Marcia McCormick
Getting too old for this @#$%. SLU lawprof, cosplaying as a responsible adult temporarily: worklaw, conlaw, gender & sexuality. Kids say I'm a little bit chaotic. More at marciamccormick.com
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickFinal Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickThis article captures the scale at which academic freedom is being repressed at TX A&M, but also the chaotic way the new rules are being implemented. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
- Once again the underlying conduct is a horror, but it's unbelievably jarring to see literal propaganda and Orwellian doublespeak in official government communication.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickIn Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
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- Reposted by Marcia McCormickThe United States Government’s position is that it is unlawful to watch law enforcement and you will be assaulted, it is treasonous to oppose their work and you will be executed for it, the President of the United States will defame you in death, and they will say “good job, law enforcement” on CNN.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormick"ghost jobs" -- positions companies advertise that they never plan to fill, just to harvest your data, make themselves look like they're growing, etc. columbialawreview.org/content/ghos...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickWe're now tracking about as many anti-trans bills for 2026 as we saw for the entirety of 2022. It's a similar case for anti-LGBTQ+ bills in general. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickThe EEOC has just voted 2-1 to remove the entirety of its employer guidance on sexual harassment because portions of it protected trans people. This administration is pro sexual harassment while simultaneously claiming they protect women.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickSaint Louis University has launched the search for the university’s next executive vice president and provost. Learn more: loom.ly/rvAA7Xw
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickTwo significant externalities to the lack of a civil remedy against federal officials: 1) There won't be litigation and discovery showing the extent and depth of the abuses in the immigration crackdown 2) Precedent won't be creating to prevent a repeat of those abuses
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickMy friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickAt one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickIt would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickI've just posted my latest essay w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, titled "How AI Destroys Institutions." We argue that AI systems are designed in ways that degrade & are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions like the rule of law, universities & a free press. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickWhat the fuck are we actually doing here?
- Hey Con Law and Fed Courts students!
- For the law nerds among us, my colleague Harrison Stark wrote an excellent piece explaining if and how these state created remedies would work. statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/202...
- Hey employment discrimination students!
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickkind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
- There are bigger things going on today, but I am a little alarmed that the entire website for the Department of Labor's Inspector General appears to be offline.
- Literal Deconstruction!
- It's a little foggy this morning on Chicago.
- YES!!
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickFun fact: When he was general counsel, the current OU president co-authored an article that begins with: "When must a professor's academic freedom yield to a public university's interests as an employer and its own academic autonomy?" digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/olr/vol50/is...
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- Happy solstice. From here there will be more light.
- Deconstruction
- Data is beginning to reveal the devastating cumulative effects of the Trump administration’s policies for workers of color. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickIf you want a little inspiration for the moment, read Judy Heumann's book Being Heumann. The long game work (both in and out of institutions) that the disability community did to get reasonable accommodation in education, ADA and more was truly brilliant, passionate and generative.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickIt’s funny how all of a sudden the right believes in the disparate impact analysis to prove racial discrimination.
- This is not what courts have been holding, pretty consistently, at least. Also important to note the expansive definitions in the ADAAA which might be a safety valve.
- (b) to explicitly state that "gender dysphoria not resulting from physical impairments" is *not* a disability protected against discrimination by federally funded entities: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-23484.pdf
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickeverything is so fucking stupid
- I had the same initial reaction with the DEI EO and gutting OFCCP. Part of the invidiousness, though, is to at least create a specter of constant, invisible threat through diffuse private enforcement under the false claims act.
- @dorfonlaw.bsky.social astutely explains why I have been befuddled why University general counsel have reacted to the DEI order with such terror. An EO is scary because the government has the means to enforce it; the Department of Education fired 1365 people yesterday in the Civil Rights Division.
- If everyone always is a potential enforcer, you don't need as much government force or political will.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickA new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Deconstruction
- We should just call it "Deconstruction."
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickDamning overview of the nudging literature. "[We] provide the most comprehensive synthesis of the effectiveness of nudging." "We find a small aggregated effect size." "[Our results show] the urgent need for higher quality, preregistered meta-analyses to clarify the true impact [of nudging]."
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickOriginalism’s creep in the courts may seem inevitable. But litigators do have tools to push back – and for the first time, my colleagues @tomtmwolf.bsky.social, @cisozaki.bsky.social and I have collected the many moves litigators can make in a single resource: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickI’m really proud of this piece. Self-placement measures of masculinity and femininity are now present in most major institutional surveys (GSS, ANES, etc), but there’s still a lot we don’t know about how they work.
- 📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "Longitudinal Measures of Masculinity and Femininity", @dancassino.bsky.social analyzes the stability of two self-placement measures of gender, as well as how change in self-report could be structured by political views. Available #OpenAccess buff.ly/pxpkKvs
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickA quick thread on the academic freedom angle to the OU situation: First, grading is part of academic freedom b/c it involves instructors applying their disciplinary expertise - both when they set assignments, and when they grade student work
- Cozy thanks-snow-giving!
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickhey if you are going to the Veiled Prophet Ball this December to see the GRAND ORACLE, and want to chat, my signal is [at]devintoshea.40
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- Hey worklaw friends!
- If you are interested in the methodology behind the Data Workers' Inquiry Project (@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social), this is the paper for you. Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickYou're kidding me. We only rate dogs. This is a rainbow bagel. I really need you all to start sending us dogs, because we only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: mrpeanutbutter.69)
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickAlice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickMany people dismissed the announcement Catholic hospitals will ban gender-affirming care nationwide under the assumption that there will be other options. In reality, Catholic hospitals make up as much 46% of options in some states. This map is 2020, prior to Trump’s assault on safety net hospitals.
- Hey con law students! Prior restraint much?
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickNEWS! The ABA Admin Law Conference is FREE this year, in light of the shutdown. Great for admin law practitioners, academics, and students. It'll be Nov. 21 but you'll also be able to access recordings for 30 days afterwards. 6 FREE hours of CLE (approvals pending), including 3 ethics hours:
- This fundamentally changed how my spouse drives.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormick*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
- Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickOut today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickI received many requests for a SNAP map, here’s an interactive map of households receiving SNAP benefits (ACS 2023 5-Year). You can toggle categories on/off using the interactive legend. The data are mapped using a quantile distribution. slustl.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickNew "How to Report ICE" zine: #StLouis metro area in Spanish! drive.google.com/file/d/122IW... Also, correction to the St. Louis zine in English: drive.google.com/file/d/1OuxY...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickI feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickOkay, a thread. (thanks to @mjsdc.bsky.social for posting on this case). The Court is lying through its teeth (precedent) - subtly changing its quote extractions to rewrite animus law and produce essential a new pro-animus "equal protection" doctrine. Here's how...1/
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickThe Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...
- There will now be 10,000 new ICE agents & 100,000 new detention beds--and few safeguards protecting people from constitutional violations by the feds. Time for states to pass laws allowing people to sue fed agents. Read about it these "converse-1983" statutes here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickLaw students: Want to make a difference in digital rights? EFF’s legal internship offers the perfect platform to work on impactful legal cases. Apply today! www.eff.org/about/oppor...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickResearch supports that policy has an impact on LGBTQ health. Excited for our team to release the first dataset providing additional datapoints (e.g. enforcement mechanisms) to help researchers better understand this process. Learn more below. #LegalEpi #PHLaw
- Policies shape health. Now we can measure how. The PIPH Project, co-led by Prof. Heather Walter-McCabe, has released the first dataset tracking U.S. conversion therapy laws. Read more: www.slu.edu/law/news/202... @profwaltermac.bsky.social @slulaw.bsky.social @templelegalepi.bsky.social
- Guys I think my dog might be broken.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormick@leandra2848.bsky.social: "Making the Most of VAPs and Fellowships: A Guide for Law Schools and Aspiring Legal Academics" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... <== a helpful guide to anticipate and navigate the hidden deadlines inherent in VAP programs
- Today's office.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickAnother amazing day
- It's fall break, so we had movie night with a movie picked by my youngest kid. It was Birdemic. I honestly didn't know a movie could be so bad. Not so bad it's good. So bad it's bad.
- Hey STL peeps--this will be a terrific documentary. It will be on tv next week and available streaming, but you can also register for a free outdoor screening at Kiener Plaza on Sat., Oct 25. Employment discrimination students--this might mean a second movie day for class!
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickAgencies: hey, watch us break the law! "Experts in employment law have previously cautioned that the politically divisive language shared by government agencies appeared to violate the Hatch Act, a law devised to ensure that the federal work force operates free of political influence or coercion."
- It is thunderstormy and wet in St. Louis, but there's was still a pretty big turnout. This was just the front.
- In my usual protest wear.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickMore footage from the No King’s Rally in St. Louis. Massive crowd on a dismal day. #NoKings @maddow.msnbc.com
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickSt Louis says NO KINGS in thunder (and lightning)
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickThe weather was damp but the spirits were bright at the #NoKings march in downtown St. Louis. To be Catholic is to care for the poor, the immigrant, and the marginalized. So I dutifully put in my Roman collar and rain coat and headed downtown for democracy.
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickThe Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois has put out an Immigration Attorney Referral List drive.google.com/file/d/19ypE...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickone of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead-- newrepublic.com/article/2016...
- Reposted by Marcia McCormickNew research finds that conservatives tended to endorse moral absolutism, whereas liberals tend to endorse moral relativism. Moral absolutists are more likely to support banning practices they deem immoral psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
