details the deployment of Mobile Fortify, a face recognition app, by ICE. Critically, the program was rolled out with no specific congressional authorization or meaningful public debate, raising questions about executive agency accountability and oversight
A breakdown of the new “Mobile Fortify” face recognition program, including lists of
a) The reasons it’s problematic,
b) The vast array of data that the agencies can connect to
c) Some of the unanswered questions that remain about the program.
a) The reasons it’s problematic,
b) The vast array of data that the agencies can connect to
c) Some of the unanswered questions that remain about the program.
Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell | ACLU
ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition
www.aclu.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This ACLU post details the deployment of Mobile Fortify, a face recognition app, by ICE. Critically, the program was rolled out with no specific congressional authorization or meaningful public debate, raising questions about executive agency accountability and oversight
The new @scotusblog survey makes me worry for its future. Their unique value isn't just covering SCOTUS, it's their singular focus on it, across all subjects. That's the one-stop resource I rely on.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The new @scotusblog survey makes me worry for its future. Their unique value isn't just covering SCOTUS, it's their singular focus on it, across all subjects. That's the one-stop resource I rely on.
Tomorrow, Friday 9 AM: @BerkeleyLaw Dean Erwin Chemerinsky argues in the 9th Circuit in Thakur v. Trump. He will defend preliminary injunctions that restored ~$1 billion in research grants to the UC system. Watch the livestream: www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/live-o...
Live Video Streaming of Oral Arguments and Events
www.ca9.uscourts.gov
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Tomorrow, Friday 9 AM: @BerkeleyLaw Dean Erwin Chemerinsky argues in the 9th Circuit in Thakur v. Trump. He will defend preliminary injunctions that restored ~$1 billion in research grants to the UC system. Watch the livestream: www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/live-o...
Sometimes you just have to step back and marvel at the catastrophe. We are a country that can feed our people but won't. Your air traffic controller may have just gotten off a second job as a Lyft driver. A Fox News anchor is on a firing rampage through the Pentagon.
November 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Sometimes you just have to step back and marvel at the catastrophe. We are a country that can feed our people but won't. Your air traffic controller may have just gotten off a second job as a Lyft driver. A Fox News anchor is on a firing rampage through the Pentagon.
Wow. Even the FBI thinks ICE agents should identify themselves--and, now, that criminals posing as ICE officers are committing crimes. Great story by @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wow. Even the FBI thinks ICE agents should identify themselves--and, now, that criminals posing as ICE officers are committing crimes. Great story by @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
Great that Boston's new police union agreement requires patrol officers to wear nametags. Basic accountability dictates that law enforcement agents be identifiable; otherwise, they can't be held responsible for their actions. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/03/m...
Boston’s largest police union extends labor contract by one year - The Boston Globe
The extension includes a handful of changes to the union’s previous contract, including 2 percent raises for all officers and a requirement that all patrol officers wear name tags.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Great that Boston's new police union agreement requires patrol officers to wear nametags. Basic accountability dictates that law enforcement agents be identifiable; otherwise, they can't be held responsible for their actions. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/03/m...
Glad that despite our return to harsh "law and order" rhetoric, experiments with alternative responders continue. It often makes sense to send a case worker not an armed officer to respond to someone in a mental health crisis. cbs6albany.com/news/local/a...
Albany Police program sees success with program targeting mental health crises
The Albany Police Department officially launched the Community Advocacy Response Team (CART) just one month after first introducing the initiative. The program
cbs6albany.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Glad that despite our return to harsh "law and order" rhetoric, experiments with alternative responders continue. It often makes sense to send a case worker not an armed officer to respond to someone in a mental health crisis. cbs6albany.com/news/local/a...
How can the public hold government accountable when its agents are unidentifiable and their vehicles are untraceable? Reports of ICE agents removing license plates, in addition to masking, are deeply alarming. I shared my concerns with @NPR for this new report. www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
How can the public hold government accountable when its agents are unidentifiable and their vehicles are untraceable? Reports of ICE agents removing license plates, in addition to masking, are deeply alarming. I shared my concerns with @NPR for this new report. www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
Great news--a third university has rejected President Trump's compact on higher education, which undercuts academic freedom in the guise of purporting to restore it. Five more universities to go. www.latimes.com/california/s...
USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right
USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.
www.latimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Great news--a third university has rejected President Trump's compact on higher education, which undercuts academic freedom in the guise of purporting to restore it. Five more universities to go. www.latimes.com/california/s...
This opinion temporarily halting the Trump Administration's mass firings of federal employees during the shutdown is worth 10 minutes of your time for its description of the shambolic, unprecedentedly partisan, and probably illegal way it's being carried out. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71502...
Order on Motion for TRO – #56 in American Federation of Government Employees, AFL CIO v. United States Office of Management and Budget (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-08302) – CourtListener.com
ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER; ENJOINING SHUTDOWN- RELATED RIFS; AND SETTING SCHEDULE FOR HEARING ON MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION granting 17 Motion for TRO; granting 38 M...
www.courtlistener.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This opinion temporarily halting the Trump Administration's mass firings of federal employees during the shutdown is worth 10 minutes of your time for its description of the shambolic, unprecedentedly partisan, and probably illegal way it's being carried out. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71502...
"As the mother of grade-school children, I share Jean Twenge’s frustration with kids’ endless capacity to circumvent poorly built parental controls. As a First Amendment expert, however, I don’t believe that government-mandated age verification is the answer." Read my letter (link in comment)
September 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"As the mother of grade-school children, I share Jean Twenge’s frustration with kids’ endless capacity to circumvent poorly built parental controls. As a First Amendment expert, however, I don’t believe that government-mandated age verification is the answer." Read my letter (link in comment)
Reposted by Catherine Crump
I am trying to get back to posting regularly on Legal Planet, the UC Berkeley / UCLA environmental law blog. Here's my take on the Trump administration's response to the International Maritime Organization's greenhouse gas reduction framework.
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September 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I am trying to get back to posting regularly on Legal Planet, the UC Berkeley / UCLA environmental law blog. Here's my take on the Trump administration's response to the International Maritime Organization's greenhouse gas reduction framework.
legal-planet.org/2025/09/03/t...
legal-planet.org/2025/09/03/t...
I have an opinion piece in The Hill today arguing that the Trump Administration’s work to break down “information silos,” far from promoting efficiency, is creating a data dragnet that can be used to target political enemies and risks ensnaring innocent people. thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I have an opinion piece in The Hill today arguing that the Trump Administration’s work to break down “information silos,” far from promoting efficiency, is creating a data dragnet that can be used to target political enemies and risks ensnaring innocent people. thehill.com/opinion/whit...
This one's for you, grammar nerds. My students are no longer putting periods at the end of the terminal sentences in their paragraphs. Do we:
April 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This one's for you, grammar nerds. My students are no longer putting periods at the end of the terminal sentences in their paragraphs. Do we:
Job alert! Come work in the Berkeley Law Clinical Program with me. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
University of California, Berkeley hiring Paralegal, Clinical Program (7386U), Berkeley Law - #77547 in Berkeley, CA | LinkedIn
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April 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Job alert! Come work in the Berkeley Law Clinical Program with me. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
Honestly. The Trump Administration is trying to “hustle people onto those planes” to El Salvador before courts can stop them. Devastating that the Supreme Court focused instead on whether the case was filed under the Administrative Procedure Act or under habeas. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Honestly. The Trump Administration is trying to “hustle people onto those planes” to El Salvador before courts can stop them. Devastating that the Supreme Court focused instead on whether the case was filed under the Administrative Procedure Act or under habeas. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Proud to have joined more than 90 of my @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social colleagues in signing this letter expressing concern for the attacks on the rule of law. sites.google.com/view/blsrule...
Berkeley Law Scholars on the Rule of Law
As members of the Berkeley Law faculty, we are honored to teach and to study the principles of law and constitutional democracy. We are writing today in our individual capacities to express our concer...
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April 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Proud to have joined more than 90 of my @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social colleagues in signing this letter expressing concern for the attacks on the rule of law. sites.google.com/view/blsrule...
It's a small point given everything going on, but President Biden's police reform executive order was among the many repealed yesterday. @erinmurphyslaw.bsky.social @chiraagbains.bsky.social
Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It's a small point given everything going on, but President Biden's police reform executive order was among the many repealed yesterday. @erinmurphyslaw.bsky.social @chiraagbains.bsky.social