Jody Freeman
@jodyfreeman.bsky.social
Harvard Law Professor; former Obama admin; climate and energy expert; federal regulation scholar; CleanLaw podcaster; editor of Global Climate Change and US Law; Director of https://eelp.law.harvard.edu. More at JodyFreeman.com. Opinions mine alone.
The high stakes tariff case reaches the Supreme Court tomorrow. May the President impose sweeping tariffs under a law that lets him "regulate" imports in a declared emergency? Or are sweeping tariffs beyond the power Congress delegated? For my overview: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
President Trump’s tariffs v. the Supreme Court’s duties | Jody Freeman
🏛️ The Supreme Court hears oral argument tomorrow in the case about the president’s power to impose sweeping tariffs. It’s an undeniably high stakes case.
🌀 Learning Resources v. Trump concerns the p...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The high stakes tariff case reaches the Supreme Court tomorrow. May the President impose sweeping tariffs under a law that lets him "regulate" imports in a declared emergency? Or are sweeping tariffs beyond the power Congress delegated? For my overview: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
Hey ya'll. I've not been posting here so much because LinkedIn offers more room to explain the complex legal machinations (and shenanigans) of this administration - so please follow me there! Good stuff on the the rule of law, democracy, and presidential overreach.
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Hey ya'll. I've not been posting here so much because LinkedIn offers more room to explain the complex legal machinations (and shenanigans) of this administration - so please follow me there! Good stuff on the the rule of law, democracy, and presidential overreach.
Curious about the legal & scientific claims behind EPA's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" that underpins all US climate rules? Check out our latest CleanLaw ep, where I discuss with my colleague Richard Lazarus + Sol Hsiang of Stanford's Doerr School. eelp.law.harvard.edu/what-science...
CleanLaw — What Science and the Law Say about EPA’s Authority to Regulate GHGs – Environmental and Energy Law Program
eelp.law.harvard.edu
August 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Curious about the legal & scientific claims behind EPA's plan to rescind the "endangerment finding" that underpins all US climate rules? Check out our latest CleanLaw ep, where I discuss with my colleague Richard Lazarus + Sol Hsiang of Stanford's Doerr School. eelp.law.harvard.edu/what-science...
Got an hour? Sharing this fairly nerdy & somewhat depressing but also very fun podcast ep on the Trump EPA proposal to end federal climate rules - a cross-over ep from Shift Key & CleanLaw, with me, Jesse Jenkins & Rob Meyer of HeatMap News!
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Trump’s Move to Kill the Clean Air Act’s Climate Authority, Forever
Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins · 08/06/2025 · 1h 9m
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August 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Got an hour? Sharing this fairly nerdy & somewhat depressing but also very fun podcast ep on the Trump EPA proposal to end federal climate rules - a cross-over ep from Shift Key & CleanLaw, with me, Jesse Jenkins & Rob Meyer of HeatMap News!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Sharing my piece out today on the Trump administration proposal to rescind the scientific "endangerment finding" and surrender EPA's role fighting climate change. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Trump's EPA proposes to end the U.S. fight against climate change
How much damage will Americans suffer as climate-denial politics masquerade as good policy?
www.latimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sharing my piece out today on the Trump administration proposal to rescind the scientific "endangerment finding" and surrender EPA's role fighting climate change. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
The Trump EPA is planning to eliminate ALL federal climate rules by reversing the scientific finding that climate pollution harms people. By their calculation, our powerplants & cars emit too small a share of global emissions to warrant doing anything. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Trump EPA is planning to eliminate ALL federal climate rules by reversing the scientific finding that climate pollution harms people. By their calculation, our powerplants & cars emit too small a share of global emissions to warrant doing anything. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
This just in from the Department of Thin Skin.
EPA employees placed on leave for criticizing the administration.
www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-env...
EPA employees placed on leave for criticizing the administration.
www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-env...
EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they publicly criticized Trump's environmental policies
Suspended EPA employees signed a letter accusing the Trump administration of weakening environmental protections and disregarding science.
www.cbsnews.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This just in from the Department of Thin Skin.
EPA employees placed on leave for criticizing the administration.
www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-env...
EPA employees placed on leave for criticizing the administration.
www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-env...
The Budget Congress passed nearly triples ICE's budget to build out detention centers (including for
families) & more
- a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system. A super-charged internal police force is concerning. My post on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
families) & more
- a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system. A super-charged internal police force is concerning. My post on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
💰 The full text of the budget is here and worth scrolling through 👇 | Jody Freeman
💰 The full text of the budget is here and worth scrolling through 👇
https://lnkd.in/gHhbsS4q
💰 It includes billions of dollars in additional funding for ICE, a build-out of detention centers, and ...
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July 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Budget Congress passed nearly triples ICE's budget to build out detention centers (including for
families) & more
- a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system. A super-charged internal police force is concerning. My post on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
families) & more
- a 62 percent larger budget than the entire federal prison system. A super-charged internal police force is concerning. My post on this: www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
Hugely important research on cancer, opioid addiction, heart disease, children's health & more being cancelled as punishment to Harvard. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
♦️ Below is a terrific graphic from the NYT that captures the federal research grants at Harvard that have been terminated by the administration. | Jody Freeman
♦️ Below is a terrific graphic from the NYT that captures the federal research grants at Harvard that have been terminated by the administration.
♦️ They include research on cancer, stroke, heart dis...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hugely important research on cancer, opioid addiction, heart disease, children's health & more being cancelled as punishment to Harvard. www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
Here's a convenient source explaining rules governing what ICE can & can't do during raids, vehicle stops, in public & at homes. Enforcing them is a different matter.
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💢 Some people have asked, so I am passing on information about the rules that apply to ICE immigration raids and detention. | Jody Freeman
💢 Some people have asked, so I am passing on information about the rules that apply to ICE immigration raids and detention.
💢 Although I teach administrative law and due process, immigration law isn...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Here's a convenient source explaining rules governing what ICE can & can't do during raids, vehicle stops, in public & at homes. Enforcing them is a different matter.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
In a DOJ memo, the administration has threatened to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship relying on a broadly worded statute used against communists in the McCarthy era & asserting power to do so for what sounds like virtually any reason.
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♦️ Following up on earlier note I posted, about the administration's chilling threat to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship. | Jody Freeman
♦️ Following up on earlier note I posted, about the administration's chilling threat to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship. There is a DOJ Memo directing lawyers in the civil division...
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July 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In a DOJ memo, the administration has threatened to strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship relying on a broadly worded statute used against communists in the McCarthy era & asserting power to do so for what sounds like virtually any reason.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
The EPA has proposed to eliminate climate rules for coal-fired power.
Its rationale? American power plants don't contribute significantly enough to climate change to warrant regulation.
Expect a torrent of comments arguing that this can't withstand scientific, economic & legal scrutiny.
Its rationale? American power plants don't contribute significantly enough to climate change to warrant regulation.
Expect a torrent of comments arguing that this can't withstand scientific, economic & legal scrutiny.
www.epa.gov
June 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The EPA has proposed to eliminate climate rules for coal-fired power.
Its rationale? American power plants don't contribute significantly enough to climate change to warrant regulation.
Expect a torrent of comments arguing that this can't withstand scientific, economic & legal scrutiny.
Its rationale? American power plants don't contribute significantly enough to climate change to warrant regulation.
Expect a torrent of comments arguing that this can't withstand scientific, economic & legal scrutiny.
"The protests in Los Angeles fall far short of rebellion," district court judge Breyer wrote, in ruling that the president did not meet the legal test for mobilizing the National Guard. Worth a read: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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June 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"The protests in Los Angeles fall far short of rebellion," district court judge Breyer wrote, in ruling that the president did not meet the legal test for mobilizing the National Guard. Worth a read: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
It's terrifying to think that because ICE officials are not identifying themselves or following normal law enforcement protocol, now anyone can impersonate them and do horrifying things: just dress up in camo, put on a mask, jump out of a van and take people away. How does this make us safer?
June 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It's terrifying to think that because ICE officials are not identifying themselves or following normal law enforcement protocol, now anyone can impersonate them and do horrifying things: just dress up in camo, put on a mask, jump out of a van and take people away. How does this make us safer?
👋 Hello from Los Angeles where there is no rebellion or invasion. Dodger game last night, Farmer's Market this morning. Thanks to local law enforcement for handling small # of numbskulls causing violence among overwhelmingly peaceful protests. Not occupied, don't need liberation. Thanks anyway!
June 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
👋 Hello from Los Angeles where there is no rebellion or invasion. Dodger game last night, Farmer's Market this morning. Thanks to local law enforcement for handling small # of numbskulls causing violence among overwhelmingly peaceful protests. Not occupied, don't need liberation. Thanks anyway!
3 points on the administration's punishment of Harvard: 1. Groundbreaking research benefits all Americans, makes us stronger 2. No government of either party should try to micromanage our private universities or businesses.
3. The extreme measures aren't reasonable, fair law enforcement.
3. The extreme measures aren't reasonable, fair law enforcement.
May 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
3 points on the administration's punishment of Harvard: 1. Groundbreaking research benefits all Americans, makes us stronger 2. No government of either party should try to micromanage our private universities or businesses.
3. The extreme measures aren't reasonable, fair law enforcement.
3. The extreme measures aren't reasonable, fair law enforcement.
Climate news: here's my take on the expected proposal from EPA to remove all limits on climate pollution from power plants, which produce 25% of US GHGs. It has no basis in science or logic & will run into trouble in the courts but the point seems to be performative
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Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants | Jody Freeman
More climate news from the Trump administration:
✳️ EPA is reportedly planning to completely eliminate any greenhouse gas limits for power plants which produce about 25% of US total greenhouse gas e...
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May 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Climate news: here's my take on the expected proposal from EPA to remove all limits on climate pollution from power plants, which produce 25% of US GHGs. It has no basis in science or logic & will run into trouble in the courts but the point seems to be performative
www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
www.linkedin.com/posts/jody-f...
Climate News: EPA's plans to rescind all GHG limits for power plants based on an eyebrow-raising argument that they aren't significant as a share of global emissions. If true it's headed for legal trouble. Even conservative lawyers w deep EPA experience are dubious: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...
Documents Show E.P.A. Wants to Erase Greenhouse Gas Limits on Power Plants
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Climate News: EPA's plans to rescind all GHG limits for power plants based on an eyebrow-raising argument that they aren't significant as a share of global emissions. If true it's headed for legal trouble. Even conservative lawyers w deep EPA experience are dubious: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...
To all my foreign students & the world: I'm sorry this administration is taking its rage out on you. In the most nakedly vengeful move yet to punish a private university that it cannot bring to heel, Trump's DHS has barred Harvard from enrolling foreign students. Shameful, petty & un-American.
May 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
To all my foreign students & the world: I'm sorry this administration is taking its rage out on you. In the most nakedly vengeful move yet to punish a private university that it cannot bring to heel, Trump's DHS has barred Harvard from enrolling foreign students. Shameful, petty & un-American.
Congress just voted to block California from setting its own vehicle pollution standards - a major setback for public health & cutting climate-warming gases. Sad. It's part of the great unraveling of environmental progress that this administration & this Congress has set in motion with a vengeance.
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May 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Congress just voted to block California from setting its own vehicle pollution standards - a major setback for public health & cutting climate-warming gases. Sad. It's part of the great unraveling of environmental progress that this administration & this Congress has set in motion with a vengeance.
Stephen Miller saying the administration is "actively considering" suspending habeas corpus - the right to challenge government detention - is "factually and legally nuts" as Steve Vladeck explains. https://open.substack.com/pub/stevevladeck/p/148-suspending-habeas-corpus?r=6o6dh&utm_medium=ios
May 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Stephen Miller saying the administration is "actively considering" suspending habeas corpus - the right to challenge government detention - is "factually and legally nuts" as Steve Vladeck explains. https://open.substack.com/pub/stevevladeck/p/148-suspending-habeas-corpus?r=6o6dh&utm_medium=ios
🇨🇦And Congratulations Donald Trump!
You managed to take an almost certain Conservative Party victory in Canada and turn it into a Liberal Party win!🎁
May Mark Carney be the man for the moment - the man the Great White North needs. 🌂🌪️
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
You managed to take an almost certain Conservative Party victory in Canada and turn it into a Liberal Party win!🎁
May Mark Carney be the man for the moment - the man the Great White North needs. 🌂🌪️
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Canada Election 2025 Live Updates: Mark Carney Wins New Term as Prime Minister
CBC/Radio Canada, the national broadcaster, projected a win for the Liberal Party in an extraordinary election that was dominated by President Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty and its economy.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
🇨🇦And Congratulations Donald Trump!
You managed to take an almost certain Conservative Party victory in Canada and turn it into a Liberal Party win!🎁
May Mark Carney be the man for the moment - the man the Great White North needs. 🌂🌪️
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
You managed to take an almost certain Conservative Party victory in Canada and turn it into a Liberal Party win!🎁
May Mark Carney be the man for the moment - the man the Great White North needs. 🌂🌪️
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
A sober summary of the Trump
Admin's lawlessness based on input from many law professors across the political
spectrum. Despite ideological differences there's broad consensus that the Trump admin is a threat to basic American rights, the rule of law and democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Admin's lawlessness based on input from many law professors across the political
spectrum. Despite ideological differences there's broad consensus that the Trump admin is a threat to basic American rights, the rule of law and democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency (Gift Article)
A diverse group of legal scholars flashes red warning lights about the future of America.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A sober summary of the Trump
Admin's lawlessness based on input from many law professors across the political
spectrum. Despite ideological differences there's broad consensus that the Trump admin is a threat to basic American rights, the rule of law and democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Admin's lawlessness based on input from many law professors across the political
spectrum. Despite ideological differences there's broad consensus that the Trump admin is a threat to basic American rights, the rule of law and democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
🥊 Harvard is clearly playing to win in lawsuit against the Trump administration for its punitive actions after the university refused to comply with its unlawful demands.
HU has hired formidable legal talent.
Let's just say, not bringing a knife to a gun fight.
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
HU has hired formidable legal talent.
Let's just say, not bringing a knife to a gun fight.
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
www.harvard.edu
April 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🥊 Harvard is clearly playing to win in lawsuit against the Trump administration for its punitive actions after the university refused to comply with its unlawful demands.
HU has hired formidable legal talent.
Let's just say, not bringing a knife to a gun fight.
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
HU has hired formidable legal talent.
Let's just say, not bringing a knife to a gun fight.
www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
Why I'm having the best weekend in 3 mths:
💥Judge Wilkinson's historic opinion in Abrego Garcia case saying administration's overreach shocks the conscience.
💥Lisa Murkowski admitting "We are all afraid" out loud.
💥SCOTUS blocking further Venezuelan deportations to check brazen noncompliance.
💥Judge Wilkinson's historic opinion in Abrego Garcia case saying administration's overreach shocks the conscience.
💥Lisa Murkowski admitting "We are all afraid" out loud.
💥SCOTUS blocking further Venezuelan deportations to check brazen noncompliance.
April 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Why I'm having the best weekend in 3 mths:
💥Judge Wilkinson's historic opinion in Abrego Garcia case saying administration's overreach shocks the conscience.
💥Lisa Murkowski admitting "We are all afraid" out loud.
💥SCOTUS blocking further Venezuelan deportations to check brazen noncompliance.
💥Judge Wilkinson's historic opinion in Abrego Garcia case saying administration's overreach shocks the conscience.
💥Lisa Murkowski admitting "We are all afraid" out loud.
💥SCOTUS blocking further Venezuelan deportations to check brazen noncompliance.