@jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
@jamalgreene.bsky.socialReposted by @jameeljaffer.bsky.socialA massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialGlad that Judge Kelly extended the TRO, but a ruling that allowed Trump to expel news orgs for publishing classified info would allow him to expel any news org whose reporting he didn’t like. Every major news org publishes classified info, and many do it every day. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/p...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialAll that money and still can’t afford a spine
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialIf you know talented law students who would be interested in spending a summer working on the most important and interesting First Amendment cases, please send them our way! knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialOkay but the US government is in fact engaged in foreign information manipulation and interference, including in Canada, even if the Canadian government is reluctant to say so. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialTrump is doing everything he can to delay the inevitable release of Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report.
@knightcolumbia.orgReposted by @jameeljaffer.bsky.socialJUST FILED: “This report concerns allegations of serious misconduct by the nation’s highest public official. ... The court should reject this latest attempt at delay and hear the case on November 2,” @scottbwilkens.bsky.social
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialI mean what’s to confer about, at this point? I think we already have a pretty good idea whether Trump wants the public to see this report that documents grave criminality on his part.
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialLawyers for Trump, Nauta, De Oliveira want the Eleventh Circuit to delay an already long-delayed oral argument in @knightcolumbia.org’s challenge to the suppression of Jack Smith’s classified-docs report to give them more time to confer with Trump—about precisely what, they don’t say.
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialFor our symposium on "The Forever War and the First Amendment," @knightcolumbia.org and @harpers.bsky.social co-commissioned this essay from @harikunzru.bsky.social about art and censorship after 9/11. It's really good, and I'm hoping Hari will turn it into a book. harpers.org/archive/2026...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialThe president's practice of expelling journalists whose stories he doesn't like is an insult to our democracy, and congress and the courts have already allowed it to go on for too long. www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/m...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialI had forgotten that Yesterday, the 2019 movie, was about Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) getting his lucky break because Ed Sheeran’s opening act bailed at the last minute.
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialPompeo's own press release: www.mikepompeo.com/news/press-r...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialSenator Van Hollen quoted this in 2017 in questioning whether Pompeo should lead the CIA.
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialMike Pompeo, whom Columbia's SIPA has just hired, had this to say about American Muslims in 2013, after the Boston marathon bombing, though every significant American Muslim leader condemned the attack.
@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialJamal Khashoggi was killed eight years ago today. Here's what @joelsimonsays.bsky.social and I said the US should do in response. Virtually none of it happened. MBS got away with murder. knightcolumbia.org/content/how-...
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social@jameeljaffer.bsky.socialTrump's "favorite dictator" arrests an entire newsroom. www.occrp.org/en/news/egyp...
