*Smashes like and retweet buttons* There are very few projects that have inspired Nolan-movie-esque levels of anticipation like this one. Preorder for the love all that is holy.

SMASHING THAT PREORDER BUTTON! This is SO important-& SO necessary to incorporate into legal/political left thinking about the courts. Read it; use it in your book club; etc. & excited to talk about it on Strict Scrutiny! @strictscrutiny.bsky.social Preorder button: wwnorton.com/books/978132...

After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.

The original 1897 brief against birthright citizenship said the Fourteenth Amendment itself was of “doubtful validity” as far as the South was concerned. It had a 5-page footnote describing the process of ratifying the 14A as “a blot on our constitutional history.”

No Kings Boston

I like that my obsessive crossword streak is also “days since the 2024 @nytguildtech.bsky.social strike ended”

Man, I don't know . . . the guy would have "Fetterman 2" written all over him if the Nazi tattoo weren't in the way

shoutout to the getty photographer who prepared for a WNBA lockout with this stock photoshoot. the only downside of labor peace is that we have no use for these beautiful images

“The farmworker movement has always been bigger & far more important than any one individual. Cesar’s actions do not diminish the permanent improvements achieved for farmworkers with the help of thousands of people.“ -Dolores Huerta, today. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

“The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake” Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway Read it in English here: verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin... And in German here: verfassungsblog.de/die-weigerun...

The lane is open for a 2028 candidate to pledge to accept jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

In response to our YaleAAUP campaign to get codified academic freedom protections - which shockingly we do not have - Yale has created a committee to make a "statement." A sign that we are making progress. But nowhere close to where we need to be. More here --> yaledailynews.com/articles/pro...

Congress could, and should, ban this. Impose the same rule nationwide as some states already have: if an incumbent doesn't file for reelection by the deadline, the window to file gets extended a week or two.

The GOP’s position is this is self-defense because Iran has been imminently about to attack us for . . . 40 years?

It's almost like the Trump presidency is ... the Chadha presidency ...

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

It’s worth emphasizing that the Supreme Court has propped up this presidential lawlessness. When Congress enacted limits on presidential power in 1973, it included an enforcement provision. If the president said there’s an “emergency from attack” and Congress disagreed, it could order troops home.

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.

My book is available for pre-order! Get your copy here: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

I met Jesse Jackson when I was a kid. He taught me to say “I am somebody. I’m black and I’m proud.” RIP to a real one

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

This is all due to the incredible resistance of the people of Minnesota. Their resilience - and their determination - helped enforce the Constitution in a way that political elites in Congress and the courts did not or could not. I have never been prouder to be a Minnesotan.

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

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actually communicating “I’m here and I’m working for you and here’s how” is an aspect of governing that’s neglected by far too many people who think the work speaks for itself (or, frankly, don’t have the communication chops Zohran does) this is how you combat the forces that want to make you fail

TikTok coverage seems to have become somewhat numb to this, but worth remembering that the President simply refusing to enforce a *crystal-clear* law of Congress for over a year to instead broker a deal on his own terms, & Congress just shrugging, is very much not how this was supposed to work

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

One year in, a helpful summary

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

From @jamellebouie.net: “All occupations resemble one another in some way, and it is striking to read descriptions and accounts of the occupation of Boston in light of events in Minnesota.”

Do you know why you've heard of the Boston Massacre? Because in 1768, when the British military began occupying Boston, Bostonians syndicated a "Journal of Occurrences" in newspapers around the country to help Americans understand what abuse of power looks like. By the 1770s, readers understood.

Fire and ICE

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.

White House has filed its War Powers report for the attack on Venezuela. I used to help draft these reports and this is an unusual specimen. It promotes a number of political narratives, including about the attack being a "law enforcement operation" and framing Maduro as a "narco-terrorist." 1/n

Administrations have come up with lots of flimsy rationales for why their wars don't need congressional authorization over the years, but this might be the most transparently bad faith and facially absurd.

This is con artist constitutionalism. One weird trick they don’t want you to know about. As if no one until now has ever considered whether Congress can fund highways

Not content to win in court, Harvard apparently keeps trying to pay a $500m “work force investment proposal”—but the bribe isn’t explicit enough for Trump

The Trump administration’s position is apparently it would be “war” to kill Venezuelans on land but not on ships. Famously, no US wars—not WWI, not WWII, not the Gulf of Tonkin or the USS Maine—began with attacks on US ships.

Conservative judges in 2025: "the founders did not understand the First Amendment to extend to aliens." James Madison, the author of the First Amendment, in 1800: "wtf are you talking about."