Tag Archives: law

Solidarity and higher education

Posted on October 16, 2025 by David S. Meyer

https://www.inquirer.com/education/upenn-union-rally-dei-funding-trump-administration-20250320.html Virtually everyone starts with a gripe about higher education: costs, grades, debt, jobs, parking, artificial intelligence, natural intelligence, and so and so on. The Trump administration has floated on all the grievances to launch a series of attacks that … Continue reading →

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Quitting takes courage: Young attorneys make choices

Posted on April 2, 2025 by David S. Meyer

It’s sometimes hard to see a critical moral and political choice even when it lands in your lap. But some people are blessed (or cursed) with the vision to see it way in advance. When Paul Weiss negotiated a deal … Continue reading →

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Moral choices to resist generally come unannounced

Posted on March 25, 2025 by David S. Meyer

The Trump Resistance I featured large numbers of people who went out of their way to confront legal and moral threats. Millions turned out for demonstrations, when they could have stayed at home. Thousands braved traffic or mass transit to … Continue reading →

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Why the blanket J6 pardons are even worse than you thought

Posted on January 22, 2025 by David S. Meyer

Don’t expect Donald Trump to follow through on all his campaign promises as quickly and thoroughly as he did for the insurgents who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2020. Roughly 1600 people faced prosecution for their attempt to shut … Continue reading →

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Protests against Trump’s indictment?

Posted on April 3, 2023 by David S. Meyer

New Yorkers laughed at Donald Trump when he came to vote in 2016. (Okay, some booed.) Trump had the next laugh, who gets the last one is still up in the air. The next episode is Trump’s return to New … Continue reading →

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How punishment works

Posted on December 10, 2021 by David S. Meyer

Jenna Ryan, who joined the Capitol insurrection on January 6, is putting a an upbeat spin on serving 60 days in federal prison for trespass. She’s announced on TikTok that she plans to exercise, do a lot of yoga, eat … Continue reading →

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Cases, Causes, and the next wave of Black Lives Matter

Posted on April 13, 2021 by David S. Meyer

Judge Peter A. Cahill, presiding in Derrick Chauvin’s murder trial, denied a defense motion to sequester the jury. Chauvin, working as a Minneapolis police officer, strangled George Floyd to death last year. His defense wants to keep the rest of … Continue reading →

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Conservative activists have to take sides

Posted on January 27, 2021 by David S. Meyer

When a line is drawn in the dust and you must decide whether to cross or not, most folks peek to see who they’ll be standing with before taking a step. The Capitol invasion drew a line in the dust, … Continue reading →

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#MeToo and the (2nd) Cosby trial

Posted on April 27, 2018 by David S. Meyer

From the moment Montgomery County prosecutors decided to take another crack at Bill Cosby after a mistrial less than a year ago, critics have speculated about how the growing #MeToo movement would affect what went on in the courtroom. In … Continue reading →

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Protest in the Trump era, part 3 of ….: Loyalty?

Posted on January 26, 2017 by David S. Meyer

Sometimes effective political action requires leaving a job you like; sometimes, it means finding a way to do that job properly. Most of the political protest we think of as protest looks at least a little like the Women’s March. … Continue reading →

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