Carolyn Shapiro
@cshaplaw.bsky.social
Law prof at Chicago-Kent College of Law; co-director of CK Institute on the Supreme Court; Of Counsel, Schnapper-Casteras, PLLC; former IL Solicitor General.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
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Hate it, but slowly coming to the opinion that college freshmen should have a course teaching them how insurance works and what private equity is so that they can understand our current social reality 😩
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hate it, but slowly coming to the opinion that college freshmen should have a course teaching them how insurance works and what private equity is so that they can understand our current social reality 😩
Christine @kexelchabot.bsky.social does fantastic and precise work!
This who are interested in executive power have to read this paper. It’s destined for the Harvard Law Review or Yale or one of the “big” ones.
Thanks so much for your engagement with my work, Mike and Larry. More TK soon! Mike’s points about “core” executive powers over law enforcement touch on some of my earlier work, so I’ve included a few thoughts below.
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Christine @kexelchabot.bsky.social does fantastic and precise work!
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This who are interested in executive power have to read this paper. It’s destined for the Harvard Law Review or Yale or one of the “big” ones.
Thanks so much for your engagement with my work, Mike and Larry. More TK soon! Mike’s points about “core” executive powers over law enforcement touch on some of my earlier work, so I’ve included a few thoughts below.
Christine Kexel Chabot: The Interstitial Executive (with Comments)Michael Ramsey #ltb #feedly buff.ly/LOh82eJ
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This who are interested in executive power have to read this paper. It’s destined for the Harvard Law Review or Yale or one of the “big” ones.
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Federal agents abducted someone a block from my house yesterday.
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Federal agents abducted someone a block from my house yesterday.
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Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.
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The wording of this is highly unusual, and suggests that Justice Jackson is expecting the First Circuit to rule on a stay pending appeal (a longer pause of the district court's order) in the next few days.
I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.
I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The wording of this is highly unusual, and suggests that Justice Jackson is expecting the First Circuit to rule on a stay pending appeal (a longer pause of the district court's order) in the next few days.
I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.
I'll have more to say about this in "One First" as soon as I can write it up.
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Even though it mustered only 356 words to justify putting Trump's spiteful anti-trans passport policy back into effect, #SCOTUS managed to show us two of the flawed analytical moves it keeps making *only* in Trump cases to provide cover for granting emergency relief.
My latest, via "One First":
My latest, via "One First":
189. The Breezy Inequity of Trump v. Orr
The Supreme Court's latest grant of emergency relief to the Trump administration illustrates in technicolor the direct (and ugly) consequences of the two different ways it keeps messing up "equity."
www.stevevladeck.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Highly recommend this post
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Here's the majority's entire discussion of the balance of equities: "And the District Court’s grant of class-wide relief enjoins enforcement of an Executive Branch policy with
foreign affairs implications concerning a Government document." They're not even trying.
foreign affairs implications concerning a Government document." They're not even trying.
mais bien sûr
BREAKING: #SCOTUS lifts block on Trump policy mandating U.S. passports show gender at birth. Apparent 6-3 ruling. Jackson dissents for liberals. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Here's the majority's entire discussion of the balance of equities: "And the District Court’s grant of class-wide relief enjoins enforcement of an Executive Branch policy with
foreign affairs implications concerning a Government document." They're not even trying.
foreign affairs implications concerning a Government document." They're not even trying.
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(1) We don't know that this was a jury nullification situation.
(2) It could as easily be the jurors simply decided that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the crime occurred as charged.
And that's fine. It's what juries are for.
(2) It could as easily be the jurors simply decided that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the crime occurred as charged.
And that's fine. It's what juries are for.
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
(1) We don't know that this was a jury nullification situation.
(2) It could as easily be the jurors simply decided that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the crime occurred as charged.
And that's fine. It's what juries are for.
(2) It could as easily be the jurors simply decided that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the crime occurred as charged.
And that's fine. It's what juries are for.
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To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification"
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Not for the first time, Justice KBJ has read my mind, laying out in this new dissent how there is 0 risk of harm to the govt and yet "This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification"
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Judge Ellis was quite clear about how frequently video showed DHS' allegations were simply not true, or even DHS officials admitting that earlier claims were untrue.
From a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, who calls today's preliminary injunction an "extreme act" by an "activist judge."
"We shall appeal."
"We shall appeal."
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Judge Ellis was quite clear about how frequently video showed DHS' allegations were simply not true, or even DHS officials admitting that earlier claims were untrue.
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#BREAKING: #SCOTUS grants yet another stay to the Trump administration, putting back into place a new State Department policy requiring passports to display their bearers' biological sex at birth.
Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.
Justice Jackson (joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan) once again dissents.
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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One of the most chilling things about this story is that some did not even know it was ICE.
They thought it was “an attack on the school” i.e. a school shooter.
Think on that for a minute.
They thought it was “an attack on the school” i.e. a school shooter.
Think on that for a minute.
“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”
Families "horrified" after daycare teacher pulled out of school by federal agents.
The incident happened in front of parents and children at Rayito de Sol in North Center, a parent said. They believe the employee, who cares for infants, is legally allowed to work in the United State...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
One of the most chilling things about this story is that some did not even know it was ICE.
They thought it was “an attack on the school” i.e. a school shooter.
Think on that for a minute.
They thought it was “an attack on the school” i.e. a school shooter.
Think on that for a minute.
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So in one courtroom the DOJ is arguing that a sandwich thrown into an armor-wearing officer is a forcible assault while simultaneously in another courtroom DOJ says tackling protestors or shooting them in the head with less lethal munitions does not count as use of force. One rule for thee...
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So in one courtroom the DOJ is arguing that a sandwich thrown into an armor-wearing officer is a forcible assault while simultaneously in another courtroom DOJ says tackling protestors or shooting them in the head with less lethal munitions does not count as use of force. One rule for thee...
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What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
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The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature.
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature.
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
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"Law professors @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Anthony Michael Kreis pointed out in a rebuttal of Wurman and others echoing his argument in July that this entire [allegiance and birthright citizenship] exercise took us far afield of the Fourteenth Amendment’s context and circumstances."
The Law Professors Aiding Trump’s War on Birthright Citizenship
A plain reading of the Constitution refutes Trump’s spurious claims about the Fourteenth Amendment, but the conservative legal movement is doing what it can to muddy the waters.
newrepublic.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Law professors @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and Anthony Michael Kreis pointed out in a rebuttal of Wurman and others echoing his argument in July that this entire [allegiance and birthright citizenship] exercise took us far afield of the Fourteenth Amendment’s context and circumstances."