Jerry Edwards
Associate Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. Formerly an ACLUFL Attorney. I enjoy writing about free expression, academic freedom, and American history.
All opinions are my own, not my employer's, and are correct, probably.
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsToday I am teaching Prigg v. Pennsylvania, which may be worse and more influential than Dred Scott. It radicalized countless normies into becoming abolitionists and provided constitutional cover for the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. I want to call out a thing about it that doesn’t get much attention.
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsThis honestly is sloppy and self-serving enough to call the Torture Memos to mind. Not even *mentioning* Payton is inexcusable.
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsAs far as I know, this is DHS's first effort to explain their position that I-205 forms allow entry into the home. They rely on the dicta in the 1960 Abel case (before Payton) and re-imagine the plurality opinion in Lucas as if it were the majority (and then overrely on it).
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsI’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsYale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsNumerous people are pushing back against the reasonable consensus that Epstein was evil and that cozying up to him showed bad character. You are under no obligation to take those arguments seriously and respectfully. Look out, they may call you a “woke” “mob.”
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsFrom an organizational standpoint, I have seen this in Wisconsin, and practically you will need more large scale election observer training. And the other issue is sending election observers out to early voting sites will be necessary. The tendency is to focus on same day election.
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- Reposted by Jerry Edwardsa friend’s partner needs a bit of help to make a move across the country if you have a few dollars to spare! www.gofundme.com/f/help-two-t...
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsPer Economist/YouGov, here's the % of Americans who support deporting: • Violent criminals: 86% • Those with nonviolent offenses: 43% • Parents of citizens: 26% • Long-time residents with no record: 23% • Those brought here as kids: 21% • Those married to US citizens: 16%
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsHoly shit. Hard to think of anything lower than embezzling from the public defender queenseagle.com/all/2026/2/3...
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsThere are other public officials who we have traditionally let cover their faces: Executioners.
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsDemented Fascist Pedophile King: - 37% Approve - 56% Disapprove
- Quinnipiac poll | 1/29-2/2 RV President Trump approval Disapprove 56% (+2) Approve 37% (-3) poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsFired after gender identity lesson, professor sues Texas A&M, arguing her free speech rights were violated
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- Reposted by Jerry Edwards‼️ When a judge struck down the proposed Virginia redistricting constitutional amendment last week, he cited violation of a statute that required notice of amendments to be posted. The state legislature just repealed that statute, potentially killing the most plausible argument that challengers had.
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsThis pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsOkay I’m gonna turn this into a thread. First observation: she is, in fact, an “ICE attorney”, which is to say that she argues removal on behalf of DHS Second: she was hired as a “SAUSA”, a Special Assistant US Attorney. that’s a standard short-term position for US Attys offices across the US 1/
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsRead this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.
- If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsThere have been many successful campaigns to stop the construction of jails and prisons in rural areas. They have mostly relied on a combination of environmental, abolitionist, and Indigenous activists. (see also the fight in the Everglades) prismreports.org/2025/02/20/k...
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsAs someone who has written extensively about moral panics regarding sex offenders (I once published an article about the criminal "war on sex offenders"), what is in the Epstein files and the reaction to it is absolutely not a moral panic. These are very real crimes and among the worst imaginable.
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsVery likely that the decision was made without any consideration of precisely this person in this place. That’s what makes it evil.
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsThis history professor informed his students of what books were being censored. One of them (it seems to me) is almost certainly the award-winning Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (JHU, 2009), by @sethrockman.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jerry Edwardsa detailed look at the mechanics of the new American censorship regime It runs on threats of accusations, administrative ambiguity, and pervasive, amorphous fear of sudden termination.
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsWho needs government jawboning? Bezos put his own journalists in a big fat wringer.
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsBari Weiss’s spouse was in the Epstein files. The Free Press crowd takes it as well as expected, it seems.
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsAfter a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all
- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsMy position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsOver at @lpeblog.bsky.social: My brilliant colleague @serenamayeri.bsky.social on "Writing a History of Marital Privilege in an Age of Retrenchment." #LegalHistory
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsI personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
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- Reposted by Jerry EdwardsHappy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.
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