V. Zboreak

Law professor, writing about administrative law, advocating for an open Internet, thinking about food and agriculture policy, promoting inclusive pedagogy.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Project 2025 called for gutting the EPA's scientific research office. In under a year, the Trump Administration has done exactly that, taking a division of more than 1,500 scientists down to 124, reassigning doctors and epidemiologists to finance offices and hazardous waste permitting desks that have nothing to do with their expertise.   

For more than 50 years, that office produced the independent science behind every major clean air and clean water protection this country has. It existed specifically to be free from political interference.   

The scientists who remain answer to Trump appointees, and their work must now conform to the Administration's agenda.   

No other institution in the United States can replace what's being lost. Once that expertise is dismantled, it doesn’t come back in a year or a decade. It’s a generation of progress erased, deliberately, methodically, and exactly according to plan.  
https://t.co/IbDEHQiRG6

[Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh]

Update: not guilty on all charges.

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

[V. Zboreak @ProfZboreak]

Once more, administrative agencies, especially those that are not primarily focused on civil liberties, should not be the decision makers who determine what speech is protected, and where the lines should be drawn for pornography or obscenity.

[Alan Rappeport @arappeport]

New from @aduehren:

The Trump administration wants to exclude earnings from “pornographic activity” from a new tax break for tips. Will the I.R.S. know it when it sees it?

https://t.co/HAD31mWCZu

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

I can’t wait to read this.

A big challenge in dealing with sexual misconduct in academia is that too many (mostly male) professors think it has no long-term consequences. They can’t understand how it could. “So she had a bad day? We’ve all had bad days. Shake it off.”

Economists know to take our disagreements to the data. I think this matters and you don’t? Let’s run the numbers.

Research like this is showing that bad behavior has real and lasting consequences — for individuals and the field. I hope it changes minds and priorities. We can’t keep sweeping this stuff under the rug.

[The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @MsEntropy]

Please amplify, those with a bigger platform than me.

It’s horrifying that the person running the official Homeland Security Twitter account is using — and clearly knows the meaning of — the exact same aesthetics, memes, and propaganda from fashwave, accelerationist, and Nazi Telegram.

It says everything about where we are.

[V. Zboreak @ProfZboreak]

So every federal agency with a propaganda post on their splash page is violating the Hatch Act.

Which is enforced by way of claims to the Merit Systems Protection Board.

Two days ago the Administration said that the MSPB is no longer independent from presidential control.

[V. Zboreak @ProfZboreak]

Congratulations to our first JU College of Law bar exam takers! 91.7% first-time bar pass!
https://t.co/VK9eJiLOZr

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

An impressive showing for Jacksonville University, taking its first bar exam:

12 took the exam, 11 passed: ~92%

#barexam

[𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐡 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐮𝐛𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐚𝐭 @emptydoors]

Calling all faculty candidates—new and lateral. The Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) wants your applications!
https://t.co/uyH2eCHqsc

Questions? Reach out to Professor Linda Jellum at [email protected].

[Caprice Roberts @capricelroberts]

Calling all law faculty candidates hoping to teach law starting next fall: more ways to get your application seen by all law hiring + appointments committees & find your ideal law school. #SEALS2025

[Kate Klonick @Klonick]

Bluesky has geoblocked Mississippi in response to their age assurance law.

The balkanized internet has long been here between nations, but I think this is the first time we're seeing a speech platform geo-blocking by *US State*
This way lies madness.
https://t.co/yNWNW9xIeV

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Yesterday, a federal court endorsed the dangerous idea that in-class faculty speech is government speech. At odds with 70 years of Supreme Court precedent, this decision could allow states to muzzle faculty and declare any topic off-limits.

Public university professors aren’t government mouthpieces.

[V. Zboreak @ProfZboreak]

@RoryDiamond I wish I thought the city council members respected all the citizens they serve and not just their political party.

[V. Zboreak @ProfZboreak]

@TaxLawProf I'm gonna need RFK to get a ballroom too.

[V. Zboreak @ProfZboreak]

This bar taker quoted in the post describes the moral failure of everyone in the room so correctly. Let people help. The paralysis, the memory of knowing you should have been helping but didn't (and that no one else did either) will be carried by these students forever.

[Sean Silverman: Silverman Bar Exam & LSAT Tutoring @BarExamTutor]

Another witness here, with what should be an obvious recommendation. People who administer this test need to get over themselves if they think the test is so important that it can't stop while someone experiences cardiac arrest.

[V. Zboreak @ProfZboreak]

@HoffProf Cynically, and without having tried the new platform, it feels more like an attempt to add back some "value" for going through AALS for the hiring process at all. Some justification for the cost to candidates and schools to remain so high without the conference?

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold Texas's age-verification law for sites featuring adult content. The decision effectively reverses decades of Supreme Court precedent that protects the free speech rights of adults to access information without jumping over government age-verification hurdles.

Today’s ruling limits American adults’ access to only that speech which is fit for children — unless they show their papers first.

After today, adults in the State of Texas must upload sensitive information to access speech that the First Amendment fully protects for them. This wrongheaded, invasive result overturns a generation of precedent and sacrifices anonymity and privacy in the process.

Data breaches are inevitable. How many will it take before we understand the threat today’s ruling presents?

Americans will live to regret the day we let the government condition access to protected speech on proof of our identity. FIRE will fight nationwide to ensure that this erosion of our rights goes no further.

[V. Zboreak @ProfZboreak]

@AnthonyMKreis Yikes.

[Anthony Michael Kreis, FRHistS @AnthonyMKreis]

Today is the 10th anniversary of Obergefell and the constitutionalization of same-sex marriage into the American canon. Victories are to be savored, but not taken for granted. The law isn't necessarily a one-way ratchet. It takes work to secure wins and just as much to keep them.