Dan Farbman
Law Professor at BC Law, Historian of social movements and local government. Writing a book about Abolitionist Lawyering.
- 100% Roberts’ newfound voice on “rule of law” is consistent with this too. The court has been an institution in service and protection of the status quo since Marshall managed to aggrandize and mystify it in the early 19th C. Trumpism disrupts the status quo in tons of ways.
- Man. It’s local government law all the way down. It’s also so emblematic of this moment: the federal police reject the idea of a government “police power” using paramilitary force.
- And why was Baraka there in the first place? Turns out the private prison facility is violating the law, but also unwilling to be served with legal process apple.news/AV9JgWB8fQq6...
- Local government as a site of resistance. Serious Anthony Burns vibes here.
- I met Justice Souter once. It was just before I started grad school. He told me that sometimes he wished he’d taken 10 years off to read Proust quietly in the woods. We had an amazing (and entirely on-the-nose) conversation about Robert Frost. He was the best.
