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On Monday, Bijal Shah highlighted an under-appreciated way in which the Supreme Court has enabled the executive branch’s illegal immigration actions: it has abandoned longstanding principles of administrative law. During Trump’s first term, the Court deployed the Administrative Procedure Act to restrain the president’s most egregious actions. This time around, however, the Court has shown little appetite for such review, fueling the consolidation of presidential power.
On Tuesday, Fumika Mizuno continued our series on consolidating care by explaining how two powerful corporations came to control over 70% of the outpatient dialysis market. The sheer existence of an dialysis entitlement, she notes, is proof that the state can take an expansive role in caring for its people. Yet this entitlement also offers a cautionary tale of what happens when the government pours money into an unchecked private market without sufficient safeguards.
And on Wednesday, Morgan Harper, a former congressional candidate and the Executive Director of Stand Up Columbus, reflected on the Democratic Party’s failure to address the economic decay and social malaise that fueled Trump’s ascension—and why it’s time we stop waiting for them to try. Instead, she argues, the left must get back to basics, rebuilding the trust lost by the Democratic Party through genuine community building and connection across difference.
In LPE Land
Cool CFP alert: the Boston University Law Review invites proposals for papers or panels for its upcoming symposium on “The University & Democracy,” which will critically examine why universities have failed to protect democracy and how we might democratize our institutions and reorient toward their core mission. The Symposium will take place on November 14-15, and the deadline for submission is August 1.
Cool job alert: Legal Aid at Work (LAAW) is looking for a Wage Protection Program Staff/Senior Staff Attorney.
Cool job alert #2: Inquest, a publication of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration at Harvard Law School, is looking for an assistant editor.
Cool new book alert: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice by Joshua Page and Joe Soss.
Cool new book alert #2: Hilary Allen is publishing FinTech Dystopia, a summer beach read about how Silicon Valley is ruining things, as a free online serial.
Over at Dissent, JW Mason considers what delivering Mamdani’s agenda will look like in practice.
On the latest episode of the Dig, NYC DSA co-chairs Gustavo Gordillo and Grace Mausser discuss how Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary.
Over at Sidecar, Alexander Zevin reflects on the broader significance of Mamdani’s victory.
