Danielle Citron

From strengthening Congress’s oversight of presidential emergency powers to ending presidential immunity, here are seven solutions to rein in executive overreach. bit.ly/4BoERWk

Something I wish more people would realize.

WATCH: During a lecture honoring her appointment as the Walter L. Brown Professor of Law, Prof. Mila Versteeg examines how and why new constitutions often fall short.

LISTEN: In the season finale of “Legal Knowledge,” Dean Leslie Kendrick ’06 and former Dean Risa Goluboff discuss the challenges and rewards of being dean in the 21st century. @uvalawlibrary.bsky.social

NEW: The New Mexico attorney General is suing Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and personal accountant for facilitating Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/e...

Charlie Warzel: "The brand of delusion that defined Holmes . . . is still deeply embedded in the industry. . . . [T]oday’s entrepreneurs are emboldened to make even more outlandish claims about the future, and it’s more difficult than ever to parse what is real, what is knowingly fake."

Great news and a great victory!

LISTEN: Panelists discuss Prof. Mitu Gulati’s co-authored book “Contract Hazards: Lawyers and Their Landmines,” which investigates the hidden dangers embedded in standardized contract language.

WATCH: Vice Dean Ashley Deeks discusses how the federal government has played a much more activist role in the economy in recent years to advance national security goals. @lawfaremedia.org

X is owned by Musk. TikTok is blocking the Musk movie account. Meta blocked the No Kings account. This is why Democracy Docket is not built on SubStack or any third-party platform that could one day turn against it. It costs more to operate but is worth it. Subscribe now. demdock.com/4w6emld

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

The bankruptcy of Character AI is another reminder that your data is only thinly protected by whatever a company promised in their vaguely-worded privacy notice you didn't read. www.kqed.org/news/1210436...

Folks he is developing the juice.

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

LISTEN: Prof. Mitu Gulati and University of North Carolina Prof. Mark Weidemaier talk to @upenn.edu Prof. David Skeel about his book “Promise Land: The Inside Story of the Puerto Rico Debt Crisis.”

AI executives talk about agents “escaping sandboxes,” “going rogue,” and carrying out elaborate hacking operations, as if the company had nothing to do with it, notes Danielle Keats Citron (@uvalaw.bsky.social). But anything an Open AI agent does, OpenAI does. bit.ly/4ytRwo5

Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social examines how bad actors spread falsehoods online to influence elections. @washingtonpost.com

Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social on accountability for AI. Builds on her work on strict liability for data breaches - an early piece called Reservoirs of Danger, which is also well worth reading. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Strict Liability for AI Executives by Danielle Keats Citron @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/WOKiW68 @uvalaw.bsky.social

The absolute flood of leaks about this case is maybe an indication that people inside govt aren’t feeling too great about it

Forcing transparency onto the executive branch is one of the most potent tools that the federal courts have to counter executive overreach. But I am not optimistic that this Court will recognize what is at stake here: subversion of judicial power to exec power

QP1 asks about separation-of-powers avoidance and discovery of the Executive Branch, something I wrestle with in this piece papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If you care about the functional separation of powers, this seemingly small case about discovery is a case to watch

And when cts subvert judicial power to executive power, there are knock on effects outside of court too. The Executive Branch will use this case in information disputes with Congress to press back further on Article I.

The Court just granted cert in US DOGE Service, which asks whether (1) The COA departed from the separation-of-powers principles in Cheney v. District Court; and (2)Whether a ct can order discovery against an Executive Office advisory body to decide whether FOIA's disclosure requirement's apply.

Guess who was one of the biggest spreaders of that bogus claim about Talarico supposedly disappearing to Ohio? As @annamerlan.bsky.social reports, "The biggest election disinformation risk in the next few weeks is Elon Musk." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@daniellecitron.bsky.social won't link to her own article about this, but I will! Presidential Privacy Violations papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Pompeo supported a man who tried to overturn an election and destroy American democracy. This shows what the real threat it. It's not Trump and his authoritarianism; it's the acceptance of it.

Ever grateful to @uvalaw.bsky.social Sloane Lab and DTD Lab for hosting discussion about dark patterns and menopause tech led by @monasloane with @naomicahn.bsky.social Mimi Riley and my sister Dr. Jeanine Morris-Rush and her partner in OB-GYN practice Dr. Hank Prince m.youtube.com/watch?v=DldG...

Happy book day to the one a s only Sherry Turkle

As I discussed last night with Rachel Maddow, after I published my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON," which exposes Russian disinfo ops aimed at the US to help Trump, the Russians dragged me into a disinfo op attacking Dems in the midterms. See my OUR LAND newsletter: link.motherjones.com/public/47685...

Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”

Agreed so wholeheartedly—everyone must read @maryannefranks.bsky.social Fearless Speech and everything she writes.

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.

Profs. @naomicahn.bsky.social, @daniellecitron.bsky.social, Margaret Foster Riley and Elizabeth Rowe will be speakers Thursday for the webinar “The Dark Patterns of Menopause Tech,” co-sponsored by #UVALaw’s LawTech Center.

NYT tech reporter sings the praises of Meta Muse. It can do everything for you! Even set your fantasy football lineups! My dude... you know that's called "cognitive surrender," right? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...

Prof. Saikrishna Prakash will debate @nyulaw.bsky.social Prof. Peter Shane on “Presidential Power and Independent Agencies: Who Controls the Executive Branch?” for the The 41st Annual Jefferson B. Fordham Debate on Oct. 22 at @sjquinney.bsky.social.

"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social

To the media: stand up, be strong. Do NOT capitulate. Support CNN, MSNOW and Politico. If you stay together you will win and a core tenet of our system - the First Amendment - will be protected. Man up.

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤

Fantastic write up of @monasloane.bsky.social book talk! Thank you Virginia Law Weekly for www.lawweekly.org/front-page/2...

Must read by my brilliant @uvalaw colleague Caleb Nelson entitled Against the Dictatorial Presidency. Download now papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This week's guest, linguist @emilymbender.bsky.social, talks with @adambecker.bsky.social about the origin of her famous paper on LLM’s, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots” #ai #datmpodcast #future #science #llm #linguist #stochastic #parrots