Decency Died Along with Bob Mueller Former Marine, U.S.Attorney, FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller passed away Friday evening.

This morning, Donald Trump noted the passing of an American hero by saying he was glad he was dead. More of our decency died along with Bob Mueller. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Gibson-Banks Center for Race and Law @law.umaryland.edu is one of 35 organizations that opposed funding for the Baltimore jail. We have work to do, but today’s news of no FY 27 funding for the jail is a step in the right direction. Thanks @conarck.bsky.social for consistent news coverage.

In 2025, the Education Department under President Trump dismissed thousands of civil rights investigations, focusing instead on investigations of alleged discrimination affecting White students, antisemitism complaints and policies regarding transgender students. https://wapo.st/4sp4YHX

What a catastrophe.

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

Again.

When dementia takes away words, pain can go unnoticed. This School of Nursing research at UMB is finding new ways to detect discomfort in non-verbal patients so no one suffers in silence.
Supported by the National Institute on Aging.
#BreakthroughsCantWaitUMB #DementiaCare #PainAwareness #ElderCare

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

As Democrats wrestle with the question of retaliatory gerrymandering they should remember that it is the Supreme Court has driven us to this moment. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for detaining immigrants at the notorious new Everglades detention center, cruelly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," in inhumane conditions without access to legal counsel.

It was my honor to work with distinguished lawyer colleagues on this statement of commitment to the principles that must undergird American democracy. It appears today as full page ad in the @nytimes.com & in papers around the country.
Learn more at @weholdthesetruths.bsky.social

A Nation's Story: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” a call for the promise of liberty be applied equally to all Americans. Douglass’s speech empha...

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@zekecohen.bsky.social, thank you for meeting with the staff of the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law at @umaryland.edu Maryland Carey Law. @profmpinard.bsky.social and I are looking forward to working with you.

My statement on today’s decision in Trump v Casa:

Another officer-involved shooting in West Baltimore one week after arabber’s death Baltimore Police are responding to the second officer-involved shooting in West Baltimore in a week.

Another officer-involved shooting in West Baltimore one week after arabber’s death

BREAKING AND BIG:

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

Gibson Banks Center for Race and the Law joined 80+ Asian American organizations and law centers in submitting an amicus brief opposing the federal executive order to ban birthright citizenship. The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the cases today. bit.ly/AAsDefendBirthrightCitizenship

Because the reporting across outlets hasn’t mentioned it I want to stress that Justice Jackson referenced the courageous & resolute stance of federal judges J. Shelly Wright in Louisiana and Frank Johnson in Alabama who issued school desegregation orders in the face of “Massive Resistance” to Brown.

Baltimore City was on point today. The signs were hitting hard!
#HandsOff

Former Maryland governor and Social Security chief Martin O'Malley speaks passionately into a microphone while standing above a crowd at a rally. He gestures with his left hand, pointing outward. Behind him, protesters hold signs that include messages like “HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY” and “Even the Introverts Are Here.”

A woman in a wheelchair smiles while holding hands with a woman standing beside her at a protest. Behind them, others hold signs that include “HANDS OFF MY SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE.” A cardboard sign in front reads “HANDS OFF MY SSI!”

A masked protester wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap holds two yellow signs with black handprints. One reads “MY $,” the other reads “HANDS OFF.” Other demonstrators and protest signs are visible in the background.

A protester with their back to the camera holds up a handwritten sign that says “SEND MUSK TO MARS NOW!” amid a crowd. Other signs in the crowd include “HE MUST GO” and “HANDS OFF,” with an American flag also visible.

Former Maryland governor and Social Security chief Martin O’Malley fired up "Hands Off" protesters at SSA's headquarters in Baltimore County today.

O'Malley railed against President Donald Trump & "co-president" Elon Musk over cuts to the agency. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

A few tickets left for this timely conversation about policing in Baltimore 10 years after the police-involved death of Freddie Gray. @umbaltimore.bsky.social

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I appreciated the opportunity to speak with @mddailyrecord.bsky.social about the impact of racially discriminatory and abusive policing in Baltimore’s Black communities. @profmpinard.bsky.social @leighgoodmark.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social

Trump's Attack on Lawyers and Law Firms Takes a Page Out of the Southern 1950s Playbook American Authoritarians Fear the Uniquely American Power of Litigation

Please read this.

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The Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law is one of more than 40 organizations statewide that researched and recommended reforms that would reduce racial disparities in Maryland’s prisons & jails. See our statement. /2 @leighgoodmark.bsky.social www.law.umaryland.edu/content/arti...

Last week, the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative, established by Maryland’s Attorney General Anthony Brown and Public Defender Natasha Dartigue, released a report Breaking the 71%: A Path Toward Racial Equity in the Criminal Legal System. /1 www.marylandattorneygeneral.gov/reports/MEJC...

"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon

It is absurd for the federal government to attack universities for "antisemitism." In fact, Trump's policy is itself antisemitic I explain here.
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Infuriating. I’m so sorry ED team. This inhumane treatment of you and other federal workers is unacceptable.

There it is. Raskin always on point.

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law on LinkedIn: We were honored to welcome Judge Nancy Abudu of the United States Court of… We were honored to welcome Judge Nancy Abudu of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit for a two-day visit as Distinguished Jurist in…

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