National Criminal Defense Attorney. Distinguished Practitioner in Residence & Co-Director National Security & Civil Rights Program, Loyola Chicago Law School.
Joined September 2012
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Tom Durkin retweeted
3 Jun 2025
I encourage you to read this powerful article by Archbishop John C. Wester from Santa Fe regarding how the current budget reconciliation bill would affect the poor and vulnerable in the USA and beyond. americamagazine.org/politics…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
10 May 2025
Chris Murphy is saying what I’ve been screaming about for months. Better late than never. Now, Murphy needs to hammer this message home in an unrelenting fashion…and never stop.
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Tom Durkin retweeted
28 Mar 2025
A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms.
“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.
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Tom Durkin retweeted
23 Mar 2025
Every admirable instance of intellectual clarity and moral courage is a sad reminder of how few such there have been.
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Tom Durkin retweeted
21 Mar 2025
Opinion: The US is poised to use terror laws against students. This could be worse than McCarthyism.
By @TADurkin and @BernardHarcourt in @guardian
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16 Mar 2025
RT @stealthygeek: Just putting this out there but if they can grab anyone they want, stick them on a plane, and then say US law and judicia…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
12 Mar 2025
The Trump administration has again suddenly cleared out all the migrants it sent to the US Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, ostensibly with final deportation orders. But this time it flew everybody back to the USA -- without an explanation. w/ @charlie_savage
nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/po…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
23 Feb 2025
A city charter is the reform Chicago actually needs says @RepKamBuckner … again, with the case for it only stronger since the last time he (and others) said so. chicagotribune.com/2025/02/2…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
15 Feb 2025
Cruelty and staggering financial costs: why expanding Guantánamo is a grave mistake | @KarenGreenberg3 & Mike Lehnert | The Guardian
Guantánamo makes a mockery of our claim that we are a nation of laws, prudence and common sense.
#RuleOfLaw theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
14 Jan 2025
Special counsel who investigated Trump says his team 'stood up for the rule of law' @aedurkinricher @etuckerAP @ctlong1 apnews.com/article/trump-spe…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
21 Dec 2024
The largest donor in the 2024 election, who also happens to be the richest man in the world, tried to hijack negotiations over a spending bill and nearly pushed us to the brink of a disastrous government shutdown.
Good lord do we need to overturn Citizens United.
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Tom Durkin retweeted
2 Dec 2024
The US's largely unknown imprisonment scandal: how long 16 men still held at #Guantanamo have been held since they were unanimously approved for release by high-level US gov review processes. A scandal that Biden MUST address with a clear sense of urgency before he leaves office.
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Tom Durkin retweeted
13 Nov 2024
Free the #Guantanamo 16: A Message to President Biden as His Time Runs Out - my latest article for Close Guantanamo, calling for urgent action from President Biden closeguantanamo.org/Articles…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
9 Nov 2024
Photos and Report: Dismay and Determination at the Global Vigils for #Guantanamo’s Closure on November 6, 2024: With Trump heading to the White House once more, Joe Biden has just 2 months to take decisive action & free the 16 men long approved for release andyworthington.co.uk/2024/1…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
6 Nov 2024
For those who want to see #Guantanamo closed, Trump's victory leaves a 2-month window of opportunity for Biden to take decisive action before Trump seals it shut again. We need to demand that the 16 men still held who have long been approved for release are freed before Jan. 20.
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Tom Durkin retweeted
26 Oct 2024
Russian actors made fake video depicting mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed, FBI says (from @AP) apnews.com/article/d75fdc56c…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
14 Oct 2024
My long-form essay on Marx's Theses on Feuerbach arguing how we can actualize them and intro to #Marx1313 with Étienne Balibar is posted here: the1313.law.columbia.edu/202… | Join us Tues Oct. 15 at 10:30AM NYC time for livestream or 16h30 Paris time in person: marx1313.law.columbia.edu/1-…
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Tom Durkin retweeted
2 Oct 2024
Truly shameful. Today, as campaigners hold global coordinated monthly vigils for #Guantanamo's closure, we're remembering the 16 men still held (out of 30 in total), long approved for release, who haven't been freed because no legal mechanism exists to compel the US govt to do so
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